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Not enough room to have anything bigger than a riding mower, but I'm still jealous!

Went to Menards yesterday to grab a 6 pack of tomatoes because we had some room still. DD went with. We came home with 4 6-packs of flowers, 2 6-packs of tomatoes, catawba grape bare root, concord grape bare root, 2 thornless raspberry bare roots, and two bags of chips, which came from a stop...

Question for the fruit tree lovers: Why would my two native plums both flower but not develop fruit at all? I don't even see tiny fruit falling off. Just nada, zilch, zero! I have two of them and they are close to each other so bees would easily go from flowers on one tree to the other.

Corn is sprouted. Lots of it! Potatoes are coming up to - watching them for when I need to add more straw. Watermelon vines are starting to take off, although they might slowdown a bit since are lows are dipping down to the high 40s at night this week. Need to plant more greens soon as possible.

Went camping for the weekend. Came back and the garden looks good except for a few weeds. I forgot to plant greenbeans on Friday that I started soaking on Thursday. The bowl was out of water (only filled it to cover the seeds) but the beans were still wet and plump. Some just began to sprout...

Mom's garden bed is filled with 3.5 cubic yards of garden soil. 100's of shovels and approx. 20 wheel barrows ran from the front curb all the way to the back fence where we setup the garden. We planted 6 tomatoes, 6 bell peppers (3 different varieties), about 100 onions, and 3 turnips (for the...

Mom's bed are built assembled except for the top rails that will wrap all around - hence the stack of boards in the pic. The bed is getting filled with garden soil tomorrow along with a barrier at the bottom to keep grass or weeds from growing up through the bed from the existing lawn below.

I cheated on replanting the pepper seeds... found 6 packs at Menards for $2.99 and grabbed a few. No waiting for germination again. Puts only about a week or two behind given the size of these plants being just a bit smaller than my starts were. Not my garden, but I built 13 panels that will...

Out with the family much of the day, but we managed to transplant 8 summer squash, 6 basil, and 4 dill. Getting out done little by little. Need to plant more greens (lettuce, spinach, kale and chard) and get those pepper seeds replanted.

We had great weather today. We should stay warm enough from here on it looks like. I tilled, raked out the soil and laid heavy landscape fabric. I then got some planting done, cutting through the fabric for every seed/plant I put in the ground. It was laborious, but the hopefully the thistle...

With these lows gong into the 30s in a few nights I'm not getting much into the garden. Waiting to plant green beans soon. And the starts in the garage are getting huge. Tomatoes, yellow squash and watermelon need to go outside ASAP, but the weather is going to make me wait.

Do peach trees blossom before leaves or after leaves start to grow? I haven't seen blossoms on the peach tree this year. I think it's not going to fruit. It went through a rough season last year with a 3rd of the tree breaking off in a storm.

Pulling weeds... ETA: I HATE THISTLE!!!

I know, I know... but it's been so warm lately it was tempting.

I was tempted to start transplanting early. Now it's showing a low of 36 for Thursday next week - glad I waited.

I do. It just leaves a lot of sharp wires to deal with so I need to get out the wire cutters anyway. The kids will be around the strawberry bed, so important to keep it safe.

I started covering frames over the strawberries with chicken wire. Hand is sore from using the wire cutters so much. Still need to finish. The replacement belt for my timer was delivered today. I'll be getting that installed and tilling finally. Then potatoes will go in and soon enough I'll be...

Nothing... focused my effort today on finally getting the chicken run together. Is nearly completed. I just need to hang wire asking the roof to keep critters from getting in from the top. I need to get potatoes in the ground. I need to till first though and I broke the drive belt on my...

It's a beautiful day in the 70s today. So tempted to put plants in the garden... no frost the rest of the week, but who knows what next week will bring.

Interesting idea. I really need a way to keep the squirrels out. The dug up some onions and strawberry crowns we just planted yesterday. I replanted them, but some of the crowns looked damaged. Looks like I'm missing a few pea plants too - my guy tells me squirrels dug up the peas before they...