Galadriel the chicken. She has earned "live with us till dead" status. She is calmer and tolerates attention better than our cat.
DP and I have an agreement that each of us can pick one hen each that gets a free pass. And Galadriel is lovely. And how funny that she was less concerned with being alone than the chance to scarf clover!
My bee mentor came over this evening (Monday) and we opened the hive together. She was impressed at how mellow the bees are and with how vigorous they are too!
Grats on your success with the bees! And do post picks again once those sunflowers bloom! Your bees should love them! Our jerusalem artichokes should bloom soon too, I'll post pics once they do, they look just like sunflowers.
I grow morning glory on my dog pen fence & was bummed when NONE came back this year! I didn't collect & dry any pods last year because it always just seeds itself - well I guess not always!
I love morning glories, we planted a bunch of mixed kinds along the side back fence. And yeah, I thought they'd always reseed themselves'
@Sueby snails with teeth and that bleed acid? I sure hope not!
Hehe, we get some pretty impressive snails here but none of those so far.
@NightingaleJen, good luck with your bush beans, I don't seem to have much luck with them myself. I might try pole beans next time.
Bougainvillea, rosemary in the bottom left corner of the pic.
Love that bougainvillea!
The humidity is making my eyelids sweat.
Made me laugh. And best of luck on that storm!
...That said, five-gallon buckets. Is there anything they can't do?
That's another thing you can't have too many of! I'm going to have to make a list.
Good day gardeners, we got about 3 inches of rain in the last few days and it's overcast now. Got the potted plants fertilized yesterday and finally planted that poor tray of pop corn plants. The roots had all grown together in the tray (blush). The stones I got out of the plot were amazing. I tied a lettuce in the coop some time back and no one was interested but the kale is a complete success. I pulled up the spinach since it never really grew and then all of it started to bolt. The rabbits and chickens were all cool with that and happy to do their parts. Looks like some of my tomatoes have that danged viral wilt. I should probably rip them out but it's so hard to do it. At the least, I'll note the varieties and avoid them in the future.
And I've discovered something about cooking beets, they taste better after a night in the fridge. I didn't really care for them at all before I started growing them myself, that "earthy" flavor turned me off. So the first time I cooked them I used a fancy complicated recipe. It was good but took a lot of work, so this time I just cubed them, roasted them then finished them in balsamic vinegar, sugar, and orange juice. But I'd cooked so much food that day we didn't eat any, so in the fridge they went. We had them last night and they were great!
Cupcake the rabbit is likely to have her babies today or tonight, she's big as a house so hopefully a big litter. Gave her some bunny candy (fresh clover) and we'll see.
And then this:
This is a gift from the wife of the guy who built our coop and run. Gonna hang it in the coop!
We have tons of cucumbers and tomatoes.
