What did you do in the garden today?

[cardinall]

I was just gonna put them in the ground just cause that's what my grandmother told me she did when she was a kid and they would grow. She said she just dug her trenches then planted them and covered them up and watered

Ah the old timer ways. She grow up on a farm?

 

[Ascholten]

The key is she covered them up, so being that late in the season, any frost, would hopefully be a lighter one, and them being covered, would be protected, or even if you burnt the heads off, the body under the hay still is still alive and can resprout with luck.

Aaron

 

[riss]

Ah the old timer ways. She grow up on a farm?

Yeah she did so she is teaching me "her ways"

The key is she covered them up, so being that late in the season, any frost, would hopefully be a lighter one, and them being covered, would be protected, or even if you burnt the heads off, the body under the hay still is still alive and can resprout with luck.

Aaron

Yeah true that's why I planned on the end of May to ensure there would be no frost. I know last year we ended up buying Menards buckets and setting them over the plants so they didn't get frosted and it worked!

 

[karenerwin]

It needs to warm up and stay warm. My tomato plants I started from seed are getting really big! I have them in a 75 gallon aquarium/terrarium and they are ready to breach the top.
Does anyone have a good website for a 30 day weather forecast?

 

[WthrLady]

It needs to warm up and stay warm. My tomato plants I started from seed are getting really big! I have them in a 75 gallon aquarium/terrarium and they are ready to breach the top.
Does anyone have a good website for a 30 day weather forecast?

Nothing past 9 days is anything decent forecast wise. Accuracy drops exponentially past 3 days out. By day 9 you're looking at only 20% accuracy, so a 30 day range is more of a climatological area, and it simply a crap shoot - so a Farmer's Almanac kind of thing.
My tomatoes don't go in the ground until June 1st unless on May 21st-ish I can see no weather burps in the works for that last week of May, then I'll put them in the last week of May.

 

[karenerwin]

I just can’t believe that the low temps are predicted to be no higher than upper 50’s maybe low 60’s ( with plenty in the 40’s) for all of May.
I really want to get my tomatoes in the ground before I go out of town May 4 - 14th. I don’t think they will survive in the house. My pet sitters don’t have a good track record for remembering to water them.
I believe they saying was that it was okay to plant by Mother’s Day our last predicted frost date was April 15th or 19th.

 

[NewBoots]

Have you considered juicing some celery and making the jello with unflavored gelatin?

I think I'm going to have to. I don't have a juicer so it'll get messy.

So many disturbing things...

I still plan to make that Mock Apple Pie with Ritz crackers some day!

I tried to buy just a standard refrigerator...no freezer.... the cheapest I could find was $800. Smh....crazy.

That was the best I was able to find too and now it's even worse.

It's currently in a box with a heating pad to try to warm her up. I'm not sure if she is going to make it....

Oh I hope the baby makes it.

At the end of the day you are exhausted, you look around and wonder what the hell you did all day to make you tired, then look in the sink and wonder where you left your coffee cup at.

This is me all the time, I flit from one unfinished task to the next.

Ok now that the long dork o matic explanation is out of the way. The freezer is now working fine, (it seems).

YAY! I love a happy ending. I don't know about you but when I figure out a problem and make it good, I feel like a genius.

I just can’t believe that the low temps are predicted to be no higher than upper 50’s maybe low 60’s ( with plenty in the 40’s) for all of May.
I really want to get my tomatoes in the ground before I go out of town May 4 - 14th. I don’t think they will survive in the house.

I can't figure out this weather, and it just seems almost like winter has come back. At least the greens are doing well.

Not any gardening done, the wind, hail and blowing rain has me hiding in the house for now. The 3 live chicks we got from the last hatching are doing good, even tiny Miss Prissy:

But her crop is full at night and her unsteady gait has gotten better. We keep assuming she's a she, it'll break my heart if she lives and turns out to be a rooster. But our current plan is to have about 15 layers, hatching replacements and eating the roosters and most of the older hens. Some of our girls will get a free pass so we're hoping Miss Prissy will turn out to be one of those.

 

[pennyJo1960]

My Garden is mud .. Plants are living in the garage ..
We may not be able to plant until May the way it is going.

 

[chickengr]

If you are handy fixing stuff, goto the junk yard, a lot of time people get rid of them, just because they got a new one, or ok it stopped working, but all that really went bad was the clixon, thermal overload or relay on the compressor, a 10 or 20 dollar fix. I know the guys at several of the junk places and they let me poke around and I'll find one like that, hell, you can even grab the parts off another one they got, to fix the one you want, and walk out with it for like 20 dollars or so.

It's worth a try.

Aaron

that makes sense. unfortunately does not happen here. I went through the ads to find a second hand fridge to use just in summer. the non functioning one costs about 70% of the new one. like everything else here.

 

[chickengr]

I can't remember if it was someone on BYC or elsewhere that showed this to me -

https://www.storeitcold.com/product/coolbot-walk-in-cooler-controller/

It basically helps the window A/C unit regulate properly to work as a walk-in-cooler unit. I really need a cooler to keep stockpiled animal feed and extra eggs. I'm going to add it into a section of my barn but first I need to get an electrician out to add a dedicated circuit for it. My electrical box in the barn is pretty small and I'm not sure if it can handle the load/circuit or not.

Yet ANOTHER thing on my to-do list that really needs to get done ASAP. I really want to build a root cellar too but that will be more difficult than a walk-in cooler because I live on the side of a foothill with bedrock literally 2 ft below the surface.

I was thinking about using an old refrigerator truck (?) as a walk-in cooler. just need to find one or to make a room with the same system.