What did you do in the garden today?

Lots of work to till a large area. The idea is a good one..as weeds sprout, then they get tilled under. we have used straw before as mulch. We did buy the Standlee straw at TSC - "noxious weed free" this is true, but there is still grass that will sprout, so just be prepared for that. Depending on your source for the straw, you might have grass or other things sprout from the straw.

You will enjoy the garden space next year!
Grass sprouting from straw doesn't sound fun. Perhaps I should let it rot after all. I could stack the bales next to each other and the may compost in place over the winter. I doubt they would compost enough to not be usable as mulch, but possibly enough to kill off the seeds. Otherwise, I will just end up with more grass in the garden... it send to make its way in there anyway thanks to my lazy lawn keeping habits. I tend to avoid weed wacking so the grass along the garden fence gets tall and sprouts seeds. I'll need to make weed wacking a part of my routine in the Spring as well.
 
We had a frost a few weeks ago. Killed off the green beans, tomatoes and zucchini. The green peppers got a bit of damage but are still trying to grow. The jalapeno and habanero peppers both made it through! My hubby made one mini green house from some of the bus windows that came out of our friend's bus that is parked on our property. He put that one over the jalapeno pepper. I told him I want him to make the 2nd one tomorrow (since he hasn't done it the last 2 days) because Thursday night is suppose to get down to 33 degrees.
I have about half (or close to) of my Mom's storage unit cleaned out. A friend is meeting me there tomorrow after she gets off work to look at the bed to see if she wants it. If not, then the lady we gave the couch to said she would like to have it. Today I donated all of her medical supplies (walker, wheelchair, shower chair, ted hose ....) and her prescription eyeglasses, 3 more big boxes of clothes, and gave several of her coats (to my niece). So we helped out 3 charities and my niece! Once the bed is gone I will be able to get to the stuff at the back of the storage unit.
I still need to figure out how to find out which of her jewelry has value (so my brothers and I can split it up equitably). I think that even some of the older costume jewelry has value but I'm not sure.
I think I am going to pull the zucchini and the tomatoes tomorrow.
I did cut the basil back almost to the ground and then dried out what I cut. I still have 5 or 6 bags full of Romas in the freezer waiting for me to get around to them. As well as 8 meat chickens that are happily living out their lives well past the 8 week mark. I think I got them in March or April (if I remember correctly 😂 :lau)but I haven't heard any complaints from them.
We are seriously knocking around the idea of finding a place with more land (10+ acres) and a smaller house and then selling our house (2.2 acres and a 5 bedroom house). My only 2 complaints about our current place is that the super steep and long driveway will probably cause 1 of us to fall and break a hip eventually and that the house is way more than we need for the 2 of us! I hate the idea of leaving behind all of the fruit trees and bushes that I have been planting over the past few years. Plus all of the work we have done putting up all the cattle panel fencing. Plus my hubby doesn't think the chicken coops will be a selling feature! :lau Or all of the fences.
On a separate note, I donated several baskets of canned jams, jellies, salsas and pickles to a friend's fundraising event to raise money for Spirit Strides ( a therapeutic horse riding place) and they brought in around $200!
Well, I'm headed to bed. Good night!
 
Good morning gardeners. I’m picking names for my AC chicks, a cockerel and pullet. Here are my name choices, what would you pick?

Donny and Marie
Jem and Scout
Richard and Karen (carpenter)
Bart and Lisa

So far Bart and Lisa are the front runners.
I like Jem and Scout. To Kill a Mockingbird is one of my favorite books- and movie
 
We had a frost a few weeks ago. Killed off the green beans, tomatoes and zucchini. The green peppers got a bit of damage but are still trying to grow. The jalapeno and habanero peppers both made it through! My hubby made one mini green house from some of the bus windows that came out of our friend's bus that is parked on our property. He put that one over the jalapeno pepper. I told him I want him to make the 2nd one tomorrow (since he hasn't done it the last 2 days) because Thursday night is suppose to get down to 33 degrees.
I have about half (or close to) of my Mom's storage unit cleaned out. A friend is meeting me there tomorrow after she gets off work to look at the bed to see if she wants it. If not, then the lady we gave the couch to said she would like to have it. Today I donated all of her medical supplies (walker, wheelchair, shower chair, ted hose ....) and her prescription eyeglasses, 3 more big boxes of clothes, and gave several of her coats (to my niece). So we helped out 3 charities and my niece! Once the bed is gone I will be able to get to the stuff at the back of the storage unit.
I still need to figure out how to find out which of her jewelry has value (so my brothers and I can split it up equitably). I think that even some of the older costume jewelry has value but I'm not sure.
I think I am going to pull the zucchini and the tomatoes tomorrow.
I did cut the basil back almost to the ground and then dried out what I cut. I still have 5 or 6 bags full of Romas in the freezer waiting for me to get around to them. As well as 8 meat chickens that are happily living out their lives well past the 8 week mark. I think I got them in March or April (if I remember correctly 😂 :lau)but I haven't heard any complaints from them.
We are seriously knocking around the idea of finding a place with more land (10+ acres) and a smaller house and then selling our house (2.2 acres and a 5 bedroom house). My only 2 complaints about our current place is that the super steep and long driveway will probably cause 1 of us to fall and break a hip eventually and that the house is way more than we need for the 2 of us! I hate the idea of leaving behind all of the fruit trees and bushes that I have been planting over the past few years. Plus all of the work we have done putting up all the cattle panel fencing. Plus my hubby doesn't think the chicken coops will be a selling feature! :lau Or all of the fences.
On a separate note, I donated several baskets of canned jams, jellies, salsas and pickles to a friend's fundraising event to raise money for Spirit Strides ( a therapeutic horse riding place) and they brought in around $200!
Well, I'm headed to bed. Good night!
WOW, sounds like a heavy schedule. I downsized after my husband passed away- can it actually be 9 yrs in Feb.? The yard was just too much and the house too big. I love my new house and yard- although 0.4 acres doesn't sound large, it can take it out of you mowing, edging and weed eating. I love my house and yard- don't want to be anywhere else forever. Look at it as a do over- you get to cherry pick the things you like best and go with that.
 
Fed kid some canned beets tonight - they were left over from using beet juice for the pickled eggs.

Kid says "I like our garden beets better"

YES!! Success! Likes homegrown veggies! Garden =1 Canned Veg = 0

I like our garden beets better too!

(Sorry @Sueby - I know not a favorite veg!)
I love beets and plan on growing some next year.
 
Well, only one lone watermelon in the garden. the vine has turned brown 3/4 of the way, but the area around the melon is still green. Can't wait to see if it is as good as it looks.
Spent the day renovating the "baby barn". It is a 6x5 enclosure that I use to house baby chicks after they are too big for the brooder and too small for the big girl coop. I am not a carpenter, but have memories and lessons learned from my husband. Sooo, I embarked on the plan to fix the baby barn. It is surrounded top, sides, front and back with hardwire. I put some PVC roofing on the top to keep the rain out and also lined two sides with it to the ground again, to keep rain out. Well, I decided to lift the PVC cover up about 2 feet so the new chicks and the old hens could see each other better before they moved to the big coop. This went sort of well. I put a 1x4 along the outside and a 2x4 inside and screwed the two together, pinning the PVC and hardwire between them, so the wind doesn't blow the PVC stuff. I had a brilliant idea to put a roost in so I cut out a hole in the inside 2x4 1 inch wide and 1 inch deep along the edge on both sides so I could put the roost in flush and I could move it when I needed to clean the area. I didn't realize till too late, that the roost is really high up for little chickens. so back to the drawing board. When the thing was built, the guy didn't put any support boards in the middle, so it is all hardwire cloth from the front support to the back support. It does have 2x4's along the bottom, but nothing to nail a roost to. What would have taken my DH about an hour has taken me all day long- I am whipped, but those chooks go outside tomorrow.
 

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