What have you done today in the Garden?

Giant Purple Surfina petunia


Another hanging basket. no idea what variety.

apple blossom

 

Thank you @Cayuga Morning, I don't know how you would grow it where you live. Here it likes well drained soil and my soil is sandy with clay soil underneath. It's in a part of my garden where it's dryer than the rest, by the side of the house.

If yours gets waterlogged that's the problem.

 

Just maintenance... Weeding, watering, fertilizing, etc. Harvested some spinach and decided to sacrifice my brussel sprouts this spring due to poor production. It gives me more pots for peppers which I need badly!

 

Today it was rainy, cold and windy--a perfect day for planting the beans out.


The Wisteria from earlier is pretty much in full bloom:


I also went into the bees to have a looksy. It was not a good day, but there was a chance that those bees may have been making plans to develop a new queen. So then, this was not something that I could wait a week for until the weather improved. The problem was that it was so bad weather-wise that there were too many bees home and they were irritable (the weather can make them that way).

I wanted to work fast and not let all the heat out of the hives, so I made a rookie error, didn't I. --I forgot to tuck my pant legs into my socks....so when I was concentrating, up they went, and in went the harpoons! Ouch. I shan't be making that error again. Now I will have to walk around a couple of days with a couple of eggs on my legs. It all sounds worse than it actually is. I do not perceive bee stings as very painful things.
Hopefully more planting tomorrow...and I have to give those bees another brood box.

I lurve your flowers, Carolyn

 

Oh my S!!! bad idea. dandelion sap makes them feel better instantly. pick the flower with the stem attached and allow the milk to well up then dab it on the sting. ta da! all better.
crabapple


a dogwood blossom


found a nice truss of tomatoes in the potted ones I started in Feb. yum!


part of an order for a new customer this year. I think he was giving me a try last year... he had me grow one crop of his cabbage. this year it is 100 flats...

Odif... I found this while tossing junk in the compost... the 2nd one in a couple days. the other one was about the same size just had a tail that had been pinched in something.

 

Such healthy looking plants Carolyn!

 

Thanks Cayuga. time and attention and lots of fertilizer for all the potted plants.

 

Sorry to be without audio/visual aide here but my file size exceeds the upper limit. I have a compost bin (30 gallon garbage can) that suddenly had a plant sprout in it, and it is a type of squash (I was informed it was an Audrey 2). It has dinner plate sized leaves and a yellow blossom as big as my fist!

What is an Audrey 2 and what can I do to help it produce all summer? Thanks in advance for your help.

Edit: nevermind... Lol! Audrey 2 is the man eating plant from Little Shop of Horrors!!

Boy, do I feel sheepish....

 

@Catdaddy6676 I don't know what a Audrey 2 is, but squash likes a lot of water and it sounds that it will do alright where it is without feeding it.

 

@Catdaddy6676 , last spring i found some squash seedings sprouting in our compost pile. Very healthy. I planted them all and had a bumper crop of some kind of cross pollinated squash. Like it was a cross between a squash and a cucumber. Or something. I didnt want to admit defeat so i valiantly tried to disguise the flavor with curry: curried squash soup. It still tasted odd. Hopefully, you will have a better result.

Yesterday, I went with some other Community Garden members to divide peonies at a "peony plantation" in the next town. It is the community garden of another town.

Several years ago a couple in that town sold their home. They had been avid peony growers but the new buyers didn't want all the peonies. There were 2000 of them! And there were going to be bulldozed. So the town community garden pulled together a crew and managed to move 1800 of them.

These peonies are now available for division if you will a) weed them and b) then spread wood chips. So that is what we did!! It was a lot of work!!! Indeed.

But we came back with 18 peonies. I have 6: 4 red, 2 white, unknown forms. I'll put 2 or 3 in our community garden, give some away, etc. A good day all in all.

 

Planted out 6 tomato plants and pinched out the tithonia. Watered the blueberries in pots.

 

went to get grain for the girls, found a new bee keeping supply place and bought some woodenware to complete a new hive split and push the swarm out the garage door.
went to get seeds for a customer for cucumbers and came home and pinched all the red petunias of their spotty blossoms from the cold damp air.

 

I finally weeded and thinned the okra. Picked up a cat and got a rash. Did my first florida weave on the celebrities yesterday, not a weaver person thats for sure.

 

Looks good to me!

 

I hope its all pretty tasty.