What have you done today in the Garden?

We planted our tomatoes and peppers.Was such a pretty day.

 

Well today I planted lettuce, tobasco and broccoli seeds. I transplanted tomatoes. Then I lost a pot with different tomato seeds. It turned out the puppy had been eating them. I managed to rescue them and tomorrow I will see if they survived.

 

I planted container herbs--big containers for me and gallon pots for friends. I swear if Sissy kills one more basil plant I'll snatch her bald (bad because she's a hairdresser!).
We had planned to mow and bag the back yard, but it's been drizzling since early morning. Great day for doing a little potting and some puttering!

 

LOL about your sister,We have some herbs over 20years old.And we use them all year to cook with. I did plant a new sage plant lost one this year sure to old age.

 

An allotment day for me. Husband and I cleaned the glasshouses, then he took a load of rubbish to the dump whilst I cracked on with some weeding, then i planted four dahlias, some gladioli corms and sowed some calendula seeds. Back home mid afternoon and after some light housework, I sowed a few more seeds in trays and pricked out some herb seedlings.

 

Thanks carolyn1... Those are "Glacier"..they are a 58 day tomato, produce a smallish tomato but are great for canning and they produced very heavy for me last year all the way through the summer. They are the small tomatoes to the right in the photo I've attached...

Description on the website where I bought the seed last year....
"Glacier - 58 days. (Determinate) Unlike other extra-early varieties, produces both an early crop and continues to bear the entire season. Great flavor, especially for an early variety. 1½ in. bright red fruits. We have had yields of ¾ bushel per plant. Very cold-tolerant and may survive a light frost."

 

The lot of you sound extremely ambitious compared to me. Of course it's far too cold to even consider planting here.
Marlin, you do get a bit testy if someone messes about with your garden stuff.

 

Growingpains, you should have seen what I did to the lady who took a rooted rose cutting that was ready to go into the ground, and let it die in her garage from lack of light and water. She does have a lovely tombstone, however.

 

Marlin, I now know I shall forever be thankful that we live at opposite ends of this wonderful country.
Although, I admit letting a rooted rose die from sheer neglect is reason to do serious bodily harm. So, good on ya.

 

You guys are all too funny!

 

nice, but too little of fruit for me, I don't like to pick the little stuff. now, what is the pink large slicer to the left on the picture. it looks like a nice tomaot, too.

 

That one is a 'Cherokee Purple' ...best tasting tomato that I have ever grown in all my 35 years of gardening.
It's the dark colored tomato below in the image

 

Deep Woods, that's the one tomato we saved seeds from. SO tasty!

I feel like digging up a potato planting area, cold or not. The ground will be warm by the time they come up.

 

Growingpains Yes, it is tasty!! I save the seeds from mine too. I am saving seeds every year for the next several years and see if I can establish some for my area that will be more resistant and immune to disease and things like that. Just a "test" of my own.
As long as the soil is not too wet, where the seeds won't rot, you should be okay..

 

I save seeds from year to year, but what method do you use for long term seed saving?
We dug up the area for potato planting, chopped up straw bundle for mulch and I put some in the soil at planting time. I cut the potatoes in sections and will allow them to scab until Good Friday at which time I will plant them, assuming it isn't raining!