What did you do in the garden today?

[GardenNut]

Started a new compost pile!

 

[lazy gardener]

Started a new compost pile!

Why is it that only gardeners understand the delight of a statement like that???? I get excited when hubby and I are out driving around and I see a big pile of compost, mulch, or even manure! Oh the possibilities! Same thing with a packet of seeds. A non gardener doesn't appreciate the power in a small handful of seeds. Miraculous how a pinch of seeds can turn into hundreds of pounds of produce.

 

[dan26552]

Why is it that only gardeners understand the delight of a statement like that???? I get excited when hubby and I are out driving around and I see a big pile of compost, mulch, or even manure! Oh the possibilities! Same thing with a packet of seeds. A non gardener doesn't appreciate the power in a small handful of seeds. Miraculous how a pinch of seeds can turn into hundreds of pounds of produce.

 

[GardenNut]

So true! On the way back from the mailbox today, the dogs and I checked out the neighbor's junk pile in a nearby field. Pallets, old truck caps still on the beds (front cab is gone), chain link fencing, pallets, etc. I stood there drooling almost! Hmmm, truck cap/bed could make a nice brooder for turkeys or meat chickens, chain link fence for goats, pallets=compost bins, scrap number, etc. all of it just sitting there. I'm sure they've saved all that stuff "just in case!" I may offer to unload them of such a terrible mess in the spring.

 

[dan26552]

 

[lazy gardener]

Today, I pulled the top off the hay bale cold frame and forked up the soil, planted some seeds: Mache, Orach, Tatsoi, Collards, Claytonia, and Radish. Laid a piece of plastic over the ground to provide that second layer. Will hold in moisture, and essentially improve growing conditions inside grow frame to = Zone 7 - 8. Pulled up the corn instead of clipping it, mainly b/c I can use the exercise. set aside a cabbage stem with intent of planting it in the green house so I can harvest cabbage greens from it. Dug potatoes. Discovered that the potato crop was absolutely pathetic. Too much competition with the corn. Poor carrot and beet crop also. Need to run a soil test.

Any gardeners amend their soil with Borax? Many soils are boron deficient. But a tiny bit of borax goes a long long way. I'm reading that 3/4 oz mixed with water to cover 100 s.f. is plenty, and it's very easy to apply too much. Interested to hear if anyone has used borax, and what were the results? Any improvement? There are also recipes that use it with some other ingredients as a weed killer. (Apply it specifically to the weed intended to eradicate.) But again, super care must be taken that the soil doesn't get overloaded.

 

[dan26552]

This is my longest lufah, it goes from about 3 inches abouve my elbow all te way to the tip of my longest finger.

@lazy gardener
I have a rooster who acts similar to your pullet. He is always following me down to the garden and hangs out about 20 feet from me usaully. Right now he has wet pox so I'm taking his jumping over a 4 foot fence to follow me to the garden as a good sign.

 

[Kegs1972]

Today my partner and i went kayak fishing so no gardening for me.... i did get to have a cuppa with my girls this morning while they tended the compost heap for me

 

[lazy gardener]

Dan, hope your roo recovers well from his pox, and the rest of them don't get sick. I've not had to deal with any disease with my flock, but... sooner or later, I expect my day will come. Nice luffa.

Today, hubby and I dumped 3 trash cans of compost and 3 trash cans of seasoned wood chips in the garden. I moved all of the corn stocks to the HK mound, gave the flock a broken bale of hay, covered the remaining foot print of the HK with heavy cardboard.

 

[chickadoodles]

Dan I also hope your rooster recovers. Some of my birds got dry pox.