What did you do in the garden today?

Can you put some kind of temporary roof over it?
Over the seedlings? Or the seedlings? I guess I could just stick the greens seedlings in a window & repot the tomatoes during the week. If I lose anything it’s much easier to regrow kale than tomatoes & peppers! The seeded areas are much too large to roof so I’m just going to wait it out.
 
Oh yea, I forgot to mention that I heard about the flu & egg prices on the national new last night. DH & I kept wondering why all these culled chickens & turkeys hadn't made much news yet. It's for sure going to make prices go up & availability will probably be sketchy.
But the mega barns are aged, meaning they have groups of same age birds for butchering and laying. THere is a constant rotation of birds waiting for butchering in the next age group coming up, and many mega farms don't have hatchery or younger birds on the same farm. So there is only a two -3 week gap on coming up agers.

If that makes sense.

Here it meant I went two weeks without seeing the giant open trailer trucks of flats of industrially raised turkeys, crammed into mechanically loaded bins flying down the highway. Always makes me sick to see.
 
But the mega barns are aged, meaning they have groups of same age birds for butchering and laying. THere is a constant rotation of birds waiting for butchering in the next age group coming up, and many mega farms don't have hatchery or younger birds on the same farm. So there is only a two -3 week gap on coming up agers.

If that makes sense.

Here it meant I went two weeks without seeing the giant open trailer trucks of flats of industrially raised turkeys, crammed into mechanically loaded bins flying down the highway. Always makes me sick to see.
But isn't there a 150 day wait period after culling for HPAI? I know I read that somewhere.
 
I use straw, it has less seeds. But I think I'd use hay before I let my seeds was away. You could always pull the hay out after the storms or once the seedlings pop up. & you don't have to go too thick to protect them from washing away.
Awesome thank u so much! I had some straw just not as easy access buy got it on em!
 
Hi everyone! Looks to start out a nice day. Might get the cold hardy starts outside for an hour or two to start hardening them off. Was supposed to be scattered showers starting Wed, but I checked the forecast this morning and the rain begins tonight all the way through the weekend. 😡 I truly can’t stand this. Last year we lost half our crop to rain overload. I have raised beds and hilled rows, and there were literal puddles in the walkways the entire summer.

Really want to get some peas in the ground and move the greens outside this week so I can repot my quickly growing tomatoes, but I can’t see how to do this with the forecast. I have 3 grow lights and have no room to expand indoors.

Ideas? Should I wait on the peas? I can’t take too much more of this. I’d rather have to get up early & water every day…at least you can correct dry. You can’t make it less wet. 😞
We had a summer like that a few years ago - so wet & humid the peppers all gave up the ghost & I had to hand pollinate the tomatoes. Everything got some type of blight or mold, it was awful. It was all over the news too & that rarely happens.

I know nothing about peas - except :sick! :gig
 
We had a summer like that a few years ago - so wet & humid the peppers all gave up the ghost & I had to hand pollinate the tomatoes. Everything got some type of blight or mold, it was awful. It was all over the news too & that rarely happens.

I know nothing about peas - except :sick! :gig
My 11 year old eats half the peas before they make it into the house! This year I am planting double, just for him! 😂
 

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