What did you do in the garden today?

[lazy gardener]

Got home in time to pick a few peppers and pull some eggs...

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That pic belongs on a calendar.

 

[User395221]

probably by that varmint that ate my garden or possibly by deer.

luckily the only plant-eaters here are chooks and snails and other bugs. i don't know whether 'varmints' would eat salvias.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Ugh, there was a squirrel out on our deck today, i guess the hickory nuts are irresistible. We have seen very few since we moved to this state.
I just planted a packet of cabbage seeds and a packet of spinach seeds. Hope to plant more later when it gets shady there.
I think i will cart more tools to the shed and set up my compressor to make that cage i built a frame for.

 

[GardenTillers44]

That pic belongs on a calendar.

Thanks! That bowl will be filled with fresh peach/pepper salsa tonight. If it turns out, I'll post the recipe.

 

[GardenTillers44]

Ugh, there was a squirrel out on our deck today, i guess the hickory nuts are irresistible. We have seen very few since we moved to this state.

Living in a hardwood forest, we are overrun with squirrels. Our home is a log cabin and they are sytematically eating it. I hear them at the crack of dawn gnawing on the porch posts and railings trying to wear down their teeth. We have some nice iron skillets and I may have to look in my LL Bean cookbook for squirrel recipes.

 

[chickmom3941]

Nice! I have been trying to get some cheap perennials at the garden center clearance areas. I got some phlox, coral bells, day lillies, hosta, black eyed Susans, Echinacea, and a couple others i can't recall right now. The last two have been chewed to bits, probably by that varmint that ate my garden or possibly by deer. None of them care how close they are to the house!

Nice haul! Do you have a specific perennial bed you're going to put them all in, or are you spreading them out throughout the yard? Did you ever figure out what is eating all your plants? That must be so frustrating!

 

[chickmom3941]

Living in a hardwood forest, we are overrun with squirrels. Our home is a log cabin and they are sytematically eating it. I hear them at the crack of dawn gnawing on the porch posts and railings trying to wear down their teeth. We have some nice iron skillets and I may have to look in my LL Bean cookbook for squirrel recipes.

Uh oh - sounds like an animal version of "The Birds" (Alfred Hitchcock). We have a lot of squirrels gleaning the walnuts off our tree, and I was just marveling how many were running to and fro in our yard, but they're sure not chewing on our house like the ones in your area. Yeah, better get your fry pan ready!

 

[lazy gardener]

Squirrel stew is on my bucket list.

I spent part of the morning continuing to rip out the west end flower garden. Have an other mound of weeds. A lot of witch grass, so it will be put on top of the burn pile, not in the chicken run.

I forked over some of the DL in the chicken run. I've noticed that they go to bed with their crops simply bulging. I give them their FF in the morning, and they have usually finished it by early afternoon. They are finding lots of good eats in the DL run. Every fork full is loaded with worms of all color and size. And there are lots of tender little green sprouts. I was thinking of cooking some old meat from the freezer for them. No need right now. They are getting lots of animal protein in their run. Amazing to stand in a chicken run, surrounded by chickens, and all I smell is fragrant healthy soil.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have had it fried and bar b cued in stew with eggs Wisconsin child before Washington state

 

[CapricornFarm]

Nice haul! Do you have a specific perennial bed you're going to put them all in, or are you spreading them out throughout the yard? Did you ever figure out what is eating all your plants? That must be so frustrating!

I have a huge area in front of the house inside the circular driveway where the bushes and flowers are going. There are separate areas around 3 trees. The areas in between them will eventually get some veggies, maybe after i fence it in.
No, i have never seen the critter than eats my plants. It is frustrating. But i just keep on keeping on. I may even enclose the raised beds in HC. And i want to do at least one with shower doors.