What did you do in the garden today?

[pennyJo1960]

Nothing in the garden balmy 30 here .. A foot of snow another 3 or 4 inches tomorrow ..

 

[igorsMistress]

Good morning gardeners. Hopefully we're done with the ice for a few days. Good to hear you are making steady improvements in your recovery @jerryse. No gardening to do outside. However, with 11 chickens in the run I may actually have to rake up some of their composting poo. There's plenty of room for them and several roosting places but just like the coop, there's a lot of poo going on. So it will be on it's way to the garden this afternoon. I'm nearly done with my garden plan for the Spring. I've decided to plant just a few sweet potato plants in the little round garden bed. I have a tall shepherd's hook in there and will train the vines up on that as I've done in the past with beans and peas. I'm planning on putting rutabagas, carrots and onions in bags on the garden platform I will be building in the backyard. I want to plant as many carrots as possible. I still have some in my refrigerator crisper from my second planting. They're still so much better than what you get at the grocery store this time of year. I'm in the process of adopting a new family member. A young terrier mix. Fingers crossed and it all works out. It took some time to find a dog that is just the right size for the Wee Farm. Of course he has to be small, but not tiny. A few of the turkeys that grew up in my neighborhood made a visit yesterday. They were so close that I could tell they were the juveniles that paraded through the yard this past summer. Very sweet. Have a great day everyone and stay healthy.
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I hope the new addition works out well!

 

[igorsMistress]

Good evening all. I’ve been doing some reading about hard pruning bushes and shrubs. Many of the plants need it so I’m going to have a bunch of stuff for the compost pile this Spring. Has anyone grown comfrey where it get brutally hot in summer? @BReeder! maybe? I’d like to use it in the apple tree guild but I’m not so sure it’ll live here. Will probably put it where it will get shade in the afternoon.

 

[chickengr]

Garden Plans for this week - seed shopping.

But, have been not doing a thing in the garden for awhile. The bathroom remodel is progressing. Electric newly done and a few problems corrected. New high powered fans installed and vented outside (2 new holes in side of the house so they vent outside). Electric Inspector signed off. Plumbing: new main water lines installed under house - previously only 1/2" pipe supplied the whole house, now we are at 3/4" with 1/2' supply lines to the individual things - all copper. All new vent pipes installed per building codes, and all new PVC drain and septic pipes installed throughout most of the house - this time PVC Primer was used, along with glue bc unfortunately the previous stuff was never primed, and literally fell apart as they were down there beginning to work!! luckily it was always the plan to replace it anyway. Plumbing inspector signed off. Insulation tacked up in the ceiling, bracing installed for any future grab bars and for towel bars.

Today: DRYWALL!! yay! not sure if it will all get up today, as it is going to be tight - these are bathrooms, so space isn't huge and open like a bedroom. So, still dusty here and vacuuming daily. We only have one working bathroom at this point, so we are getting tired of all sharing one bathroom!

Nice big ceiling vent fan - this is in half bath. Similar in the whole bath just behind.
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First of the drywall sheets!
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First cuts - in front of the new doorway we cut for the whole bath.
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Hopefully soon, I'll have pics of seeds for 2022!

We also need to decide on which chicks we will be ordering for 2022.

I had a friend who was born in ohio. she had 9 siblings + parents. they had 1 bathroom only. can you imagine that?

 

[Acre4Me]

I had a friend who was born in ohio. she had 9 siblings + parents. they had 1 bathroom only. can you imagine that?

I know right? It was common to only have 1 bathroom!! But, it is very nice to have more than 1!! The only working bathroom right now is master bath, so sometimes we get woken up due to a wee hours visit to the bathroom by someone. Eventually, it will be done!

 

[chickengr]

I know right? It was common to only have 1 bathroom!! But, it is very nice to have more than 1!! The only working bathroom right now is master bath, so sometimes we get woken up due to a wee hours visit to the bathroom by someone. Eventually, it will be done!

my house has no room for the second bathroom. that's why I made one in the storage room next to the house. works well when there are more people in summer.

 

[BReeder!]

Good evening all. I’ve been doing some reading about hard pruning bushes and shrubs. Many of the plants need it so I’m going to have a bunch of stuff for the compost pile this Spring. Has anyone grown comfrey where it get brutally hot in summer? @BReeder! maybe? I’d like to use it in the apple tree guild but I’m not so sure it’ll live here. Will probably put it where it will get shade in the afternoon.

I never grew comfrey. I hear it's great for compost tea though.

 

[BReeder!]

The only gardening I did today is look at the window plants. Aside from a headache, I'm feeling pretty good though. The larger of the two orchid buds is starting to open. It should be fully open tomorrow.

 

[BReeder!]

I opened the garden plan excel doc... I guess I'm planning for Spring. Nothing better to do while sitting around at night.
A few bold choices and things to think about: I am going to focus just an San Marzano tomatoes this year for sauce and just one row of slicing tomatoes and one row of cherry tomatoes. I cut the cucumber plant count in half since I have so many pickles put up and added pole beans. I took out corn, brussel sprouts and yellow squash. I will bring back eggplant which I didn't plant last year. I an decaying on dedicating space to pumpkins and squash. I might try training them on the fence. Lastly, I need a new crop to fill a 4x4 section of a raised bed.

 

[chickengr]

I threw banana peels, does it count as gardening?