What did you do in the garden today?

[CluckNDoodle]

What do I have all over my pepper and tomato plants? They're skeletonizing the leaves and are burrowing into my green tomatoes!

Tiny caterpillars, less than 1/2 inch, gray striped with red heads. They're new to me:
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I picked off dozens, fed them to my flock.

Army worms, despicable little things.

 

[Sueby]

We got almost an inch & a half of rain!

Everything's climbing, everything's growing. I need to feed it all tmrw. Gonna get DH to pick the rhubarb & freeze it so I can make jam with the strawberries I froze - when I'm more able.

My broody broke. Got a new giant feeder that holds a 50lb bag of feed, makes my life lots easier.

I use cattle panels for cucumbers & squash trellises. Oh, for green beans too.

 

[TJAnonymous]

It's been cooler than normal here. We're finally hitting 90° this weekend, usually hits 90° in mid-May.
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At least you are getting rain... I'm going to have to water whatever isn't on the irrigation system.

 

[fuzzi]

Army worms, despicable little things.

As long as I have been gardening, I don't recall seeing these. Thanks...

I just read that they like a cool Spring. Makes sense, we just had that.

 

[Smokerbill]

We got almost an inch & a half of rain!

Everything's climbing, everything's growing. I need to feed it all tmrw. Gonna get DH to pick the rhubarb & freeze it so I can make jam with the strawberries I froze - when I'm more able.

My broody broke. Got a new giant feeder that holds a 50lb bag of feed, makes my life lots easier.

I use cattle panels for cucumbers & squash trellises. Oh, for green beans too.

What do you feed your garden with? I have to set up trellises for my cukes and climbing beans. I might try training a couple of my zucchiinis up a pole this summer to see if it's worth the trouble.

 

[Smokerbill]

I got my green(ish) thumb going today and planted new little plots of carrots and leaf lettuce, each plot about 2 square feet. When I worked the soil to prep it for planting it confirmed my suspicion that I put way too much organic matter into my beds. One of my beds has mostly mineral soil in it, so this fall/winter I thing I'll be moving dirt around in the beds to make them more hospitable for my veggies. I scraped a few inches of compost heavy soil off the top before I planted the seeds

I have two turnips that are about 2 inches in diameter, but I care less about them than I do the leaves. I love fresh turnip greens!

After sowing the lettuce and carrot seeds I lightly brushed them into the soil, then I dusted over them with a thin layer of sphagnum moss heavy potting soil mix. Watered them thoroughly, then layed cardboard over them to hold in the moisture. I covered the first seeding of carrots this year with a board, and they started coming up in about a week.

There are only a few pea pods left on the vines, so I need to pick them and remove the vines. But I definitely won't pull the roots out. Gotta leave them in the ground because they've been fixing nitrogen, and the roots will add nutrients for the next crop I plant there.

The squash I planted a few days ago are looking pretty good. Maybe having a bit of a hard time adjusting to sunlight, but I think they'll do well.

I still need to get my bean and cuke trellises set up. Maybe tomorrow...

And most important, the chickens haven't invaded my garden for over a week. Sometimes they look longingly through the fence, but they don't jump over.

 

[Happy hen lover]

Watered garden, staked up some tomatoes, moved some extra cuke plants. Everything looks so good this year compared to last. We had record heat last year. This year lots of rain and some plants actually came back to life.

 

[karenerwin]

I watered everything otherwise I stayed inside and read. We have temps in the mid 90’s today and tomorrow. Tomorrow I’m going to go to the Willie Nelson concert.

 

[Smokerbill]

I watered everything otherwise I stayed inside and read. We have temps in the mid 90’s today and tomorrow. Tomorrow I’m going to go to the Willie Nelson concert.

I need to start reading again. I watch too my TV, LOL. Have fun seeing Willie!

 

[BReeder!]

I'm awake because of a thunderstorm. It's the first rainfall at all in 11 days and the first significant volume of rain in a long time - 2 months maybe.

So... RAIN!!! YEAH! But I hope nothing gets damaged.