What did you do in the garden today?

[Molpet]

I wanted to dig my garlic yesterday but unexpectedly had to go out of town. Nothing bad but it still took all day. We had a storm last night and getting more rain now.

The garlic is a soft neck with outer leaves brown and starting to flop over.

I've only grown garlic a few times.

Should I try to dig with the ground wet and lay it near a fan or should I leave it 2-3 more days to let the ground dry a bit?

https://awaytogarden.com/the-tricky-matter-of-when-to-harvest-garlic/

 

[pennyJo1960]

Going to do fresh chard salad from the garden tonight first one.

 

[igorsMistress]

Darn nutsedge has the double whammy...spreading bulbs under the ground...
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And the darn seeds spread by the wind
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I have zero weeds in the backyard, chickens are amazing!

 

[Smokerbill]

I picked 6 big red Russian kale leaves this morning. Chopped and wilted them in breakfast sausage grease and ate with four fried eggs for breakfast.

And last night I had a salad of the red merlot leaf lettuce I got as a free packet from Baker Creek. It was a little on the bitter side, but that's ok with me.

 

[jerryse]

Harvesting turnip seed today. Shoigoin variety. I use a 55 gallon plastic barrel and beat the seed stalks back and forth. All that are ready shatter. I stack the stalks on a tarp to do again when dry enough to shatter the rest.
On hard to kill plants when all else fails I use Tordon stump killer I get at FS.

 

[igorsMistress]

G’morning all. We are headed into triple digits on the regular now. Watered the grass while it was still dark but cool and pleasant outside. After a quick trip to the dog park I put shade over the melons for the hottest part of the day. The beds I added all the coop bedding to are settling a LOT, like they’re only half full now. I keep watering them to encourage decomp and pull the baby palm trees that keep sprouting in them. Put a cage around the jalapeño plant as it was leaning pretty bad and moved it to where it’ll get some shade later in the day. Attila is broody again and I’m leaving her to do her thing. I’ll candle a few eggs next week and see if anything is happening. Stormy and Lucky are growing like weeds and starting to integrate with the older birds more. When Elvis calls out that there are treats they’re starting to show up and they’ll hang out under the tree in the afternoon too.

 

[jerryse]

@jerryse
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Well, goats don't eat deer and rabbits........but goats and rabbits also eat poison ivy

My poor wording.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

I have zero weeds in the backyard, chickens are amazing!

I guess my chickens are spoiled, they only go for the chick weed.

 

[jerryse]

On Sedges I have yellow nutsedge here. At the cabin I have Pennsylvania sedge. A better behaved sedge IMO. I found large patches of it in the woods where enough light got in. I considered it as a grass substitute. However by the time the building of the cabin was done I needed something in a hurry on bare ground. Grass was the quickest. Sedge looked like a grass that stayed kind of short in a seasonal property that gets mowed infrequently.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

I had to google snakeweed. just to find out I've got tons of it.

Are you talking about the one with yellow or white flowers?

The yellow flowered one, I don't think we have it here in the mid Atlantic but I could be wrong. We have so many weeds with yellow flowers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutierrezia_sarothrae
https://plants.usda.gov/DocumentLibrary/plantguide/pdf/cs_gusa2.pdf

We've got a white flowered one but it's also called snake root.
https://www.allianceforthebay.org/2...llinator-pleasing-pant-with-a-nefarious-past/