What did you do in the garden today?

[NewBoots]

We ate the rabbit for dinner - so amazingly delicious!! It was the recipe that made it so good. It was all leg quarters from 4 rabbits - so 8 pieces. The recipe is called "Mustard Cream Rabbit with Bacon". mustard cream sauce is very commonly seen in rabbit recipes, so I knew I had to try it.

That looks awesome! Saved the recipe. We sell a few of our frozen meat bunnies and most people have no idea how to cook them, I think I'll print out a few copies of my favorite recipes and hand the out with the bunny.

 

[Elyrian1]

I have a question and was wondering if any of you could help me out. I usually only grow zinnias, nasturtium and sunflowers from seed, and buy a few petunias and marigolds from the local greenhouse to add in between my veggies. This year I was given a bunch of leftover seeds from last year from a friend since we are adding a herb/flower garden. The veggie side will be fenced so the chickens can forage and be on bug control when I want them to be, so I don’t want to plant anything poisonous to them on that side.

Here are the seeds I have:
Nasturtium
Sunflower
Coleus
Morning glory
Impatiens
Lupine
Zinnia
Bee balm
Black eyed susan
Foxglove
Marigols
Celosia
Phlox
Borage
Amaranth
Echinacea
Marbles/Marvel of Peru

I have no idea what spreads or becomes invasive, what is dangerous/poison, and when I would need to seed any of them (indoors before frost or wait til last frost date & direct seed). I can plant flowers not safe for chickens on the flower side (they won’t have access in that area).

If anyone knows anything about these flowers, please help! I am overwhelmed and don’t want to waste anything you think I should plant. You can PM me if you don’t want to clog the thread. If all else fails, I’ll resort to google which can be contradictory and confusing.

Thank you!

Lupine is toxic. Foxglove probably is too. Don't know the others off-hand.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Ask them to adjust the second bill too. Not fair to pay waste water fees for water that was obviously incoming but not outgoing.

Morning glory and foxglove

I've already asked them. They will only adjust 1 bill every 12 months.

 

[Elyrian1]

Oh boy. Forecast says 97 on Wednesday. I better get planted what I'm wanting to plant before that.

 

[chickengr]

I have a question and was wondering if any of you could help me out. I usually only grow zinnias, nasturtium and sunflowers from seed, and buy a few petunias and marigolds from the local greenhouse to add in between my veggies. This year I was given a bunch of leftover seeds from last year from a friend since we are adding a herb/flower garden. The veggie side will be fenced so the chickens can forage and be on bug control when I want them to be, so I don’t want to plant anything poisonous to them on that side.

Here are the seeds I have:
Nasturtium
Sunflower
Coleus
Morning glory
Impatiens
Lupine
Zinnia
Bee balm
Black eyed susan
Foxglove

I have a question and was wondering if any of you could help me out. I usually only grow zinnias, nasturtium and sunflowers from seed, and buy a few petunias and marigolds from the local greenhouse to add in between my veggies. This year I was given a bunch of leftover seeds from last year from a friend since we are adding a herb/flower garden. The veggie side will be fenced so the chickens can forage and be on bug control when I want them to be, so I don’t want to plant anything poisonous to them on that side.

Here are the seeds I have:
Nasturtium
Sunflower
Coleus
Morning glory
Impatiens
Lupine
Zinnia
Bee balm
Black eyed susan
Foxglove
Marigols
Celosia
Phlox
Borage
Amaranth
Echinacea
Marbles/Marvel of Peru

I have no idea what spreads or becomes invasive, what is dangerous/poison, and when I would need to seed any of them (indoors before frost or wait til last frost date & direct seed). I can plant flowers not safe for chickens on the flower side (they won’t have access in that area).

If anyone knows anything about these flowers, please help! I am overwhelmed and don’t want to waste anything you think I should plant. You can PM me if you don’t want to clog the thread. If all else fails, I’ll resort to google which can be contradictory and confusing.

Thank you!

I've heard that lupine and foxgloves are toxic to chickens.

 

[chickengr]

We ate the rabbit for dinner - so amazingly delicious!! It was the recipe that made it so good. It was all leg quarters from 4 rabbits - so 8 pieces. The recipe is called "Mustard Cream Rabbit with Bacon". mustard cream sauce is very commonly seen in rabbit recipes, so I knew I had to try it.

When we butchered the 4 rabbits, we separated the hind quarters from the front quarters, and also separated the loins. The loins were cooked in a recipe designed for loins - good, but a bit fussy...not a make again type recipe. The front quarters were in a "maltese" type stew recipe, and it was good - cant complain - more memorable than the loins recipe. But this one was good enough that everyone agreed that we should raise more rabbits for meat, or buy some at auction to butcher. Link to the recipe, but there really are many many mustard cream rabbit recipes out there, so see if your favorite source has a good one.
https://homesteadrabbits.com/mustard-cream-rabbit-with-bacon/

thanks for the recipe. we celebrate easter next sunday and that is what I will cook!

 

[Iluveggers]

Lupine is toxic. Foxglove probably is too. Don't know the others off-hand.

I've heard that lupine and foxgloves are toxic to chickens.

Thank you!

Did some googling, couldn’t find everything but I’ll make sure foxglove, lupine & morning glory are not accessible to the chickens!

I have some amaranth seeds, and might plant a few to see what happens. I guess the dried leaves can be fed to chickens as well as the cooked grain which has up to 40% protein & some needed amino acids like methionine!

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Yall where I stroked straw over the seeds I planted in raised bed something is growing up and fast in addition to what I planted!
I got a couple pics to see what yall think it is...gotta be from the straw right? Seed looks nothing like what was planted in that area which was just onions sets. And it is all up and down the areas strowed with straw.

 

[Sueby]

Morning. Chilly out there. Snowed on & off yesterday, not enough to amount to anything but I covered the lettuce & brought in the fig. I need to get out there & uncover the lettuce, it's supposed to be nice out today.

I may up pot some starts into plastic pots - the peat pots are just too moldy, yet the plants are wilting so I'm not over watering. I put them on a baking rack & have a fan on them but I still have mold.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Morning all. It got down to 29F briefly this morning. There’s only a very light frost so hopefully all is well. I’m hoping to get more seeds into the ground today. It’s laundry day so I think I can sneak in a little gardening in between loads. Fortunately, the rest of my chickens are all fine and looking healthy. Yesterday everyone layed an egg. That’s a new record: ten hens and ten eggs. Yay.