Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Hinotori]

@Hinotori , sorry about your hen. 12.5 years was a good run, though.

I did some work in the garden today. When I planted my last batch of lettuce seeds I just planted them close in a little 2 foot square area. Once they came up and got big enough I started transplanting them to places in the garden where I had room. I moved 14 of them today, adjacent to a row of summer squash that's just coming up.

Got all my tomatoes pruned again and tied the new growth to their supports. Trimmed off a few butternut squash leaves that were blocking light from my latest planting of green beans. And I stood up a circular fence around my horseradish plant. Deer have been eating the leaves, a little at a time. No more!

My basil looks like it's getting ready to bloom. I think I need to pinch off the buds before they bloom to keep the plants growing, don't I?

And I picked my first green beans of the year, about 10 pods. Not much, but they were pretty good. Ate a few of them raw, and lightly cooked the rest of them with some zucchini I fried for supper. Also picked a big leaf lettuce and a turnip. Cooked up a pot of tasty turnip greens in some chicken broth. Good stuff!

Thanks. Yes she was old for a hen.

You must pick those basil buds as soon as they form.

Im finally getting zucchini

 

[Smokerbill]

I finally got a real egg today that actually fits in the egg carton! At 58.75 grams I believe that it's a large. If this keeps up I won't need 8 eggs for an omelet.

 

[Hinotori]

I am so Sorry Kim that sucks went to Tumwater Costco today.

Gosh I’m sorry to hear that. What a tremendous lifespan! She obviously had excellent care.

So sorry. Sounds like you gave her a good long life.

Thanks all. She was the last of my first hens. She'd invite herself into the house, between our legs to go steal dog and cat food.

 

[Smokerbill]

@Hinotori , thanks, I'll pick those basil buds off and use them for seasoning something.

 

[Hinotori]

hi there!
Is there anywhere on BYC that I can list Roos needing homes?

Welcome to the thread. I wish I could help but I just eat my extras

 

[Grandmas Coop]

Good morning all,
I have had a busy morning, its 55 out and we have a wonderful soaking rain yesterday, the ground drank it all up.
I need to walk down with my big 2 wheel wheelbarrow to my neighbors sawmill and get more wood chips for my run--- I can handle pushing 3 loads and 4 maybe, I need 8 or as much as I can get. I want to fill the entry way and all of the thin spots before fall.
Before, just dirt and mud
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After
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Have a great day!

I put the smaller wheelbarrow in the big one , got shovels and rakes, Walked down with my husband as he took the trash can to the pavement, we then filled both barrows, and went back for 2 more. this is going to help cut down on flies, dust and mud.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have been using coffee grounds in my coop.
Seems to help a bit on the flies also and can see the crap better.

 

[Smokerbill]

I keep meaning to mention @Smokerbill that a number of people who live in heavily wooded areas around here with large deer populations have similar growing beds as you built. So far the fencing and bird netting has worked. I didn’t find black coated chicken wire @Sueby but I did find dark green coated wire at Walmart online. Not sure if they have the taller stuff. Mine is 40 inches tall. I got the weed whacking done in the front yard. Trying to finish up the laundry. Sounds like a thunderstorm is moving into the area. This wasn’t in the forecast.

I was starting to put up a fence around my entire garden area, which would have been about 150 feet in length total. And unless it were 6 or 7 or 8 feet tall, the deer would probably just jump over it, making me even madder and feeling more the idiot. So I decided to just cage the individual beds and be done with it.

I still have to get some protection around two more beds. The big one (16x14 feet) is temporarily protected, but so well that I can't get into it unless I partially take it apart. The other one is relatively small, only 3.5 x 14 feet. It should be easy to deer proof that one.

 

[ValerieJ]

I put the smaller wheelbarrow in the big one , got shovels and rakes, Walked down with my husband as he took the trash can to the pavement, we then filled both barrows, and went back for 2 more. this is going to help cut down on flies, dust and mud.
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Looking good!

 

[ValerieJ]

I was starting to put up a fence around my entire garden area, which would have been about 150 feet in length total. And unless it were 6 or 7 or 8 feet tall, the deer would probably just jump over it, making me even madder and feeling more the idiot. So I decided to just cage the individual beds and be done with it.

I still have to get some protection around two more beds. The big one (16x14 feet) is temporarily protected, but so well that I can't get into it unless I partially take it apart. The other one is relatively small, only 3.5 x 14 feet. It should be easy to deer proof that one.

We have a 5' fence around our raised beds. We have loads of deer, and they do eat everything in sight but have not jumped the fence. I think it's because of the raised beds. It would be too dangerous to land in there.

They did jump the fence into the chicken run where the orchard is. I was pretty unhappy about that. Fence being modified as we speak by DH.