Posted on 04/09/2022 6:15:09 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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I was going to ping you for recipes, because this morning I was going to add salad ideas. ;)
I put some work into the garden yesterday. Used the weed whacker to buzz down the winter weed crop, then ran over the whole thing with the tiller. So, of course, it rained last night.
Booger found a deer leg out in the woods, and decided that all of the fluffy loose dirt in the garden would be a perfect place to bury it.
Wish I had that kind of sunny acreage! I have acreage but it’s very wooded.
Smart Booger! :)
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Liz! Butternut Squash soup? Or Wisconsin cheese?
Augie; your soil tills up nicely! I assume those are onions and not leeks??
Feeling a tad more HOPEFUL, today. Got more done in the garden:
Tomato Seedlings Potted into 4” pots and enjoying their first taste of REAL sunshine in the greenhouse. Will need to bring them in tonight and any night that gets below 50 degrees.
Peppers are still lagging behind, but that’s normal. Second seeding of peppers are still not sprouting, but again, they’re slow and I don’t have any bottom heat. Once they get going, they take off like a rocket.
Pruned off the Raspberry bed, raked out all the dead stuff and junk blown in there over winter and fertilized. I grow ‘Heritage’ and my trick is to cut them down to the ground in spring so I get one LATE crop end of August, early September. By then both the Japanese Beetles and the Picnic Bugs are both gone and they’re not pestering my raspberries. We gorge on them, then freeze what we can no longer stand to eat.
Re-potted my Jade plant. She’s gotten really top-heavy and has never been re-potted. She’s a happy girl, now!
Raked the straw off the Asparagus bed, spread that all out to dry, but we’re supposed to have rain and some rough weather by Wednesday, so I may out that all in my big wagon and stick it in the barn. I hate to waste any of it.
Took the 4-wheeler and my 5 gallon bucket of 10-10-10 and Milorganite and fertilized all of the fruit trees and my ‘Spring Snow’ crab apple tree. Three apples, one plum, one peach, one cherry, two pears and my Magnolia that my friends bought me in memory of Dear Old Dad. (Yes, I know I need a second cherry and peach for fruit - cherry is coming; can’t find any peach trees this season!) Also fertilized the grapes and the Haskaps. Can’t wait to my Blueberries that are on order from Jung’s!
Found a ‘Therese Bugnet’ rugosa-type rose at Walmart, yesterday. Bare root...$8.97! Even from Jung’s they’re about $24. SCORE! She’s going next to ‘Cuthbert Grant’ and I hope they’ll be very happy together! *SMOOCH*
I still need to prune all of my roses, but that can wait; I’m scratched up enough today from the raspberry canes. I actually BROKE A SWEAT, today! That hasn’t happened since last November, LOL!
Pulled seed for things I need to start this upcoming week: Zinnia, Basil, Cosmos, Calendula & Marigolds. Maybe Sunflowers, but with this weather, I don’t want them to get too leggy. This time last year my greenhouse was PACKED with stuff. This year I just have kale, lettuces and spinach out there.
If I’m still motivated, I might set up my portable cold frame in the house so I can keep my tomato plants safe from the @#$%^&*! house cats as they move in and out for the next few weeks.
That’s enough for one day! Bear steaks on the grill for supper and big, BIG Salads. Eight pounds down on Weight Watchers! Beau has lost 10 pounds and I can see it in his handsome but less pudgy face, LOL! :)
Mmmmmmmm.......both.
Great minds........
GREAT PHOTOS!!!! Thanks Much...
Lollo Rosso - Lettuce Seeds Brand: Hometown Seeds $5.99
Material Feature Heirloom
Expected Blooming Period Spring
Expected Planting Period Spring
About this item
1 Package = 2 g Of Seeds
Package contains approximately 3100 Lolla Rossa Lettuce Seeds.
One of the most deeply curled of loose leaf lettuces.
Beautiful magenta leaves with light-green base.
Mild flavor, cut and come again, sow spring or fall.
Liz; I have the seeds for this. (Probably pretty old at this point) maybe I should try to see what I can grow!
Try it.......you’ll be overjoyed w/ the results.
Lolla Rossa is a great lettuce. Five Stars PLUS! :)
I’ve been nurturing the soil in this garden since 2008.
Can’t say with certainty how many tons of horse stall waste I’ve applied over the years,
but it’s somewhere north of a hundred, and it could use some more now.
The green stuff that looks like onions is garlic that I planted last fall.
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