What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

My garden area is in SEVERE need of mowing.....but it is also extremely wet and partially under water. All the onions, garlic, and potatoes look fine and have been saved from the water because of the tire beds. It looks like something went rooting through one of the onion beds and ate a couple. My raspberries are looking a little chloritic. They really need weeded, pruned, and fertilized. I just haven't had time to do it yet because of the rain and family situation. Hopefully I can do that tomorrow after the rain moves through. I'm itching to get the hoop house completed and my plants in the ground!

 

[Acre4Me]

Adding soil and pest moss to newly cleared area for partial shade garden. I dont know what to edge it with or even if I have too? I want to make my yard eventually into a food forest so I want it as natural as possible and nothing that is too heavy or has to be moved to work in the garden. Anyone got any good edible plant I could use as a border plant for zone 4?

Another good shade plant is “Lenten Rose” which is the Hellebore plant. Blooms when it’s cold, often during lent. Here are my 3. The only full sun they receive is just a little bit in the evening. Not at all culinary but will likely always be your first flowers of the new year.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Stay safe…what kind of precautions do you have to take with your chickens? So scary….

Sadly I don't really have any.... They have a few places where they take cover like their coop and this metal contraption thing that I call the "tiger cage." It probably weighs 500-600 lbs and is extremely heavy duty. It was left here by the previous owners. It looks like it was a 3 level rabbit hutch at one time but they took out all the inner floors and opened up one side. There's a tarp over the top and a dirt bottom so it provides the goats & chickens a sturdy, shaded place to get out of the elements (rain, sun, etc...). It's probably 5 ft by 6 ft in size.

Anyway, I have no way to secure the goats, horses, ducks, or chickens in event of tornadoes. When the warning sirens went off on Monday night, the kids, dogs, rabbit, and I went into the bathroom. I can't get our cats in there because 1) they don't like the dogs and 2) they are not containable because I don't have enough carriers. My son's cat HATES his cat carrier and will fight like a mountain lion to keep from being put in it. It seemed better to just let them hide wherever they could as a safer alternative.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Another good shade plant is “Lenten Rose” which is the Hellebore plant. Blooms when it’s cold, often during lent. Here are my 3. The only full sun they receive is just a little bit in the evening. Not at all culinary but will likely always be your first flowers of the new year.

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I really want one of those! I love the purple ones.... I hope to redo my shade garden later this fall. Do they need partial sun or are they okay in full shade?

 

[WthrLady]

Dippiest article I've seen here.
Sure they'll come out, but mortality in the flock is FAST. How fast will they come out? By the time a couple birds die,it's too late. And TREATED? WHAT treatment? They just CULL.
https://www.klkntv.com/how-to-get-your-flock-tested-for-bird-flu-and-paid-for-any-losses/

 

[WthrLady]

We were pounded last night.
We made it to 92 yesterday and winds howled around 40 all day and made it to 60.
Then a line formed just as I sat down to my dinner break. Just as we ate, it roared towards us. Back on duty for me.
Out I went. With a great woosh came the hail. For 20 minutes it came down, covered the ground, over flowed the gutters and spouts. pea, dime, nickel, quarter, and half dollar. UGH.
It pinged off the steel siding and bounced off the rubber composit roof. PHEW
A tornado formed 12 miles SW of us and roared towards us, but turned off into the countryside and vanished before it got here, but you sure could hear it.
I'm amazed we didn't get holes in the hoop house or the greenhouse.
Did enjoy the piney freshness of the evergreen trees being beaten by hail.
Snowed overnight, didn't stick. Currently 29 degrees.s

 

[TJAnonymous]

Do you want a perennial?

A great annual would be nasturtiums. I had a bunch crawl all over the corners of my garden last year. Sometimes it will reseed for the following year, but most likely would need to be replanted. Easy to grow, and the flowers and leaves taste great in a salad or as a garnish!

I had a link to edible flowers somewhere here recently. You'd be surprised at how many edible flowers there are.... I have borage and nasturtiums planted in my garden just for that purpose. I also planting some butterfly pea this year.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Scary funnel cloud.
He's probably dead tired, you never get real rest in the hospital with them pestering you every couple hours all night. When my son got out of the hospital years ago, I stayed with him almost non-stop; when we got home all we wanted to do for days was sleep.

oh yes...same here. I was sooooo tired last night. Today is the first day I haven't felt like I was on autopilot. He still isn't 100% better but at least happier that he is home and not in that hospital.

 

[CONCRETEBOX]

We are building new raised beds. This weekend we gathered sticks and twigs, put them in cardboard boxes and filled with layers of soil, compost, and leaves.

 

[Wolfie2]

Finally got the corn in. 3 rows Should be enough to eat some and put the rest in the freezer. Also put down some nasturtium and marigold seeds for a little color and maybe bug deterrent. May put in another variety in a few weeks. Still have some seed from last year that Mrs. Lobo likes.