What did you do in the garden today?

[pennyJo1960]

Okay fast version, Made cookies.. Cleaned the coops .. Directed BF last light in the kitchen going in today .. real well lighted

 

[karenerwin]

The food is moved. The poo is moved. The hens got to go out today despite 30 mph winds. We made it to 57 and we'll have snow tonight.
The bees have been out playing and doing their 'bring out the dead' all day. I'll put their rain cover on tonight AFTER they've gone to bed.

The lumber for the new hive is all cut. I'll start assembling it tomorrow.
I hung the dough trough on the wall and will be tossing out my trusty giant wood kneading board. It warped terribly and now I can't keep it on the counter properly. Guess I'll have to add making a new one to my list of rainy day projects.

THink tomorrow I'll peek at the seed starting greenhouse and see what needs done in there soon.

Are you making another top bar hive? Are you going to split the hive you have or try to capture a swarm or order some bees?

 

[karenerwin]

Aloha kakahiaka gardeners!
Today the sun is burning through our high level clouds and temps are a perfect 75 degrees @9:30am. It is a spectacular day- no complaints. Had mom over for pancakes and eggs and fresh squeezed OJ.
I plan to work on the deck a little more in between laundry and the rotating door of visiting cousins, kids and friends. DH leaves for Oahu with MIL tomorrow morning. I will have 3 days solo
I hope to squeeze some time in to play in my garden pulling my asparagus, planting onions and clearing potting tables. Would like to do some more propagation in step with spring.

@cavemanrich the little hen and her brood seem to have adopted us, as in they wont leave lol. I think I will trap some of the mango flock and relocate them to the thinned out pasture flock.... at least some of the up and coming nice looking roos should go. We have over 40 surviving chicks and 15-20 healthy juveniles compared to the 3 of the pasture flock. Too much- too little.
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Have an awesome day all!!!

Why are you pulling your asparagus? Did you decide to replace it with something else?
I guess you haven't caught any of the wild dogs (again) yet or we would have heard about it.
I'm jealous of your horses!

 

[karenerwin]

@BReeder! I'm not sure what part of Illinois you are in, but I am about an hour west of St. Louis. I always try to plant out my garden early but the last 2 years the garden has been pretty much flooded out by all the Spring rain! Some varieties of plants I had to toss and go buy new because they were so water logged.
Even so, I will probably try again this year! Or maybe not, we do have a wedding to attend in New Jersey on May 17th and we will be driving there and back ( hubby doesn't want to do airports). So maybe I will just get a late start this year and plant after we get back home.

 

[WthrLady]

Are you making another top bar hive? Are you going to split the hive you have or try to capture a swarm or order some bees?

I am. I've put the swarming box up hoping they'll swarm to it this spring. If not, I will split them.

 

[BReeder!]

@BReeder! I'm not sure what part of Illinois you are in, but I am about an hour west of St. Louis. I always try to plant out my garden early but the last 2 years the garden has been pretty much flooded out by all the Spring rain! Some varieties of plants I had to toss and go buy new because they were so water logged.
Even so, I will probably try again this year! Or maybe not, we do have a wedding to attend in New Jersey on May 17th and we will be driving there and back ( hubby doesn't want to do airports). So maybe I will just get a late start this year and plant after we get back home.

I'm just southwest of Chicago (45 miles from the Loop). I also try to plant early, but had to replant many things that died off in a frost or seeds rotted in the cool, wet soil. I've decided this year I'm going to start several things indoors and then plant outdoors the weekend closest to May 1st (May 2nd and 3rd is that weekend this year). Depending on the weather I may move up the direct sow seeds a week or two, but I'll have to check the forecast as we get into April.

 

[BReeder!]

https://weather.com/safety/floods/news/2020-02-16-south-record-wet-winter-more-rain-ahead Best of luck to those of you in the South. It looks like its wet and about to get wetter.

 

[Farmdog267]

Busy weekend here. I work for a John Deere dealer with 5 locations and we had 2 spots in the local home show so most of my weekend was spent there. Did manage to get some seeds from tractor supply today.

The company who installed our roof last month will be installing a new front door on our house tomorrow, so I'm home all day for that. What better time than to work on enlarging the vegetable garden.

Picked up my supplies today so I can get started and be home most of the day. Hopefully the Daytona 500 doesn't get rained out again.

 

[Farmdog267]

@BReeder! I'm not sure what part of Illinois you are in, but I am about an hour west of St. Louis.
Even so, I will probably try again this year! Or maybe not, we do have a wedding to attend in New Jersey on May 17th and we will be driving there and back ( hubby doesn't want to do airports). So maybe I will just get a late start this year and plant after we get back home.

What area in NJ are you headed towards? You'll likely be close to my neck of the woods when you pass through Pa. lots of nice spring growth at that time of the year.

 

[BReeder!]

I have two small buckets like a gallon size I put potato in them when bought
like the ones from Costco they would spoil before I got to use them in the bags
in the open bucket they never spoil but do sprout eyes

I may try this as an experiment. I am going to grab some purple potatoes for sure from our produce store. They always have a wide variety of potatoes. I'll put those in an open bucket and see what happens. I wonder if it's something to do with an airborne chemical like CO2, oxygen or Nitrogen that triggers them to sprout well in the buckets for you.