I wish we'd drop the time change non=sense.
What did you do in the garden today?
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Good morning gardeners. I got a some garden cleaning up started yesterday. I got a little distracted when I noticed all the marigolds I planted in the garden beds were still going strong, so I transplanted them. This morning I picked nearly a half pound of green beans. What a shock. I've been eating green beans a lot but I think I will freeze what I have on hand. Yesterday while cleaning up I found about a peck of ripe tomatoes that were hiding. I started drying my basil. It's taking much longer than expected but this is my first time with the dehydrator. If I can find a small bag of rye grass @WthrLady I will try planting a cover crop of that and see how it works in a raised bed. I'm here to learn and I have 7 raised beds to experiment with. Have you thought of getting on your states' thread to find a seed swap @AllenK RGV? Your growing zone is a bit unique in that you enjoy two gardening seasons a year so availability is different for you. I think I will mark the spots where my dahlias are growing now so I can find them when they whither @Sueby. They are planted with zinnias right now. And thank you for the guidance on that. Regarding the heat in the salsa: I noticed the store bought jalapenos were much spicier than mine so I'm sure it has to do with the variety. As I have aged I have developed a preference for more spice. I guess my taste buds are wearing out. LOL! Sounds like we should head to @karenerwin place for Cinco de Mayo. She has an abundance of salsa, what a party. 
Just kidding. I'm sure it is delicious. The weather forecasters for next week are dancing around frost. Hope not, still have a couple of butternut squash that need to ripen more. Have a great day everyone.
Just kidding. I'm sure it is delicious. The weather forecasters for next week are dancing around frost. Hope not, still have a couple of butternut squash that need to ripen more. Have a great day everyone.
I totally agree. I'm more on chicken time anyway. Even if I put the light on inside the coop, they don't want to go out into the run until dawn.
Good morning gardeners. I got a some garden cleaning up started yesterday. I got a little distracted when I noticed all the marigolds I planted in the garden beds were still going strong, so I transplanted them. This morning I picked nearly a half pound of green beans. What a shock. I've been eating green beans a lot but I think I will freeze what I have on hand. Yesterday while cleaning up I found about a peck of ripe tomatoes that were hiding. I started drying my basil. It's taking much longer than expected but this is my first time with the dehydrator. If I can find a small bag of rye grass @WthrLady I will try planting a cover crop of that and see how it works in a raised bed. I'm here to learn and I have 7 raised beds to experiment with. Have you thought of getting on your states' thread to find a seed swap @AllenK RGV? Your growing zone is a bit unique in that you enjoy two gardening seasons a year so availability is different for you. I think I will mark the spots where my dahlias are growing now so I can find them when they whither @Sueby. They are planted with zinnias right now. And thank you for the guidance on that. Regarding the heat in the salsa: I noticed the store bought jalapenos were much spicier than mine so I'm sure it has to do with the variety. As I have aged I have developed a preference for more spice. I guess my taste buds are wearing out. LOL! Sounds like we should head to @karenerwin place for Cinco de Mayo. She has an abundance of salsa, what a party.
WooHoo! My house for Cinco De Mayo!! Hopefully, I'll still have salsa left.
Morning Gardeners I have just cooked and raw oatmeal for the chickens added ham flavor to theirs hopefully a few more days with meds will stomp the sneeze fits
yup, and adjusted alpaca time is LOUD.
I just pulled another gallon worth of tomatoes out of the garden. Mustard is looking good.
Going to let this garden go as long as she'll go! (But I'll pull mustard for seeds before they explode all over! LOL)
Going to let this garden go as long as she'll go! (But I'll pull mustard for seeds before they explode all over! LOL)
Busy weather here . Heavy rain all day . Flash flood warning and tornado warning nearby . I am on high ground .
Lots of garden framework going on!
So the dirt we had delivered was 102 tons...seems like a lot, it was 4 truckloads (do they really weigh that much?!!) . Now it is spread out and the low spots are no more! So the surprise purchase was the grass seed - more costly than I would have thought. Cheaper than the dirt, of course, but it still surprised me. In addition to that we moved all the raised beds out of the way, so we need to put those back and then fill them back up. The person who spread out all the dirt put the current raised bed dirt to the side, so we will have to shovel and wheel barrow it ourselves.
In our quest to make the water go where we want (rather than where it wants to follow the path of least resistance), we built an approx 6-8” tall berm that is approx 60-70 feet long (didn’t measure it). This required cutting sod, removing it, piling and pounding dirt, then replacing sod and filling in the new gaps, then seeding. This took two days of labor.
Can’t stop there because water loves to follow low spots, so we are now working on the channel. This was a oddly settled channel, some lower spots, some higher spots (causing water to find those low spots). So we decided to make it about 4-6” lower in the center and widen and then overall lower the path. We are still working on this. We’ve cut all the sod, and this is about 2x longer and about 2x wider than the berm mentioned above. It’s been about 2 days of work, will be another 2 days I think. Positive side: we are getting a lot of topsoil from this endeavor.
To cap all this off, we hired landscapers to make a focal point in the front yard. The front yard is small, so does not need an overly large focal point. Also, this was to also make the water from the drain under the road follow the path we wanted it to follow...around the bend and down the boundary line. So, some nice big stone blocks were put in front of the new bed and the channel lowered about 6” up front. They planted some nice viburnums, grasses, etc and will come back with A couple items that were not available in a week.
Chickens: sadly one is sickly so we may be culling her soon. We think it is a crop issue right now, but she has been declining for awhile and hasn’t laid an egg for possibly 8 months or longer, and she is only 19 months old! Now that she looks so off, we don’t want to prolong her suffering.
So the dirt we had delivered was 102 tons...seems like a lot, it was 4 truckloads (do they really weigh that much?!!) . Now it is spread out and the low spots are no more! So the surprise purchase was the grass seed - more costly than I would have thought. Cheaper than the dirt, of course, but it still surprised me. In addition to that we moved all the raised beds out of the way, so we need to put those back and then fill them back up. The person who spread out all the dirt put the current raised bed dirt to the side, so we will have to shovel and wheel barrow it ourselves.
In our quest to make the water go where we want (rather than where it wants to follow the path of least resistance), we built an approx 6-8” tall berm that is approx 60-70 feet long (didn’t measure it). This required cutting sod, removing it, piling and pounding dirt, then replacing sod and filling in the new gaps, then seeding. This took two days of labor.
Can’t stop there because water loves to follow low spots, so we are now working on the channel. This was a oddly settled channel, some lower spots, some higher spots (causing water to find those low spots). So we decided to make it about 4-6” lower in the center and widen and then overall lower the path. We are still working on this. We’ve cut all the sod, and this is about 2x longer and about 2x wider than the berm mentioned above. It’s been about 2 days of work, will be another 2 days I think. Positive side: we are getting a lot of topsoil from this endeavor.
To cap all this off, we hired landscapers to make a focal point in the front yard. The front yard is small, so does not need an overly large focal point. Also, this was to also make the water from the drain under the road follow the path we wanted it to follow...around the bend and down the boundary line. So, some nice big stone blocks were put in front of the new bed and the channel lowered about 6” up front. They planted some nice viburnums, grasses, etc and will come back with A couple items that were not available in a week.
Chickens: sadly one is sickly so we may be culling her soon. We think it is a crop issue right now, but she has been declining for awhile and hasn’t laid an egg for possibly 8 months or longer, and she is only 19 months old! Now that she looks so off, we don’t want to prolong her suffering.
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