Posted on 05/01/2021 6:36:52 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Greetings from southern New Hampshire!
Household Six has converted her old shipping area into a jungle, with 20-some Luffa racing each other to the ceiling joists! I half expect to hear jungle bird calls down there.
I will be merging and raising beds in our garden area and installing more cattle panels as trellis, this week.
Still trying to clear one of the two lines in our bog filter. I need to drain and clean the duck pond.
I am reminded of some graffiti on the old “wall” on University Avenue that I read while half asleep riding the city bus to morning classes one May first, I believe in 1967...
“Hurray...Hurray...First of May! Outdoor necking, starts today!”
Good Morning!
I will be planting more perennials today.
Plant ‘em once and fergit ‘em! :-)
Which must be a lake after the storm yesterday! And where is your windmill?
Not really interested in flowers myself, esp. competing for space with things you can actually eat, but the first floor is. So what inexpensive colorful long-blooming perennials would you recommend?
My point of this post is to alert gardeners to a truly fantastic tool now available. The tool is a cordless cultivator that is cheap, light weight and extremely effective. It is not intended to plough acres but rather to dig up soil in small spaces.
Not to be sexist, but it is “Woman Friendly”. My wife watched me using it and insisted on a lesson. She then proceeded to cultivate a 6” wide row parallel to her garlic the length of the raised bed.
You can see them on Amazon. It seems that everybody is making one this year.
I bought a Sun Jo For $89 but there are lots of others.
Daffodils, Flox, and heather come to mind.
Also, many of the herbs in my “Pilgrim Herb Garden” are perennials:
Mint,
Onion,
Scallion,
Sage,
Lavender,
and others.
Rosemary is a “Tender perennial” which means it sometimes will not survive the harsh New England winters.
Enjoyed the first batch of asparagus this week. Strange though, half went straight to bolt.
Beau has left to move some gravel around with his skid steer for a neighbor. Our Foster Son is here TRYING to paint the house, but we have very gusty southerly winds today and highs up to 84! He’s going to see what he can get done before it gets WORSE, this afternoon. Yeesh! We cannot WIN with this house painting project. Year Three. *Rolleyes*
I am doing some more weeding, but mainly I’m going to re-arrange things in the greenhouse and pot up some seedlings that need it.
I have everything started that I planned on starting - just waiting for the melons and winter squash to pop up.
I haven’t lost a single seedling yet - so there’s that. ;)
My Mom and her gaggle of friends are coming over tomorrow so I guess I’d BETTER make the house look presentable. Everyone loves coming out to the farm, so it’ll be a fun day.
Magnolia has bloomed and is done. Saskatoon Service Berries and Haskaps are blooming. The wild plums this season are amazing and blooming EVERYWHERE - and my domesticated plum is in full bloom, too. (Dwarf Mount Royal)
Next up will be the Crab Apple (Spring Snow) then the rest of the fruit trees and the Lilacs.
Tulips and daffodils are blooming, too. I have cauliflower ready to go in the ground, so if I put some rocks in my pockets to keep from blowing away, I might get them in the ground today, too.
Rain tomorrow - we REALLY need it!
That’s slick! We have a small cultivator for the raised beds. I have Beau till them every few years - they don’t need more than that, and I prefer to leave he soil alone as much as possible for the lovely Earth Worms who do so much and ask for so little. ;)
Ours is a Stihl Yard Boss.
Bees too:
Yellow garden in full bloom:
And year-old "Scentsational" rose:
We got two days of over 90 degree heat, which isn't good for the garden, few plans like it.
Happy Gardening!
Has it been unseasonably warm by you? That would cause them to bolt sooner than normal. How about water? Are they getting enough water? If they are stressed and think they’re dying, they would bold sooner to try to set seed to get the ‘next generation’ started before they think they’re going to die.
Wait? Asparagus can THINK? ;)
Sometimes the hybrids don't do as well as the old-fashioned ones, so this is an experiment.
(Scroll down! Resource start at post 114 of the Jan 9-15 Thread!)
Our Camdenton, MO “Farmers Market” opened for business today.
Bought some Missouri pecans, a bag of nice looking salad mix but passed on the grass-fed beef...
Is it “bolt” or “bold?”
And I didn’t know that asparagus could panic.
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