What did you do in the garden today?

[Molpet]

is amaranth safe for chickens or it has to be baked first?

I have pigweed that grows wild. It's a relative of amaranth.
They eat the leaves and seeds raw

 

[TJAnonymous]

I've declared war on pokeweed this year.... Even to the point of using chemical herbicides. I'll start with 2-4 D but if that doesn't work, I *may* go to the extreme and use glyphosate on them... I have battled pokeweed for 5 years and it just keeps on spreading so clearly digging and pulling it up isn't working.

 

[jerryse]

I have been out fixing on the privacy fence. The wind did some damage the last few weeks.

 

[WthrLady]

Where are you where you are getting a burn like that already?

I'm a red head. I burn with LED lights seemingly lol. Ain't no way I'm recovering from that burn haha.

I got burned like that this past week in Nebrasaka. Sunny, light breeze, DRY air, and 75- plus our for 8 hours in the garden. It was glorious. I had on sunscreen, but forgot to reapply about 6 times over. This is on top of the sunburn I got two weeks ago on my neck and face plowing a foot of snow after the blizzard. LOL
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It's mulched and the herbs and strawberry plants are out. The horseradish and rhubarb are up about an inch.
Tomato seeds in the shed should be out soon. (of the soil)
Slowly but surely.

 

[dirkandlorie]

I started tomato and pepper seeds too early and had to up pot them. They couldn't stay in those little 4 inch pots any longer.

 

[Smokerbill]

I started tomato and pepper seeds too early and had to up pot them. They couldn't stay in those little 4 inch pots any longer.

I had to up pot my peppers twice. They're now in 5" square two quart pots. Should be big enough for them to remain in until June first. I planted the seeds in January because with the short hot part of summer here I wanted the pepper plants to be huge when they went into the garden.

They're starting to form buds for blooms now that I need to start pinching off.

 

[dirkandlorie]

Hope I don't have to do it again, the weather is just not cooperating. 3 nights of tornados and hellatious rains. We got 12 inches of rain in one of those nights!

 

[Ponypoor]

I've declared war on pokeweed this year.... Even to the point of using chemical herbicides. I'll start with 2-4 D but if that doesn't work, I *may* go to the extreme and use glyphosate on them... I have battled pokeweed for 5 years and it just keeps on spreading so clearly digging and pulling it up isn't working.

Have the same issue with Buttercups, golden rod and white clover in the horse paddocks. Keeping it cut down is impossible it grows so fast.

Only thing that works is Dicamba, this year I will spray again.

Today I worked on filling all the ruts in the sod that was plowed up when the snow was cleared so I could get to the barn. Hate when snow falls before the ground freezes, the insulates the ground from freezing and makes it hard to plow the snow back.

After 36 yrs of filling in ruts I am about fed up.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Have the same issue with Buttercups, golden rod and white clover in the horse paddocks. Keeping it cut down is impossible it grows so fast.

Only thing that works is Dicamba, this year I will spray again.

Today I worked on filling all the ruts in the sod that was plowed up when the snow was cleared so I could get to the barn. Hate when snow falls before the ground freezes, the insulates the ground from freezing and makes it hard to plow the snow back.

After 36 yrs of filling in ruts I am about fed up.

I also have problems with buttercup. I use 2-4 D on that too! I will be spraying the pasture as soon as it dries up from all this rain... 2-4 D is supposed to be safe for horses/livestock to graze afterwards

 

[TJAnonymous]

Hope I don't have to do it again, the weather is just not cooperating. 3 nights of tornados and hellatious rains. We got 12 inches of rain in one of those nights!

I'm glad I waited to sow sweet corn because that whole area is current under several inches of water and a rushing stream.