What did you do in the garden today?

[Reedo5]

How do you keep your chickens out of your garden?

I last yr ended up breakin down an made a big fenced in area for my garden an berry bushes

 

[Reedo5]

Morning everyone, Well we went from beautiful weekend her in western Ny to yesterday snow... an in the 20s°. But on the plus side i got those seeds started i posted earlier, an i was also able to get some sulfer mixed in with the holes i prepped for my blueberry bushes, im gonna give it a week or little more an test the PH in them. As for today low 30s still lil snow on the ground an over cast. Have great day everyone ill be gettin back on here an there im on daddy daycare today while the wife works then we switch tomar shes off an im back into work for the week.
@withrlady sorry to here about your bees ive always been intrested in starting a hive but thats the part that worries me!

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning gardeners. I guess Mother Nature thought she was helping by filling my new garden bed with - SNOW! Nearly 5 inches of heavy wet snow. I shoveled 3 inches of it to lock up the chickens last night, but it never got below 32F and is supposed to be in low 50's today, so melt away! My azaleas are budding out and my roses are getting leaves. I got an email from Gurney's letting me know my lingonberries have shipped. I hope the snow melts before they get here. LOL! I had planned to take a break and go to the closest grocery store this morning, but there's no way I'm shoveling the driveway. I'll do that tomorrow. I didn't sleep all that well last night since the Town snowplow brigade started clearing our little dead end street at 1:30 am. I did get my laundry done yesterday and cleaned (hopefully for the last time this season) my pellet stove. Not much planned for the day. I may start re-potting some of my seedlings and there's always my poor bulging African Violet that is about ready to jump out of it's current pot. I hope your husband is doing better @karenerwin. So sorry for the loss of the bees @WthrLady. I heard that when a queen bee dies, another bee assumes that role. Is that just a myth? I can't keep bees but I despair when I hear about bee colonies failing. Because when they are all gone, we're next. Have a great day everyone and stay healthy.

 

[Theeggorthechicken]

I last yr ended up breakin down an made a big fenced in area for my garden an berry bushes

I want to fence in my garden as well.

 

[FortCluck]

Im just waiting on my seeds to get here

 

[WthrLady]

Good morning gardeners. I guess Mother Nature thought she was helping by filling my new garden bed with - SNOW! Nearly 5 inches of heavy wet snow. I shoveled 3 inches of it to lock up the chickens last night, but it never got below 32F and is supposed to be in low 50's today, so melt away! My azaleas are budding out and my roses are getting leaves. I got an email from Gurney's letting me know my lingonberries have shipped. I hope the snow melts before they get here. LOL! I had planned to take a break and go to the closest grocery store this morning, but there's no way I'm shoveling the driveway. I'll do that tomorrow. I didn't sleep all that well last night since the Town snowplow brigade started clearing our little dead end street at 1:30 am. I did get my laundry done yesterday and cleaned (hopefully for the last time this season) my pellet stove. Not much planned for the day. I may start re-potting some of my seedlings and there's always my poor bulging African Violet that is about ready to jump out of it's current pot. I hope your husband is doing better @karenerwin. So sorry for the loss of the bees @WthrLady. I heard that when a queen bee dies, another bee assumes that role. Is that just a myth? I can't keep bees but I despair when I hear about bee colonies failing. Because when they are all gone, we're next. Have a great day everyone and stay healthy.

Bees aren't our only pollinators. But to loose livestock, any livestock, makes me ill.

NOT quite sure I LOST them all yet. SO I took the ones from the bottom floor of the hive that were quite obviously belly up. There were 5 separate clusters (small) on different combs that didn't move or vibrate at all when warmed up. Three did and I left them in the hive. But last night I wondered if the ones that didn't warm up really were just in some seriously deep hibernation. SO I brought them inside and into a paper sack.

YUP. Dh texted me this morning about blah blah blah why is there a bag of pissed of bees in the house...blah blah blah.....

I asked him where he keeps HIS random bags of bees. I told him he is technically at work and isn't here during the day, and he has NO idea what oddities happen here during the day...to just go back in his office. I also then asked him if he had seen my box of scorpions. He smirked and went back into his office.

OK so two of the clusters were in deep hibernation. I'll return them to the rest of the colony when it warms up today and add some more thermal mass to their hive.

If there's a drone anywhere in there, with out the queen in there, they should make a new one. Cross fingers. (She was most definitely dead.)

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Bees aren't our only pollinators. But to loose livestock, any livestock, makes me ill.

NOT quite sure I LOST them all yet. SO I took the ones from the bottom floor of the hive that were quite obviously belly up. There were 5 separate clusters (small) on different combs that didn't move or vibrate at all when warmed up. Three did and I left them in the hive. But last night I wondered if the ones that didn't warm up really were just in some seriously deep hibernation. SO I brought them inside and into a paper sack.

YUP. Dh texted me this morning about blah blah blah why is there a bag of pissed of bees in the house...blah blah blah.....

I asked him where he keeps HIS random bags of bees. I told him he is technically at work and isn't here during the day, and he has NO idea what oddities happen here during the day...to just go back in his office. I also then asked him if he had seen my box of scorpions. He smirked and went back into his office.

OK so two of the clusters were in deep hibernation. I'll return them to the rest of the colony when it warms up today and add some more thermal mass to their hive.

If there's a drone anywhere in there, with out the queen in there, they should make a new one. Cross fingers. (She was most definitely dead.)

 

[Reedo5]

I want to fence in my garden as well.

Here is few pics of min, i wanna go bigger so i can add an have room for a small orchard of fruit trees an bee hives in the future..... its gonna be a lifetime project. Hahaha But my goal is to have the veggie garden, berry bushes, fruit trees an bee hives in one big fenced in area. Me an the wifey have 4 kiddos an i want it to be something they can enjoy growing up around it an remember later in there life an bring there kiddos to come an enjoy. This is all hypothetical considering our oldest is 9 hahaha but as for right now the oldest two enjoy it so far.

 

[WthrLady]

Here is few pics of min, i wanna go bigger so i can add an have room for a small orchard of fruit trees an bee hives in the future..... its gonna be a lifetime project. Hahaha But my goal is to have the veggie garden, berry bushes, fruit trees an bee hives in one big fenced in area. Me an the wifey have 4 kiddos an i want it to be something they can enjoy growing up around it an remember later in there life an bring there kiddos to come an enjoy. This is all hypothetical considering our oldest is 9 hahaha but as for right now the oldest two enjoy it so far.

Lovely. If you get the chance a toprail between posts will help keep them spread and your fence tight.


Apple trees coming tomorrow. So depending on WHEN, I have a whole day outside with a WHOLE bunch of trees, manure, compost and irrigation line. Sounds heavenly, eh?

 

[BReeder!]

Good morning gardeners. I guess Mother Nature thought she was helping by filling my new garden bed with - SNOW! Nearly 5 inches of heavy wet snow. I shoveled 3 inches of it to lock up the chickens last night, but it never got below 32F and is supposed to be in low 50's today, so melt away! My azaleas are budding out and my roses are getting leaves. I got an email from Gurney's letting me know my lingonberries have shipped. I hope the snow melts before they get here. LOL! I had planned to take a break and go to the closest grocery store this morning, but there's no way I'm shoveling the driveway. I'll do that tomorrow. I didn't sleep all that well last night since the Town snowplow brigade started clearing our little dead end street at 1:30 am. I did get my laundry done yesterday and cleaned (hopefully for the last time this season) my pellet stove. Not much planned for the day. I may start re-potting some of my seedlings and there's always my poor bulging African Violet that is about ready to jump out of it's current pot. I hope your husband is doing better @karenerwin. So sorry for the loss of the bees @WthrLady. I heard that when a queen bee dies, another bee assumes that role. Is that just a myth? I can't keep bees but I despair when I hear about bee colonies failing. Because when they are all gone, we're next. Have a great day everyone and stay healthy.

50s and you're done using the pellet stove for the season? I need to heat my house until we get 60s steadily. And even then the heat might come on at night. I don't do cold.