What's Growing in the Garden

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Here's proof that Aldi is good for more than just bench chisels. About 6 years ago found this little Japanese maple for $10.

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Here's a picture of part of the vegetable garden. Tomatoes and peppers on the right, garlic just left of center, and potatoes in the upper left corner. Also have peas, onions, spinach, radishes, lettuce and several herbs planted,but they're tough to see. This part of the garden is ~ 60ft square.

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#1 wife cooked up the first batch of Italian Green Beans (Roma II) and Yellow Crookneck Squash we got today. She also picked this first little Early Girl this evening.

Alan

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Wildthings said:
I have yet to find those chisels at ALDI
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If you go to your local big box store, pick up some cold rolled steel and grind some bevels, you'd be about halfway there to the quality of the Aldi chisels.:negative:

If you know someone that likes to open paint cans with chisels, or use them as screwdrivers, the Aldi ones would be the perfect gift! :lol2:
 
We.be built 4 Aldis and worked on their distribution warehouse and ain't seen them either
 
trc65 said:
If you go to your local big box store, pick up some cold rolled steel and grind some bevels, you'd be about halfway there to the quality of the Aldi chisels.:negative:

If you know someone that likes to open paint cans with chisels, or use them as screwdrivers, the Aldi ones would be the perfect gift! :lol2:
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hmmmm Paul Sellers says they are really good "inexpensive" chisels. Good to know!
 
Here is one of our daylily beds. They are getting ready to put on a show.
I've got several hybridized plants that should bloom for the first time this year. One should bloom tomorrow 🤞🏻

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Our tomatoes and peppers that we started from seed are making a slow start, but they're coming. Still a number of pepper seeds that haven't emerged yet, but we get another one popping out every day or so.

This morning, after getting some more sand into the boys' sandbox, I dug a couple holes to transplant the elderberry bushes we picked up. Then put some seed in the ground - green onions, butter lettuce, cucumbers, and green beans. Checked on the blackberry plants we were given last fall and transplanted. As of right now, no signs of life, so we'll see what happens there.
 
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Alan R McDaniel Jr said:
I've noticed a lot of people put substantial fences around their daylily beds. They must be great food for something.

Alan
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Deer love them! Last year I ran out of repellent, and before I could get more out, the deer came through and ate the buds off all of them.
 
trc65 said:
Deer love them! Last year I ran out of repellent, and before I could get more out, the deer came through and ate the buds off all of them.
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Yes, deer prefer them over most browse. I also have 2 strand electric fence on our other beds.
 
I've got 5 cherry tomato bushes and they're loaded.
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One cucumber in a 5 gallon bucket, just for fun, and it's gone crazy

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Bought one little pot of cucumbers that had 10 plants in it. Set them up in a 55 ga drum hydroponic style figuring I'd lose half of them. Been four days and all of them are putting on new leaves..go figure... Now to pluck some out cuz that size barrel is only good for 3-4 plants

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We've got plenty of deer around here but (knocking furiously on Mesquite side table) they haven't bothered anything. We have a dog, but he's likely scared of deer or he just doesn't care if they come and go. I found tracks in the garden one morning and found them snooping around the next night. I peppered them with some #8s and they haven't been back (in the garden). They troop by every morning and evening but steer clear of the yard.
 
Alan R McDaniel Jr said:
We picked about ten Zucchini, some Yellow Squash, and three grocery bags of green beans this afternoon. We got busy and had a bunch of it for supper.

Alan
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Show off. Our Zucchini is just breaking ground, still potted as frost risks linger, even though peepers say Friday should be it.
 
The seeds we started have finally started to take off. Note for next year: I'm going to start seeds indoors about two weeks earlier than I did this year.

Seeds I planted in the ground have started to peek out. Forgot to plant dill and basil, so just did that today in our herb pot (which also has some chives we transplanted.) We did pick up a couple tomato and a few pepper plants of varieties we didn't start seed for and transplanted them.

We've got a volunteer lettuce plant growing, which we're looking forward to picking a few leaves off of in a week or two. Also discovered some volunteer cherry tomato plants (guessing tomato, based upon their location). One or two of those might get transplanted into another spot in the garden with the rest pulled, otherwise they'll be fighting with the green beans for space.
 
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