What did you do in the garden today?

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Happy Mardi Gras! The really good news is the snow totals were downgraded to 1 to 3 inches. Yay. Likely not even shoveling worthy.

 

[jerryse]

We have had sunny days and more coming. I went to Menard's to get a bale of pro mix but they had none yet. So I bought a bag of potting mix. I also bought a packet of seed. They had just got in some fruit trees. Still wrapped on pallets.

 

[Sueby]

I have been battling mice. Bait works to some extent but there are still some mice. None in the house just in the garage and barn. Watching home remedies. Seems baking soda and flour are popular as is flour and plaster of Paris. I mixed some yesterday and again today. Trying both recipes. The mice ate some last night. Skeptical of home remedies but worth a try.

We battle them every day, all year long. It's so frustrating. We do a mix of everything from buckets to bait stations to those things that look like mazes. We find they learn them & avoid things after a while but the snap traps with peanut butter def catch the most. If they get shy with those we add a little seed to the pb & they can't resist. They rarely eat any poison here, but we put it out.

Heavy, wet snow - sticking to the fence so I can't even see the chicken coop. We've got maybe 4-5 inches so far. But DH is home & I got my snow day so cleanup will be easy enough. The girls are hole up in the covered run, I put out their flock block so they have something to do & they'll get a pile of leaves when I go out.

@TJAnonymous

 

[Insnesnakos]

All the hens are hiding today

 

[jerryse]

I added ground up sunflower seed to my mix to attract them to the bait.

 

[Sueby]

My birds ventured out & couldn't find their way back to the coop, DH had to go rescue the dummies.

 

[Insnesnakos]

My birds ventured out & couldn't find their way back to the coop, DH had to go rescue the dummies.
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No wonder they couldn't find their way back!

 

[WthrLady]

No wonder they couldn't find their way back!

That's us on a normal day, even without snow.

 

[Smokerbill]

A couple weeks ago I dug up my horseradish root. There were four crowns on the root that had small leaves growing out of them.

Yesterday I cut off the crowns and planted them in an out-of-the-way spot, in soil I amended with chicken compost.

Today I spread another layer of chicken compost around the perimeter of the planting area, then covered it with several inches of decomposed wood chips.

It'll be interesting to see how well it grows this summer. It's more of an ornamental planting, close to the road but in a location that won't matter if the horseradish becomes wildly invasive and spreads. LOL

 

[fuzzi]

I got my first fire ant sting of 2024.

We have four plastic planters that are a little too shallow for most crops, so last year after trying to grow beans in them I let them go fallow. They're currently growing weeds. I dug them out and tossed the clumps to the flock.

And was stung, I must have disturbed a not-so- dormant nest. Yikes.

Collards are looking good.