fuzzi's Chicken Journal

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Canadian geese babies!

 

[ChaosMom]

Canadian geese babies!
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I responded with a because I remember when they took over our local Girl Scout camp's big field! My poor troops did a lot of slipping and sliding...

 

[Molpet]

I responded with a because I remember when they took over our local Girl Scout camp's big field! My poor troops did a lot of slipping and sliding...

I think of AI, chicken shows and swaps are cancelled again because of it.

 

[fuzzi]

Catching up!

Look at ceramic bantam-sized egg holders I found at the swap!

Now I don't have to use a teaspoon to remove the eggs from the standard-sized egg holders. Excellent!

Sunday it rained most of the day, but between showers I pulled up one side of the sweet peas plants. Not a bad haul. I shelled, blanched, and froze about two cups of peas.

Then it rained Monday as well.

Overflow is overflowing!

One of the friends that I visited on Saturday gave me plants from her yard: Columbine, iris, yarrow, Obedient plant, and Rose of Sharon. I did some research and tried to find the best locations for them.

Not to scale, but helpful.

After I got home from work on Tuesday I was determined to transplant at least some of the plants that had been given to me.

Columbines first...they like fertile, moist soil, and partial sun...by the small shed?

I loosened the soil, which was dark, and kind of loamy. I worked in some peat moss to help with drainage.

Columbines in the ground!

Next I decided to prepare a place for the yarrow...it needs full sun, good drainage, is drought-tolerant. Middle of the backyard in that clay clod area?

You can see the elderberry on the left, but I think the yarrow will get plenty of sun for at least a few years where I have chosen. I loosened the soil, which had softened some from two days of rain, then dug out a lot of grass and weeds.

If the dirt was really hard I didn't shake it all off, but gave the clumps to the chickens, who made appreciative noises.

Somewhere I lost a cotter pin on my cart's wheel.


My plan is to continue tomorrow, after work, digging in peat moss and compost before transplanting the yarrow.

Then I will prepare spots for the Rose of Sharon and Obedient plants...the iris should be okay for a couple more days.

PS: Milkweed

 

[1muttsfan]

Yarrow can be a little ... Disobedient in the garden. It helps to plant it with a root barrier around it.

I find my columbines do the best when continuously reseeded every year. They flower from second year plants, so the first year they'll just be a little insignificant thing and the second year will bloom.

 

[lightm]

My yarrow is growing like a weed without being cared for. I need to transplant some if it elsewhere.

 

[CoopBoots]

My yarrow is growing like a weed without being cared for. I need to transplant some if it elsewhere.

I've had it in a pot, purchased from TSC, and killed it in months. Meanwhile, some volunteered wild and is growing in two separate and very healthy patches in my yard!

I think I've got the old brown thumb going on, except a few exceptionally abuse tolerant indoor plants...

 

[fuzzi]

Yarrow planted

Shaping up!

I decided to plant two Rose of Sharon saplings where they will eventually screen my backyard from the road.

The Obedient plants are in the ground, but they don't look good.


Iris are next, maybe tomorrow?

 

[ChaosMom]

Yarrow planted
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Shaping up!

I decided to plant two Rose of Sharon saplings where they will eventually screen my backyard from the road.
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The Obedient plants are in the ground, but they don't look good.


Iris are next, maybe tomorrow?

Rose of Sharon; the gift that keeps on giving! (I do love them, though.)

 

[fuzzi]

Rose of Sharon; the gift that keeps on giving! (I do love them, though.)

I had two planted next to the driveway (mistake) for about fifteen years, then they both just died within a year or so.

They were a great screen for my porch, but the spent blossoms stuck to my car and marred the paint.