What did you do in the garden today?

[akroberts1085]

@akroberts1085, thank you! and THANK YOU to your mom and dad.
Hugs for all of you.

My mom and dad said you are very welcome. Love to all

 

[akroberts1085]

My mom is giving me a recipe for the acorn flour. I thought it was roti flour. Roti flour can be purchased at a East Indy store. Mix 1 cup of roti flour with 1/2 cup of acorn flour add water until you get a nice stiff ball that will hold together. Let it sit for about an hour. Put a little roti flour on your work surface. Make little balls for the size of tortillas you prefer. Roll them out 1 at a time. Put some butter and garlic seasoning, roll it back up, and then roll it back out. Cook on a waffle iron or cast iron skillet.

 

[akroberts1085]

I'm wondering where I can purchase luffa seeds. I just checked online and they are 3.99, which isn't bad but they also want 3.99 for shipping. NOT

 

[Sally PB]

The stinky gross deep litter occurred in my first coop that had a plastic floor made from industrial pallets.

The deep litter I use in the duck coop (winter only) is on bare ground and doesn't stink at all.

The bare ground is the difference. It can drain/absorb moisture, and is a natural base to make compost happen.

I'm wondering where I can purchase luffa seeds. I just checked online and they are 3.99, which isn't bad but they also want 3.99 for shipping. NOT

I have found them in garden centers. The seed racks are MUCH better stocked nowadays than 10 years ago when all they had was the usual stuff. Now you find half a rack of, say, salad greens. Or pollinator garden flowers. They might not have the "full" selection out this time of year, but you could look. The garden centers get into low gear here in Jan/Feb when the garden catalogs are in the mail. By March, they are in full swing.

 

[Sueby]

I wish we had a basement here, I don’t have a way to store root vegetables for long as it’s too warm in the house.

Same.

Same. I'd love to put in a root cellar but the bedrock is 2 - 4ft down and we have a high water table. That's what you get living on the side of a ridge...

Same.
LOL!

@akroberts1085 that recipe sounds delish!

Rain for the next couple days so nothing happening here. I need to get chicken food & straw today. Can't wait to see what they're getting for a bale of straw this year.

 

[Dadanga]

LOVE Hoocho! I’ve learned a lot from watching his videos.

Yep I love watching his content, feel sorry for the bloke on his love life but he managed. I have to watch his latest flood and drain table setup as that looks kinda nice. I do my pucks like his and all my NFT type stuff is similar to his. I'm tempted to grow a dragonfruit with the same media he uses where he just waters them by hand with nutes.

That's what I thought. Although, with the LED shop lights, I could provide more daylight hours than a full sun out in the garden.

BTW, I got my 4 foot long LED shop lights on sale at Menards this past winter for less than $10.00 each. They work so much better than the old light bulbs I used to have, and at a fraction of the cost to run. All I did was to make sure the light spectrum on the LED shop light was within the growing range for the plants.

Or, you can buy "grow" lights for $80 each in the garden center that do the same thing.

I can tell from personal experience the green wisdom series off aliexpress run alright. I've wanted to try the strip lights in the past and run them around the middle/bottom. From what I hear the Samsung Qled strip lights are really good as well.

Today is Friday so I decided to mix the rest of my green fairy with a fresh bottle of midori and drown/purge my sorrows. I swear I have to get around to running water to the shed. Lots of pickaxing for the crossover so the bobcat doesn't demolish the vinidex pipe. Not sure how deep I'll go. Don't really want to go too deep since it's limestone (nobody got time for that) oh and there's some house auction on the street I might go to if I'm not too hungover. I swear the great thing about anti type medication is that I feel it clears your head real fast.

I wouldn't get lights from a garden center. Amazon is the way to go. 301H/B>2835s>281s? I think there's even newer diodes out now. I know Hoocho had trouble with leaf burn so the strip light approach might be the way to go.

 

[Dadanga]

Check this one out, you may find it interesting. However, you will have to search for more eps on You Tube if you get hook. I am on eps 26, this is a random 1-10 sponsor, you have to watch through eps one to understand the reincarnation plot.

From the look of that thumbnail that gives me vibes from one of my favorite RPGs growing up in FF8. Although, woulda been way better if Squall ended up with Quistis instead of Rinoa

 

[gtaus]

I know Hoocho had trouble with leaf burn so the strip light approach might be the way to go.

When I was starting plants in my 3 inch net cups, I had the LED shop lights only an inch or two above the cups. As the plants started to grow, I would raise the height of the LED light. The shop lights warm and soil only a tiny bit. I never saw any leaf burn. LED's produce very little heat.

 

[Dadanga]

When I was starting plants in my 3 inch net cups, I had the LED shop lights only an inch or two above the cups. As the plants started to grow, I would raise the height of the LED light. The shop lights warm and soil only a tiny bit. I never saw any leaf burn. LED's produce very little heat.

Yeah I made the move from HPS/CMH>QB a while ago. I got lucky with a purchase of some HLG 550v2 Rspecs secondhand. I've still got some tomato seedlings left so I might run them just to maybe compare hydroponic to the soil variety. But yes. changing over cut power bills in half, they really are a game changer.

 

[gtaus]

Just a quick cross-post from the thread Show Me Your Pallet Projects! Seems appropriate to add it to this thread as well to get a few more looks and maybe some comments....

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Somehow, I manage to do something useful every once in a while, that keeps me around. This year it was building some new pallet wood raised beds and adding a trellis system for Dear Wife to grow her bitter melons.

Each year I am adding a few more raised garden beds. I'm up to pallet wood raised garden bed version 2.0, with a few improvements over my version 1.0 from previous years. But I might be stuck on version 2.0 for a while because I have not thought of a way to improve it for my use.

If I have time before winter hits, I would like to build another 2 raised beds and get them ready for next spring.

For anyone not familiar with my pallet wood raised garden bed version 2.0, here is a picture of it...

The advantages to this new design is that I was able to use the 2X4 stretchers without cutting them. They made the top and bottom frame. Notice how the notches in the boards are facing each other. Not only do I think that looks nice, but the real benefit is that the 16-inch high boards behind it are nailed to the top and bottom of the strectchers and provide support for the entire 16 inches.

I went with 16 inches high because I can then use the circular saw method to cut off the pallet plants between the 2X4 stretcher. That's the fastest for me to break down a pallet. That usually gives me a cut plank pieces of 17-18 inches, which I trim down to 16 inches with squared off ends.

If you look closely, you will see that I use some 16 inch high 2X4 pieces in each corner to add more strength to the framing. Then I nail in the pallet planks to the inside of the frame using my powered brad nailer. That goes really fast. I don't need really big nails or screws because the soil inside the raised bed is pushing the plank pieces against the 2X4 framing, holding the boards in place even better. No sidewall blowouts in this design with the 2X4 framing on the outside.

The pallet wood was all free. I estimated that I used less that $2 in screws and brad nails for the build of each 4X4 foot raised bed. Anyways, that's my version 2.0 of my pallet wood raised beds. If anyone has improvement suggestions, I am always listening and learning. Thanks.