What did you do in the garden today?

[jerryse]

Cloudy, windy and rain. Fruit trees are trying to bloom. 2 trees shipped Friday. Should arrive this week.

 

[WthrLady]

I'm going to bite the bullet and buy a freeze dryer this year. I have so much food(eta: Garden food) to put up every year.... plus the eggs.... I think it's time.

(eta: JARS ARE EXPENSIVE NOW!! UGGH... I can't just be like " oh I'll just buy 60+ more jars this year.... Nope... our yields are too high, storage space too little, and I need.... less work.)

Get the one you don't have to change the oil. What a pain the the BUTT

 

[MotherofOrpies]

Pulled more nettles, scrubbed down one of our deck chairs, the chickens have used them for roosting for the last 11 years, temp. is up to 75

 

[WthrLady]

fed the tomato starts
The only other thing up are the pincushion flowers, and the zinnias, oh and coreopsis...so far
Howling winds yesterday over 60mph, howling near 40 mph today.
Storms yesterday behaved, only .3 inches of rain, but that means one day of not having to water grass seed.
Eclipse is 85% for us, 99% for us last time. I'm good with that. I'm not fighting the nutters for a space to watch it get dark for a few minutes. People are going nuts with switching travel plans to try to chase that shadow without clouds. God speed.

 

[igorsMistress]

Trimmed a bunch of new growth on the lemon tree, moved some piles of dried branches into a wood frame. I’m going to add my next bucket of kitchen scraps to it, cover with shredded yard clippings, dirt and then some wire to keep the chickens out of it and compost right in the spot I’m going to plant in. The aloes and the other succulents are blooming, and the dragon fruit have a bunch of shoots. Next weekend we’ll run the shredder and work on the pile of trimmings from earlier in the year.

 

[fuzzi]

Trimmed a bunch of new growth on the lemon tree, moved some piles of dried branches into a wood frame. I’m going to add my next bucket of kitchen scraps to it, cover with shredded yard clippings, dirt and then some wire to keep the chickens out of it and compost right in the spot I’m going to plant in. The aloes and the other succulents are blooming, and the dragon fruit have a bunch of shoots. Next weekend we’ll run the shredder and work on the pile of trimmings from earlier in the year.
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What's the pool for, chickens?

 

[igorsMistress]

What's the pool for, chickens?

Yes, it gets extremely hot here in summer so I take a block of ice out daily to help them cool off. They can sip the water as it melts and stand in it. They get a mud puddle too, but the pool is pretty popular.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

I did some adjusting to my garden plan. Then I started 6 cells of sugar beets. Just finished making butter and putting sourdough into bread pans for its final rise.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Welp, I got my seeds started today inside. On the heat mats in their own personal greenhouses.

 

[Sally PB]

Has anyone ever started purple coneflower from seed? I have yet to see anything, and I planted them nearly a month ago.

Ditto with New England Aster, but that packet said 21-45 days. The packet said they were "Pre-stratified," so I didn't put them in the fridge for 6 weeks. I hope they were right about that.