What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

My DH gets ticked about my egg shell, coffee ground & banana peel saving, but I get more ticked if he tosses it in the trash! I found a place to set them so he doesn't notice them now. Why is he not on board with practical recycling & repurposing?

Ah...he's a good guy, he just gets upset with clutter on the counter...I get it.

I try to recycle as much as possible here. I save most of my cardboard to use as weed barrier in the garden. DH used to get mad that it was piling up in the garage but now I have a she-shed so out of sight, out of mind. I also have a stoneware compost jar in the kitchen for veggie scraps, banana peels, coffee grinds, etc. I don't even allow milk to be wasted. Ours ends up expired more than I care to admit. So I dump it in the garden or compost.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

This is Penny and now I'm wondering if her name needs to be Petey! Anyone who might know the difference between a pullet and a Cockerel.
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I've got one of those Roo or Hen types, too...sure looks Roosterish, but acts like a Hen & does not even attempt to crow & is a super wimp. The last time I was gifted a bird like this, she was a game mix, looked very Rooster-like, but that one laid eggs. This black chicken...no eggs & no crowing...yet, anyway. I do think it's a Roo...just a late bloomer maybe? What do ya think?

 

[TillyPeeps]

I try to recycle as much as possible here. I save most of my cardboard to use as weed barrier in the garden. DH used to get mad that it was piling up in the garage but now I have a she-shed so out of sight, out of mind. I also have a stoneware compost jar in the kitchen for veggie scraps, banana peels, coffee grinds, etc. I don't even allow milk to be wasted. Ours ends up expired more than I care to admit. So I dump it in the garden or compost.

Same here Ever since I started Bokashi composting, I even went further: meat, small bones, cheese, pasta, chicken feathers... Everything goes to compost bin!

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Today...I garden!!! Yippeeee!!!

This is a pleasing view already this morning. Grow little sprouts!

 

[Smokerbill]

My DH gets ticked about my egg shell, coffee ground & banana peel saving, but I get more ticked if he tosses it in the trash! I found a place to set them so he doesn't notice them now. Why is he not on board with practical recycling & repurposing?

Ah...he's a good guy, he just gets upset with clutter on the counter...I get it.

My eggshell collection, over a quart of crushed shells in the bag. I think I've trained my chickens to eat those reconstituted oyster/coral crumbles I bought last year by mixing them with eggshells.

 

[Minanora]

My tomatoes are flowering...

Collected a bunch of lettuce tonight to make chicken cesear salad for dinner.

Anyone else finish your spring rush to get everything planted and then afterwards you feel anxious because there's nothing to do but wait? I keep prowling the garden like 3x a day because I'm sure there's SOMETHING I forgot to do...

I am having this problem.

Radishes are up, all three colors of California poppy are sprouting, almost all of the corn is up, beans are starting to sprout.

It got to 76 yesterday then it got windy and got down to 39 last night. Everything seems ok in the garden.

My son had enough time before school to go check on the chickens with me. Sadly he found one of our 13 week old pullets dead on the coop floor. No injury, no sickness, just died in the night. Seems like it's always the "favorite" chicken that passes away. She was a sweet thing.

 

[jerryse]

I've got one of those Roo or Hen types, too...sure looks Roosterish, but acts like a Hen & does not even attempt to crow & is a super wimp. The last time I was gifted a bird like this, she was a game mix, looked very Rooster-like, but that one laid eggs. This black chicken...no eggs & no crowing...yet, anyway. I do think it's a Roo...just a late bloomer maybe? What do ya think?
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hen.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I've got one of those Roo or Hen types, too...sure looks Roosterish, but acts like a Hen & does not even attempt to crow & is a super wimp. The last time I was gifted a bird like this, she was a game mix, looked very Rooster-like, but that one laid eggs. This black chicken...no eggs & no crowing...yet, anyway. I do think it's a Roo...just a late bloomer maybe? What do ya think?
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She doesn't seem to have any saddle feathers so I'd say it's likely a late bloomer hen.

 

[TJAnonymous]

My task list while I wait for stuff to grow....




Fast forward a few months, I'll be wondering why I thought gardening was a relaxing, fun hobby....

 

[pennyJo1960]

No saddle feathers it is a hen.