What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

They enjoy the sugar pie sized ones, don't care too much about the normal carving Halloween ones, don't look twice at those pixie sized ones, LOVE the green goose necks and cushaws (when I share those), and I about loose a hand with those flatter dusty green ones. NO clue what varieties any of them are.

 

[Molpet]

those flatter dusty green ones.

Which one is closest
Types of Green Squash & Pumpkins - Good Gourds https://share.google/g0jsyyAGJGSmCCLOT

 

[TJAnonymous]

It's been a busy week and will be an even busier weekend. I did get some lettuce and greens seeded before our rain spell this week.

Bought a cheap, portable carport that we are going to turn into a rabbit colony this weekend for meat rabbits. DH and I have damn near divorced over the rabbits in the sunroom. It's the doe. She makes a righteous mess and refuses to use a litter box. Sooooo.... they will be evicted to the new rabbit house once it's finished.

Need to evict the chicks too but waiting until they are fully feathered. Btw, I'm thinking my experiment worked. I think all 5 eggs that hatched were hens. There's only one that I'm still a little unsure but I'm about 75% sure she's a hen. I my experiment, I reduced the incubator temperature to 98.5.

 

[jerryse]

It's been a busy week and will be an even busier weekend. I did get some lettuce and greens seeded before our rain spell this week.

Bought a cheap, portable carport that we are going to turn into a rabbit colony this weekend for meat rabbits. DH and I have damn near divorced over the rabbits in the sunroom. It's the doe. She makes a righteous mess and refuses to use a litter box. Sooooo.... they will be evicted to the new rabbit house once it's finished.

Need to evict the chicks too but waiting until they are fully feathered. Btw, I'm thinking my experiment worked. I think all 5 eggs that hatched were hens. There's only one that I'm still a little unsure but I'm about 75% sure she's a hen. I my experiment, I reduced the incubator temperature to 98.5.

I think you got lucky. Others have tried and failed. It works on some reptiles like alligators.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I think you got lucky. Others have tried and failed. It works on some reptiles like alligators.

I don't think the temperature itself actually changes the sex of the bird. That's determined during fertilization. But... I have heard that hen embryos can survive slightly cooler temperatures than rooster embryos. I don't know if that's valid scientifically but I figured I'd give it a shot. Out of 9 fertilized eggs, five hatched and all seem to be hens. Four were quitters so I guess we'll never know if they were roosters.

 

[WthrLady]

Which one is closest
Types of Green Squash & Pumpkins - Good Gourds https://share.google/g0jsyyAGJGSmCCLOT

I think they're blue Moon pumpkins, which aren't on that list.

 

[chickengr]

Same. I’m seriously considering just keeping my potato harvest (such as it is) to be seed potatoes again next year.



I don’t drink coffee but I could double down on the bloodmeal come spring.

is there any coffee shop near you that throws away coffee?

 

[chickengr]

I don't think the temperature itself actually changes the sex of the bird. That's determined during fertilization. But... I have heard that hen embryos can survive slightly cooler temperatures than rooster embryos. I don't know if that's valid scientifically but I figured I'd give it a shot. Out of 9 fertilized eggs, five hatched and all seem to be hens. Four were quitters so I guess we'll never know if they were roosters.

a friend of mine hatches mostly female birds by reducing incubator temperatures. I did it by chance when goslings where hatching. I reduced temps and forgot to rise it for a week. then I put khaki campbell eggs and got 2 males and 5 females.

 

[Minanora]

I'm tired. Was a long week at work. I finally went to the garden today for all of 5 minutes. Most things are happy.

I worked most of the day, went to Costco, went to the moto gear shop, then rushed home to pick up DS from school, unloaded the Costco stuff, left again to go to parent teacher conference, came home... I barely got to touch the soil before we had to leave to go to Lowe's. Then we had to go to the grocery store. By the the time we got home it was dark. So I did dishes, oiled my cutting boards and ate dinner.

I'm a little annoyed because DH told me he was going to go do some of this stuff himself while I was at work. I drove him everywhere....

Anyway, I worked on my yard fence/raised bed tunnel design after I ate dinner. I measured with Google Earth pro for rough measurements.

It looks like I'll be able to do two 18" raised rows with a 3' walkway between them. I'm going to leave a gap been each row to put a gate. So each side will have a gate. One to keep the dogs out of the tunnel and one to keep the chickens out. This way I can also access the orchard from the yard instead of having to go all the way around to the chicken coop to get in. The gates will be double gates that swing inward to the pathway to give extra protection to the inner tunnel.

Preliminary design (REV A) below so my DH could see what I kinda want it to be like. Rev B is already in progress.

Top half is an aerial view, bottom half is the side as you would see it from the yard. Obviously not to scale. It's a child's whiteboard.

I'll be gaining roughly 140sq/ft of garden space. Which is a lot. Considering that I currently have 288sq/ft across all 9 of my existing beds. It'll be like I got 4 more garden beds! I'm very excited.