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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    I just did the same thing and put 10 eggs from my best pullet in the incubator. The NH cockerels have been servicing her so the eggs should be fertile.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I was making dense bread until I realized that I was measuring packed flour instead of sifted flour. Too much flour in relation to the water made a thick dough and impeded rising.
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    I was 15 minutes late but still had time to do all the exercises. The PT is definitely helping my shoulder.
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Not 100% sure, but I think my mom's tuna casserole included a bag or two of dry egg noodles, two cans of tuna and a can each of cream of mushroom and cheese soup. I was a little late for my PT appointment today. Neighbor came over to visit and I lost track of time.
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Fried green tomatoes are pretty good. Tuna noodle casserole was a regular when I was a kid, and I guess that is sort of a hotdish but cooked in a pot on the stovetop. There was frost on the windshield this morning here.
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Hotdish???
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    That's life. Glad I made just one pint. Got the last of the green beans picked and most of the vines tossed to the chickies. Buckets are over the habaneros. A full 7 gallon bucket of squash brought indoors. Gardening work is pretty much done for a while now, just maintaining the brassicas and...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Got all the beans picked and the vines are being worked on by the chickens now. I found a few big mature pods that I'll have to shell, and got a lot of teeny tiny haricot verts.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    @Sally PB , I tried the dill pickled green tomatoes I made a month ago. I am not impressed. They're soft and mushy and have a bitter aftertaste. Never again.
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    You have a freezer full of beans too, don't you? BTW, those pickled green beans I made and processed for 15 minutes were still kind of crunchy when I ate them. They tasted ok but I won't make them again. I'd rather have cucumber dills. I have a pint of experimental green tomato dill pickles...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Probable frost tonight so I picked all the butternut squash and tomatoes. Squash vines went to the chickens, along with my fall green bean plants that I planted a month to late. They just started blooming... Tomato plants went into the woods on top of the pepper plants. Picked the big zucchini...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    My chickens love eating the leaves with no ill effects. I got ALL the tomatoes picked, most were green, and threw all the plants into the woods. Picked all 14 butternut squash and a giant zucchini and threw those plants to the birds too. Pulled up all the dead, dry dill plants and rubbed all...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Found it. I planted the beans seeds August 19th. Should've planted them mid-July.
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    I went ahead and pulled up all the bush bean plants and tossed them into the chicken run. I need to go back through the posts here and figure out when I planted them so I can plant them earlier next year. I should really start keeping a garden diary.
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