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  • rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576
    I haven't been trying too hard to harden.  I sunburnt them a bit 2 weeks ago and I've been letting them recover.  I don't get too eager to plant, it's just too much trouble to try too early.
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  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 11,711
    I lost lots to frost 2 days ago
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  • rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576
    I lost lots to frost 2 days ago
    Sorry to hear that, I've been there.  Just have to buy new starts and start again!  
    I quit trying to plant early after 2 bad springs.  In my experience, it doesn't give you much of a head start anyways.  Some years you might get fruit a week or maybe 2 weeks earlier, but for me, that doesn't outweigh the risk of replanting.
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  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 11,711
    Truth right  there
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  • deadendpdeadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434

    Despite being kept in the car (the other plants were fine) the basil didn't take too kindly to the cold weather. It'll pull through. They are out now and hardening off okay. 

    Sorry to hear about the frost damage, Rob. That sucks. Been there. Lost a 4 year old  tulip tree one year due to a late May hard frost.  
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    2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1
  • deadendpdeadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434

    Plant delivery day tomorrow. I have 14 stops, including one with 54 plants going to the I PROMISE School pantry garden.

    https://www.akroncantonfoodbank.org/news/foodbank/press-releases/foodbank-partners-i-promise-school-offer-food-pantry-school-families
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  • PJPOWERPJPOWER In Yo Face Posts: 6,499
    deadendp said:

    Plant delivery day tomorrow. I have 14 stops, including one with 54 plants going to the I PROMISE School pantry garden.

    https://www.akroncantonfoodbank.org/news/foodbank/press-releases/foodbank-partners-i-promise-school-offer-food-pantry-school-families
    Very nice!
  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 11,711
    Bee  incoming
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  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 11,711

    brixton 93
    astoria 06
    albany 06
    hartford 06
    reading 06
    barcelona 06
    paris 06
    wembley 07
    dusseldorf 07
    nijmegen 07

    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 11,711
    Photos wrong way round. But you get the picture. I caught it incoming  onto my alium 
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    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 11,711

    brixton 93
    astoria 06
    albany 06
    hartford 06
    reading 06
    barcelona 06
    paris 06
    wembley 07
    dusseldorf 07
    nijmegen 07

    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 11,711
    This poppy is amazing . I will show you in a week or so but it only lasts a few  days but has so many  heads. 
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    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • deadendpdeadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    Awesome stuff! Fun that you got the incoming bee. 

    I have never grown garlic. 

    The allium are beautiful! So is the poppy. I have seeded them but they never came up. 

    I am planting the rest of what needs to go in this weekend. Squash, peppers and ground cherries. A friend gave me some extra marigolds she had. Of course, there is still weeding and a bit more transplanting.  
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  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 11,711
    Im going to be planting out in the next 2 weeks. My stuff from seed is still a bit small. Garlic is so easy. And smells so good drying in the shed.
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  • deadendpdeadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434

    My husband was trying to record the spider on the hammock. (He's a park naturalist. It's a work thing.)

    Bless him, he was trying to scoot it along. 

    And for @lastexitlondon , a Mountain Cornflower with an incoming critter. :smile:

    Since it was 92 F, I didn't quite get the amount of gardening done today that I wanted, but I put a good dent into it. Weeded a bit. Moved a couple of cup flowers (they grow 6'+ tall) to the fence line and planted 9 Ground Cherry plants, a small row of corn, 3 yellow squash and a bunch of green beans. The back bed is done. 

    Tomorrow will be 6 pepper plants (3 different varieties), lots of butternut squash, more corn and more beans. And...more weeding. 
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    2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1
  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 11,711
    Cornflowers are one of the  greatest colours.
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  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 11,711
    This is rosie . She "helped" me plant out some toms and lettuce.
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    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • deadendpdeadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    Hi, Rosie! My daughter "me help" a lot when she was Rosie's age. What is she holding? 

    What's growing in that garden? 
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  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 11,711
    She has the rose off of the  watering  can on a  cane . She is like a hurricane going through every single thing  and back again
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    astoria 06
    albany 06
    hartford 06
    reading 06
    barcelona 06
    paris 06
    wembley 07
    dusseldorf 07
    nijmegen 07

    this song is meant to be called i got shit,itshould be called i got shit tickets-hartford 06 -
  • dankinddankind I am not your foot. Posts: 20,827
    I don’t know what’s growing (I killed a cactus), but word is we might eat some of it tonight. 
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  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 11,711
    Peyote?
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  • deadendpdeadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434

    It was snowing a few weeks ago. Been gardening all day. Hotter than hell. 
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  • dankinddankind I am not your foot. Posts: 20,827
    Peyote?
    I never lived in the right area at the right time. I grew up in shroom country. 

    But peyote is one of the last things I want to try before I die. 
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  • dankinddankind I am not your foot. Posts: 20,827
    The one we’re having tonight is Swiss chard. 


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  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 38,853

    Does nobody see the bee?

    Awesome pics Rob!!!
  • rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576

    Carpenter bees are my primary blueberry pollinators.
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  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 38,853
    rgambs said:

    Carpenter bees are my primary blueberry pollinators.
    They tear shit up though.  .38 caliber holes everywhere lol!
  • rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576
    It was a hot weekend, but I got a good bit done.  Tomatoes and some late cabbage transplanted, bush beans and summer squash planted.  Peas, onions, potatoes and spinach fully weeded, and chopped straw mulch laid on tomatoes, kohlrabi, cabbage, and peas.
    Just need to get the peppers transplanted when the heat breaks.  Then its time to get support up for the maters and bird netting up around the blueberries, plant winter squash and then yard-long pole beans.  After that its just trying to keep a handle on mowing and weeds...and harvesting of course. 
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  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 38,853
    rgambs said:
    It was a hot weekend, but I got a good bit done.  Tomatoes and some late cabbage transplanted, bush beans and summer squash planted.  Peas, onions, potatoes and spinach fully weeded, and chopped straw mulch laid on tomatoes, kohlrabi, cabbage, and peas.
    Just need to get the peppers transplanted when the heat breaks.  Then its time to get support up for the maters and bird netting up around the blueberries, plant winter squash and then yard-long pole beans.  After that its just trying to keep a handle on mowing and weeds...and harvesting of course. 
    I just planted my blueberries.  Should I cover them up?  Is there that much loss to birds?

    Also do you make the cover holes big enough for bees to get through?
  • deadendpdeadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    rgambs said:
    It was a hot weekend, but I got a good bit done.  Tomatoes and some late cabbage transplanted, bush beans and summer squash planted.  Peas, onions, potatoes and spinach fully weeded, and chopped straw mulch laid on tomatoes, kohlrabi, cabbage, and peas.
    Just need to get the peppers transplanted when the heat breaks.  Then its time to get support up for the maters and bird netting up around the blueberries, plant winter squash and then yard-long pole beans.  After that its just trying to keep a handle on mowing and weeds...and harvesting of course. 
    I just planted my blueberries.  Should I cover them up?  Is there that much loss to birds?

    Also do you make the cover holes big enough for bees to get through?
    Bird-X netting is what we have used in the past. Worked fine. 
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    2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1
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