A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall Gardener's Chat What did you do in the garden today? 2020

Yesterday we planted two kinds of beans, carrots and a pack of mixed sunflowers(for the bees).

Yes! Garden time is here !

Junie that’s a good idea. I’m making plans for the fall. I’m not planting green peas anymore. They just don’t do well for me. Kale does great but we don’t like it. Maybe plant and actually harvest and eat beets. I’ve planted them before but never use the.

I planted leaf lettuce seeds.

Today, I made a decision about my gardening.

I want 4 cubic square raised garden. 18 inches high. Then I want a rocked area along the one side of it to put my pots on it. Rod will not have a lot to trim around, and If anything will not grow wel! In a pot, I will have a small raised bed to use.

Thank you for listening.

Sheri. Why don't you pick your peas as they are ready, clean them, and the put some on a lipped cookie sheet in a single layer. Put them in the freezer. 24 hours later take them out of the freezer, put in a zip top freezer bag and return to your freezer. You can use them as you would frozen peas from the grocery. Since they are loose, you can just remove what you need for a meal or recipe.

If you would like, you could Blanche them for a few minutes before you freeze them the first time. But if you do that drop the blanched peas in an ice water bath, coo!, Remove and pay dry before putting on the tray to freeze them the first time.

Sunny the lettuce here has been way gone. Hot weather ya know.

Junie, my peas never do that well. I don't harvest enough to freeze. Our farmers market is year round and I've never even seen any to buy there. We're just not the right place to grow green peas and Lord knows I've tried. But thanks for the thought. Sounds like a great plan for your garden.

That's a great plan Junie...I do hope that it comes through for you

Last night I planted the peppers, cukes, tomatoes and watermelon(we did that this year because we couldn't get pumpkin seedlings). GG planted her cauliflower and flowers. So, the garden is in...now to hope that it grows. I only got a few marigolds for the garden and a couple of flowers for a pot. GG planted flowers in her garden and in my flower beds. She got three packs ~unmarked for .99 cents, I think one is petunias but I have no clue what the others are.

I wish our local grocer got in more annuals. It was nice to be able to walk around the parking lot with GG and pick and choose a few, the big nursery was online shopping only due to the fact that it was a family business.

Sheri, this year I am hoping to get a better lettuce crop by being able to move it around. I can put it in the shade or even the shed on the hotter days.

I like that idea for lettuce. That will give me.more room next year. It will be part of my plan. Thanks ladies. Sunny, I am hoping next year is better for us all.

I really wanted to build a long planter box for lettuce but never got the cedar with this pandemic started. Oh well, there's always next year...hopefully

My potatoes are starting to poke through the ground

YAY!!!

....and today the beans are poking through the ground.

Yay for Beans !

What type of beans Sunny? A bunch of my beans never germinated. I'll have enough to eat for the year if I'm careful but I'll save to make sure to save some for planting. Not sure what happened.

The squash is doing great, brought more in today, but everything else seems to be slow producing. The cucumbers have fruit but it's still very small.

Never did get any potatoes to plant. Fry some up and invite me over Sunny

Yellow bush beans and climbing beans Sheri.

The potatoes will be ready in the Fall....come on over

The mini tomatoes(Tiny Tim) are starting to flower as well.

I have a good mind to see if I can find some beans and plant them now and see what happens. You never know.

I looked at last years info and by this time I was getting tons of cucumbers and no squash. This year things are reversed.

I guess everything is adapting to the covid situation, Sheri...well that and the ever changing weather...

I did some weeding yesterday.

I began to put down the mulch under my Blackberries. The weather made me stop. We got 1 and 1/8 inch rain from last evening to this morning.

I started a second little chicken coop(I have to give back the animal cage I borrowed by the weekend), then finished the weeding in the flower beds. I also planted a few perennials in some bare spaces.....the deer flies chased me in though.

Sunny I need you to come visit and make me 2 little window boxes. I've got the wood but not the tools and to buy them online is over $100.00 a PIECE!!!

I would love to have chickens but I'm trying not to get myself into that.

tonight I planted my little Autumn Joy Sedum, that I ordered from online.
wish me luck !

I'm on my way Sheri

I need to redo my window box for my garden shed, I had made it out of pine....the next one will be cedar. Pine does not last here due to the harsh Winter.

Is that a Sedum, Junie?

The carrots are poking through in a few places.

I split and moved a hosta last night...it is calling for rain for a few days so it was a good time to do it.

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Yes, Sunny it is a Sedum, . I fixed my previous post so that no one else will be confused. Thanks for helping me.

I've got some type of sedum growing out front. I can't remember the name but it's been there forever. I want to say Diane Williams, remember her, sent it to me.

Got my first tomatoes and cucumber today. Salad was for dinner. !

Yes, I wonder how Angelblossom is doing? My SIL law has LOTS of sedums....it is not something that I ever planted here.

Salad is good Sheri, enjoy for me as well.

I planted some 'Grand Rapid' lettuce this morning...what I already have is a Mesclun mix.

Ladies. Back in the day, Plants & Pots sent me some sedum...the Autumn Joy. I am pretty sure she got her plant start from Diane. So, Sheri, Unless Diane had several varietirs, I bet that is what you have too.

I think you're right JunieGirl.

I put fertilizer out among the plants...we are supposed to get a rain storm soon.

Why do cherry tomatoes do so well so fast and the big ones take forever to ripen? Squash is doing well but the okra is s l o w growing.

Everything is producing except the okra which is still only a few inches tall. It was the best producer last year and the year before. We got sick of eating it and I got tired of freezing it. I have one pack left in the freezer so it better take off soon.

I have no idea but those little tomatoes are the only ones that will ripen on the vine due to our short season...I gave up on planting other varieties.

I picked a small bowl of strawberries last night, they are only half the size that they should be....not that the strawberry shortcakes tonight will notice

I just hilled up my potatoes....they are growing so fast.

Jealous of your potatoes. Are your strawberry plants new this year? Are you hilling with straw or dirt?

My plants are two years old Sheri, I need to take baby plants from the mommas soon and start new. I hill with dirt...we traded all our straw for silage with a farmer over the Winter.

My potato plants have taken off like crazy...it is amazing to see the difference that a few days of good rain makes in a garden.

So happy for you Sunny !,

Still jealous of your taters. I've got cucumbers to trade

Sounds good, I am only getting cuke flowers now. The climbing beans have started to climb. The carrots will be the thing not to do too well this year, it seems this heat is stunting them.

I pick potato bugs daily but just a few.

I've never seen a potato bug. Hope I didn't jinx myself. potatoes have been one plant that I don't have problems for me. That is if I can find them to plant.