What did you do in the garden today?

[Smokerbill]

Built two more 8'x4' raised beds today for a total of 9! More room for broccoli and cauliflower! Also spread some Wine Cap spawn - our first attempt at growing mushrooms. Anybody here grow mushrooms?

I got a mushroom box, oyster I think, for Christmas. Grew them but was only about 60% impressed. I threw all the used mushroom compost in the box on a pile of woody refuse on the edge of the woods hoping that it might sprout some mushrooms there. Waitin' to see what happens.

 

[BReeder!]

Have you seen James Prigioni's Youtube channel? He calls trellised tomatoes tomato trees. Pretty informative stuff. But kind of a goofy guy. LOL

Just watched part of the video. Definitely a bit of a goof. Lol. The pole trelising is interesting. I sort of wonder how he picks from some of those really tall plants actually.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Built two more 8'x4' raised beds today for a total of 9! More room for broccoli and cauliflower! Also spread some Wine Cap spawn - our first attempt at growing mushrooms. Anybody here grow mushrooms?

I bought a ridiculously overpriced shiitake mushroom log from Gurneys. It grew one mushroom. I've wanted to try again with a REAL kit but haven't gotten around to it yet.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Have you seen James Prigioni's Youtube channel? He calls trellised tomatoes tomato trees. Pretty informative stuff. But kind of a goofy guy. LOL

You mean, you're not all goofing off in your garden all day???

 

[muddy75]

We picked up our extra fridge and freezers from DS1 house today and I hit the truckload meat sale at our local IGA We should be pretty stocked for a while!

 

[muddy75]

We picked up our extra fridge and freezers from DS1 house today and I hit the truckload meat sale at our local IGA We should be pretty stocked for a while!

Oops…..not the thread I intended

 

[BReeder!]

Picked up 3 poults from a fellow BYC member today. Then I had to stop at the farm supply store for feed and bedding. I forgot the bedding and picked up 4 black silkies, 1 wyandotte, and 2 buff I-forgot-whats.
DW just found out about the turkeys earlier today before I went to pick them up and then was surprised by the chicks. I another it over though because she has been wanting silkies for a long time.

 

[BReeder!]

Oops…..not the thread I intended

All good. I never heard of IGA. I had to Google that. Apparently they exist here in IL but in a tight cluster in central IL - the closest one looking like 80-100 mi away from me. I love a good meat sale; however, we are stocked here since I picked up a 1/4 cow and whole lamb last weekend from our local butcher. Their meat all comes from their own farm. It's a premium price, but I know where it comes from, how it was raised, and how the meat was handled. This its our second year ordering, and I really think it we'll become an annual event for us.

 

[Acre4Me]

Planted some flower seeds today. Also put out the black plastic to warm up the soil for planting peanuts.

I’ll need to warm the soil ahead of getting sweet potatoes. I forgot to copy my order, now I don’t know if I ordered 4 or 6 varieties (they come 6 plants per variety). This place only takes paper orders and checks, so no online account.

Leeks -some were killed by the recent cold weather, it appears. They were hardened off before transplant, but I guess couldn’t handle the extended cold. But some still look great.

 

[gtaus]

Good to know! I was wondering about my garden cart tires the other day because I thought I heard one leaking. It wasn't leaking, it had a clump of mud/compost stuck to it just to give me a scare.

My inner tubes were only lasting a couple of years. But I really use my carts a lot and will load fill them up with heavy loads. That's what I bought them for. My inner tubes probably failed because of the weight I put in the carts. Still, that's why I bought the carts, so I just replace an air tire with the solid filled tires now. Be prepared to spend 2-3X more for the soild filled tire, but they will last a lifetime and you won't have to replace them every 2 years - well, that is what I was doing.