The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[ronott1]

@DigMyChicks , that's some fine looking soil in your cucumber patch. Sure beats my heavy clay.

We have to use raised beds and purchased top soil here. The Clay is terrible!

 

[DigMyChicks]

Hi DMC

Been doing any baking jobs lately?

Hi Debby! No someone asked me to do cupcakes for a wedding in August but couldn’t tell me amount of people so I didn’t give a yes or no. I assume she assumed it was a no. I’m doing my sisters cupcakes and wedding cake in October for around 100 people. She wanted a simple one now it’s a 3 layer. I’ve never done one so she’s brave askingGood thing hubby’s cousin has pans I can borrow.

Give it a shot. I made an 8' long "arbor" using 2 pieces of 2x4 welded wire 16' long bent into an arch. Could have used cattle panels but didn't have any and no way to get them home at the time. I run beans up one side and cukes up the other. I've heard you can do that with squash as well but I wonder if that is more for smaller summer squash rather than bigger, heavier winter squash.

It would definitely make things easier. What kind of beans? I grew 2 different ones this year. One was a small earlier producing plant and the other were some sort of bushy plant.

@DigMyChicks , that's some fine looking soil in your cucumber patch. Sure beats my heavy clay.

Thanks Sour! We do have nice dirt in that spot. 25 years ago it was a cow pasture of sorts.

 

[CapricornFarm]

We have to use raised beds and purchased top soil here. The Clay is terrible!

We have clay too. I have to use a pick axe to dig holes to put the flowers in. I keep adding sand and manure, it helps.

 

[ronott1]

Hi Debby! No someone asked me to do cupcakes for a wedding in August but couldn’t tell me amount of people so I didn’t give a yes or no. I assume she assumed it was a no. I’m doing my sisters cupcakes and wedding cake in October for around 100 people. She wanted a simple one now it’s a 3 layer. I’ve never done one so she’s brave askingGood thing hubby’s cousin has pans I can borrow.

It would definitely make things easier. What kind of beans? I grew 2 different ones this year. One was a small earlier producing plant and the other were some sort of bushy plant.

Thanks Sour! We do have nice dirt in that spot. 25 years ago it was a cow pasture of sorts.

You are too nice!

 

[ronott1]

We have clay too. I have to use a pick axe to dig holes to put the flowers in. I keep adding sand and manure, it helps.

It is terrible! I nearly killed myself getting a cemented in fence post out. If I put gravel out, it sinks in and disappears. It is not like good top soil for sure

 

[DigMyChicks]

You are to nice!

Sometimes

 

[rjohns39]

Well, I just put 22 fluffy butts in the brooder, one still in the bator. A late bloomer I had to assist hatch.

 

[ronott1]

Well, I just put 22 fluffy butts in the brooder, one still in the bator. A late bloomer I had to assist hatch.

Nice Hatch!

 

[ShrekDawg]

I know! If there are cookies around I will eat them! One after the other too

Lol me too

Speaking of which, I went a little crazy yesterday and today...

 

[drumstick diva]

CLAY HA !! we have boulders, this was a quarry area before - apparently just one end of town. Everyone seems to be decorating with boulders - not out of choice, they can't move them. Smaller ones are pushed into the Forest preserve at one end. Some woman was amazed to tell me boulders were growing in the F.P.. I told her people dump them there. Of course she kept prattling away at them growing.

You cannot dig a couple inches into soil without hearing the "clink" of shovel against boulder. You can dig it up and if not too heavy relocate it but, once you remove it the soil(?) level drops several inches.

If you uncover one too heavy to move, you just re-cover it and walk away. I have a large, flat boulder/rock whatever. It's big enough to write the Ten Commandments on it.
Punks who dug under one end discovered tons of garter snakes. Thankfully I didn't see that.

I can't afford putting good soil in the holes, so have two small raised beds and I just have/had fancy hosta planted there. The 'had 'part means when a fence section was down so they could remove"Tree Zilla," trunk. A doe wandered into the yard and found the many flowers on hosta to be delicious. I know deer can jump 6 feet from standing still so either way. So no flowers and very little hosta.

Soooo I have houseplants instead -