What did you do in the garden today?

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Blueberries are finally getting ready!

 

[BlessedChaosHomestead]

Planted a couple tomato plants, some suckers that I was rooting, a pepper plant & some more Zinnias.
(Aside from chicken work. Lol)
Several of those were some of the offsprings plants they started from seed. (Put in dirt & I took care of them. Lol)

Also threw all my rabbit excrements into my beds for fertilize. Lol

 

[TJAnonymous]

Ok, DH has sworn off hand-plucking chickens after the four cockerels were dispatched. It is indeed the most tedious portion of the work. Time to shop around for a nicely priced plucker or DIY a design that works for us. We won't need anything large scale for years yet.

Watered the garden a bit, it got a special treat today. Now too tired to do more than sit.

We boil water in a turkey deep fryer. One quick dip of the bird and feathers come out super easy. We can completely clean a bird in less than 10 minutes.

 

[Elyrian1]

Yeah we scalded at 150F and then dunked in ice water and the feathers came off pretty easy, but it was still tedious enough for him that he's over it. I'm going to look into washing machine drum pluckers.

I should add, it kills his back.

 

[NewBoots]

Ok, DH has sworn off hand-plucking chickens after the four cockerels were dispatched. It is indeed the most tedious portion of the work. Time to shop around for a nicely priced plucker or DIY a design that works for us. We won't need anything large scale for years yet.

As much as I like crispy chicken skin, I'm too lazy to pluck chickens. So far I just skin them all, it's really easy that way.


Today's harvest of carrots and one beet, they cooked really fast and are very good, really tender and sweet. I'll start some more, these were nantes half-longs and one of those tape strips so super easy to plant and no thinning necessary.

I'd show you the raspberries I picked too but there were only a few so far and something seems to have happened to them...Looks like the same thing that happened to the sugar snap peas...

This is the pot of mint in front of the chicken run, it was looking sad a month ago but I dumped about a gallon of bunny poop in it and practically drowned it and it's really happy now.

Penny discovered DP's pond and jumped in. It isn't planted yet so no real damage done, it just means we'll have to put a fence around it when It's done and fully planted. But she was having such a good time we filled a kids wading pool up and she loved it. She must be part duck, she'd splash on her belly then streak around the yard and jump in again from a yard away.

 

[ChicksnMore]

Hey Gardeners we are all sick here creeping crud. Son brought it home covid test said no !

So glad it's not COVID and hope you feel better soon!

That is a beautiful specimen, that type isn't easy to keep happy if I'm remembering right, your DD is doing a great job with it. We used to live near a big carnivorous nursery and we'd go visit on their open house weekend. I'll see if I can find the pictures we took of the place.


Mint grows anywhere here, cinderblocks only slow it down a little. It wants lots of water (in fact you could probably grow it as a bog plant) but I don't think it's too picky about how much sun. It grows in full sun here but our daytime temperatures are 70 tops.

It's a fun little plant. It was about the size of a quarter when she bought it for me and it had little baby pitchers that were all green. Would love to see the pictures.

I grow mint as a bog plant...easiest way I've found to grow it here. Not the best picture but it's getting dark out. The mint is sprawled all around the lower level and drapes to the ground.

Blueberries are finally getting ready!
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That looks so delicious! Here's a pic of the best of my remaining blueberry plants. I can't call mine a bush and it's 4 or 5 years old. Did I mention the poor thing never flowers? But it never dies and looks healthy...just doesn't really grow. Looking at your thick leaves and my delicate ones makes me think maybe it needs more sun...or a different gardener...lol.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

So glad it's not COVID and hope you feel better soon!

It's a fun little plant. It was about the size of a quarter when she bought it for me and it had little baby pitchers that were all green. Would love to see the pictures.

I grow mint as a bog plant...easiest way I've found to grow it here. Not the best picture but it's getting dark out. The mint is sprawled all around the lower level and drapes to the ground.
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That looks so delicious! Here's a pic of the best of my remaining blueberry plants. I can't call mine a bush and it's 4 or 5 years old. Did I mention the poor thing never flowers? But it never dies and looks healthy...just doesn't really grow. Looking at your thick leaves and my delicate ones makes me think maybe it needs more sun...or a different gardener...lol.View attachment 3154159

Lots of sun and lots of water for my blueberry bushes. They aren't all as big as I'd like them to be but I got plenty of blueberries last year. We ate lots of them fresh, I canned blueberry syrup and canned a few blueberry pie fillings.
I put my duck swimming pools by the blueberries and I dump the poopy dirty water on the blueberries every couple days. I still need to test the soil because I acidify the soil around the plants twice a year and TJ said it can get too acidic.

 

[karenerwin]

I sure wish I would start getting notifications about this thread again! The only way I can re-find it is to get on my computer, which I rarely do.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I sure wish I would start getting notifications about this thread again! The only way I can re-find it is to get on my computer, which I rarely do.

Good to see you back

 

[chickengr]

It's like stunted...not growing...it's gotta be 3 months along and still tiny.
I'll try to get ya a pic when I Brave to go water! Ugh

do you grow sage in a pot? that might be the reason it is stunted. I have grown it both in pots and in my garden. they have always been stunted in pots.