What did you do in the garden today?

[Sueby]

Morning all. Finally have power & internet back.

All the tomatoes were finally pulled, all the carrots in that bed picked. All the soil turned over and Rye and Winter Peas planted as cover crop. Hopefully they sprout - it is a bit late, but I had the seed, and the bed gets full -all day- sun, so hoping it will help the cover crop succeed.

That's my story too, planted a little late but the garden went on so well with no fost. Hoping the cover crops do ok. I keep going to check, but nothing yet. I also use that seed free straw as mulch since I can't weed because of my back. I pile it on like 5-7 inches thick & it does a pretty darn good job of keeping the weeds at bay.

I have a poor little pullet that keeps laying her eggs from the roost, she lays very early in the am, always has, but now it's too dark for her to get off the roost to do it! They land in her pile of poop & I'm sick of throwing them in the compost. Anything I can do besides put a light on a timer for her?

Other than that nothing going on here in the garden. Got lots of much needed rain the last couple of days, thankfully.

Have a good one all!

 

[igorsMistress]

I like Jem and Scout. To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favorite books- and movie

I’m partial to Jem and Scout as well!

 

[WthrLady]

Woke up to a thud. Thought nothing of it and went into the bathroom. When I came out there was a SUV on the road with it's hazards on. He got out and looked at his car and under it, and backed up and looked around. Deer? Cow? The pick-up trucks came out of the neighboring house, like they normally do, drove over to see if they could help. (It was an hour before sunrise.)

It was their dog, Jethro. UGH. The wailing of teenage boys. Now this dog was a total pain in the ass, but that is every ounce on the owners. It ran smack infront of a double haul grain loader Sunday, the guy braked (he shouldn't have as he could have locked up and lost his load and crashed) and just missed him. The rancher next door just missed BOTH their dogs running across the road on Monday morning and laid on the horn. And I can't tell you how many trucks and campers over the two years have had a 'just barely' moment.

I'm sure they know the teen who hit the dog. Just SUCKS that a good dog is gone because they let them run the county. Oh the sound of that poor kid.

 

[igorsMistress]

Good morning gardeners. I put some bunny poop in with the tree thing in the xeriscape area and fed everything in there with some seaweed fertilizer. The two fairy dusters I transplanted seem to be doing fine and the dill is greening up and getting bushy but not growing tall. I’m worried about my flock though. The wild pigeons seem to think this is where they should come to die and they are a constant battle to keep out of feeders and waterers. I’ve asked hubs hundreds of times to help me put up some bird netting to keep them out of the coop yard but he still hasn’t and now I’ve got a few that are acting sick. Not even the rescue birds but the birds that have been here since hatch. I can hear some of them rattle when they breathe and I’m seriously considering culling them all and starting over in spring. Or just giving up and keeping the rabbits and not chickens. I mentioned this to hubs and he doesn’t want to not have chickens so I said I need bird netting around the coop yard and we need to figure it out. Maybe the issue is the husband and not the chickens? So as of this weekend I’ll probably be without a flock, I don’t see a point in dragging things out.

 

[Sueby]

That stinks IM. How many birds do you have? I do wish I had culled mine all when they got their respiratory infection. It stinks dealing with it - treating them when sick & throwing out eggs, not being able to give away birds & knowing that any I add will also get it. If I could do it all again I'd do it differently for sure now that I know.

 

[Acre4Me]

Good morning gardeners. I put some bunny poop in with the tree thing in the xeriscape area and fed everything in there with some seaweed fertilizer. The two fairy dusters I transplanted seem to be doing fine and the dill is greening up and getting bushy but not growing tall. I’m worried about my flock though. The wild pigeons seem to think this is where they should come to die and they are a constant battle to keep out of feeders and waterers. I’ve asked hubs hundreds of times to help me put up some bird netting to keep them out of the coop yard but he still hasn’t and now I’ve got a few that are acting sick. Not even the rescue birds but the birds that have been here since hatch. I can hear some of them rattle when they breathe and I’m seriously considering culling them all and starting over in spring. Or just giving up and keeping the rabbits and not chickens. I mentioned this to hubs and he doesn’t want to not have chickens so I said I need bird netting around the coop yard and we need to figure it out. Maybe the issue is the husband and not the chickens? So as of this weekend I’ll probably be without a flock, I don’t see a point in dragging things out.

Sorry to hear about the chickens. keeping out the wild birds is important, but hard to do without full enclosure. Somepeople do start over after a period of time. However, you would be better served by finding out what it is they are suffering from so you know if removing the chickens will work. Some illnesses stick around for a long time.

 

[igorsMistress]

Sorry to hear about the chickens. keeping out the wild birds is important, but hard to do without full enclosure. Somepeople do start over after a period of time. However, you would be better served by finding out what it is they are suffering from so you know if removing the chickens will work. Some illnesses stick around for a long time.

Thank you, our state vet isn’t doing necropsies right now and we can’t freeze the bodies so I can’t cull just one and send it off. About my only option is cull, sanitize and let the sun in for the winter, then start over.

 

[Katie386]

You should get some cats! I have six cats because I’m something of an animal hoarder. But anyway birds stay away from my property because of all the cats and two big dogs.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Yup have 3 ouside cats flip is they will eat peeps one coop is fort knox .. Now all food is inside none outside, in coop they eat .. Have deer that jump my fences
eat the down apples down on the ground .. no wild birds bother

 

[oldhen2345]

Yup have 3 ouside cats flip is they will eat peeps one coop is fort knox .. Now all food is inside none outside, in coop they eat .. Have deer that jump my fences
eat the down apples down on the ground .. no wild birds bother

I keep my metal trash cans of feed on the back patio. I fed the dogs there too, so their bowl and water was outside. I noticed they were eating a lot more food than normal, so I hooked up a trail camera and caught 4 cats on the patio having a party in the dog food. I moved the food inside and tightened down the lids on the cans of feed. Later I hooked up some security cameras- so far, I have video of 2 racoons tumping the cans over, knocking off the lid and eating the dog food, a possum wandering around the patio, and the raccoons climbing the steps and staring at the dog door, and several cats coming to investigate my patio. They also dug up my fairy garden that was in a huge shallow planter. GRRR.