What did you do in the garden today?

[saysfaa]

..,working on the order from the seed catelog. .. Then, I will need decide if I really want to spend as much as I have picked out.

Well, it looks better if I divide it up. I mean, $24 is really not all thaaaat much for baby greens and microgreens if you consider how much a package of them is at the store. And several can be used as the crop of their category, not just for baby greens. And $9 for lettuces is less than four heads/bunches at the store, right? $9.24 is a bit much for radishes (the Hung Vit radishes in the microgreens section don't count at all here), but these perform well in warmer weather and are slow to get pithy and... ok, ok, we can use up the radish seeds we have (that, didn't ...actually ...get pithy how we used them and got overlooked when the other things came ready in the hot weather).

There, that looks a LOT better than $50 for salad greens which is really $40 because I took out the radishes (except Hung Vit stayed in because we aren't using it as a radish, don'cha know.) The other $5 is for mustard greens and salad burnet - but they are experimental so not really in the salad green category, exactly. Unless I need the experimental category to get smaller.

Shhhh, the water cress is an herb!!! Not a salad green.

 

[saysfaa]

Now, I only have the main crops, herbs, flowers, and experimentals to come to terms with.

 

[Sueby]

I dragged out the aeorgarden & planted some arugula, spinach, buttercrunch & some type of lettuce. I should have done this months ago, but between the flood, new floor & boiler replacement that room was a mess/torn apart.

Looks like we've got a couple inches of snow so far, supposed to turn to ice. Birds are hiding in the coop. Wusses.

 

[WthrLady]

I'm sure they are at least not as cold as they would be without all of your help and hard work to do what you can for them.

A woman out here brought her horses into her house, HER HOUSE. I'm sorry, as long as they're well fed, moving, have warm water and out of the wind, maybe a coat on, they're fine.
She will never get 5 days worth of horse wee out of her hardwood floors.

 

[WthrLady]

Out 3 times a day for livestock at about 30 minutes at a go. And usually a quick trip to grab the afternoon post or bring in the trash or recycling cans.

I can't even imagine how scary that would be. I hope you don't have to go back out for anything else until the weather is better

 

[akroberts1085]

My husband can make it to Springfield Oregon in about 6-6 1/2 hours from our house. He left yesterday to make his delivery in Wilsonville Oregon and that takes about 8 hours. For him to get to Springfield took him over 14 hours yesterday.

 

[WthrLady]

Here's the horse story..
https://www.1011now.com/2024/01/15/...ide-house-get-them-out-sub-zero-temperatures/

 

[akroberts1085]

Here's the horse story..
https://www.1011now.com/2024/01/15/...ide-house-get-them-out-sub-zero-temperatures/

That's insane.

 

[TJAnonymous]

They're beautiful, nice job!

Wow @Wee Farmer Sarah your new set up looks fantastic! Nice job. I bet you have some happy birds.

LOL, yea people get so into what they believe is right. If they only knew I don't change out my waterers all winter - just add to them till I don't need them heated anymore.

I follow a Quarter Horse girl in Tennessee - I've never seen a horse shiver but hers were & they had blankets on & were in the barn. I live in CT & when I had horses it was much colder & snowier here than it is now & I've never had a horse, in a barn with a blanket on, shiver. It's hard on animals that aren't used to it, I feel bad for you all getting crazy cold just out of the blue. At least here they're used to it & have thick coats & some stored up fat.

Same goes for people.... Living in the South has thinned my blood. (Figuratively, not literally...) I don't tolerate the cold as easily as I did living in the snow belt. This morning I watched a very fat, fluffy 7-month old doeling shiver and shake because of the cold. It was about - 5 below with the wind chill. Poor girl.... And yet I know there are lots of goats up North that would take that temperature like a champ and barely notice it. It's all relative to what you are used to....

 

[TJAnonymous]

Here's the horse story..
https://www.1011now.com/2024/01/15/...ide-house-get-them-out-sub-zero-temperatures/

About 15 yrs ago we were building a new house with a walkout basement. Major snow storm hit... And we didn't have a barn for our horses yet so I brought them into the unfinished basement to get them out of the weather. There were no floors, walls, etc for anything to soak into so it was all good.