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  1. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    A deer decided to prune a tomato plant and a couple butternut squash leaves and vines. I might do something to keep it from happening again, but I'm not too concerned. The tomato is a plant that came up volunteer on the outside of my pallet chicken run compost enclosure, and the squash vines...
  2. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    Smart! Does your power company buy back the excess electricity?
  3. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    Got bored. Did a little more pruning of the cucumber vines, pulled up what few weeds I could find.
  4. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    Thanks. That was helpful.
  5. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    Carrots after thinning and watering. I put about a pint of baby carrots in the freezer to use for cooking.
  6. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    I'm not sure if I'm tying up the zucchini vines correctly but it's the best I could come up with. I had to trim off a lot of leaves and some small squash to make room. Maybe I should cut the leaves off closer to the vine???
  7. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    I get mine from Amazon.
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    Haha. Well, that wasn't my intent. I was curious myself about how much a homemade bread loaf was costing me. Now if I upgraded from cheap all purpose flour to a high protein/gluten bread flour the cost would be quite a bit more. But as long as I can cut off a couple slices and use it for a...
  9. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    No, I don't buy bread. All purpose flour is usually bought on sale. An 8 dollar, one pound bag of yeast is enough for over two years of bread baking. Cheap electricity here, 7cents per kWh, and the machine uses roughly 1.5kWh to make a loaf, a dime. A little salt and sugar, maybe some vegetable...
  10. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    I planted Golden Acre this spring but it wanted to bolt before I thought it was ready to pick. The heads were loose, not densely packed. Brunswick is supposed to be a good fall cabbage.
  11. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    Gene Kelly dancing in the rain. He could move!
  12. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    I made a sandwich with my homemade bread, fresh picked leaf lettuce from the garden and thin sliced cold ribeye steak. Catalina salad dressing as the condiment. It was GOOD!
  13. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    Not one of my three habanero plants have set on fruit. They bloom, then the bud drops. I'm thinking it might be because of the cool nights, down in the low 50s, upper 40s. Looks like I'll still get some Hatch peppers ane jalapenos. Quite a few of those have stuck on after blooming.
  14. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    Did maintenance on the grandkids' little garden plots. Pulled weeds, harvested the tiny red onions. Getting that area ready for planting my fall collards and kale. Pulled up a few carrots to thin them out, largest were maybe pencil diameter, two inches long. Ate a couple and they were sweet. I...
  15. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    What variety of shallots are those? They look kind of like mine, that are growing a single bulb instead of multiples on one plant. Mine, I think, are not true shallots. Got 'em at Baker Creek.
  16. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    Thank you! My Brunswick cabbage seeds arrived from Baker Creek and I got a dozen seed cells planted with some of them. Fall cabbage, I hope. I think I'm going to pull up an onion and slice it up to pickle with that cucumber I picked this morning. Vinegar, water, salt, pepper and sugar. So they...
  17. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    I picked the first pickling cucumber of the year, almost 4 inches long. Zucchinis need another day to expand, and green beans need 2 or 3 more. I watered the carrots, tomatoes, beans and peppers.
  18. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    I'm confused. I never saw June 31 on a calendar.
  19. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    It's yours to use! That's how my entire garden area is. Built to be temporary for as little cost as possible. When it all rots and falls apart in a few years I'll fix it back up again. LOL
  20. Smokerbill

    What did you do in the garden today?

    More dry beans??? I haven't even picked my first green beans of the year. I think some will be ready in a day or two.
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