Do you like to garden ?

[Schwallenstutter]

Unfortunately no, just never got into it.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I ordered some rhubarb seeds on eBay, and they arrived today ! It is about to rain, so I went outside and cleaned up two of my planter pots from last year and planted some rhubarb seeds in both of them.
Once they come up, i will have to thin them out, but I am hoping to have at least a little bit of rhubarb before it gets too hot for them to grow or maybe , I can find a place where they can survive with a good enough mixture of sun and shade.

What i had read before , is that some people grow it as an annual plant here in the south, knowing it will die in the summer heat, but planting enough to harvest a spring crop. They would -have to buy new seeds each year, because the rhubarb plant will probably die before it goes to seed. My red raspberries are out near the fig tree, and that produces good shade in the summer, and if the rhubarb is near there, maybe the raspberries and fig tree can keep it from getting too much heat.

 

[Smithy]

I am in the middle of a wildlife pond I am hoping to finish today.

 

[Don Alaska]

We have a garage full of plants at the moment. The greenhouses are probably safe to put some of the plants into without heat, I am still laid up with this strange pain that has moved from my left foot and is now in my neck, making it very difficult to work with plants. Thankfully, my wife is doing much of the work I usually do.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

We have a garage full of plants at the moment. The greenhouses are probably safe to put some of the plants into without heat, I am still laid up with this strange pain that has moved from my left foot and is now in my neck, making it very difficult to work with plants. Thankfully, my wife is doing much of the work I usually do.

That is lasting a long time, @Don Alaska ! Hoping that it stops moving around soon and you start feeling better again.

 

[Schwallenstutter]

I am in the middle of a wildlife pond I am hoping to finish today.

Very cool!

 

[Don Alaska]

That is lasting a long time, @Don Alaska ! Hoping that it stops moving around soon and you start feeling better again.

Thanks, @Yvonne Smith. I figured the joint pain would end on Easter, but then it switched to neck pain that is as debilitating in some ways. Riding in a car can be very painful as it causes my head to move, and I am uncomfortable driving my truck now as I cannot turn my head well to look for traffic at intersections...much less work in the garden. I did get the snowblower off the tracotr finally, and put a blade on. I am worried I will have to put the tiller on before my neck pain stops..

 

[Yvonne Smith]

The blueberry plants are loaded with green berries this year ! It looks like we will be having berries from not only the raspberries and blackberries, but also lots of blueberries.
It is time to get the netting over the top of the Bettie’s to keep the birds and squirrels from munching them all up before we get any of them, so I just ordered another roll of the netting that we used last year and it will be here in a few days.
We have rain in the forecast for the next week, so unless we have non-rainy days, I will not be putting up the netting until we are done with the rain.

I ordered some rose food, and plan on putting some around the roses tonight before we start having rain tomorrow.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

Last year, I grew some shiso perilla when the seeds came along with an aerogarden seed order. It is in the mint family, but also has a bit of basil and a hint of liquorice in the flavor. I didn’t use it much last year, but it can be used in stir fries and also as a wrap once the leaves are large enough for that.
I left some to fo to seeds last fall and now I have a nice bunch of it coming up out in the little garden area.
I will probably thin it out and move some it to other places around the yard so that it can grow better. It looks similar to mint, but the ones I have are green on top and dark purple underneath the leaf.

 

[Don Alaska]

Finished tilling the second garden yesterday afternoon. It is raining now, so it was completed just in time. Potatoes are planted and we will move some stuff into holding in the little greenhouse today if it stops raining long enough. This is the earliest i have ever been able to till the garden, so maybe it means we will have a longer summer this year. Who knows?