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[MysteryChicken]

So a 8' H, 12' L, 11'½ W. Henhouse/coop area, & 11'½ X 11' wrap around runs.

 

[MysteryChicken]

@black_cat

 

[ackie]

I've never tried planting eggplant this early. I thought they were summer plants. I mean, I've had pretty good success with them but now I'm wondering if I can get a head start. Lol

so I found this:
https://www.almanac.com/gardening/planting-calendar
and put in my zipcode and it gives you dates when to start inside, transplant or seed directly outside, and thats where I got the idea of starting the eggplant early inside

 

[CluckNDoodle]

so I found this:
https://www.almanac.com/gardening/planting-calendar
and put in my zipcode and it gives you dates when to start inside, transplant or seed directly outside, and thats where I got the idea of starting the eggplant early inside

Awesome! Thanks for the resource!

 

[ackie]

Awesome! Thanks for the resource!

I'm so excited about gardening this year

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I'm so excited about gardening this year

I'm excited about gardening every year and then the 100+ degree summer hits and I'm like, "may the odds be ever in your favor" to my garden. Lol

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I have a nice little backyard "food forest" with a bunch of young fruit trees, berry bushes, and such that are mostly perennial. My production has been improving but it's still not where I would like it to be. I have over 50 varieties of fruits and berries out there but it takes forever to start getting good production from trees. I also picked the dead soil in my backyard to start that project, I wasn't thinking. Even our crab grass wouldn't grow there so they obviously had a very rough beginning. Now it's covered in several layers of broken down wood chips, and chicken manure and pine shavings get spread around them with every coop cleaning. I even had a big sprinkler installed last year so I have high hopes for a better yield this year!

 

[MysteryChicken]

I don't really like the weeding portion of of gardening, especially with our Two Giant Gardens. Weeding by hand for 3-4 hours in 80°F-90°F weather in direct sunlight. We use the hoe for the smaller weeds.

 

[ackie]

I'm excited about gardening every year and then the 100+ degree summer hits and I'm like, "may the odds be ever in your favor" to my garden. Lol

LOL this past summer I was weeding at like 1-2 pm in the hottest weather bc I couldn't convince myself to get up earlier than that.

I have a nice little backyard "food forest" with a bunch of young fruit trees, berry bushes, and such that are mostly perennial. My production has been improving but it's still not where I would like it to be. I have over 50 varieties of fruits and berries out there but it takes forever to start getting good production from trees. I also picked the dead soil in my backyard to start that project, I wasn't thinking. Even our crab grass wouldn't grow there so they obviously had a very rough beginning. Now it's covered in several layers of broken down wood chips, and chicken manure and pine shavings get spread around them with every coop cleaning. I even had a big sprinkler installed last year so I have high hopes for a better yield this year!

I understand that logic though...you're like oh nothing is in the way here, this would be a great spot. oops. that sounds like a great plan to fix it. what kind of trees? I have peach, plum and apple. and raspberry, blackberry (NO GOOGLE NOT THE PHONE), blueberry, muscadine (wild) and grapes... but grape production is 0.

I don't really like the weeding portion of of gardening, especially with our Two Giant Gardens. Weeding by hand for 3-4 hours in 80°F-90°F weather in direct sunlight. We use the hoe for the smaller weeds.

have you tried weed mat? it's basically like a dense fabric that you put down and you cut holes in it for your plants that you actually want and the weeds die under it cause they cant get up to the sun. some of them will come up right next to your plants but it's way easier to pull weeds in that tiny area than all over your garden. and any weeds from seeds above ground can grow on top of it but they obviously wont do near as well because they'll be blocked from most nutrients so they should be smaller and easier to pull. that + mulch is amazing haha.

 

[ackie]

almost done with breakfast. oatmeal and hardboiled STORE EGGS because my housemate bought them and abandoned them and I've been eating farm eggs so now the store eggs are old enough they have to be hardboiled.