What did you do in the garden today?

[Acre4Me]

pineapple are anti-inflammatory, eat them if you can.

Teen is going to get wisdom teeth out today. In prep, surgeon told her to drink pineapple juice for several days ahead and for several days after bc it helps with inflammation. We shall see.

 

[Sally PB]

We're getting snow now. They have toned down the 3-7" to 2-5" and that's fine by me.

50s next week. I'll be transplanting the kale and spinach from the green house into the garden. I have 50 pots of potting soil sitting in the green house, warming up. I need another 20-30 for all the starts I need to plant.

 

[jerryse]

just buy new plants. not a good idea to drive with your sore foot. your wife is right this time.

DW as decided to drive me.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

I also love your use of the cinderblock holes to plant in! Those are so great!

As someone who was born and raised in Oklahoma, I can appreciate your "Okra" statement. When we were kids our parents used to send us out to the side of the roads to harvest okra. Bleh. Mom... "Go pick weeds for dinner and get out of the house!" What a sham! Lol

We've got wild asparagus on our roadsides. Pretty funny when ya see a bunch of tough lookin motorcycle dudes gingerly filling their saddlebags with it.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Heavy rain out here tonight but when it dries we will till again.

I think that big rain cloud is headed eastward our way, we've got 2 inches of rain predicted for tomorrow, so I know my disappearing moat will reappear. I will be indoors, doing laundry with Lavender oil on the wool dryer balls (smells amazing), tending to & planting the zillion Spider plant babies my successful house plants keep producing, cleaning house & preparing eggs...wash & crate for market, hard boil for egg salad lunch & our own healthy snacks at work & pickling 4 large jars as we've wolfed down the last batch. I need to grow my own beets this year, I love pickling with them, what cool color pickled eggs they make. Delicious, too!

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Thank you all for identifying my flower. Now I'm going to have to go outside, squat down and give it a sniff to see if I can detect the lovely smell. LOL

Update: The hyacinth flowers smell pretty good.

I love the smell hyacinth & lilac, but my allergies really take a hit with those 2 plants. The purple ones hit me harder than the white ones, I read someplace when I was a kid that the purple color flowers have more of a particular protein in their pollen. I was trying to Google that info & didn't really find what I was seeking, but I came across other interesting little tidbits.
(Perfect reading material when stuck in a waiting room lol).

Easy for me to get sidetracked...why is that? ADD? Do I have a lack of concentration or is it because I find so many topics interestin! Yeah, that's it!!! Everything is interesting to me!

Look y'all, I sincerely apologize now ahead of time...you see how my brain jumps to a zillion things? Honest, I never intend to derail threads...it just happens.

https://www.marthastewart.com/8392821/hypoallergenic-flowers-for-garden-allergies

https://www.scienceworld.ca/resource/colour-call/

https://www.thoughtco.com/facts-about-pollen-373610

https://www.beeculture.com/bees-see-matters/#

 

[Liz Birdlover]

My husband and I compete with gas. One time we were driving to work together at 4am, he farted... instead of rolling his window down, he rolled mine down! It was 40 degrees outside and raining. LOL.


7 years later today, I blocked off the whole kitchen entry with a fart of ultimate power. It took 4 minutes to clear so he could walk to the car. Hehehehe.

Ah, the topic of farts...ya gotta laugh!

Let me share...
Ok, I've made many a bean stew in my life. One time, not sure why, I made a batch with various beans & ham & bacon. It tasted great, but let me tell ya...the rip roarin farts that it produced were mind boggling. That's a few years ago, when Dad lived with me. His bedroom & bathroom were at one end of the house, mine at the other. We had dueling farts! The whole house smelled like a fart factory! It was intense, to say the least. I had to open the windows & get fans running. Mind you...it was about 40 degrees outside at the time. As much as Dad & I both despise being cold, the aroma coming out of our butts, hitting our noses, definitely outweighed our dislike for freezing.

I had an entire crockpot of the bean stew. Not wanting to waste it, but realizing we certainly weren't going to eat it, and not wanting to wish this agony on anyone else, I decided to put it outside for the critters. I did this before I left for work. I noticed the foxes trot over, smell it, then trot on. Didn't appeal to them. I saw the skunk waddle over, take a whiff, then hurriedly scurry back under her favorite shed. Didn't appeal to her either. That surprised me...I figured Ms. Skunkarooni would surely enjoy something related to stinkiness emanating from a back end. Birds ignored it, too, even our nosy crows. Well, I had to leave for work at that point. Dad was drinking his coffee & the house was nice & warm, so he watched the bean stew pile with binoculars, as it was about 2 acres away, adjacent to the corn fields.

About an hour after I left, I was at work, & my cell phone rang. I couldn't answer as I was with customers, so it went to voice mail. Later on, I played the message. It was Dad. He left me a message that my favorite buzzard, the one I creatively named Buzz, showed up, checked out the stew, flew off, then flew back with about 30 other buzzards. They were enjoying the bean stew! At the end of his message, he says, "Well, Buzz & the boys love that stew...there's gonna be alot of fartin tonight!"

I was laughing out loud & played it 3 times, played it back for coworkers, too, a bunch of gnarly men at the lumberyard, all laughing. I saved that message, one of many from Dad, on my phone, & I play them every now & then, since he passed on. Some of those sweet messages bring tears to my eyes, I miss Dad so much. But that particular one still makes me laugh out loud. Dad had a way of making ya laugh so hard your stomach would hurt. I miss that so much.

 

[Sueby]

Morning. We have a bunch of rain on the way - they say 2-3 inches & it may start as snow/ice.

I'm headed out once the temps come up above freezing to plant the bare root strawberries. A friend is coming today to pull the older strawberries from the raised beds.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Last night it did get pretty cold here. This morning there was a layer of ice on top of the water by the bank. At the ATM, bundled in layers, I saw a pair of Mallard ducks, gleefully swimming, quacking & breaking the ice with beaks & flapping wings, diving down for delectable treats. Made me smile. They were having a blast, didn't mind the crisp air at all.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Pretty much the same here @Sueby. It was pretty nippy overnight. I need to uncover the strawberry plants. It’s still below freezing now but I’m looking forward to getting a little more work done outside. Tomorrow sounds like a good day to stay inside and bake bread. I’m hoping the weather cooperates and I can get the peas, potatoes and onions started next weekend.