What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

I need everything in the cells. I use green sand for potassium in the garden I have to use sulphur too. Glacial chip loam clay. Blah hum bug.

 

[jerryse]

Bought a Toka plum tree today at Menards . Should help fill in my pollination gap .

 

[cavemanrich]

@cavemanrich, nice photo! The skunk's must be used to you by now if they're not spraying you.

@penny1960

I'm so used to them, I do not panic when I see one. I gently approach them and I usually start to speak to them. I hope nobody else hears me and calls the guys with the white coats. They usually look at me a short time, and trot away. I am well within their range. I think their accuracy and range is about 18 feet.
The lil guys are not afraid of me,,,,,, so they save their bullets (smell juice) for when it is necessary. All my feral cats are wise enough to stay clear.
Penny,,,,, I may have found pictures of your childhood in Wisconsin

When you do come upon a skunk ,,,, you should have this attitude..

 

[MissChick@dee]

I'm so used to them, I do not panic when I see one. I gently approach them and I usually start to speak to them. I hope nobody else hears me and calls the guys with the white coats. They usually look at me a short time, and trot away. I am well within their range. I think their accuracy and range is about 18 feet.
The lil guys are not afraid of me,,,,,, so they save their bullets (smell juice) for when it is necessary. All my feral cats are wise enough to stay clear.
Penny,,,,, I may have found pictures of your childhood in Wisconsin
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When you do come upon a skunk ,,,, you should have this attitude..

 

[igorsMistress]

 

[Searsmom]

Post another pic when they grow bigger . The Elm Oyster will grow out of knot holes like that . Elm is not the only tree they grow on . I often see them on Box Elder .

Funny enough, that tree is a box elder. Is that what they are, oyster? Usually it puts out big, flat, half circular ones.

Hello,

So, I have another Gardening experiment. Here is the idea.

The Aztecs put their raised beds on the water, and they filled the boxes with soil above the water level. The water full of nutrients fertilized the plants and helped them grow.

These raised beds were called Chinampa.

This is my next experiment, to see if these chinampas were effective in growing plants.

I actually talked to the Idaho Department of Agriculture about this experiment a while ago, and they told me some advice and told me some things that need to be done before the experiment can be started.

They said that the materials needed to be all natural, and they could not be invasive species, by this I mean being unable to flow down a river and be invasive somewhere else. This was a must.

Another must is that the materials used to make it cannot harm the environment.

Another must was I need water rights, in order to do this experiment. This is the only difficult part, finding a place where I can actually build a raised bed in water, and test this experiment. Maybe somebody has a pond in their house they may let me use for this experiment.

What do you think about this experiment? If I can pull it off, it might show some interesting results.

Or, I could have a fish tank, and have a small garden on the top to test this. This might work.

I also posted this on the garden.org forum. One thing you have to know about me is that I love to experiment.

Jared

I think I agree with the fish tank idea, the other sounds labor intensive.

 

[jerryse]

Funny enough, that tree is a box elder. Is that what they are, oyster? Usually it puts out big, flat, half circular ones.



I think I agree with the fish tank idea, the other sounds labor intensive.

hypsizygus ulmarius elm oyster is edible . Pleurotus ostreatus is the common oyster mushroom . Sounds like elm oyster for sure .

 

[jnicholes]

They are alien spy cameras, disguised as mushrooms.

 

[Searsmom]

hypsizygus ulmarius elm oyster is edible . Pleurotus ostreatus is the common oyster mushroom . Sounds like elm oyster for sure .

Oh that's amazing! I'm not going to try them though. Scares me a little.

 

[pennyJo1960]

You have been a very busy bunch here went to town do banking now about to start dinner have not been to the garden but spinach must and new zealand both have sprouted probably 2 weeks before my first cuts that and lettuce is about 6 inced high