What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

Another 2 gallons of 'not quite ripe' tomatoes out of the garden. It really wants fed. I will do that tonight when it cools off.

I just spent an hour hosing off the alpacas. It's 90 degrees with a dewpoint of 76. Ya. It's gross.

A nice round of miracle grow tonight. I can't believe its almost the middle of September and the tomatoes are still going ! OC we were late, and it's been nice and rainy and warm. Usually July/August stresses out the plants so badly they yellow, and start to give up the first 58 degree night in september. NOTHING beats real rain water, I swear. SO much less stressful than watering and amending the soil all summer.

 

[chickmom3941]

Another 2 gallons of 'not quite ripe' tomatoes out of the garden. It really wants fed. I will do that tonight when it cools off.

I just spent an hour hosing off the alpacas. It's 90 degrees with a dewpoint of 76. Ya. It's gross.

A nice round of miracle grow tonight. I can't believe its almost the middle of September and the tomatoes are still going ! OC we were late, and it's been nice and rainy and warm. Usually July/August stresses out the plants so badly they yellow, and start to give up the first 58 degree night in september. NOTHING beats real rain water, I swear. SO much less stressful than watering and amending the soil all summer.

Hi! Sorry for my ignorance, but what do you do with your alpacas, if you don't mind me asking? Are they pets, or do you use their wool (is that what you call it?), or what? How many do you have? Our neighbor who lives down the road from us has some llamas, but I'm afraid I don't know very much about those sorts of animals. Just curious...

 

[WthrLady]

Hi! Sorry for my ignorance, but what do you do with your alpacas, if you don't mind me asking? Are they pets, or do you use their wool (is that what you call it?), or what? How many do you have? Our neighbor who lives down the road from us has some llamas, but I'm afraid I don't know very much about those sorts of animals. Just curious...

Pets with benefits. LOL. They have names and we don't eat the meat. Some ranchers do. We shear every mother's day, weather permitting and send the fleeces off to the fiber mill to be made into yarn and cloud. I sell the yarn, and we use the cloud to make the padding ballet dancers use in their toe shoes for on pointe dancing. (no sticky lanolin like sheeps wool) We sell it all through the etsy shop, which is currently sold out, but will open again in October.

The goobers are great fun. They only spit at each other, occasionally I get caught in one of their spit fights, but it's nothing a shower can't handle.

We have 6 boys. No one wants boys, as you only need one per a million females to make and sell babies. So I have all boys. They wrestle, spit, and fight, like all boys, but not as much as if there was a girl within smelling distance. They're adorable, curious, have amazing memories, and are as dumb as logs.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Oops! Somehow, I ended up with 2 of the same pic - lol. I'm not very good at posting pics and things like that, can you tell? Anyway, here are most of our peppers from the greenhouse. We usually sort them by color, chop them up and freeze them. Then I can use whatever color I want according to what I'm making. They usually last through the winter, till we can start growing them again...

Haha - well, now neither full size pic is showing, just a small little pic. Yeah, told you I don't know what I'm doing!

When you make the message upload a file it will have a place to choose as thumbnail or full image ?

We made it home cleaned my coop need to do a big clean in silkie land they get it about 3 times a year others with dirt floor can go just twice a year burgers 50 x 50 we call them beef and sausage used fry my sprouts in peanut butter so will have them tonight

 

[Acre4Me]

grilled garden peppers and grilled garden squash for dinner, yum!

 

[karenerwin]

Spent all day at the hospital with my mom. Got there at 5 AM left at 9 PM. Her surgery ended up being more extensive than they thought and she was/is in such pain that she could not stand. So that earned her an overnight stay in the hospital and then she has to go to the rehab part of the assisted living place until she can walk with her walker again and generally get around.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I am so sorry she had the pain This is what came from the garden

 

[Sueby]

I hope she feels better soon @karenerwin

I want to meet an alpaca! There is a farm/mill around here I want to visit called Six Paca Farm, they do lots of neat alpaca stuff.

I didn't even step into the garden last night.

 

[chickmom3941]

Pets with benefits. LOL. They have names and we don't eat the meat. Some ranchers do. We shear every mother's day, weather permitting and send the fleeces off to the fiber mill to be made into yarn and cloud. I sell the yarn, and we use the cloud to make the padding ballet dancers use in their toe shoes for on pointe dancing. (no sticky lanolin like sheeps wool) We sell it all through the etsy shop, which is currently sold out, but will open again in October.

The goobers are great fun. They only spit at each other, occasionally I get caught in one of their spit fights, but it's nothing a shower can't handle.

We have 6 boys. No one wants boys, as you only need one per a million females to make and sell babies. So I have all boys. They wrestle, spit, and fight, like all boys, but not as much as if there was a girl within smelling distance. They're adorable, curious, have amazing memories, and are as dumb as logs.

They sound fun! How much land do you need to keep them? We only have 5 acres, so not sure if we could keep animals like that, although I have often wanted to have more than just our dog, cats and chickens. If they are around crops, flowers, and shrubs, will they eat them?

 

[chickmom3941]

karenerwin - So sorry to hear about your mom. Hope she gets feeling better soon.

Acre4Me - Looks good! Grilled food is so yummy.

penny1960 - Thanks for the instructions on loading pics, maybe it will work better next time. We are also in the process of cleaning the coop/winter coop preparations. Getting ready to bring a fresh bale of straw into their winter pen (attached to their coop). The girls love to snuggle into it when it's cold out.

LOL - last night when the girls were trying to go in to roost for the night, instead they kept going into the pen and then coming back out (they have to go into the pen to reach the flap door that leads to their coop). They seemed quite upset. So I went out to see what the problem was, and found that Hubs had closed the flap door while cleaning earlier, and forgot to open it again. The ladies were beside themselves, as they couldn't get into the coop and it was starting to get dark! When I opened the flap for them, they immediately filed into the coop and got up on their roost, the whole time being quite vocal while "discussing" their traumatic experience.