Coffee's ready...

[rancher hicks]

this dang computer jsut thype a whole message and lost it.

 

[karl E lutz]

Good morning chicken wranglers
It has been a long and frustrateing week.hopfully the weekend and the wek with the scouts next week will be better.
Imust go and check on my love heffer today. Hope the nature thing did it work. Ya'll have a great wek end.Rancher ,rainier lass ,quercus welcome.

 

[math ace]

The coffee is brewing and anticipation is killing me. . . .

I took the kids school clothes shopping yesterday

Today, I wole Dh up early and said "Come On - - Roll out of Bed - - We got things to do and I wanna do them before it gets Too HOT !"

Hence, both of us our checking email and such while waiting for our coffee

 

[quercus21]

Morning,
I'm in for my second round of coffee. I'm trying to beat the heat today. It's supposed to be ~93 and no rain. Weeded the garden, stripped the beans patch and turned under the leaf mulch from the chickens run. I'll let it set for a week or so, then plant more beans. I fed the compost pile a good helping of wood chips, kitchen waste bin and garden scraps. I think I heard it burp as I was walking away.

 

[math ace]

Burp Burp Burp

 

[rancher hicks]

Well coffees done and it's 11:58 Let out the girls and went back to bed. Hey , it's saturday.

Math ace don't miss school shopping, though my kids had to wear uniforms the last few years of school. These days in public they just wear whatever, which I find rediculous, and that's just the teachers. One year I delivered to schools and thought one girl was a student turns out she's the teacher. No wonder they arrested a teacher at that school for messing with a student this past year. Sorry please allow me my OP.

anyhow Gardening, I do raised beds. saves me time and trouble weeding and watering. I highly recommend it. No digging and very little weeding.

Was wondering if I pulled my garlic to early. Leaves turned a little brown but should I have waited til they turned brown half way down? Anyhow they came out with out digging since raised beds don't get packed down. Also I can plant w/o digging tools. Easy to turned soil too when adding compost or whatever. See the cans around my tomatos and the plastic milk jug green houses for starting plants early. Cans hold water so I can just fill and be done with it. No spraying and wasted water. Bet if I put a rain barrel on the coop I could save on water too. White plastic guards keep rabbits out of my greens.

Will post pics of current garden looks later.

 

[JimWWhite]

Nice garden, Rancher Hicks!!! We've gone to box gardening too. I've got 18 boxes, 2 that are 10'x4'x12", 8 that are 8'x4'x12", and another 8 that are 4'x4'x6". This year I only grew corn and okra outside of my boxes. The soil here just has too much yellow clay and I've been trying to amend it for years to no avail. A couple of years ago I got the 'Square Foot Gardener' book by Mel Bartholomew decided to go that way from now on. Back behind the chicken run I planted 2 rows of plain old yellow corn that I give to the Gals each night. They love it.

I just cleaned out several boxes were I had lettuce, kale, potatoes, onions, etc. growing and when I pulled up all the weeds and roots, etc. I covered the soil back up with a thick layer of clean straw to keep the weeds from coming back before our fall planting. I love fall gardening because it's a whole lot easier when you're growing out of the heat and into the cool and out of the bugs etc. I'll plant lettuce, kale, spinach, turnips, collards, cabbage, potatoes, brocolli, and brussel sprouts in late August and early September and we'll be eating from the garden up thru New Years with the collards. This past winter we were able to make a big pot of collards as late as February!

But a very pretty garden you have there!!!

 

[rancher hicks]

Thanks for the compliments. I buy the "culled" lumber (untreated) 2x6,8,10,12's whatever is there. They're usually 48" long or thereabouts. I cut them to the same length for two sides and put them together. This allows me to add to my garden each year. Each be about $3-$4.

Brussel sprouts don't seem to be doing good nor did my broccoli. What can you tell me of growing these? The pics are how it looks now.

That's the brussell sprouts in the back but I don't see any little green boulders.

This is the new section. I use cardboard boxes in between to keep down the weeds. They breakdown nicely, but I will cover them with straw or pine shavings.

 

[math ace]

Broccoli and bussell sprouts are both cool weather crops. Now is not the time to try to grow those things - - - they like day time temps below 80 F and night time temps in the 40's F.

 

[rancher hicks]

The broccloli did ok but the brussels sprouts didn't. They were planted some time ago before things got hot. It's my first time but will try again next year.