What did you do in the garden today?

[karenerwin]

Check this out i refer to it an also participate in it
https://bigbughunt.com/

So do I! But to be honest, I never once thought that the white fuzzy stuff was any kind of bug until everyone here started suggesting it!

 

[karenerwin]

Aloha garden gang!
So sorry about your sweet chick @Wee Farmer Sarah , I hope the rest stay well and full of fun stories from here on out.

I am a little shocked on the cold weather and snow (?!!) some of you folks are getting. Our temps have been typical, to warmer than usual. I already purchased 2 fans the other day to try to stave off the misery. One to set up in the coop for nighttime comfort and the other is a small desk top that can blow straight on me at night as I dream of cooler days. I'm not ready to be miserable yet and i don't want to think about hurricane season either. Today is good and I am grateful for it.

Jazz showed up right on time with a small brood of 5-6, looks like Sancho the wild roo has only one out of the deal, thank goodness. That ol Gus was fantastic about getting these girls mated. I only got to see the new family from 20 feet away as I threw mom some feed, but they look super darn cute and I can hardly wait to meet them. I plan on taking her babies from her fairly quick and raise them myself. Rose's babies are far too feral and she is far too mean now. Lesson learned and I don't want a repeat.

I need to get my plan in place with brooder and grown out pen for the near future. I have enough coops and space to juggle the gang at the moment but hoping to get a decent hatch in 19 days!!! Would love to grow out and display to sell in style. May take some thought.
Also looking at incubators online... not sure if and what i will be able to get BUT my top 4 choices are,
#1 R-com mx 20 auto,
#2 Nurture right 360
#3 Hovabator
#4 Brinsea Ovation
Do any of you folks have any thoughts and/or experience with any of these?
Mahalo in advance.

I've got a few warm photos for those who may like. DH walked his dog last eve on one of our horse riding haunts. I go today to be the calming effect for sweet Cisco and his 1st beach ride since he went back to sq 1 with ground work.
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Have a great day all. Continue to stay strong, safe and well!!!
Peace-out!!!

I LOVE these last 2 pictures!! They are frame worthy!!

I just came in from covering everything in the garden, all the strawberry patches, 4/6 of the raspberry canes, all of the young fruit trees and 2 of the apple trees. So none of the peach trees got covered or the blackberry canes or 1 additional apple tree. I also moved the 2 buckets of potatoes closer to the house and reinstalled the plastic on the greenhouse wagon and moved it closer to the house.
We have a freeze warning for tonight, in case you hadn't guessed.

 

[Beer can]

Good idea! Thanks!

For some reason I never have much luck with spinach.

Might try again though. And gonna try a bunch of other lettuces this year. Found some when going through the seeds that I want to try plus I have some from last year that I never tried.

Start spinach when it's still cold, same with peas.

 

[karenerwin]

@WthrLady I don't think I need to cover the bee hive do I? The low is supposed to be 37F. The nuc I got is supposed to have had 4LBs of bees in it. I believe that the bees will cluster/ball up around the queen and keep her warm.
If I need to cover it, please let me know and I will go throw a blanket or beach towel over it before I go to bed. Thanks!

 

[Beer can]

I've only planted peas and spinach so far, both doing good. We are getting snow again now , they will be OK .

 

[ShrekDawg]

Start spinach when it's still cold, same with peas.

I think I definitely missed out on that then.

 

[WthrLady]

@WthrLady I don't think I need to cover the bee hive do I? The low is supposed to be 37F. The nuc I got is supposed to have had 4LBs of bees in it. I believe that the bees will cluster/ball up around the queen and keep her warm.
If I need to cover it, please let me know and I will go throw a blanket or beach towel over it before I go to bed. Thanks!

They should be fine. They'll snuggle and vibrate to keep warm. If YOU"LL sleep better, you can toss a blanket on top. They don't have a lot of food in there yet to eat and keep warm and act as thermal mass. Yup. you'll sleep better heap a blanket on there. Take off during day to allow the heat to build inside.

But normally no, they'd be fine.

 

[karenerwin]

They should be fine. They'll snuggle and vibrate to keep warm. If YOU"LL sleep better, you can toss a blanket on top. They don't have a lot of food in there yet to eat and keep warm and act as thermal mass. Yup. you'll sleep better heap a blanket on there. Take off during day to allow the heat to build inside.

But normally no, they'd be fine.

Thanks! They have the sugar water feeder in there so I am going to trust that they will be fine. The high tomorrow is supposed to be 64 and partly sunny. (Plus I'll be at work 5:30 till 5:30 and hubby says he is allergic to bees so I won't ask him to uncover them). So I will leave them how they are.

 

[WthrLady]

OH pish. He could uncover them before they even get up. LOL.
Bees can do it.

 

[pasdechat73]

I've only planted peas and spinach so far, both doing good. We are getting snow again now , they will be OK .

Awesome! We're in Zone 8b and they're doing well. No more snow projected; we are on the west coast.