What did you do in the garden today?

[igorsMistress]

Chicks. I started with 6 shipped eggs, 3 were infertile and one DIS. I was playing with them after work today, no gardening.

 

[Compost King]

I harvested 5 cucumbers and a Carolina Reaper pepper. I shredded the cucumbers with Lime Juice and Apple Cider Vinegar and had it for lunch. I left out the Carolina Reaper because last I put it in ... it was too much to have again less than a week later. I love hot peppers but ones that are that hot can only be eaten so many times a year. Guess I will have to figure out what to do it. Maybe Dehydrate them and save them for when I make a large batch of dry beans.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Three berry mix taken from the freezer for desert

 

[NightingaleJen]

Didnt even think about squirrels honestly...we dont have a big population of rascals (thats what my daughter has always called squires). But we do have a good number of chipmunks. Ideas for deterrents?

It could indeed be water plus critter, as others have suggested... @WthrLady may be right about the hoppers, too.

So far as the chipmunks, I've both sprinkled the bed with cat hair and sprayed leaves with a sriracha-water mist. It seems to help, anyhow.

Also, squirrels (AKA rats with fashion sense) are not to be underestimated. Wily little buggers...

Lovely babies @igorsMistress! Please pardon my forgetting, but what breed are they again?

@Compost King, I imagine those peppers would make a lethal fermented hot sauce... Using them as an addition to beans sounds tasty, though!

Your dessert sounds delightful, @penny1960. Hope you enjoyed it!

Pulled a bunch of greens (including nasturtium leaves) to go with tonight's dinner and tomorrow's breakfast. Wild thunder and lightning storm rolled through, dumping buckets of rain, immediately after. Was more concerned about the chicks than anything... They are, of course, fine.

 

[Birdielee]

pole beans grown over the top of their towers

Hi! My mom used to put a pole across the top, connecting the towers. It worked well

 

[NewBoots]

Chicks. I started with 6 shipped eggs, 3 were infertile and one DIS. I was playing with them after work today, no gardening.

Those are gorgeous chicks! They stay tiny and that cute for such a short time, thank heaven we can take pictures.

Here is a picture of the broody our neighbor dog discovered Friday evening. Fortunately that neighbor dog is in love with me so she was easy to call off. 24 hours later though where she was hiding her clutch though they would have probably died from the flooding?

Bless you and your wife for rescuing them. Maybe she'll be grateful and behave. HAHAHAHA, just kidding, it is a silky after all.

Wait, how did these get in here?!

So pretty, I just love the soft dove grey colors as well as the black ones. What kind are they?

Now that 3 are hatched, they are talkative even more so, then they fall asleep for a few moments.

Love that sudden nap attack.

Making zucchini boats for dinner, I used some ground pork I had left over, Now I realize I should have added some ground fennel or Italian seasoning. I'm sure it'll be tasty, I'll just make a note for next time. Got to remember to save some of the fennel seeds from the garden.

 

[igorsMistress]

It could indeed be water plus critter, as others have suggested... @WthrLady may be right about the hoppers, too.

So far as the chipmunks, I've both sprinkled the bed with cat hair and sprayed leaves with a sriracha-water mist. It seems to help, anyhow.

Also, squirrels (AKA rats with fashion sense) are not to be underestimated. Wily little buggers...

Lovely babies @igorsMistress! Please pardon my forgetting, but what breed are they again?

@Compost King, I imagine those peppers would make a lethal fermented hot sauce... Using them as an addition to beans sounds tasty, though!

Your dessert sounds delightful, @penny1960. Hope you enjoyed it!

Pulled a bunch of greens (including nasturtium leaves) to go with tonight's dinner and tomorrow's breakfast. Wild thunder and lightning storm rolled through, dumping buckets of rain, immediately after. Was more concerned about the chicks than anything... They are, of course, fine.

No worries! They're supposed to be Ayam Cemani. Supposedly pure but I doubt it. I'm irritated but it's not the chicks fault.

 

[AllenK RGV]

No worries! They're supposed to be Ayam Cemani. Supposedly pure but I doubt it. I'm irritated but it's not the chicks fault.

They do display good melanistic qualities. I am thinking I might need to add something like that to some of my Sumatra lines to get their faces right at some point, but would hate to mess up the combs. Also I am not a serious breeder you will never know until you eat them. The silkie roosters with bad attitudes from my "breeder" do not have black bones according to my preferred re homing recipient.

 

[igorsMistress]

They do display good melanistic qualities. I am thinking I might need to add something like that to some of my Sumatra lines to get their faces right at some point, but would hate to mess up the combs. Also I am not a serious breeder you will never know until you eat them.

They do indeed, one has a little bit of pink on the toes but otherwise it's the white in the feathers that is disappointing. I'm not a serious breeder either, I just thought it would be fun to have melanistic Nns. I am waiting impatiently on a waiting list for some Egyptian Fayoumi chicks. Heat tolerant and Marek's resistant is a good combo.

 

[karenerwin]

The rain stopped for a while but started back up just after we got home from puppy classes. It is hard work trying to teach a 4 month old puppy to heel. I managed not to step on her and not to fall down tripping over her, so I guess that was a good start.
I think I am more tired than she is.
I did not make it out to the garden today. I wanted too but not enough to go out in the downpour. I'm sure I will have to fix at least 1 tomato cage. It is a homemade round cage and it tends to fall over a lot. I think I will see if I can bend it into a triangle so it (hopefully) won't fall over so easily.
Tomorrow is supposed to be sunny so hopefully I can get some things done outside before 4 days of rain.