What have you done today in the Garden?

Good work, Sjoerd !

Today I planted beets, Winter Density lettuce and Red Russian kale.

 

transplanted pepper seedlings into individual containers. began putting plants into my strawbales. i found out two things... the bales have ants (which i was warned about and expected) so i put down DE to take care of that. and i found out that mushrooms love to grow in straw bales. got 'em in every bale. do any of you know if that is a good sign or a bad sign? i will be positive and say it is a good sign until i know different.

 

Spend the entire afternoon getting a new garden started. The area was tilled a couple of weeks ago but we haven't had a chance to do anything with it until yesterday and today. My son threw in a truckload of composted manure yesterday and today we finished laying down and staking the black plastic for a weed barrier. Next step is to get the rest of the grass clumps out of the open areas and then plant seeds. Lots and lots of them.

 

Everyone's gardening seems to be progressing quite well.

I promised myself that the garden would be smaller this
year due to advancing age. So far, it appears there will be
plants in every nook and cranny. So much for plans.

I'm enthralled with the brilliant yellow along the roadway.
Forsythia and Daffodils celebrate the finality of a brutal
winter.

 

I planted snap dragons, catchfly, dahlias, gladiolus. There was a lot of each of them.im tired.

 

All I I'd today was rake leaves out of the flower beds.

 

All I did today. I took the garden fork, dug lightly around the Raspberry plants and a Clematis vine, and scratched in worm castings and pulverized stone. I forgot what it's called. Azomite ? Maybe ? I moved the little pots containing tomato seeds, kale seeds, parsley seeds, into the house. Rather cold outside, so I'm pampering them a bit.

 

I cut back the overgrowth on the garden path, and found a start of Jerusalem Sage that I didn't know was growing there, and moved it to a spot where it can grow. This photo is the mama plant. The baby is just that--much smaller!
Also planted a block of corn and weeded the potatoes and onions. Now I'm trying to decide which will make me feel better--a couple of Advils, or a glass of wine. Perhaps both . . . .

 

I planted 5 heuchera that I bought for a dollar each. Also planted 4 Violas and 3 tall perennial grass plants. I don't know the name of the grass plants.so I'm tired.

 

Transplanted cues, peppers, courgettes and toms.
More patch maintenance, peas and kapucijners set out and built a rack and wig-wam for them.
Weeded the beetroot, onions, spinach. Removal of some mulch. removed some spuds that I had missed when harvesting last year.
Combined bee hives. Cleaned alongside paths.
Made a decision to try sweetcorn again. Now then.....where??
Weeded and cleaned-up along the fences.

Whew, what a couple of days that was!

 

Planted radish carrot, and bean seeds, and got the potatoes in. The beans are a bit early, but an experiment since I have tons of seeds I seed-saved from last year.

 

I planted some perennials in the garden.