What did you do in the garden today?

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TJAnonymous said:
I just paid over $500 for 100 lbs of Alfalfa Hay & Pasture seed to be shipped to me from Wisconsin. This seed has 40% alfalfa, 20% perennial ryegrass, 20% orchardgrass, 10% timothy, and 10% clover.
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How many acres is 100lbs of this seed supposed to cover? And how many lbs of hay is it expected to yield? Our property isn't big, just 1-1.25 acres left over from our garden and orchard trees and shrubs, but I'd like to make all of it produce something, even if only to grow enough to feed a couple goats and supplement my horses' hay. I wonder if that's possible.
Iluveggers said:
when you guys think I need to repot my greens…here’s a pic of how they are doing.
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It looks like they're ready! What nice healthy greens.
chickengr said:
I was a kid when he fooled me, he said it had been a beef goulash. once I tasted it I don't mind eating it as it was very tasty. but they don't sell cow tongues any more.
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LOL!!! I'll never forget one time when we were kids in the 70s, when my Mom dished up cow tongue for dinner, and didn't tell us what it was. She diced it into small cubes in a delicious sauce and we all loved it.
My stepdad: "What is this? It's delicious!" My Mom (refusing to lie, but not wanting to tell the whole truth either): "It's beef." My stepdad: "how did you get it so tender?" My Mom goes into a long explanation about the recipe, hoping we will all get bored and change the subject. Finally: "what cut of beef is it, exactly?" and she admitted it was tongue.
Stupidly, we were disgusted and she never made it again (that we know of)
WthrLady said:
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Done! That's a lovely coop.

This past weekend I planted one bed in red potatoes. Set up a trellis in another bed for peas - this was one of the seed packs I discovered while cleaning out the greenhouse, they were from 2016! So I sowed the whole pack on both sides of the trellis with almost no spacing - hopefully they will get at least 10% germination and I'll have a decent crop.
Dug up and cleared a small weedy area, covered it with cardboard and wood chips, then put out some grow boxes and seeded them with lettuce and spinach. Covered them with row cloth, not so much because of the weather - night temps have consistently been above 40 - but so the cats won't dig and poop in their dirt.
Most of our orchard plants are doing OK, 4 out of 5 last year's native plums are budding, so is one of this year's Costco apple trees, the other I can't tell. The weeping willow we planted in 2020 is leafing up and growing beautifully.

The 3 roosters have done a good job tilling up the asparagus area, and it's time to move them and plant some more asparagus there. But where to move the roosters? Maybe we can set up a new pen in the area we want to grow hay in the future.
 
Morning all.

I'm off this week. :yesss: Today I'm going to relax a bit, I slept till 8am! I want to can the broth.

Took a walk through the garden, man those squirrels are killing me. Every day they tear up my onion plants. I wonder how much longer I'll let that happen before I do something about it. :lau
 
Sueby said:
Morning all.

I'm off this week. :yesss: Today I'm going to relax a bit, I slept till 8am! I want to can the broth.

Took a walk through the garden, man those squirrels are killing me. Every day they tear up my onion plants. I wonder how much longer I'll let that happen before I do something about it. :lau
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Trap the rodent. It is merely a garden killing rodent with fluffy tail. In our first house the squirrels were devious. We had some tomatoes. They would wait until the night or morning before we would pick them…they were red and beautiful, but the #%*! Squirrels would eat the tomato, leaving only the side facing the house intact…so we had to walk all the way to the tomatoes with gleeful anticipation of a fresh tomato only to find the fluffy tailed rodents got there first. Squirrels in other people’s yards are cute, but in my yard and garden, they are not.
 
Acre4Me said:
Trap the rodent. It is merely a garden killing rodent with fluffy tail. In our first house the squirrels were devious. We had some tomatoes. They would wait until the night or morning before we would pick them…they were red and beautiful, but the #%*! Squirrels would eat the tomato, leaving only the side facing the house intact…so we had to walk all the way to the tomatoes with gleeful anticipation of a fresh tomato only to find the fluffy tailed rodents got there first. Squirrels in other people’s yards are cute, but in my yard and garden, they are not.
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🤯 I would be livid if it ate my tomatoes! It would be a never ending endeavor here though. We literally have hundred & hundreds of them. I just looked out front & saw 7 between our tiny front yard & the neighbors across the street. I could spend my life trying & probably never trap them all. :gig & then the acorns would be out of control, I'd probably kill myself walking on them. We are surrounded by giant oak trees.

If I had it in me today I'd get up & cover the bed with some hardware cloth, but I'm being lazy & praying for the onions to get big fast. :lau
 

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