What did you do in the garden today?

[pasdechat73]

As for his cooking. I do all the cooking anyway, he's just invited to join us. If he's not here or sleeps through a meal, he misses mom's cooking and is totally on his own, to include putting it together and cleaning up everything.

How very cool would that be @WthrLady 3D printer
looked at a few on Amazon not cheap

The cost is quite ridiculous.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Like our tire garden did get 12 1.7 cubic foot per bag for the remainder of what we need

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning gardeners. Hope you are all doing well. I haven't taken the sheet off the peach tree yet. It is still hovering in the 20's right now. At least the wind isn't blowing. My seedlings are all doing well. Still no sprouts among the peppers yet. I did get the poblano / ancho seeds in the mail yesterday. I'll be starting them today. I managed to get another 10 buckets of dirt moved into the garden yesterday. I may try to get some more moved today before the winter storm arrives tomorrow. After the snow event is over I'll get the plastic sheeting up on my hoop garden to get that bed warmed up. I will also be planting my peas in a few days. In response to Amazon Fresh @pasdechat73, absolutely not. You need to be close to a Whole Foods store and the nearest one is 45 miles away. All the grocery delivery services around here (within 30 miles) have closed down since the coronavirus hit. Even curbside service has been cancelled. I will most likely opt to get a yogurt maker from Amazon and just make my own. There are two dairies near here that have their own drop in shops. Finding sugar free, full fat Greek yogurt is challenging enough to find around here anyway. Compost piles @hysop, I have 3 separate piles. 1 for garden waste and ashes from my pellet stove, 2 for the chicken coop cleanings - 1 active and 1 "curing." I have a 2 compartment tumbler that I use for kitchen waste. They are placed near where their "food" comes from. The tumbler is near the front garden gate. Will be working on transplanting some of the larger seedlings today as well as trying to get whatever I can before we go on a total lockdown here. New York state and New Jersey are already on lockdown. Connecticut goes into lockdown tomorrow. Our Governor says he doesn't want to do that but he may have to. It's been a month since my last shopping spree, so here we go. Take care everyone. Stay healthy and have a great day.

 

[jerryse]

Chilly day here with snow coming . Bought a sheet of plywood to make swarm traps for honeybees . Makes 3 traps . Have the trap lure . I will buy the frames and foundation wax on my next farm store run . Going on the cheap for the bees . I still have a empty hive .

 

[Acre4Me]

Sunny this morning, then it will get cloudy with some rain this afternoon. Yesterday was cold and rainy/snowy (no accumulation). Need to get a walk in before cruddy weather returns.

One Asian Pear tree arrived. Replacement Asian Pear tree (for the one that was cancelled) arrives tomorrow. Bare root Strawberries were in the box too, so now we will have 4 types of strawberries to grow (including the two types from last year).

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

Keep it in your path of travel or near to the garden. We just built a 3-bin set-up. It will not be fully in swing until next year bc of needing to get decomposition in the current pile, etc. Ours is on the path we take to the chicken pen every morning. It is on the far side of the garden. It is mostly out of sight of the road. It is at the back of our property - where all the beds, chickens, etc are at. We have just about an acre, so the lot is rectangular/longer front to back.


Currently 2 bins are temporarily converted to rooster pens for the 2 younger cockerels that we need top keep away from the girls due to over mating. We want to show the males at fair, and we have a head cockerel (soon to be rooster) that has turned into a good flock leader and so far minds his manners with us. The pens need doors before we can put the males in there, and need to add roost bars.

 

[igorsMistress]

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.

I just made a pile in a corner of the yard and reassemble once in a while. The chickens tear it all down quite well.

 

[igorsMistress]

Good morning gardeners. Watering today, we only got half an inch of rain the other day and it doesn't drip through the shade cloth very well. Things are coming along, still no ginger. Have a great day all!

 

[WthrLady]

Yanked some pricker bushes out of the garden today. I'll do some more tomorrow, I think... the next thing on my list is the rosebush. Several years ago, we had a big bush of wild roses in the garden, growing near a window. The thing got pretty darn big, and we decided to move it -- or burn it, it's been years, so I can't remember very well. Anyway, it was disposed of... and it has now returned to take its vengeance. The thing just won't die, and it's spreading. It's covered in thorns, far more than even the immortal pricker bushes, and it pops up all over the place! To fully eradicate it, I think that I'll need to dig around and remove all the roots... fun.
Anyway, the battle continues tomorrow.
It will be long, tiring, and likely painful, but I will do my utmost best to not cuss at any time... no matter how deep the thorns prick.

BEST fastest way to kill it, is to decide you love it. Tell it you love it. Tell it its flowers are so lovely and fragrant you're going to take pictures of them and sell them, tell it it's being placed in the state fair, tell it you're going to plan a WHOLE garden area with it as the focal point. Let it watch you plan and plot the bed, watch you drive away to get more plants and stones and a fountain, and watch as you break your back planting that last bulb or cell pack.

Then it will drop dead.

 

[WthrLady]

The cost is quite ridiculous.

It is unless you have good use for it. He makes components for his computer system and drone that don't exist yet in the rest of the world. So single piece manufacturing makes it reasonable. You're right. They are not toys.

 

[WthrLady]

Chilly day here with snow coming . Bought a sheet of plywood to make swarm traps for honeybees . Makes 3 traps . Have the trap lure . I will buy the frames and foundation wax on my next farm store run . Going on the cheap for the bees . I still have a empty hive .

Did you buy lure?