What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

Put that water to use by collecting it in rain barrels, if you can.

Nope.

 

[TJAnonymous]

QUESTION - I have a 1 ft x 16 ft space between my Silkie pen and duck pen. It gets full sun on it only 4 - 5 hours in the afternoon. Shaded the rest of the day.

What would you plant there? Must be chicken and duck friendly.... I also must be able to walk on or around it occasionally if I need to check the fence line for anything.

Looking for ideas....

 

[WthrLady]

UGH.
The dogs hips are giving out at an alarming pace. It's been sneaking up on us for three weeks, but I fear that the Rainbow Bridge maybe close at hand.

It guts me. Although I console myself with the fact that she's had almost a year with us, living the royal dream, that she wouldn't have had otherwise. Her previous owners simply destroyed her little body, and it's caught up to her.

Acute hip dysplasia in a 9 year old dog is not repairable. She's having trouble standing up from sitting, trouble walking (like a bunny), and she only has three steps to go outside 5 feet apart to get to the yard, and long walks (and short ones) are now out of the question.

UGH UGH UGH

 

[WthrLady]

QUESTION - I have a 12" x 16 ft space between my Silkie pen and duck pen. It gets full sun on it only 4 - 5 hours in the afternoon. Shaded the rest of the day.

What would you plant there? Must be chicken and duck friendly.... I also must be able to walk on or around it occasionally if I need to check the fence line for anything.

Looking for ideas....

MINT??

 

[TJAnonymous]

MINT??

Good idea! I have some regular mint in a container. I bet I could dig some up and replant it over there....

I also have some catmint, rosemary, and creeping thyme.

 

[Acre4Me]

nothing at all in the garden yesterday...windy, cold, rainy.

today, it is cold and breezy. high of 55. Tomorrow it will be warmer, with a high of 65! A coworker wanted my extra tomatoes, so they went to a new home today. Hopefully all the ones planted in the garden do fine as I only kept 2 extras.

garden work today...nothing planned, but maybe we will string the last two rows on the second bean trellis.

I DID go to a local meat market and bought some very thick Ribeyes for Monday. Plan is for a wood fire to cook them!! Along with another one of our meat chickens -grilled over the fire. Yum!!

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning gardeners. Rainy and cold in the low 40s this morning. I turned the pellet stove on in the sunroom to take the chill off. The baby chicks are doing fine. It was raining when I went out to feed the chickens so the usual garden walk was much abbreviated. There are supposed to be breaks in the rain today so I'm hoping to get a little bit done outside. I need to unload the patio stones from my car along with the leaky bags of sand. I'm building a little patio area with the flat stones so the chickens can't take their dust baths at the foot of the grills. The corn and butternut squash is growing nicely so I'm hoping to thin and clean up the corn rows and the squash area. I want to put some mulch down for the squash so I don't have to deal with weeds there. The potatoes are growing like crazy and it's hard to keep up with adding more dirt. It seems like as soon as I add more dirt they grow twice as high in a day or two. I've decided to plant my last Roma tomato plant in a feed bag turned into a grow bag. Back to the grocery store purchases, I do buy oils, flour, sugar, salt, other staples, meats and occasional vegetables. My fruit trees still aren't producing so I buy fresh peaches, apples and concord grapes from local farmers in season to make jams, frozen peaches and apples and applesauce. I've looked into buying meat from the local farm sources but their prices are too high for my retirement income. Being totally self sufficient is labor intensive and exhausting at times. I try to take a more reasonable approach and do what I can to minimize my carbon footprint. Grow, consume and store as much as you can, buy local as much as possible and don't trash your local ecosystems. As much fun as it is to play in the dirt, sometimes you need to wash up and have some other fun.

As promised. Daddy sparrow carrying a yellow BO feather to his nest.

 

[WthrLady]

Good morning gardeners. Rainy and cold in the low 40s this morning. I turned the pellet stove on in the sunroom to take the chill off. The baby chicks are doing fine. It was raining when I went out to feed the chickens so the usual garden walk was much abbreviated. There are supposed to be breaks in the rain today so I'm hoping to get a little bit done outside. I need to unload the patio stones from my car along with the leaky bags of sand. I'm building a little patio area with the flat stones so the chickens can't take their dust baths at the foot of the grills. The corn and butternut squash is growing nicely so I'm hoping to thin and clean up the corn rows and the squash area. I want to put some mulch down for the squash so I don't have to deal with weeds there. The potatoes are growing like crazy and it's hard to keep up with adding more dirt. It seems like as soon as I add more dirt they grow twice as high in a day or two. I've decided to plant my last Roma tomato plant in a feed bag turned into a grow bag. Back to the grocery store purchases, I do buy oils, flour, sugar, salt, other staples, meats and occasional vegetables. My fruit trees still aren't producing so I buy fresh peaches, apples and concord grapes from local farmers in season to make jams, frozen peaches and apples and applesauce. I've looked into buying meat from the local farm sources but their prices are too high for my retirement income. Being totally self sufficient is labor intensive and exhausting at times. I try to take a more reasonable approach and do what I can to minimize my carbon footprint. Grow, consume and store as much as you can, buy local as much as possible and don't trash your local ecosystems. As much fun as it is to play in the dirt, sometimes you need to wash up and have some other fun.

As promised. Daddy sparrow carrying a yellow BO feather to his nest.

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What if Mrs doesn't want a yellow bedroom??

 

[WthrLady]

Called the vet, tech answered, no surprise.
He suggested we take her to the local emergency animal clinic for blood and xrays, which would be forwarded to him on Tuesday.
We decided against it.
It's 1.25 hours one way, no big deal for us, but a LONG anxious drive for an achy dog.
They would just give her x-rays, bloodwork, and pain pills to get her to Tuesday.
Which is what the vet can do in his own office on Tuesday, and we already have her strong pain meds which used to be for every once in a while, we'll keep her quiet and comfy this holiday weekend and take her to her familiar vet Tuesday, just down the road.

Being a pet parent can SUCK.

 

[Sooner Magnolia]

in my climate eggplants are perennial shrubs. they don't need support.

We have to support eggplant and peppers here because the winds are brutal.