What did you do in the garden today?

[Ascholten]

Now there we go.
Let's get a cheap ass lock.
Put a cheaper POS piece of plastic surrounding it, the the shape of a chicken.

We'll call it "The Flock Lock" Keep your Chickens safe from EVERYTHING !!

Sell it to the gullible schmucks and you and I can both retire rich !!

Aaron

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good afternoon Gardeners. Wet out 50 but not spring I know better.
Green house not built want my coop first.

 

[Ascholten]

Well it was a nice sunny warm day out. Topped off all the batteries and warmed the tilapia pond up because it's going to get cold soon here for the next several days.

Moved a lot of tote contents around, mixed stuff up, getting things lined up for the final mixing and layout to plant stuff in, come a month or so when I hopefully feel we will not get a frost kill anymore. While it is fun, it is also frustrating, because you come into the 'gardening day' with 5 projects that need doing, and end up leaving the day with 3 projects done and 9 projects that need doing, and it NEVER reverses itself Since they told me just to keep a boot on and I can sort of 'walk on' but don't put pressure on, whatever the hell that means the foot. Given it's going to be a friggin month before I get the damned MRI and the doctor to see it and if it DOES need surgery, they'll have to break whatever the hell happened between now and then to fix and redo it, im using my foot somewhat to do my gardening. Just take enough pills so I ain't feeling any pain, let anyone who may have a vested interest in 'me' for the day know, Im at home today, do NOT expect me to drive ANYWHERE, for ANY reason PERIOD !, and go about business almost as usual. Still though, seems I get tired way sooner than normal and the work is not getting done as much as I want it to. I DO have my Blood Orange tree staring me right in the face though with 8 oranges left on it. So I tell myself, if you get X, Y, and Z done, you can pick ONE of those off the tree and eat it !

How pathetic is life when you gotta bribe yourself to do work?
Oh, and the bird won't eat the Orange part of the Orange, but loves the Red part of the Orange. Just eat the whole darned thing or you won't get anymore !


I also showed my chickens that the huge pile of spinach plant branches and poofties, that there are seeds in the poofs, so they've been digging thru that a little bit too, which helps spread it and break it down. I think ill 'help it out' by throwing a few handfulls of scratch grains in there and letting them have at it then!

It's getting late, the solar panel project for the tilly pond is coming along nicely and Im getting ready to go in for the night. (Long story short, I got some old damaged panels), they were not working right, so Ive been repairing them as i can and getting what power I can out of them. Im stringing them for 120 ish volts and using them to power my tilapia pond heater. Excess power I'll put in my electric motorcycle.
Free Panels, essentially Free Power to keep the fish warm and run my bike around.
Who can complain about that?

Life can be good, should be better, but as long as I am on top of the compost pile instead of in it, then it's good right?

Aaron

 

[BReeder!]

In my way home. As Ib said this morning, no gardening today. I did try finding the growlights I have though. I want to buy 4 more, but can't find them. I'm pretty sure I got them from HD. They are 4ft LED bars with pull chains and a built in outlet for daisy chaining them. I remember they were on sale when I originally bought them, but it didn't seem like a clearance so I hope I can still find them. They were relatively cheap and have worked out well. I just need more as I originally planned two per rack and ended up rearranging then to three per rack because they angle of light on them isn't wide enough when just a few inches above the plant trays. Any way, I have had no luck finding them yet. I'll have to check in the store tomorrow.

 

[Ascholten]

I never really had good luck with the LED grow lights. For some reason, the plants may have lived, but they never really thrived, like they did under Incandescent or flourescent ones. Maybe I just had a fluke or what but I don't really like the LED grows.

Aaron

 

[CNJ]

What was the purpose in practicing sewing them up?
Yes I get it, knowing how to do stitches is always a good thing, but was there any specific reason, ie to sew up your birds who may lose in fights (unless it was mandatory fight to the death fights) or just general 'boyscout knowledge' or what? Not fingering you for any bad reasons, just genuinely curious as that's something id not expect people to make a point of teaching the others to do, without a specific reason for NEEDING that specific skill.

Aaron

We did it for fun...............

 

[WthrLady]

I think I'm going to plant a few flats of grass seed on warming mats for the old hen that lives in the workshop. I know she misses freeranging, but no one gets to do that in the winter. Hmmm.....

In my way home. As Ib said this morning, no gardening today. I did try finding the growlights I have though. I want to buy 4 more, but can't find them. I'm pretty sure I got them from HD. They are 4ft LED bars with pull chains and a built in outlet for daisy chaining them. I remember they were on sale when I originally bought them, but it didn't seem like a clearance so I hope I can still find them. They were relatively cheap and have worked out well. I just need more as I originally planned two per rack and ended up rearranging then to three per rack because they angle of light on them isn't wide enough when just a few inches above the plant trays. Any way, I have had no luck finding them yet. I'll have to check in the store tomorrow.

Search your own threads in the bar above and see if you mentioned here where you got them. I bet you did.

 

[Swiss]

I spent a good chunk of today writing up my garden schedule in my daily planner. I decided not to make a medicinal/herb garden up by the house this year. Maybe that will be a project for next year.

Now that I have that all planned, I need to figure out where to get compost, and whether the people I got straw from last year have enough to cover my garden (since it is already all in their barn). The place I got compost from for last year's garden wasn't terribly impressive because it was FILLED with strands of broken down tarps... so, I need to find somewhere else... hmm.... do the Amish sell compost?

I keep daydreaming of warmer, sunnier weather and green things...

 

[muddy75]

I picked up some dead bait fish from the bait & tackle shop down the street a couple springs ago. Buried them above a foot deep around the garden hoping they would decompose and provide nutrients to the soil. However the critters had a different plan. They could smell it and had no qualms about digging up the garden to reach it.

We buried some old baitfish in ours a year or two ago. Luckily nothing messed with them. Also used the excess “composted” soil from the aviary and layered rabbit poo over the top.

 

[WthrLady]

I spent a good chunk of today writing up my garden schedule in my daily planner. I decided not to make a medicinal/herb garden up by the house this year. Maybe that will be a project for next year.

Now that I have that all planned, I need to figure out where to get compost, and whether the people I got straw from last year have enough to cover my garden (since it is already all in their barn). The place I got compost from for last year's garden wasn't terribly impressive because it was FILLED with strands of broken down tarps... so, I need to find somewhere else... hmm.... do the Amish sell compost?

I keep daydreaming of warmer, sunnier weather and green things...

Yes, some Amish and Plain (Mennonite) specialize in selling the English compost and manure.