What did you do in the garden today?

[chickengr]

Yesterday, I shoveled the rest of the compost and build a raised bed and cut some wood, today, my body told me it needed a rest, you have to listen to your body
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A mulberry tree branch was reaching over into our garden, hubby was afraid the weight of it would damage the fence, so I cut it off

hubby is afraid, wife cuts trees. I think the whole world went upside down.

 

[Sally PB]

Does anyone take coop bedding(pine shavings) right from the coop to the garden? Currently compost it but also spread a bit directly to the garden.

I dig compost out of the chicken run in the spring; I'll be doing it soon. Then I clean out the coop and put all the shavings in the run and put new shavings in the coop. That way the coop shavings get a year to break down before they end up in the garden.

 

[igorsMistress]

Did a little cut and squirt on some brush trying to take over. Really short of breath lately. Trying to get an appoint with my cardiologist. I think I am in AFIB. Pulse 93 to 103 and oxygen 97 to 100. Efficiency must be low.

Take care of yourself and take it easy.

 

[Molpet]

Turns out one of the 'neighbors', about 3/4 of a mile over the hill has been feeding the wildlife for years. ALL the wildlife. I knew about the deer and the birds and squirrels, but she puts out nighttime feed for the nocturnals. Other neighbor says she has a huge number of raccoons the size of puppies show up to eat. UGH.
Well, this one wasn't afraid of people or noise or anything. And you can't have too many in one spot, so I figure it either was sick, or got run out of the area to find it's own territory. Guess she's down a raccoon.
UGH UGH UGH

That's a neighbor that I have too. They went to their cabin in Wisconsin, where they feed the bears, I can't imagine what those neighbors are going through.
Anyway when the food here ran out, the hungry hoard of predators descended on my poultry buffet. I was chasing a raccoon with a shovel middle of a sunny day. It was chasing a meat mutt hen and went to go by me when I wacked it. It looked at me asking why I did that. I got it to go up a tree and pew pew. Fat healthy looking male.
Since 2020 I have gotten 143 raccoons and about the same in opossums

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

I got my saddest garden bed amended with compost and sulfur today. Gave it a dose of the nematode soil drench. It's the last bed that has root knot nematodes. Hopefully I'm finished with it this year and only have to do a seasonal treatment from now on.

Compost came from the chicken run! My first year being able to pull from it.

Tomorrow I will plant stuff. Not sure what yet. Probably zucchini. Maybe popcorn.

Got my seedlings off of the ground. I'll be selling the excess in the coming weeks. All of these are extras.
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Except the two on the ground. Those are herbs and flowers.

Your seedlings look awesome! They are $6.00 here at our big box stores that sell Bonnie Bell. Yours look way better!

 

[MotherofOrpies]

hubby is afraid, wife cuts trees. I think the whole world went upside down.

We are an unusual couple, he likes talking about furniture and stuff like that, used to go a beautician ( until the kids came, and money was tight) and gets a hair cut every 4-6 weeks , I took industrial arts in high school and cut my hair by myself, every 6 months or so am used to handling a chain saw and fix as much as I can in our house
Did I mention hubby pierced a spray can when I asked him if he could open it, the spray can exploded over his work computer and kept on spraying until I removed it from his hand and threw it outside
I am afraid if he touches the chainsaw, he will either lose and arm or a leg every time I go away for a few days ( hospital, rehabilitation) when I come home he had broken at least one fixture, sometimes two, he isn’t patient and then uses force, which usually doesn’t end well

 

[dirkandlorie]

Doesn’t the vole eat the critters that eat your beets?

The vole burrows tunnels under the beets uprooting them, or if it tunnels a little deeper leaving no soil where the roots need to be. Either way, no beets. Unless I get that little bugger before it does too much damage!

 

[Grandmas Coop]

Yesterday:::
I am re- redoing where I put the compost bin the other day. And holy!cow when I moved the pallet away from the pile on the right , 4 rats came out and a fifth after moving the last one

Last evening:::
I looked into it closer and I do think these were Voles and not rats. They hardly had a tail and did have round ears

 

[Grandmas Coop]

Well, up and at um'
I have a indoor and outdoor list of chores for today and I need to go to costco.
I think I'll hit sprouts first and then costco since they dont open until 10, Lows is close so I want to check out the plant section. costco have a great price on bagged organic soul. I think I want to put squash in grow bags. I want to seed yellow, zucchini, acorn and pumpkin, I also have sponge gourd. So 5 more bags of soil.
Refill,


I'll set the grow bags on the west side of the compost bins

And when we get around to it after building a new wood shed and cutting all of next winters fire wood, we will put a green house here so we can have homegrown veg over winter

 

[Grandmas Coop]

Voles primarily eat plants. They like to feast on roots, tubers, or bulbs, which puts crops like onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes, turnips, and beets at risk. With the roots gone, plant tops collapse. Some voles also chew plants at the crown, causing the top to fall over.
BUT
if you are not seeing any good earth worms,,,,
Moles' favorite meal includes earthworms, grubs, snails, spiders, small animals, and other insects. Because moles require a lot of food for energy, they eat more than their one-pound body weight in food each day.