Author Topic: Today in the garden I...Part 2 (Read 11406 times)

christy · « **Reply #75 on:** Oct 12, 2007, 01:54:21 AM »

tonya thats a big vegie garden! one of the luckyer things bout livin in a warmer zone, i could never put a vegie garden in the fall,
its been to wet n cold out there for me, havent even collected seeds the last few days.

christy · « **Reply #76 on:** Oct 18, 2007, 03:07:35 AM »

i cleaned out the bird area! ok some what, i took the pool stuff outta there, need to weed n weeed n weed! next year ill have my bird area back!

Jim · « **Reply #77 on:** Oct 18, 2007, 09:34:51 PM »

My six rows of Fall peas became a smorgasbord for the deer again this week. I guess my white ropes didn't work. Next year it will be an electric fence.

Triss · « **Reply #78 on:** Oct 18, 2007, 09:43:37 PM »

Oh ouch! I am sorry you lost the latest planting of peas and hope that next year you can get a good crop.

Tonya · « **Reply #79 on:** Oct 19, 2007, 06:47:09 AM »

Sorry to hear that Jim. On the bright side....isn't it deer season down there??

Wrennie · « **Reply #80 on:** Oct 19, 2007, 06:50:05 AM »

My fence is just plain chicken wire. keeps bambi out of my peas.

Jim · « **Reply #81 on:** Oct 20, 2007, 12:51:53 AM »

They finished the peas off last night. There might be one leaf left untouched. They just hopped right over the rope. I had hoped they would stay out because it wasn't a very large area and they don't like to hop over into small places, but it sure didn't stop them after they found them.

My Dad uses a small solar powered electric fence that does the trick for his gardens and I'm sure it will work fine. I'll have one before next year.

Laying down wire on the ground is not an option Wrennie. During the peak growing season I would have to move it every 5 to 7 days to mow and that would get old real quick.

Yeah, deer season is open but I quit hunting with a rifle about 8 years ago. Now if I'm hunting it would be with a camera, but the rifle is still in the closet.

patches · « **Reply #82 on:** Oct 20, 2007, 01:50:35 AM »

Today I got all my sunflowers dug up and started cleaning up the area between the garden shed and my neighbors fence.

It's kinda hard to get to since because both of us have our sheds too close to the fence, so I can't get in there from either side.

barleychown · « **Reply #83 on:** Feb 25, 2008, 11:51:12 AM »

Time to bring this one back to life.

Today in the garden I...fed a whole bag of alfalfa to the back lawn, and a bag of chicken feed to the front gardens.

barleychown · « **Reply #84 on:** Mar 05, 2008, 06:47:49 PM »

Today I started yet more seeds, cleaned up the remains of last year's veggie garden, and planted 20 boxwood bushes along the outside of the new veggie garden fence. I'm happy with the way it looks!

Tonya · « **Reply #85 on:** Mar 06, 2008, 08:09:12 AM »

Quote from: barleychown on Feb 25, 2008, 11:51:12 AM

...and a bag of chicken feed to the front gardens.

Chicken feed is good for the plants?? I never knew that!

Wrennie · « **Reply #86 on:** Mar 06, 2008, 08:13:35 AM »

Me either! Whats it good for. I read something about corn gluten as a pre-emergent for crabgrass. I think

Jim · « **Reply #87 on:** Mar 15, 2008, 09:24:25 PM »

Today I was all set to put the tiller on the tractor and till up the garden and the corn patch. I planned on using a small portion of the corn patch to plant a few potatoes and I need to get those planted soon.

It wasn't meant to be, because I had forgotten that we had lost a top-link pin last year right at the beginning of the mowing season and I had not replaced it yet.

Anyway the tiller takes 4 link pins and I only had 3 so had to put that off till I get a chance to get to Tractor Supply and get another one.

barleychown · « **Reply #88 on:** Mar 15, 2008, 11:01:45 PM »

Quote from: Tonya on Mar 06, 2008, 08:09:12 AM

Quote from: barleychown on Feb 25, 2008, 11:51:12 AM
...and a bag of chicken feed to the front gardens.

Chicken feed is good for the plants?? I never knew that!

Just about any grain based feed is good for your gardens. Soybean meal, alfalfa meal, corn meal...all are great. I get expired bags from the feed store.

Quote from: Wrennie on Mar 06, 2008, 08:13:35 AM

Me either! Whats it good for. I read something about corn gluten as a pre-emergent for crabgrass. I think

You did! CGM is a great pre-emergent, and is very popular for use on lawns and such to control weeds.

Dianna · « **Reply #89 on:** Mar 16, 2008, 12:19:07 AM »

I worked around the pond this afternoon. I have lots of weeds to pull, so haven't finished yet, but can see progress. Jim dug up the zebra grass for me....

patches · « **Reply #90 on:** Mar 16, 2008, 04:59:18 AM »

Since it wasn't too cold outside today, I got some of my garden beds cleaned up a bit.

I also managed to get all the Echinacea (which I left up for the birds) cut down.

duh · « **Reply #91 on:** Mar 16, 2008, 07:38:20 AM »

I can't believe it...but, even though I'm leaving I couldn't resist getting out in the back garden and weeding. I pulled out the dead pepper plants and the wave petunias and everything else.

One nice thing is that what was clay when I started a few years ago is now nice soft dirt. Pulling the weeds out was much easier than getting out the burmuda grass the first year. So I have hope that my yard at the new place can be turned into an oasis.

Jim · « **Reply #92 on:** Mar 19, 2008, 04:41:11 PM »

Yesterday I got the end of the corn patch ready where I intend to plant some potatoes this year. It was the first pass so I still need to hit it one more time before I plant. Hope to get that done early next week so I can plant the last week in March. That's actually 2 weeks later than I intended. It just won't get dry enough to get the tractor in there.

patches · « **Reply #93 on:** Mar 19, 2008, 11:53:54 PM »

Everything around here is soaked but I was able to get outside today and pull some of the Bermuda grass that keeps creeping up toward the edging of some of my garden beds.

It sure makes it easier with the ground being so wet, and I pulled up one strand that must have been 7 or 8' long. It was a monster!!!

I don't know how long it will be before te ground will dry up enough to actually do some work in the beds.

duh · « **Reply #94 on:** Mar 20, 2008, 04:11:09 PM »

Well I was out there today checking on everything. The crocuses got stepped on so they are done. Now I'm just waiting for the leaves to die back so I can send them off to their new home.

5 Daffodils including one yellow on yellow daff is blooming. I didn't know I had any of those so I'm very happy to see it. Hopefully the rest will bloom and I'll have a couple more of the yellow to take up with me when I move.

The parent Grape Hycinth is blooming and the other is in bud. I lost one but I don't know if it is the white or the pink. Whichever it is, I'll plan on replacing it when I can.

I tried sweeping up the leaves in the parking lot but they were still to wet maybe tomorrow.

Saturday I'm going to harvest some of the larger Egyptian Walking Onions for Ellie. She says she likes really sweet onions and these are really sweet. More so than vadalias.

And that's about where I am right now.

bestofour · « **Reply #95 on:** Mar 20, 2008, 08:15:24 PM »

too windy to get outside today.

Duh, can you take a picture of your Egyptian Onions?

Jim · « **Reply #96 on:** Mar 20, 2008, 09:14:57 PM »

I didn't get much done today in the garden. We got .55 in. of rain last night so it was just a wee bit wet. Maybe next week before I get back to doing anything with the garden.

duh · « **Reply #97 on:** Mar 22, 2008, 08:54:39 AM »

I could take a picture but I wouldn't be able to get it out of the camara. I'm sorry bestofour. But the tops look just like yellow onion tops except they have a tendency to curve rather than grow straight up. And they are suppose to get tall enough that when they grow their bulblettes they will topple over and so spread their progeny all over the place.

If I get bulbettes this year I'll send you some. If you remind me that is. You know my lack of memory.

patches · « **Reply #98 on:** Mar 22, 2008, 04:39:51 PM »

Well, I'm pretty pleased with myself because today I got all the twigs, branches, and limbs raked up, cut up and picked up!!!

Geesh, I didn't realize how much there was until I started filling the yard waste cans and bags.

patches · « **Reply #99 on:** Mar 22, 2008, 05:01:50 PM »

I started a new thread, so I'll see you over thread!

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