What did you do in the garden today?

[cj2024]

I bought some miniature white and red potatoes from Walmart the other day and notice that some of the red potatoes were chitin, so I saved 8 of them and boiled the rest.

I will try growing them in Bato buckets with perlite mixed with coarse vermiculite which is similar to what this lady did in her video. However, the main difference between my Bato bucket and her container is it's 3 times smaller and the depth of the Bato bucket is only 8 inches. This is significant because water can only wick up to 7 inches.

My goal is to grow miniature potato in a two-month time frame. This will be a game changer because the perlite/vermiculite mix is very light and easy to work with.

 

[Smokerbill]

When I cleared the leaves and compost layer off of one of my raised beds a couple weeks ago to plant beets I saw loads of tiny, crawling worm like things. I finally got some pics today and identified them as some type of millipede. Good for the garden since they feed mainly on decaying matter. They are barely a half-inch long.

 

[MotherofOrpies]

Getting old sucks, yesterday, I helped a neighbor dig up some seedlings of ours and cut some bushes, today, my shoulders were yelling at me, don’t do stuff like that again I was expecting trouble like that in my 70, but mid fifties

 

[akroberts1085]

Getting old sucks, yesterday, I helped a neighbor dig up some seedlings of ours and cut some bushes, today, my shoulders were yelling at me, don’t do stuff like that again I was expecting trouble like that in my 70, but mid fifties

I feel ya there. I was just doing a mild amount of digging with a shovel and OMG. My shoulder and arms were toast. Mid fifties for me too.

 

[akroberts1085]

I managed to get some of the dandelions in the front yard put in the big raised bed with the potatoes. Rain doesn't want to be here or not so I might try tilling up the area for my corn and beans. I forgot to add the big metal bed has some squash coming up.

 

[Sally PB]

I haven't transferred the pictures from my phone yet, but I worked in the garden today!

The ground is still frozen, but the top 1/8-1/4 inch is thawed. I took out a hoe and topped off some weeds. I put them in a bucket and gave them to the chickens.

I didn't get the roots, so I didn't kill them, but I slowed them down!

 

[WthrLady]

Thunderstorms here today and tomorrow. Here is a bit of a gripe. I notice lots of choices anymore but a shortage of original. I cannot do spicey hot. Original is always sold out. Kroger is bad at not restocking until the hot stuff sells. I like pork rinds for a low carb snack as I am diabetic. Local IGA nothing but hot. Kroger is hit or miss. My favorite French onion dip is often sold out but plenty of hot. This often makes me have to go further to a Walmart which I do not do often.

your Kroger manager will do a customer convenience order if you ask them. If it is from a company they already order from, that is.
They order it, and the next time the distributor comes to load the shelves they pull yours and put them aside.

 

[WthrLady]

60 degrees and I did morning barn chores in shorts and a t shirt with a light jacket, 6pm and we've had two hours of ice and sleet and now zero visibility snow with 60 mph winds.
HA!

 

[WthrLady]

Getting old sucks, yesterday, I helped a neighbor dig up some seedlings of ours and cut some bushes, today, my shoulders were yelling at me, don’t do stuff like that again I was expecting trouble like that in my 70, but mid fifties

I pulled my SCM muscle (the large one that goes from your jaw to your collarbone) reaching for the hair conditioner on the top shelf of the shower. It's a great age.

 

[Nym]

I will have to get some stuff for them. For now I'm dealing with waking up with tension/sinuses almost every morning.

Try a salt inhaler.

edit (adding more infor on pc.)

I Tested the Salt Range Nasal Inhaler: Here’s Why It’s My Go-To for Clear Sinuses and Stress Relief​

Worth a try.