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  1. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    I have small jalapeno and Hatch peppers on the plants now, but no habaneros yet. The habanero plants are very small for some reason, less than a foot tall. I think my new garden bed soil is somehow deficient, and I'm guessing the pH level is off. All the tomato plants in that bed look weird too...
  2. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    I pruned quite a few of the lower leaves from my zucchini plants. I have one loop of fabric tied around each vine so far, trying to get them trained to grow along the pole. Seems kind of tricky, trying to grow zucchinis vertically. It's difficult to find a way to tie around the vine without...
  3. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    Not a dang thing done in the garden today. Cleaned house... picked up, vacuumed, dusted, wiped, washed. Moved a lot of stuff around in the shop to get it more organized. Moved stuff from the kitchen pantry to a new pantry space in the shop. Cooked some soupy spicy chili pork stuff and a pot of...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    My garlic was completely dried out in 10 days, 2 weeks? Something like that. But it was hanging under the roof of the back deck with a lot of breeze blowing by. My garlic is a hardneck, but the stems were still pretty flexible. Most of them had already flopped over in the garden when I decided...
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    That's the perfect place for it, so it doesn't spread. I have mine in the bottom half of a steel 55 gallon drum. I have an old toilet that I'm trying to think of a use for. Maybe turn it into a two story nest box for the chickens, a nest in the bowl and one in the tank. I bet they'd like that...
  6. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    Pulled up the last few scrawny kale plants and gave them to the chickens along with some of the big lower leaves left after picking the cabbages. Watered some things this morning.
  7. Smokerbill

    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    Buy older used stuff, not new.
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    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Are you going to save the biggest cloves to plant this fall and expand your garlic garden size? The garlic hanging on the back porch had dried enough for me to clean it up and put it in storage. I trimmed off the tops, rubbed off the loose skin and trimmed off the dried roots with scissors. The...
  9. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    good idea!
  10. Smokerbill

    What are your frugal and sustainable tips and tricks?

    I heard somewhere sometime ago that a good strategy is to just sell all the stuff you have that you think you might need someday. Then you'll have money to re-buy the things you need in the future.
  11. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    I know all about the cat. It's an outdoor cat, gets fed inside but loves to hunt in the area. I credit it with keeping the rodent population in check around my house/shop/chicken accommodations. I can handle a little cat poo/piss in the garden in exchange for its services. A bullet would be...
  12. Smokerbill

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    Cool here too but I just closed up all the windows. It's 75 outside, 69 indoors. Figured I'd keep the cool trapped inside. I pruned the cucumber vines, something I've never done before and I hope it works. I wrapped another (higher) loop of wire around my growing tomato plants to keep them...
  13. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    I pruned my cucumbers this morning. Should've started pruning weeks ago because they were a jumbled mess. I'm giving them a good, long watering with the drip irrigation to help them get over the shock. Looks like the dam neighbor's cat is crapping between the cukes and zuchs.
  14. Smokerbill

    Preserving Your Harvest

    Thanks!
  15. Smokerbill

    Preserving Your Harvest

    I made some with a couple cabbages too.
  16. Smokerbill

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    I chopped the cabbage on the coarse side today, larger chunks so there's less chance of them floating to the top. Didn't take long to do it with my big chef's knife.
  17. Smokerbill

    Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

    I made a batch of sauerkraut today with cabbage from the garden. Didn't you make some Penny Jo?
  18. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

  19. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    Chopped the cabbages, weighed them out, added salt and have it macerating in a big bowl for a few hours to pull out the water. Then it goes into the fermenter. 1500 grams cabbage 35 grams salt @ ~ 2.35% salt concentration I found 3 pea-size slugs hidden in the cabbage leaves. Hope I found them...
  20. Smokerbill

    Show Me Your Pallet Projects!

    You might have one of these laying around somewhere. A female garden hose fitting would work as well as the drip irrigation fitting I used. And the hose end valve is nice to have but you could just set the flow rate at the hose bib and skip the additional valve. If I remember correctly I had to...
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