What did you do in the garden today?

[Acre4Me]

Yes, my friend waits until they feel "woody", peels green, washes the flesh away from the fibres and dries the exposed fibre on the clothes line. It seems the distractible person in the video you found had similar methods.

hmm... so I should then pick and peel now? Sounds like a potentially messy job, but I ned to do something soon. We got our first frost warning for last night, but since these are on a vine, facing east and south, I did not worry bc they would be the least affected. However, since the days and nights have cooled down, the vines are looking rather sad anyway.

The birdhouse gourds need to be picked as well. Sounds like I can possibly hang them (the birdhouse gourds) outside to cure and dry through the winter. I can hang from the roof supports in the run so they stay dry, and get lots of airflow. I've heard the smell of drying birdhouse gourds is unpleasant, so they won't be coming inside.

 

[igorsMistress]

Good morning gardeners. I got a couple of bushes watered this morning and was out until after dark last night cleaning up the patio and waterers and ff food dishes. Does anyone use seaweed for their plants? I was reading about growing something here, maybe it was garlic, and it was suggested as a good addition to have for fertilizer here. All the birds roosted together last night for the first time, I was waiting to move the new girls in until after the chicks were roosting with the bigs. I opened the coop before we took the dogs to the park and everyone was in one piece when we got home. It’s cooling off enough we stayed at the park for an hour before Frankie decided it was time to lay in a pile of ice. I’ve got some weeds to deal with out around the oleanders this morning and we’re doing a major house cleaning today. Curtains are washing, dusting and vacuuming, sweeping and mopping. I hate house work but it has been closed up for months and I can tell when we walk inside. My kid should be around some time this weekend to help haul lumber and I’m after Igor to get the garden done My birthday was last month and I got this gnome as a gift from hubs so I put him in the shade garden, love him! I am glad it’s cooling off so I can meditate outside again in the morning. Also a few snaps from the shade garden

 

[sourland]

Must pick tomatoes for my BLT sandwich and for the ratatouille I have planned for tonight.

 

[NewBoots]

Does anyone use seaweed for their plants?

Never directly, just added it to the compost pile some years back, but I don't see why you couldn't. As I recall it breaks down pretty quickly.

Canned some salsa yesterday, today I want to prep and freeze some carrots and pickle and can some. I need to get the newly arrived shallots in the ground, they're so many I'm going to have to put them in several beds. And time to start cutting back the cherry tomatoes, the vines are getting mildew spots on them so it's just a matter of time for them. The san marzanos and stupice in pots look fine so far.

 

[igorsMistress]

Never directly, just added it to the compost pile some years back, but I don't see why you couldn't. As I recall it breaks down pretty quickly.

Canned some salsa yesterday, today I want to prep and freeze some carrots and pickle and can some. I need to get the newly arrived shallots in the ground, they're so many I'm going to have to put them in several beds. And time to start cutting back the cherry tomatoes, the vines are getting mildew spots on them so it's just a matter of time for them. The san marzanos and stupice in pots look fine so far.

I got this as I don’t live near the ocean.

 

[Compost King]

@igorsMistress the genetics in those 2 birds look extremely familiar lol.

 

[igorsMistress]

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@igorsMistress the genetics in those 2 birds look extremely familiar lol.

They should lol. Cuckoo was about to launch herself at the roo in that pic though. She’s from the Dorking mix eggs you sent to @BlueBaby and the roo is from the FNN hen she had and her Nn roo Roger.

 

[Compost King]

They should lol. Cuckoo was about to launch herself at the roo in that pic though. She’s from the Dorking mix eggs you sent to @BlueBaby and the roo is from the FNN hen she had and her Nn roo Roger.

I wonder if they know they are cousins. or 2nd cousin, or maybe she is his great aunt, I can't keep track of how it all went down I just know they pretty much all came from the patriarch Dorking Rooster.

 

[BlueBaby]

I wonder if they know they are cousins. or 2nd cousin, or maybe she is his great aunt, I can't keep track of how it all went down I just know they pretty much all came from the patriarch Dorking Rooster.

That boy has the 5 toes to prove that. I now also picked up a batch of SGD's, but they have to finish growing out before I can breed them. There's 7 pullet's and a cockerel.

 

[sourland]

Picked 7 tomatoes many more out there - no frost yet.