What did you do in the garden today?

[Eagle343]

Have had a rough go this year, I have restarted my garden 3 x due to my fine feather friends. So today I watered, and fed plants with fish emulsion. I’ve lost 2 ripe tomatoes so far due to uninvited bunny! Not sure what to do. He’s not afraid of my plastic owl!

Live traps perhaps? I have been looking for another source of food to add to my fridge, and well they come into my garden, might be a win?

 

[Killy]

Live traps perhaps? I have been looking for another source of food to add to my fridge, and well they come into my garden, might be a win?

Eagle, if I trap him, will you do the dirty deed? Lol

 

[Eagle343]

I can, last time I did it was 20 or so years ago. There is an "Art" to it.
I always hated the first part due to the noise, but after that the process is about as easy as five cuts and pulling off a sock, then a little clean out.
Over all it was easy going.

 

[Chicken poppy]

I tried growing them under the shade of a tree but not a shade cloth. The tree shade was too deep I think. When I lived up north I thought zucchini was the easiest plant in the world to grow...now I can't get decent squash or tomatoes...lol.



I enjoyed the snake info! Thought I'd share a pic of a thread snake I rescued from the cat the other night. First time I saw one of these I thought it was a nightcrawler! View attachment 3151428View attachment 3151429

Oh my gosh! I love those. They have so many names, to!

Worm snakes, thread snakes, blind snakes, etc. I like to call them worm snakes though.

Don’t they? They look like an adorable little worm!

 

[igorsMistress]

Good evening all. I went out and moved some mulch around the fruit trees, gave the chickens some wet mash and fresh water and came in sweating. I hate it when I feel like I need shower every time I go outside It’s still pretty warm but nobody is panting. Hubs was late again tonight so I started working on the patio when I was at a stopping point with the pantry, which is still not quite done. Still have a few more things to put in Mylar bags and seal up, and hubs is going to work on installing the new storage cabinet tomorrow. Finally!

Hubs is a commercial driving instructor and third party tester here. 99.9% of his students who give him a gift give him alcohol, so we have quite a selection and don’t often drink. This time it’s some moonshine cherries. I have no idea what to do with them, banana splits?

 

[ChicksnMore]

I can, last time I did it was 20 or so years ago. There is an "Art" to it.
I always hated the first part due to the noise, but after that the process is about as easy as five cuts and pulling off a sock, then a little clean out.
Over all it was easy going.

If you hold them up by the ears and pop them at the base of the ears (just behind the ears) with a rubber mallet, it's instant and no noise.

 

[NewBoots]

It's been a while since I've posted!

So good to hear from you again!

I discovered a patch of wild strawberries in our yard while mowing last week or the week before, so avoided mowing over them. 2 days ago, I picked 3.25 oz, and today I got basically the same amount. They are AMAZING! These things are tiny, but absolutely PACKED with flavor.
Today's haul:

Those wild strawberries are just incredible, though usually they aren't very sweet unless they get enough direct sunshine. And your poor pupper, so clearly yearning for those scarlet beauties! What a good pup.

Isn't it cool how they make a complete revolution, pecking a perforation like a dotted line then get their little legs and push, popping off the end of the shell? I find both pieces of shell & they fit together perfectly. The newly hatched baby snuggled warm & safe under mama. The beauty of life!

I never realized they really did carefully peck that circle around the egg and with the last bit of their energy, push the shell open! It's amazing actually.

My butterfly weed looks great:

I love butterfly weed, and the seed pods look like something from Fantasia. We first started growing it back in Portland but haven't found the right spot for it here.

I enjoyed the snake info! Thought I'd share a pic of a thread snake I rescued from the cat the other night. First time I saw one of these I thought it was a nightcrawler!

DP found one of those when she was a teenager, so amazing!

Got so much done today! DP and I cleaned out the rabbitat and the human side of the chicken coop (I'm embarrassed how messy both had gotten ). The compost pile got all the spilled orchard grass and bunny doots, and the burn barrel got the cobwebs, chicken dust, (how do they make so much dust!?) spilled pine shavings, and straw. I can practically hear the spiders swearing at me from here. Just need to clear out the junk cubby and the coop will be a thing of beauty and a joy forever. Plus, DP was running an errand and saw a neighbor had 2 of those huge 1000 gallon water tanks, (the ones in the metal frames) for free to anyone willing to haul them away. DP is so clever and could sell refrigerators to penguins, she got a lumber store a couple blocks away, to go get them with their forklift and bring them to our house. So tomorrow I'll start looking at hooking them up to the gutters and adapting the valve to a faucet to make watering easier.

DP has become a dead-shot with a bb gun and has managed to stop the english sparrows from stealing the bird houses we put up for the swallows. She also ordered a sparrow trap so we can thin out the numbers a bit. And she has a grand start on the 3 tiered pond that will have a bog garden filter on the top tier.

The weather only gets to the high 60s but we've been taking advantage of pause in rain to get so much done this week. I can't complain about the rain but these low temperatures for this time of year are a challenge.

 

[chickengr]

The 6 varieties I’m planting. We planted Joan variety last year.

“Wilhemsberger Glebe”
“Nadmorska”
“Helenor”
“Navone Yellow”
“Marian”
“Magres”

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I’ll plant more soon. They are yummy to the cabbage looper, so if that is an issue - than anyone that wants to grow them should be prepared to spray with Bt to curtail those hungry green caterpillars, or to cover with netting to exclude the moth.

never heard of so many varieties of rutabaga, lol.

 

[chickengr]

On a side note, do you think it's too late to start some spaghetti squash? I might run by the feed store and see if they still have any starts.

I think you are just about the last minute to start squash/pumpkins.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I bought a passle of strawberries on Amazon.