What did you do in the garden today?

[TropicalBabies]

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I can’t remember if I posted pictures of the wild violet jelly or not. I made it Saturday night. I really like how it looks and how it tastes!

SOOOO COOOL!!!!

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning gardeners. That was one heck of a storm that went through New England. One of the weather people described it as a tropical style storm with the winds and rain coming in bands. I feel fortunate since a lot of areas had large trees uprooted and power outages. The plastic sheeting on my hoop garden bed got blown around quite a bit but it's still clinging on to the arches. Will be doing a little clean up out there today. One of my azalea bushes in the front yard is starting to bloom, nice. Next week is still looking good to start planting. The lows will be above freezing and the highs in mid to high 50's. I'm just hoping for better weather since I have so much work outside ahead of me. I can't imagine why your artichokes aren't doing well @AllenK RGV . Perhaps it's the soil composition? I hope you figure that out. Have a great day everyone.

 

[Reedo5]

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I can’t remember if I posted pictures of the wild violet jelly or not. I made it Saturday night. I really like how it looks and how it tastes!

Ive never herd of wild violets or wold vilote jam what to they look like an hows it tast??

 

[WthrLady]

16 degrees this morning.
was slammed with mask orders last night. My shop sold out in 25 minutes. I've been sewing ALL day. Crossing fingers my elastic order comes today.

 

[pennyJo1960]

@WthrLady Quiz is it elastic thread I have a spool of it my Mother left... She handed me a
tool organizer tons of small plastic drawers that was in it ..PM me your address I will send it

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning gardeners Sunny another day ground shows drying actually got my
yard swings cushions out they are looking nice again

 

[TropicalBabies]

Aloha garden gang!
We are under a state wide flash flood watch today. It looks like West Kauai will just have high clouds w/ the sun peeking through already this morning. Our alfalfa is hopefully going to be cut today... and hopefully dried.

I pulled off all of the stapled bags on the front of coops and did a big disinfecting clean yesterday, got half of the boxes re-stuffed with fresh dried grass, so lovely.
I cut new grass from pasture last eve and have it drying in the cloud cover. If the girls will quit playing with it, it will go into their boxes . Tis the season for mites so I will skip the shredded paper, I have had a few friends say that they are experiencing problems already. So trying to be proactive. I also grabbed another barrel of mulch for todays run fun.

My little grey chick Storm looks to be a pullet- so Stormy, still suffers from separation anxiety but is doing very well with pal pullet Dusty.

Just a bit more coop keeping today and i'll feel good. May go trim the monster hedge and weed eat if clouds stay friendly. I have a few more orchid blooms and the last garden plantings are doing good. Except for the ones the chickens are running over ... deep sigh***

Have a great day all!!!!

 

[igorsMistress]

Good afternoon gardeners. Not much gardening here, still just maintaining what's out there. Will harvest more artichokes in a day or two. We've decided to downsize the flock, going to process the meat bird mixes and maybe sell the chicks on craigslist. I'm tired of killing chickens to be honest. We'll need the mini coop by fall for our new bunny.

Once we process the meaties we will FINALLY stake the corners for the garden and get the foundation in so the flock can work the bed until fall. Igor has arthritis and needs knee surgery so things move slowly sometimes. Oh well, no reason to hurry really.

 

[FortCluck]

I harvested some butter lettuce today we had burrito bowls for dinner.

 

[AllenK RGV]

I found a source for my Green Globes at a nursery 20 minutes away. They are only selling through their gate so going to set 5 each into their own 10 gallon root pouch and dig and divide them next year after they fruit out(require a cooling period to set flowers and ya eat those buds). They also grow out to impressive dimensions and are used in some locations as garden accent plants. Also going to buy/set in another purple passion flower.

In other news I worked about 4 hours outdoors rolling out a "Texas Welcome Mat" for my neighbor's dog. Basically large prickly pears at the 2 ingress points it has made under my fence. And still working on the secondary Prickly pear line in that recently cleared and soon to be new garden for things that can tolerate our full Texas sun namely artichokes, corn, potatoes, onions in winter, carrots in winter among other crops. I mean hey the land needs to be cleared anyway and the fencing is free. Here are a few photos of my work:



The white staked out areas are my actual property line vs where the fence is set. I'm not trying to be tacky just there is a German idiom "Good fences make good neighbors."