fuzzi's Chicken Journal

[NanaK]

I'm going to plant my sweet potatoes this weekend. I just shove a couple whole yams in the dirt. They grow.

I used to get plenty of sweet potatoes for free. I knew enough farmers who let people glean the fields after they harvested. Now they have all retired or passed on.

So I decided to give growing them a try. I want to start small because SP really vine ALOT. I started a tater in potting mix under my indoor grow lights a while back. I now have several slips potted up and the tater has made a couple more. These are in the greenhouse now because of all the rain. I was going to plant them in the garden this week. Now it needs to dry up a bit before I can plant.

I went to the garden yesterday. It's not visible from the house. Was worried about what I would find. It is very wet but everything looked okay except my green beans are a tad wilted. Hope there is no root rot. They are Pole Kentucky Wonder and just starting to climb. I might have to replant.

I cut 2 heads of cabbage and gave the chickens the bottom leaves. They almost snatched it from my hands.

Hope the tomatoes don't crack.

 

[1muttsfan]

You guys are making me envious, we don't get enough heat hours to grow sweet potatoes up here, and you spend the entire summer nursing tomatoes along just to have the vine deteriorate after you've gotten one or two tomatoes. I just buy them at the farmers market now. And the only thing you can plant right now is early crops like peas, it got down to 32° last week one day.

 

[fuzzi]

Mowed the second half of the backyard early, chickens approved.

After I post I'll be doing a data transfer from my phone's SD card to a laptop. My new phone is waiting. BBL.