What did you do in the garden today?

[SkyAJK]

Garden today for me is to clean up a bit, mowed the lawn last week and a few drops of rain recent seeing they all growing tall and seeding again...grrrrr

I have this image in my head that my house is in perfect cleaning order, all meals are cooked, garden look tidy and I am happilly listening to my Hotel California song while sewing my various sewing projects..elastic pant, apron, tea towels..etc...nice image.

 

[jxp]

Happy new years everyone, 12 seconds into 2026.

Do you follow a different calendar or are you on Heaven's time where a day is as a thousand years?

 

[Eagle343]

Everyday is a second, 365 seconds in a year, or some such.

 

[dirkandlorie]

Snow coming tomorrow night, so got as much composting done as possible before the snow buries everything. (Really its cuz its so much nicer to work when the sun is shining, instead of the cold.) Got my path from the coop to the compost pile weeded, then got distracted and played ball with the dog. Maybe a little ADD, but it was fun. Still trying to get the Xmas decorations down, but again... It was so much more fun playing with the dog. Lol

 

[chickengr]

Any luck catching it?

unfortunately nothing came back. probably my dogs scared it. fox usually kills all then takes one. probably my dogs scared it. I guess it was a fox. guinea fowl's coop was at the far end of my property. my guarding dog died, another one is old, another one is young and stupid and 2 puppies are too young and I keep them locked up at night. I don't want them to learn to go to the village as my others do. I need to fix my fence before I let them out and there is too much work to do as both dogs and goats damaged it.

 

[chickengr]

Is it just me, or does it seem like there's been a huge uptake in allergies in the last few decades? When I was growing up it seemed almost nobody had allergies, now it seems like everyone does.

I agree.

I still eat home grown and home made food, no allergies. no industrial drinks allowed here. I don't know if that makes a difference.

 

[chickengr]

It thinknits directly correlated to the increase in medical availability, treatment options, testing and affordability.

I was horribly allergic to every thing as a kid in the early 70s, miserable and sick all the time, but that was before EVERYONE had insurance and the treatment was sudafed and benadryl only. And that may have been to 80s for those. We bought it over the counter 500 pills at a time for about 20$.

Now there's testing for the specific what and multiple families of meds and classes of meds.

when I was in kindergarten (about 300 kids) only 1 or 2 suffered from allergies. the same kindergarten today and the number significantly increased. pollution and industrial foods and drinks as well.

 

[chickengr]

I am with your view @TJAnonymous

Many things around us all have chemicals. Many health reports say that such chemical is below the limit so it is not harmful. The many things we use/eat in a day all add up to the harmful amount.

I suddenly become allergic to many things these last few years.

Awhile back it was on the news that backyard chickens people are at risk of lead contamination from eating their backyard chicken egg because the soil in our backyard are contaminated with lead.
Some people have their soil tested and found that to be the case, they end up grow vegetables in a garden bed with soil they got from the garden shop. I wonder about those soil as well.

Then some people's garden vegetables all died off, it turned out the mulch they got was sprayed with chemical and so...etc..

We might live a sick long life, we have the medical to keep us alive, but not healthy or we might avoid some ill health.

that's why I use aged manure from a pastured herd. unfortunately not available to everyone.

 

[chickengr]

Happy new years everyone, 12 seconds into 2026. trying to decide on any additional seeds to pick up for this year, I sill have a decent amount of seed from last year. I keep on thinking about getting chickens, doubt it will be this year, mushrooms most likely this year.

are you an old calendar orthodox christian? happy new year.

 

[Minanora]

I checked on the garden today. The peas are blooming, yay! Things are starting to grow again. Will plant more carrots this weekend. More beets as well. Almost time to start seeds!