What did you do in the garden today?

[igorsMistress]

Oooh! How do these work?

Put them on top of a wide mouth jar and screw a band on to hold in place.

 

[Compost King]

Fascinating! Keep us posted!

Consider yourself posted lol.
I already broke it and its not even even assembled yet! I can tape it or buy a new one. This was actually busted the moment I got home and pulled it out of the van. It fell on the driveway and I picked it up without checking it. Just noticed it when I came in from closing the coops. $4 loss... I could just tape it since its just a humidity dome and not the tub that holds water. Depends on my mood tomorrow. since its on a corner and a chunk is missing I will probably just buy a new one.

 

[karenerwin]

Hi @igorsMistress things are really busy here with trying to settle my Mom's estate. Since I am the only one that lives in the same state that she did (out of her children) most of the grunt work has fallen to me. She has a 10 x 20 storage unit that is packed full. I did get permission from my brothers to donate all of her clothes. She has 4 wardrobe boxes and numerous plastic totes full. Today I went through 2 of the wardrobe boxes and 4 of the plastic totes.
She also has a very nice couch with recliners on both end and a huge solid wooden book case that none of us want or need. Goodwill isn't taking couches at this time. I've offered it to all of my kids (except the one in prison) and none of them need/want it. One brother is checking with his youngest and the other brother's 2 kids don't want/need it (plus they live in California and Maryland, so not really conducive to picking it up! ).
My middle child does want the book case and he had asked me to come down and go trout fishing with him (plus 2 of his kids have September birthdays and I want to deliver their gifts in person). So, my hubby and I loaded the book case into the van (it barely fit) and I will drive down there tomorrow ( 3 hours each way). Hopefully we will have enough time to get some fishing in as well! I may have to spend the night.

So any way, I've just been super busy and it's hard to find the time to get done what I need to get done, but I'm trying to balance that as best as I can. Thanks for thinking of me.

 

[NewBoots]

Thanks for thinking of me.

And thank you so much for updating us, go have some fun and spend the night.

 

[igorsMistress]

Hi @igorsMistress things are really busy here with trying to settle my Mom's estate. Since I am the only one that lives in the same state that she did (out of her children) most of the grunt work has fallen to me. She has a 10 x 20 storage unit that is packed full. I did get permission from my brothers to donate all of her clothes. She has 4 wardrobe boxes and numerous plastic totes full. Today I went through 2 of the wardrobe boxes and 4 of the plastic totes.
She also has a very nice couch with recliners on both end and a huge solid wooden book case that none of us want or need. Goodwill isn't taking couches at this time. I've offered it to all of my kids (except the one in prison) and none of them need/want it. One brother is checking with his youngest and the other brother's 2 kids don't want/need it (plus they live in California and Maryland, so not really conducive to picking it up! ).
My middle child does want the book case and he had asked me to come down and go trout fishing with him (plus 2 of his kids have September birthdays and I want to deliver their gifts in person). So, my hubby and I loaded the book case into the van (it barely fit) and I will drive down there tomorrow ( 3 hours each way). Hopefully we will have enough time to get some fishing in as well! I may have to spend the night.

So any way, I've just been super busy and it's hard to find the time to get done what I need to get done, but I'm trying to balance that as best as I can. Thanks for thinking of me.

Wow! You are a very busy lady, although I suspected as much. I’m so happy you’ll get to see the grandkids and your middle child though; be sure you make time to go fishing. A little fun and relaxation would do you good. Safe travels today and on your return home lady

 

[Sueby]

Oooh! How do these work?

I have one on the jar of fermenting peppers with a screw top lid over it (like igorsMistress said) & I haven't had to open it to 'burp' it, if you will. so kind of nice. I don't think fruit flies would be able to get in, but it seems they can be pretty resourceful! So far so good!

@karenerwin well enjoy that roadtrip & the kid & grandkids!

Absolutely nothing going on in the garden. I should water the tomatoes but we'll see, I'm planning on doing the salsa verde this weekend so watering is kind of a waste, I should pick instead. I'm done with the green beans, I picked a bunch last night for dinner & half had worms so I'm going to let the rest dry & save some seed for next year & call it a year.

Have a wonderful day.

 

[littledog]

Do not get discouraged when it smells really bad as you remove the fruit chunks and be prepared to deal with fruit flies. I used a coffee filter and rubber band to top my container and Fruit Flies managed to escape out of that. Not many. on occasion I would see one. Fly paper seems to do a good job of collecting them.

Or carnivorous plants? LOL.

 

[SheriD]

Pumpkins are ready to cut, doing that today. Still have tomatoes. Something is taking bites out of the last of our zucchinni-all other squash plants are dying or have died. I'm jealous of gardeners that are having a frost already. Here in very Southern CA, on the Mexican border- Zone 8b, we are still in the 90's plus. Adding onto the garden, starting that project today. 20 feet by 12 feet. Bought 5 T-posts for $22.57 at Tractor Supply- 6 foot tall. That will be our only expense. Moving already in place fences out and over, moving gate. We have pipe for moving water lines, we have concrete for fence posts. Will be wonderful for next Spring.

 

[igorsMistress]

Pumpkins are ready to cut, doing that today. Still have tomatoes. Something is taking bites out of the last of our zucchinni-all other squash plants are dying or have died. I'm jealous of gardeners that are having a frost already. Here in very Southern CA, on the Mexican border- Zone 8b, we are still in the 90's plus. Adding onto the garden, starting that project today. 20 feet by 12 feet. Bought 5 T-posts for $22.57 at Tractor Supply- 6 foot tall. That will be our only expense. Moving already in place fences out and over, moving gate. We have pipe for moving water lines, we have concrete for fence posts. Will be wonderful for next Spring.

I can relate, we’re still over 100• here every day. Getting kind of old, but we should have a mild winter so I can start the fall garden soon I hope.

 

[littledog]

I've been neglecting the garden - at first due to the smokey atmosphere, but we've had several days of good rain and the sky has a few patches of blue, so no more excuses.
I need to pick my basil and make pesto - it's amazing to me that a few weeks ago the basil patch looked so thin and sad, and now it's growing like crazy with some starting to go to seed! I did start to pick the other day and got one grocery bag full before it got too dark, boo for shorter days.
Also have to take a peek under my row covers and see what the cabbages are doing, probably inundated with weeds, but expect the row covers are keeping worms away.
I'm really happy with my dahlias, though - they are blooming like crazy and I have more varieties than I thought I did.
Still need to catch up on chores like raking up all the dead leaves and branches the windstorm brought, repairing the hole that a fallen branch made in the chicken yard roof, installing the gates I built for the garden, installing the pop door from the small chicken yard to the new big one. All stuff that went by the wayside when the fires came.
Oh well, here are some pictures - taken at the beginning of September, before the windstorm and fires.

The first dahlia to bloom, so pretty. Lots of others now, big purple and white ones and smaller purple ones, as well as more of this pink variety.

Sad and thin basil patch, which today is getting overgrown and beyond ready to harvest. Behind that are the cabbages under covers, then some of the dahlias (pre-bloom) then the arbor that the luffas are starting to crawl up on.

This is one of the luffas starting to climb, the tiny squashes are more recognizable as actual squashes now. Don't know if we'll get an actual harvest, but it's been a fun experiment and I know more for next year.

Here's the chicken yard we've been working on - you can see the 12'x7' dog kennel we started with, the small coop inside it. We roofed that part and extended the roof 5 more feet, built a 18'x 25' yard around it, used PVC and posts to support wire over the whole yard, and installed a rain-catching system off the roofed part.

The gates I built to enter the new large yard - it's like a "dutch door" with an upper and lower part. Mr. Dog suggested the solar lights on each side, so we know where we are if we need to go down there at night. The old horse trailer in the background on the right will eventually be their coop, then we can use the 12'x7' dog kennel for chick raising, broody hens or maybe raising meat birds.