What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

Managed to get all by 5 orchard trees fertilized and mulched. For that, I need to scoop more poop and haul old hay from stalls. Tomorrow maybe.

I manged to clean the whole barn, move the training corral/pen to the outdoor corral, cleaned the winter tank and installed the summer tank, move straw to the garden (didn't get it spread), checked the beehive (I'll move it down to the pasture in the middle of April), open the chicken house and aired out the whole flock.

I'm stuck here waiting for the plumber tomorrow, so tomorrow I'll spread straw, see if I can dig some holes.

Nice out, but very, very wet.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Lot's of flooding there glad your place is pretty safe

 

[WthrLady]

We're good. Thanks.

 

[cavemanrich]

checked the beehive (I'll move it down to the pasture in the middle of April),

I'm not a beekeeper or expert on bees, but wanted to share what a friend that keeps bees once told me.
You can move a hive 3 feet, or 3 miles. Anything different and bees do not find their way home. When you move a hive to other section of your yard, the bees are still looking for their hive at their original location. When you move a hive 3 miles, the bees see a new landscape, and adapt to it and remember their home location that they just left out of.
This is based on the thinking that bees do not venture over 3 miles, so new area is not one they would be able to recognize from previous flights.
Have you moved your hives in the past???
It may also be dependent on the type of bees. He was buying some quite expensive queens from a supplier in Russia. (yes the former USSR)

 

[WthrLady]

I'm not a beekeeper or expert on bees, but wanted to share what a friend that keeps bees once told me.
You can move a hive 3 feet, or 3 miles. Anything different and bees do not find their way home. When you move a hive to other section of your yard, the bees are still looking for their hive at their original location. When you move a hive 3 miles, the bees see a new landscape, and adapt to it and remember their home location that they just left out of.
This is based on the thinking that bees do not venture over 3 miles, so new area is not one they would be able to recognize from previous flights.
Have you moved your hives in the past???
It may also be dependent on the type of bees. He was buying some quite expensive queens from a supplier in Russia. (yes the former USSR)

Thanks. I know that. It's a new empty hive. No one is home yet to get lost. they come at the end of April, but thank you.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

We're good. Thanks.

Good to know you are OK. They show video of the flooding around your area on the news and it looks really bad.

 

[WthrLady]

Historic. The scope is worse than 93, or 2011. Thousands of homes underwater. Farms and livestock washed away. Towns, big ones, under water. Businesses gone. Major roads destroyed , and the gravel roads and bridges washed out. Wells compromised , septic and sewage lagoons topped. Water restrictions.

Jusst amazing the scope of it.

 

[Acre4Me]

Got my peppers and tomato seeds planted yesterday. We are trying 9 kinds of peppers, and 3 kinds of tomatoes. Last year our tomatoes were terrible...bad yields, rotting on vine before ripe, etc. So, this year we plan to construct 2 brand new raised beds in the sunniest (longest hours in the sun) spot in our yard. This is where these plants will go, along with any other tomatoes we purchase.

Thinking about sowing some pea seeds for green manure. Let them grow a bit, then turn them under in May before planting the fruit and veg.

Need to decide on a new location for the compost piles, along with the location for the meat chicken pen.

Need to decide on location for five Raspberry bushes, and a fig tree that we ordered.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Historic. The scope is worse than 93, or 2011. Thousands of homes underwater. Farms and livestock washed away. Towns, big ones, under water. Businesses gone. Major roads destroyed , and the gravel roads and bridges washed out. Wells compromised , septic and sewage lagoons topped. Water restrictions.

Jusst amazing the scope of it.

California is in that also from fires a large part of several states have been demolished

 

[igorsMistress]

Hi @AngieMaesChix. Last Spring and summer (my first year here in this house) I observed what grew up in the pre-existing gardens. I had two overgrown house eating shrubs removed from the front of the house. This year I know what else is getting removed or heavily pruned back. I don't spend too much time on flowers, I prefer to work on the vegetable gardens. I chose to build raised beds because I'm already old and raised beds are easier to maintain especially for seniors. I have 4 - 4ft x 8 ft beds and 1 round 4ft bed. I will be adding one 3ft x 4ft bed for leeks and three large containers for potatoes and carrots. I either froze or canned my harvest from last year and most of that is gone except for a few more pounds of butternut squash, some pickles and a lot of tomato sauce. Oh, I still have jalapeno and poblano peppers in the freezer as well. Yum! I'm hoping to process more vegetables that will see me through next winter. I really don't like the produce from the grocery stores. So many recalls for e coli, listeria and salmonella not my favorite side dish. Here's the vegetable garden from last year. I prefer my own home grown eggs as well. I like to know where my food comes from. The shed in this picture is the potting shed. No chickens allowed in this part of the yard.
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Beautiful!