Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Kmaria187]

It was a nice day today went out and cleaned out the coops and added 2 new chicken perches inside the run. Maybe that will keep them from sleeping on the roofs of their coops lol... They still will not go in at night unless I make them. As soon as I go out at night they see me coming and know what's going to happen. It's like a bunch of teenagers grumbling as they slowly walk back to their rooms!!!

 

[Smokerbill]

I set up the self watering wicking planter today for the cutting I took from my dwarf Roma tomato plant. I think it's going to work. I can see the water level through the vinyl tubing.

Made a change to the veggie/sausage dish I cooked. No parsley, but added all the store-bought garlic I had left over, probably 10 cloves. Should be tasty!

 

[ValerieJ]

Instead of replacing the dirt, covering the beds with black plastic for several weeks and using soil solarization to kill the weeds off might be an option. After that, maintaining a thick layer of mulch over the garden beds around the veggies would prevent weed seeds from sprouting.

Mulch (rotted wood chips and maple leaves, grass clippings) keeps most weeds from growing in my garden. I still have to pull a few sometimes but they come out easily.

That is a method I have tried already. As soon as I remove the plastic and plant anything, up they pop. they are stubborn.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I planted lettuce, kale mustard greens for fall crops.
I have lot's of carrots and beets left.
My gourds are doing great acorn squash, zucchini and yellow crookneck all doing great tomato to may to count as long as they color.

 

[Smokerbill]

I picked my first ripe to may to a few days ago. It tasted pretty darned good.

 

[Smokerbill]

Pressure cooker beans are done cooking and chilling now in the cool morning breeze. Supposed to get hot this afternoon, 90+, and tomorrow. Normal weather after that for a while, highs lo to mid 70s. That'll be nice. Need to water the garden this AM so it's ready for the heat.

 

[ValerieJ]

I picked my first ripe to may to a few days ago. It tasted pretty darned good.

I just got your to may to reference. I think Penny just dropped an "n", and meant too many to count. Thanks for the morning giggle.

 

[ValerieJ]

An egg from one of the pullets next to a double yolk from one of the older gals. These little eggs are so cute!

 

[Smokerbill]

I just got your to may to reference. I think Penny just dropped an "n", and meant too many to count. Thanks for the morning giggle.

And I thought Penny was being funny saying "tomato to may to". "To many to" makes much more sense.

ETA: Beans were a success and taste great! The 5 cups of dry beans almost tripled in volume. I ended up with a hair over 14 cooked cups of musical fruit.

It still kind of amazes me that if beans are soaked overnight they take only 6 minutes of cooking once the pressure cooker weight starts jiggling. In a pan on the stovetop they'd take at least an hour, and longer if the dry beans are old.

 

[Smokerbill]

Oh yeah, I gave the chickens the ham bones. Since most of the salt was pulled out of them I figured they'd be ok for the hens. And they are just soft enough that I think the girls will be able to peck them into pieces and eat them.