What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

That should read metal has NOT gone up like lumber!

It has here. I priced out the new steel roof for the henhouse last year and it was going to be $80ish. This year now, it's $150+. I'll wait.

 

[WthrLady]

@Elyrian1 bagged concrete doesn't seem to have
No idea about commercial in the truck tumbler.

 

[gtaus]

If you're pulling out the raised beds you may as well move it all, but furrows might be possible to water with the small pump you have.

Thanks for the response. I had not consider furrows. I'll have to look more into that option.

One option I have been looking into the past few weeks is upgrading my 12v transfer pump to a pressure activated 12v demand pump that produces 60 psi. That would be strong enough for automatic sprinkler options. Probably could set a timer on the output side and when the demand pump sees the valve open and the pressure drop, it would automatically kick on.

 

[Elyrian1]

@Elyrian1 bagged concrete doesn't seem to have
No idea about commercial in the truck tumbler.

We'd be working with bagged, so that works! I can't see us building enough forms to need a mixer to come out, that would be a small fortune in lumber just for forms. And bagged comes from the same source generally, so I wouldn't imagine they'd be vastly different. Looking at these maybe:

It's raining! Yay! It chased me in from emptying tanks, so that's not awesome, lol, but I'll take not having to water the plants.

Oh! Don't ever let anybody say poblanos aren't that hot. In relation to the previous post I made, I've had some face-melting hot poblanos that simply weren't cooked right. I RAN through the house for milk and guzzled two glasses with no relief. Just had to wait it out, and I'm not super wimpy about heat. I'm not as crazy as DH eating raw habaneros though.

 

[BReeder!]

I'm thinking about ripping out my cucumber vines. I am going to try cucumber chips for the fun of it and see if neighbors want any cucumbers, but I have far more cucumbers than I need.

 

[Isadora]

I picked a bucket of cherry tomatoes like a crazy woman because of thunderstorm was blowing in.

there were more tomatoes in the bucket, but then the kids got to them

 

[NewBoots]

I buy the 8 ft. Corrugated Galvanized Steel Utility-Gauge Roof Panel from Home Depot.

Thank you so much! I'd planned to wait till I needed to replace my currant beds but I might try one as an experiment and replace a very low bed that doesn't get used at all with a metal taller one. Getting small logs and branches here is pretty easy.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I'm thinking about ripping out my cucumber vines. I am going to try cucumber chips for the fun of it and see if neighbors want any cucumbers, but I have far more cucumbers than I need.

I feed all my extra large cucumbers to all my birds. The chickens, turkeys, peafowl and even the geese love to eat the seeds out of them and clean them out to the rind. I throw them hard at the ground to bust them up, if I don't they won't even eat them.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Didn't have time to scroll through nearly 10 pages that I missed....forgive me if I missed any comments directed at me.

Right now they are calling for a 1/2 inch of rain tomorrow. We need it sooooooo bad! It has rained less than 2 inches since July 1st. All of our grass is literally dead. I don't know what is keeping weight on my horses, honestly... I'm going to have to start haying them (in August! Unheard of...) if this goes on much longer.

They keep saying this is going to be a bad hurricane season. Usually we reap the benefits of that so I'd love to know where these supposed hurricanes are at? Not here....

 

[WthrLady]

I'm hoping Fred brings some good moisture northward.