Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[pennyJo1960]

Sun felt so nice laying the wire we both took our coats off.

 

[PopoMyers]

Looking forward to 50 and sunny tomorrow. Grass is crunchy tonight, though.

 

[Bonkerelli]

Looking forward to 50 and sunny tomorrow. Grass is crunchy tonight, though.View attachment 2975334

Lucky!

 

[Sequel]

Oh like you loose the Veggies bolt on you ?
In the ground we could not weed ours amd did not try.
Almost no weeding in the tires.

The veggies do well the the most part but it gets weedy. Over the years I’ve noticed that as long as most veggies get a good start most weeds don’t bother them. Carrots and onions like to be fussed over a bit but the rest seem to do well growing with other plants. You can call the other plants weeds.

 

[Bonkerelli]

Don't know where you guys are at but its 29F, overcast and probably about 50-60F in my office.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We are at 46 now. Took three roo, 2 from banty and the barred rock mix roo from the little coop to Auction this morning.

 

[Hinotori]

We hit 22° last night and 55° today. It's been sunny. I let a pen of silkies out and they acted like it was paradise. Then decided to do their dead chicken impersonations in the sun.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I was so happy here went to scrape tables girls doing bathes again by the door .. got the latch part out into the screen door of the little coop .. dum dum did not take the whole hook and latch out

 

[PopoMyers]

@Hinotori , you must have a huge space to grow all those squash! My kale got pretty frozen and look bad. The girls only peck at the non frozen leaves. Garlic is in and protected with wire fencing over the bed so they don't get dug up by the girls. Not much else, yet. Starting onions seed soon, will probably only plant kale, a baby greens bed, green beans, potatoes, paste/sauce tomatoes, kabocha, 1 or 2 zucchini, Maybe cabbage. Broccoli did not do too good last year. Also planting a bunch of shelling beans. Gave up on carrots. I get worms/root maggots. Didn't have that problem in the 90's. I have bramble berries and strawberries to prune soon, and grapes and fruit trees.

 

[Sequel]

I have a few different squash Im planting. I have to expland the garden. Mom liked the baked potato squash I tried last year so I'll plant a 50 foot row on the back of the silkie pens. I can put the lakota squash there as well as I don't care about the cross pollination as one is a hybrid and the other Im just trying. The buttercup squash will be going elsewhere.

Some early tomatoes, 2 types of peppers, short carrots. Foxtail millet for the silkies. Buckwheat, grain amaranth, spinach, sorrel, leeks, sweet corn. Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cucumbers, peas, beans.

Im trying cardoons this year. They should do fine as it's the stem we eat and not the flower like artichokes.

The bottle gourds I'll be starting next month. They take the longest to mature even though they are small ones. I want good sized starts to put out as soon as I can.

I have all my seeds already. Yes it will be a pretty big garden. I have lots of space to expand.

I have cardoons! The chickens love to dig the seeds out of the dead flower heads. I enjoy the plant but only tried cooking it once, it wasn’t successful. I think I picked it at the wrong time. I found a guy on you tube who had a nice tutorial. You boil it then bread it and fry it.