What did you do in the garden today?

[AmeliaBedelia]

Hope you feel better @AmeliaBedelia. I sometimes get the scintillating arouras that some folks get before a migraine but that's all. And @WthrLady, this sounds like a funny question, do you pressure can or hot water can plain water?

Well it turned out cold and wet today so I'm glad I got out early to do critter and greenhouse chores. DP made some boiled potatoes mashed with rolled oats for the bunnies in the grow out pen, and I stole a little for the chickens and it was a big hit all around. One of the bunnies tried to drag the plate away from all the others. It's the first time they've had potatoes so she just gave them a little and we'll see how they handle it.

Thanks!! I feel about 80% better after sitting alone in the dark and quiet with ginger ale and advil for a couple hours. I haven't had a "mini migraine" in years...didn't miss them. But the weird vertigo/nausea aspect has subsided, and that's the worst of it.

Bunnies are so cute! But I think we need to keep it to chickens and dogs here...our rat terrier would love bunnies a bit TOO much. We already have issues with chicks until their full grown. I'll live vicariously through you.

 

[Artichoke Lover]

Hope you feel better @AmeliaBedelia. I sometimes get the scintillating arouras that some folks get before a migraine but that's all. And @WthrLady, this sounds like a funny question, do you pressure can or hot water can plain water?

Well it turned out cold and wet today so I'm glad I got out early to do critter and greenhouse chores. DP made some boiled potatoes mashed with rolled oats for the bunnies in the grow out pen, and I stole a little for the chickens and it was a big hit all around. One of the bunnies tried to drag the plate away from all the others. It's the first time they've had potatoes so she just gave them a little and we'll see how they handle it.

You might be having whats called silent migraines. It’s a migraine without the pain. Some people don’t get the light sensitively either. My mom and I get both silent and normal migraines. I’ve had them since I was a kid.

 

[WthrLady]

Have any of ya'll tried the reusable lid seals? I've heard good things about them, but feel a bit hesitant. I guess just cause Nana never used it, I'm not too sure about it. Our local big box store is out of almost everything canning, too, and this is NOT a community that would normally be using these items. Tons of subdivisions, restrictive HOA's, and people that wouldn't trust anything canned at home if their lives depended on it.

Snow is coming down really hard, which is a bit of a bummer. I was hoping to rummage through the strawberries outside and see if any of last year's runners are still green and coming out of dormancy yet. Thinking about trying to root them in the aero tower. If it works, it'll be incredible!

The harvest right and tattler are the same. I have had HORRIBLE luck with them. Almost a 50% failure in pressure canning and a 10% failure rate in Waterbath. AND the seals are lasting for me. It's like the red seal dries out over time. I have a ton of them and use them for vacuum sealing dry goods in jars.

 

[BullChick]

You might be having whats called silent migraines. It’s a migraine without the pain. Some people don’t get the light sensitively either. My mom and I get both silent and normal migraines. I’ve had them since I was a kid.

I remember having them before kindergarten. Apparently my migraines have a link to my sister’s adult onset seizures.

 

[BullChick]

do you pressure can or hot water can plain water?

Either.

 

[WthrLady]

Hope you feel better @AmeliaBedelia. I sometimes get the scintillating arouras that some folks get before a migraine but that's all. And @WthrLady, this sounds like a funny question, do you pressure can or hot water can plain water?

Well it turned out cold and wet today so I'm glad I got out early to do critter and greenhouse chores. DP made some boiled potatoes mashed with rolled oats for the bunnies in the grow out pen, and I stole a little for the chickens and it was a big hit all around. One of the bunnies tried to drag the plate away from all the others. It's the first time they've had potatoes so she just gave them a little and we'll see how they handle it.

Not a funny question. When I can water, I do it all by itself, nothing else in the canner, as other items can leak, and while nothing SHOULD get into another jar, I don't want to risk it, nor do I want foreign goo on the outside.
I pressure can it. I'm on a well, and I want to make sure anything IN that water is dead, dead, dead.

 

[WthrLady]

Managed everything on my list except for removing the old nesting boxes and installing the new ones. They're going to hate me. UGH.

The old one harbors mites too badly in the summer. I'm done with that.

I'll let them out to play tomorrow and I'll do it while they're playing.

I was GOING to dig deep and find the energy to tack it on to the very end of my day, but the winds are howling and working in a dusty hen house didn't sound appealing at all. So tomorrow.

OH and as for that popup green house? It needed modification. I had to put industrial stakes in the ground, and replace all the tie downs with non slip paracord. I also build a heavy 2x6 frame to sit on those flaps that are supposed to lay flat on the ground, in some magical fairy world.
The box said 6x9 foot shed but it's really 7x10! Glad I got two 10 foot and two 8 foot boards. Geesh.
I think I'm gong to use scrap lumber and saw horses for the benches.
I'm leaning more and more towards a real building next season/fall. Maybe as a reward to myself for finishing the bathroom remodel. LOL (Now to start that project. BLEH. I got all the decor down though.)

 

[karenerwin]

Went to a different park today with 2 of the grandkids and my daughter.
At home I planted 9 purple/blue green beans in the grow out greenhouse/indoor raised bed.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Anybody have experience propogating roses from cuttings?
My grandmother passed away a month ago. She kept rose bushes in her yard that she adored. I want to plant some roses on the side of our house, and thought it would be nice if I could keep hers living on through a propogated plant. The tricky part is, I'm not sure how much new growth has started on them this year. Do I need new growth, or just a peice of live branch?

already answered but I did use root hormone on them
Brought 8 here from other places

 

[chickengr]

we don't have root hormones here. but we do propagate roses, blackberries, etc. the same way as you do with the root hormones.