What have you done today in the Garden?

We harvested beans and Swiss chard then put it up.
Pshew!!! It is hot here.

 

I roped up the asparagus. We've had 2 hard rains that knocked the stalks sideways.

I also planted more arugula, harvested lettuce, peas, Swiss chard. I removed suckers from the tomatoes, put a row cover on the kale & bok choi to foil cabbage worms.

I was totally soaked when done. Temps here are in the 90's (32+ Celcius).
We have a pool at home & I jumped right in!

 

I spent 6 hrs watering yesterday. Hopefully the weather prediction for rain today is accurate.

 

I hope so

 

Lol

Oh Sjoerd, you never did.

K

I planted two conifers, just baby ones

 

I transplanted onions and planted beans. I watered loads and I harvested bea potatoes they have completely died back now. I also harvested carrots, beetroots courgettes and lettuces as well as strawberries and raspberries. I also weeded and fed the tomatoes.

 

I watered the seedlings, but it hasn’t stopped raining here for a week now, so the garden bed is set. I continued my battle against black spot on my rescue rose. And I planted three more Nasturtiums by the first section of my veggies.

 

I admired my first dahlia flower.

 

@Odif I am admiring it too. My first dahlia flower is due to bloom today.

Yesterday I watered my community garden after work for an hour. Temps in the low 90's (33+ C). I thought I was going to die. We have no hose system, all water must be hand pumped can carried to our individual plots. It is supposed to rain today. I sure hope it does.

 

@Odif - that’s beautiful!

 

that is a beauty Odif.

it rained here last night... 1 1/2 " we really needed it. the farm fields were really dry. the corn has been rolled for at least two weeks now.... my beans that we planted last week popped out of the ground overnight. they were not there yesterday.
I planted up the last of the cantaloupe plants and watermelon plants then finished out the rows (about 100') with seeds. Strimmed ( iow...weed -eated, I like Sjoerds word for weed eater trimming so I am going to start using it... if I can remember!) weeds around the hightunnel and through out the garden where weeding nor mowing was happening.spread beneficial insectary blend seeds here and there for the beneficial insects.
pulled the lettuce and composted it
brought my mother in law home from the hospital in the midst of getting this stuff done...then I made them dinner and walked it over to them. this getting old stuff... it sucks lemons big time. this is not looking like any fun. I refuse medicine or devices to keep me alive. My grandma was pretty good until she broke her hip at 92. I wished for her to pass away quickly as she was in terrible pain and it wasn't healing and her bones were too fragile for surgery... she always said, "you gotta be a tough old bird to get old." uh huh!

 

That dahlia is beautiful! Is that the dinner plate type? I have a couple of the smaller annuals.

 

Quite a bit going on in the garden. The wall o' beans is coming along nicely. Some of my cherry tomatoes are starting to produce. It seems that my growing season is alittle bit delayed due to living on lake Michigan. In the spring it stays cool longer and in the fall it stays alittle warmer due to the warm lake as an insulater. Sunflowers are up to my shoulders which is pretty cool. My neighbor that grows hot peppers brought over a bunch of plants that he didn't have room for. I'm not completely sure what they all are. Should be fun to see what grows. I've potted up lots of flowers. Been balm, dahlias, dragon wing begonias. The petunias in my hanging baskets are filling out well. Question... I have quite a few perrenials in pots. How do I deal with them at the end of the season?

 

Since I don't have cucs yet...i went over to the grands container garden to stake the cucs. They were so excited to see the massive progress and flowers on the cucs!! (Will send their pics when i get home) I also preserved cucs and garlic.

 

I worked 10 hours watering weeding digging planting and harvesting. I got my first broccoli heads. This one weighed in at 380 grams.