What did you do in the garden today?

[pennyJo1960]

Ours is alone but beside the barn we are building

 

[pasdechat73]

I don't need "tons" of stuff, but there are a few things I really need. I can't use milk products in my coffee so I need soy based coffee creamer and then there's yogurt, juice and flour. I can't buy these online unfortunately.

Hi there! Do you get Amazon Fresh in your area? We don't but my mom does and its been a god send for her. They might have these products in stock! Your peach cobbler sounds heavenly...I am so missing peaches and apricots!!!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Ah heck between wally, fred meyer and amazon is there a problem bigger than that ?

 

[pasdechat73]

I’m taking a sort break between hauling dirt. I’m worried because my peach tree is close to blooming. The lows the next 2 nights are forecasted to be in the 20’s. I think I need to cover it at night. I need to spray it as well. The apple trees aren’t near bloom yet so no worries there. Any advice?

The only trees we have blooming right now are our Cherry Blossoms. Everything else (like your apples) is slow to go, which is a good thing. That said, I don't know much about fruit trees but this has been a good resource for us: RESOURCES FOR HOME GARDENS.

I especially found this article helpful during the fall with fruit chilling tree requirements: Fruit Chilling Tree Requirement.

 

[WthrLady]

Where do you all place your compost bins/piles?

I barely started composting last year and did it in 5 gal buckets (only did 2) and that worked out, but this year I want to make a larger pile but can’t decide where to place it permanently. Going to try to do the three slot compost pile with pallets.

I have a lot of land, but I also can’t place it too far away or I will definitely neglect it.

Mine is behind the barn so I don't have to look at it, or smell it, but it's near the pens.

 

[hysop]

Mine is behind the barn so I don't have to look at it, or smell it, but it's near the pens.

Hmm maybe I’ll place it behind the cow barn. Thanks for that idea! Their barn already smells of cow so compost smell won’t make much of a difference.

 

[BReeder!]

Sounds like plan @Wee Farmer Sarah .

DH loaded 60 gallons worth of alpaca manure for me and I hauled it down to a neighbor's acreage and into her dormant bed. She was so excited. We've all been inside if you get that excited about a mountain of poop. Alpacas are prolific poopers.

I dug all dozen tree holes. I am amazed that the ground isn't frozen at all. It is nice a soft for digging. The girls even helped rid the dirt pile of worms, so thoughtful. I went down about 15 inches. I'll take the transplant shovel to them next week and make them a bit deeper. Then I'll mix some of the old dirt with compost and alpaca manure and put in the holes when the trees get here. Which reminds me. I need to get some more steel T-posts from the feed store to stake these babies up! Next decent weather day, I'll work on the irrigation lines to each tree and just let them lay loose until each is planted and then attach them to the stakes for later watering.

Managed to get the coop clean. My rooster had 4 inch spurs and today he had line one inch ones. Anyone else have a rooster that trimmed his own spurs down?? Weird birds.

Son helped outside for awhile, trimming down cedar trees. They're invasive here and grow feet in a year. I loathe them. We cut them to the ground and let them dry out. Then when we burn the fields, they go up like a match. Lots of oil in them.

OK. Campus laundry load #3 going. Need to start dinner.
Have a good day all.

Spurs can fall off I believe. Old growth can drop off and a new spur formed underneath (inside the old one basically) is revealed.

 

[BReeder!]

OK. The boy is home and his stuff is piled in my studio space. He has two days to put it all away so I don't have to look at it or walk around it. Threats have been made if he doesn't keep things clean and dusted. I am not a maid.

OK. Campus laundry load #3 going. Need to start dinner.

The irony... Not a maid, but doing his laundry and cooking his dinner.

 

[pasdechat73]

The irony... Not a maid, but doing his laundry and cooking his dinner.

OMG. This is how I feel right now...two home...and perhaps two months to go

 

[pasdechat73]

Spurs can fall off I believe. Old growth can drop off and a new spur formed underneath (inside the old one basically) is revealed.

I'm such a dork but I bk'd this a while back about spurs: ROOSTER SPURS