Weekly Garden Thread - April 4-10, 2020

April 4, 2020 | Diana in Wisconsin/Greeneyes

[Black Agnes]

Dill bread.

O. M. G.

https://www.foodrepublic.com/recipes/baker-alert-make-pull-apart-dill-bread-recipe/

[Pollard]

I do like bread, including making it(when it comes out good) and have always wanted to try challah too.

[deport]

Here are some ideas, examples of cinder block planting

Let your imagination be your guide.

[ApplegateRanch]

Tuesday it had dried out enough to till, so I dug 3 25-30 foot potato furrows; plus tilled another 30’ row, where I planted the first 10’ with a packet of Green Arrow peas. Also put some spinach seed in a large planter.

Clouds were still holding off, so I also tilled last year’s failed 15 X 25 potato plot at the far end. While there, I checked on last year’s onion & garlic sets that I just left in the ground, instead of harvesting, because of failure to thrive; they are coming up, so we shall see.

Got rain soon after I finished; then snow Wednesday night, Thursday, and Thursday night; mostly gone now, and sunny, in the 50s. If this holds, as predicted, I’ll be able to finish tilling Monday; no more planting though, for at least a week; then another packet of Green Arrow in the middle 10’ of row; 3rd & last packet a couple of weeks after that.

[ApplegateRanch]

I know it’s a dirty word, but I often upload to a Facebook post, then open it into a new tab, and use that URL to post it here.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I have a Facebook Account, so I post them over there and copy them over here. If it’s something funny that I just want to share, I link it off the web wherever I find it.

I figure ‘Dorkerberg’ can afford the bandwidth at FB! ;)

Take a look at the ‘HTML Sandbox’ for further instruction on posting photos.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

There will be MANY ‘Death to Rabbits’ posts in the coming weeks, LOL!

Rabbit and Squirrel are my two LEAST favorite wild meats...and I’ll eat just about anything, LOL!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Basil and Marigolds in with your tomatoes is a good strategy.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

S & P = Salt & Pepper. :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I think YOU taught me that little trick, LOL! :)

[tubebender]

The famed Carson Manson in "My Town" that is owned and maintained by a civic group...

[tubebender]

One of the gates to the Sun Valley Floral Farm where they grow millions of cut flowers for florists around the world...

[tubebender]

This location is 55 acres mostly all under glass like this...

[tubebender]

A Drag Boat returning to port after fishing on the Pacific Ocean just beyond the sand dunes in the distance...

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Oooh. Thanks for the tip and the link.

[Bob434]

really? Will have to tell my folks that- good suggestion- dill aint a bug’s best friend I’m sure-

[ApplegateRanch]

Yes, I did; you learned it well.

[Califreak]

Nice!

[Califreak]

Dill is nummy! I add it to carrots for a side dish, I put it in eggs, stroganoff, piroshki, potato salad, borscht...

I wish I could grow it well.

[Califreak]

I have a couple of cinder blocks at the end of one of my tiny planting areas and I plant marigolds in there every year. They usually do very well but in those cinder blocks the soil dries up and you can’t miss any watering days.

They get pretty big sometimes too.