What did you do in the garden today?

[Iluveggers]

Woodchuck signed his warrant. Traps are set. He is DONE FOR! In between 3 and 6pm he got the Rest of my broccoli and broke off my cabages.

Get um…

 

[SheaLoner]

Get um…

.22 is loaded by the door for when Im home.

 

[Sally PB]

Okay, now I want pictures of both rocks please.

Ok... here goes.
This is the one that we plan to move. At one time, about 3/4 was underground. That's my size 11 shoe for scale. It comes up almost to my knee.

This next one is staying put. What you see is the bit that is just peeking out of the ground. The hole behind the fence is how far back I *think* it goes, but I'm not sure. The front ends past where my heel is. I don't know how deep it goes, but it's not worth finding out, because we can't move it anyway.

I'm just going to dump some extra dirt on it. That end of the garden has some other big rocks near the surface. It's the squash bed, so they can vine over them. I can't plant anything I need to dig a hole for, like potatoes.

 

[igorsMistress]

Ok... here goes.
This is the one that we plan to move. At one time, about 3/4 was underground. That's my size 11 shoe for scale. It comes up almost to my knee.
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This next one is staying put. What you see is the bit that is just peeking out of the ground. The hole behind the fence is how far back I *think* it goes, but I'm not sure. The front ends past where my heel is. I don't know how deep it goes, but it's not worth finding out, because we can't move it anyway.
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I'm just going to dump some extra dirt on it. That end of the garden has some other big rocks near the surface. It's the squash bed, so they can vine over them. I can't plant anything I need to dig a hole for, like potatoes.

I’d give up on that too, wow!

 

[TJAnonymous]

I'm disappointed... Collected my first butterfly pea flower today and put it in my Lemonade. It didn't make my Lemonade purple... Oh well, still a very pretty flower. I put one in the bottle too. We'll let it steep overnight and see what happens.

Collected more onions tonight along with some green beans, runner beans, and a head of broccoli. My romaine is on its last legs. The heat is simply overwhelming it. The leaf lettuce under the shade of the runner bean lattice is still rockin and rollin.

Going to have to get up at the crack of dawn to water again... Ugh. I hope the whole summer isn't like this...

On a sad note, I don't think the Hinnonmaki Red Gooseberry plant is going to sprout. It's been at least 2 weeks now and nothing. That's what I get for betting on a DeGroot product from TSC. More mad at myself for being suckered in more than anything...

 

[589205]

I've grown watercress off and on for years. It should grow well in a bog filter. It likes moving water for nutrients or some soil to root into a little for the same reason. But, it'll grow as a free floating plant too. You can buy it in the grocery store and throw it where you want it. I like to give it something to support it though or almost all of the plant ends up underwater and messy to harvest. When I had a waterfall tier on our in ground pond it loved to grow in the waterfall. In the bucket ponds I top off the water daily and that stirs the water enough to feed the cress. I use little holey baskets or other plants roots to support it enough to have above water growth.

Here it's in a basket and free floating.
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Here it's set to grow with pickerel weed roots as support.View attachment 3152576
I love ponds of any sort...would luv to see your DP's!

 

[NewBoots]

I love ponds of any sort...would luv to see your DP's!

Still a work in progress, but the first portion is in the ground now and I think she has all the bits and pieces she needs to get it assembled. I'll post pics once it's finished. We both have carnivorous plants and a good deal of those need a boggy set up so I might set up a small simple bog pond myself.

 

[Elyrian1]

We ended up having a busy evening. DH got the gardening bug and planted half a dozen mint and a few sage plants in a partial shade spot in the big garden, that is technically supposed to be all herbs and pollinator plants, lol. Then topped compost on all the plants, added more mulch, and watered in well. We'll see what happens. We weeded heavily and fed the grass and such to the chickens, all the while telling the mean rooster to enjoy his last meal.

 

[NewBoots]

Ok... here goes.
This is the one that we plan to move. At one time, about 3/4 was underground. That's my size 11 shoe for scale. It comes up almost to my knee.

I love boulders in a garden, and they nearly always look more natural when they are partially buried. Moving them is not so cool though.

@MamaSug, those look awesome! Now I really have to make a small pond.

 

[chickengr]

Same here, goat prices here are bottle babies $50-75, auction prices for 3-month doelings are similar but I don't trust that they are from a healthy herd. Craigslist, especially at this time of year, has tons of goats for sale, babies for $100, 1-2-year-old doelings and bucklings for $175 up to $400 for registered dairy goats. Various health promises, mostly not.
When I go to buy goats, it will be from a local dairy breeder who lets their babies be raised by the moms, but handles them enough to be friendly. Gives them appropriate vaccinations, supplements, and tests their herd for CDE and Johnes. And sells their youngsters for a reasonable price, like $100-125 for 6-month-old wethers, $150 for doelings.

a friend of mine swapped chickens for a goat. she lives far away from me but I hope to manage to get some goats from her. otherwise I cannot find pure breed goats around. I don't want crosses with swiss or english breeds as they eat much more than the greek climate can provide.