What did you do in the garden today?

[SheaLoner]

I didnt get any gardening done today. Had planned on butchering a few CX, managed 1 before my arm and elbow decided to nix that plan.
Rested the rest of the afternoon. Then said to heck with it. Took that fresh bird, scavenged just enough cherry peppers, a whole head of fresh garlic, a few tiny bells and onions from the garden, and made myself a pot of Chicken Riggies. Made it a good ending to the day.

 

[MarkRainbolt]

I picked tomatoes and green peppers and cucumbers and 2 cabbage heads. A very good day!
Mark

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I didnt get any gardening done today. Had planned on butchering a few CX, managed 1 before my arm and elbow decided to nix that plan.
Rested the rest of the afternoon. Then said to heck with it. Took that fresh bird, scavenged just enough cherry peppers, a whole head of fresh garlic, a few tiny bells and onions from the garden, and made myself a pot of Chicken Riggies. Made it a good ending to the day. View attachment 3181375View attachment 3181376

That looks good!

 

[Sally PB]

I weeded a couple rows of onions. They had gotten way too overgrown with grass and purslane.

Then I worked on hilling up the potatoes for the last time. I plant them in deep holes. When the plant tops are almost up to the top of the hole, I fill in the hole half way. When they're about 5" above the hole, I fill the hole in almost the rest of the way, so that I have a little bit of a depression to hold water when I have to water them.

Today, I filled in everything, mounded it a little around the stems, and made an empty moat around the plant to hold water when I need to water. Like tomorrow or Tuesday. We have a slim chance of rain tomorrow evening, but I'm betting that even if I have laundry out on the line, it won't rain and I'll be dragging the hose around on Tuesday.

While I was weeding and digging around in the dirt, I found about 20 JB grubs. They're crop filler now. As in chicken crop filler.

There were two volunteer plants that were in between rows, so I dug them up. Enough spuds to go with dinner!

 

[bruceha2000]

We pulled last couple bags of last year tomatoes out

LAST year's tomatoes? Aren't they a bag of moldy mush? No way a tomato would last from last year to now here.

I think that my olive eggers are actually cuckoo marans...

Um, they look different don't they? And the Marans lay really dark brown eggs. If you paid for OE's you might be owed a refund on the difference. Pretty disappointing when you were expecting olive green eggs.

 

[WthrLady]

almost 7pm and it's 92 degrees with a dewpoint of 79 degrees. This is revolting. It feels like 108 out, and breathing is hard for the steaming air. The house feels chilly at 76 air conditioned degrees. LOL.
Enough of this.

 

[My Very First 6 Chickens]

Nothing too crazy going on today. Headed to the hardware store to pickup a few things. I had an idea of what to do with some extra grape starts we had:

I want to train them along the chicken run and maybe build a cover over the run for it to grow over. We are running out of places to put things, firstly. Secondly it will provide shade during the hotter months and will look better than leaned up plywood against the run. The variety is a mystery: concord, reliant (reliance?), or something else.

Potato’s are flowering, everything is really taking off. Chickens are looking more mature week by week. Greens are up, planting beets today. Chamomile is really getting big! Tobacco is in, only 60 days to maturity I guess. (Little yellow guys by the bucket…they have had a hard start.). Chickens destroyed the bottoms of the lilacs that were inside the fence.

Had some hail this past week but luckily nothing was destroyed. There is some damage but it’s nothing terrible.

All the best.

Lovely! Thanks for sharing pics of your special place

 

[Fishychix]

How do you hand pollinate corn? I actually have some growing but drf not enough. Is it okay for bush beans to be kinda tight?

 

[Sally PB]

Forgot to add... no JB hunting today. By the time I was done hilling potatoes, it was time for chickie snack, then get cleaned up so I could make dinner. So the bugs got a pass.

 

[muddy75]

LAST year's tomatoes? Aren't they a bag of moldy mush? No way a tomato would last from last year to now here.


Um, they look different don't they? And the Marans lay really dark brown eggs. If you paid for OE's you might be owed a refund on the difference. Pretty disappointing when you were expecting olive green eggs.

They were frozen