What did you do in the garden today?

[Ascholten]

the funny thing here. One of the local feed stores used to buy extra eggs for 2 bucks a dozen and resold them for 275 a dozen. They did this just basically to get people in the store. At first she was considering stopping, "I got too many egg's, I can't get rid of them". Now she buys for 2.50 and sells for 3.50 and she can't get enough eggs in the shop. I wish we had the 'too many of them' problem again. When eggs in the store cost even more for the crappy ones, or you can get farm fresh local eggs, I'll take the real eggs any day of the week!.

Aaron

 

[pennyJo1960]

We where at Costco today and wally, about 8 bucks a dozen here.
Rained on us tonight.

 

[Acre4Me]

Sent in an order for late summer chicks. We have to plan for 4H showing, so these will be for 2024 fair showing, and egg layers. The place we ordered from only sells straight run with a minimum order quantity of 25 (for the whole order, can mix breeds). We will also plan to get some high production layers in March or April this year to get us through next winter.

Rain most of the day for the forecast. And it’s super foggy this morning- enough that schools are delayed 2 hours.

Waiting on the final two seed orders to arrive. I need to buy some seed starting supplies too.

 

[BReeder!]

To the city today. On a commute train already. It's chilly and a bit foggy this morning - not too bad for January though. It's warm enough lately that my daffodils thin is early spring and are popping up already and an inch out out of the soil/mulch. They seem to deal with frost/snow fine so not too worried about them dying off, but shocked to see them right now.

I won't be out in the garden today. I did order some seeds though from Burpee. I like supporting the smaller places usually but I'm going to give Burpee's SuperSauce toms a try this year and it made sense to grab a few other seeds from them that I would likely not find in store. With the SuperSauce I grabbed Purple Cherokee (DW's favorite), a quick growing watermelon named Carolina Cross #183, an interesting Candy Apple bell peppers, Fish hot peppers, Charentais melon, Bright Lights swiss chard, Igloo lettuce and Fire Catcher and Chocolate Cherry sunflowers.

Question for the group: Anybody grown the asparagus bare roots that they sell in small bags by flower bulbs in the big box stores like Home Depot and Tractor Supply? I picked some up last year but failed to plant them. Oops! I was thinking about getting them again, but wondered if they're worth while or if I should look for better quality.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

To the city today. On a commute train already. It's chilly and a bit foggy this morning - not too bad for January though. It's warm enough lately that my daffodils thin is early spring and are popping up already and an inch out out of the soil/mulch. They seem to deal with frost/snow fine so not too worried about them dying off, but shocked to see them right now.

I won't be out in the garden today. I did order some seeds though from Burpee. I like supporting the smaller places usually but I'm going to give Burpee's SuperSauce toms a try this year and it made sense to grab a few other seeds from them that I would likely not find in store. With the SuperSauce I grabbed Purple Cherokee (DW's favorite), a quick growing watermelon named Carolina Cross #183, an interesting Candy Apple bell peppers, Fish hot peppers, Charentais melon, Bright Lights swiss chard, Igloo lettuce and Fire Catcher and Chocolate Cherry sunflowers.

Question for the group: Anybody grown the asparagus bare roots that they sell in small bags by flower bulbs in the big box stores like Home Depot and Tractor Supply? I picked some up last year but failed to plant them. Oops! I was thinking about getting them again, but wondered if they're worth while or if I should look for better quality.

I planted them and they are doing quite well. Low maintenance and productive.

 

[Iluveggers]

To the city today. On a commute train already. It's chilly and a bit foggy this morning - not too bad for January though. It's warm enough lately that my daffodils thin is early spring and are popping up already and an inch out out of the soil/mulch. They seem to deal with frost/snow fine so not too worried about them dying off, but shocked to see them right now.

I won't be out in the garden today. I did order some seeds though from Burpee. I like supporting the smaller places usually but I'm going to give Burpee's SuperSauce toms a try this year and it made sense to grab a few other seeds from them that I would likely not find in store. With the SuperSauce I grabbed Purple Cherokee (DW's favorite), a quick growing watermelon named Carolina Cross #183, an interesting Candy Apple bell peppers, Fish hot peppers, Charentais melon, Bright Lights swiss chard, Igloo lettuce and Fire Catcher and Chocolate Cherry sunflowers.

Question for the group: Anybody grown the asparagus bare roots that they sell in small bags by flower bulbs in the big box stores like Home Depot and Tractor Supply? I picked some up last year but failed to plant them. Oops! I was thinking about getting them again, but wondered if they're worth while or if I should look for better quality.

Same as @Wee Farmer Saraht asparagus from Lowe’s is doing as well as the roots from my local farm store.

 

[Acre4Me]

To the city today. On a commute train already. It's chilly and a bit foggy this morning - not too bad for January though. It's warm enough lately that my daffodils thin is early spring and are popping up already and an inch out out of the soil/mulch. They seem to deal with frost/snow fine so not too worried about them dying off, but shocked to see them right now.

I won't be out in the garden today. I did order some seeds though from Burpee. I like supporting the smaller places usually but I'm going to give Burpee's SuperSauce toms a try this year and it made sense to grab a few other seeds from them that I would likely not find in store. With the SuperSauce I grabbed Purple Cherokee (DW's favorite), a quick growing watermelon named Carolina Cross #183, an interesting Candy Apple bell peppers, Fish hot peppers, Charentais melon, Bright Lights swiss chard, Igloo lettuce and Fire Catcher and Chocolate Cherry sunflowers.

Question for the group: Anybody grown the asparagus bare roots that they sell in small bags by flower bulbs in the big box stores like Home Depot and Tractor Supply? I picked some up last year but failed to plant them. Oops! I was thinking about getting them again, but wondered if they're worth while or if I should look for better quality.

I grew Burpee Super Sauce last year. Yes, they are big toms. Yes, the plants produce a lot.

However, although they are listed as Indeterminate, they grew like a determinate. Lots, then basically done. So, be ready to harvest and process.

Also, they were more prone to rotting. Not blossom end rot. They were less robust on the plant compared to the San Marz planted with them. But, keep an eye on them and you’ll be fine.

They were not huge nor wild, they grew more like a determinate, focusing their energy in fruit production rather than foliage. I likened them to the meat chicken (Cornish x) of the chicken world- they do one thing well, grow and produce muscle in a finite time. The super sauce toms were like that: feed and water them and you get lots of good size toms by a certain time.

Overall, yes, you should plant them! Your results may vary from mine, but you will likely get plenty of sauce tomatoes.

 

[CNJ]

I just caught this little guy, he was starving and came right up to me. This chicken belongs to someone, but I don't know who? He was too tame to be wild.
I know the kid who came to catch his red color cockerel the last time told me it was a Round Head fighting chicken. I am not sure if this is a blood line chicken. This is a baby chicken that is just beginning to crow.
I put him in the cage, so he doesn't mess up my meat bird project. I am so close to setting my line.

 

[Sally PB]

Question for the group: Anybody grown the asparagus bare roots that they sell in small bags by flower bulbs in the big box stores like Home Depot and Tractor Supply? I picked some up last year but failed to plant them. Oops! I was thinking about getting them again, but wondered if they're worth while or if I should look for better quality.

That's where all my asparagus crowns came from: either a hardware store with a garden section, or a garden store (where I did not see a hardware section).

As far as quality... Look for "fleshier" looking roots on them, if possible. Those are the ones that get bought up first, as they just look better. Bags that I bought had both, and I don't know which crowns grew or didn't, but I got them when they were on sale, so they were the remainders. About half of them grew.

 

[Ascholten]

Grabbing roosters from the wild. Keep him quarantined for a bit, you just never know what bugaboo's he may have on him that you don't want getting into your flock.

This whole avian flu thing, I don't believe most the crap I see anymore. Sadly you can not trust anything you see or hear in todays terrible world, but they sure seem bent on killing off birds for any reason they can find.

Just don't want him accidentally making the rest of your sick. You might end up with a decent pet. Keep him away from other males if he's a fighter but should not be an issue.

With that.
Honest question:

Lets say someone gets a fighter or three. Is there ANYTHING you can do with them to reduce that urge they got to fight, to kind to kind of normalize them, or are they going to be that way until they die essentially? What happens when you DO breed them with regular chickens? Yes I know you now got an easter egger mix coming out of that, but if yo udid hatch some of those to keep your flock alive over the years, will they all have a tendency to be mean or what? When you breed fighters, are the girls mean too or just the boys?

Aaron