What did you do in the garden today?

[igorsMistress]

Hello folks. Our temps should be in the 70’s the rest of the week, and I’m off work until Monday so I plan to cram my days with projects, enough that I made a list so I don’t forget anything. Physical labor will be blessing, no thinking just doing. Have a good rest of the week and enjoy your weekend.

 

[Sueby]

Hey all. Snowing here. Of course just when the last of the piles melted & the onions showed up.

Girls are doing great in lock down, they don't really seem bothered. I figured they'd be squawking up a storm but they aren't. Kind of nice I don't have to snow blow the run for them today! & again on Sat.

Cow is going to butcher next week, my freezers are pretty dang full, going to take a lot of work to make room! Good problem to have I suppose tho. Pulled out a turkey, they take up awkward room. A ham is next.

I'm surprised I was able to completely stop buying broth - I can make more than enough on my own & that's great feeling because it's so much tastier. In fact I find myself having more bones saved up than I need. This is where I say I wish I had a pressure canner because the broth is taking up so much room in the freezer.

I guess project clean the freezer is on, time to make soups with all the broth.

 

[chickengr]

Nature keeps throwing us freezing overnight temps. No tornado warnings this year, yet. We'll get them eventually. What we have had are several days of high winds, which is pretty normal around here.

My plants are still doing the daytime/nighttime dance. Out when it gets in the 40s+ and back into my shower when it chills down in the evening. Hubby saved my tailfeathers last night. I had the plants out and had forgotten about them, so he brought them in.

Chicks are getting bigger. Naturally they have introduced a...lovely...smell in my house. *sigh* They need to take their fluffy butts outside, but the temperatures are all over the place and I can't.

the same here, both seedlings and chicks/ducklings/goslings.

 

[TJAnonymous]

We had some bad storms come through on Sunday night. Two tornadoes touched down to the north and east of us. At our place, we had some wicked straight line winds. It blew open our doors, took down a large oak tree in my front pasture, and also picked up an 8'x8'x6' chicken wire kennel off a concrete slab and threw it about 10 feet up into the trees. When it fell out of the tree, it landed upside down and twisted all to hell. Pretty sure it is not salvageable now. The winds were roaring so loudly that I could have sworn there was a tornado outside. Luckily, no other damage to the house, vehicles, barn, shop, or outbuildings.

It's nice out today....about mid-50s. Going to hit 60 tomorrow and then bottom out. More snow on Friday. Wind chills in the single digits on Saturday morning. Then back up into the mid 70's just a few days later. Mother nature is bipolar.....

 

[karenerwin]

We had some bad storms come through on Sunday night. Two tornadoes touched down to the north and east of us. At our place, we had some wicked straight line winds. It blew open our doors, took down a large oak tree in my front pasture, and also picked up an 8'x8'x6' chicken wire kennel off a concrete slab and threw it about 10 feet up into the trees. When it fell out of the tree, it landed upside down and twisted all to hell. Pretty sure it is not salvageable now. The winds were roaring so loudly that I could have sworn there was a tornado outside. Luckily, no other damage to the house, vehicles, barn, shop, or outbuildings.

It's nice out today....about mid-50s. Going to hit 60 tomorrow and then bottom out. More snow on Friday. Wind chills in the single digits on Saturday morning. Then back up into the mid 70's just a few days later. Mother nature is bipolar.....

I’m glad you didn’t have any more damage than that!

 

[TJAnonymous]

Hey all. Snowing here. Of course just when the last of the piles melted & the onions showed up.

Girls are doing great in lock down, they don't really seem bothered. I figured they'd be squawking up a storm but they aren't. Kind of nice I don't have to snow blow the run for them today! & again on Sat.

Cow is going to butcher next week, my freezers are pretty dang full, going to take a lot of work to make room! Good problem to have I suppose tho. Pulled out a turkey, they take up awkward room. A ham is next.

I'm surprised I was able to completely stop buying broth - I can make more than enough on my own & that's great feeling because it's so much tastier. In fact I find myself having more bones saved up than I need. This is where I say I wish I had a pressure canner because the broth is taking up so much room in the freezer.

I guess project clean the freezer is on, time to make soups with all the broth.

I understand what you mean about freezer space. We have a large chest freezer and then two giant refrigerators which both have large freezers. All 3 of them are full. DH was complaining that I have two hams and two turkeys in the chest freezer which are taking up a ridiculous amount of space. Not to mention that we butchered 2 ducks and 5 big roosters which are also in the deep freezer. I have probably 7 more roosters to butcher already and no where to put them. I'm honestly thinking of just giving away the meat to a needy family.

I promised DH that I would can any veggies I want to save from this year's harvest instead of freezing it all.

 

[vall]

I am starting to clean out the freezer in prep for my move and I'm surprised at how much stock I have left, and mostly from quail at that.

Today was just more weed whacking (I can only do 30-40 minutes before the batteries need charging) and I caught my gopher.

 

[NewBoots]

I'm surprised I was able to completely stop buying broth - I can make more than enough on my own & that's great feeling because it's so much tastier. In fact I find myself having more bones saved up than I need. This is where I say I wish I had a pressure canner because the broth is taking up so much room in the freezer.

Must be the time of year for freezer cleaning. I've made serious headway with the upright freezer in the garage/barn, there's chicken thawing in a bin on the counter right now. But do get a pressure canner you can deal with (I hate stovetop pressure canning and so have only electric now) and pressure can your stock. I used to have the same problem with stock filling the freezer but not anymore. And since it's so convenient to have ingredients ready to use, I soak dried beans and then can those too.

 

[Sueby]

I found the fastest way to clean out the freezer - bring the 50lb bag of food down to the coop!

- clean freezer

 

[Sueby]

Must be the time of year for freezer cleaning. I've made serious headway with the upright freezer in the garage/barn, there's chicken thawing in a bin on the counter right now. But do get a pressure canner you can deal with (I hate stovetop pressure canning and so have only electric now) and pressure can your stock. I used to have the same problem with stock filling the freezer but not anymore. And since it's so convenient to have ingredients ready to use, I soak dried beans and then can those too.

Would you mind sharing what canner you have? I have a glasstop stove & am scared to can on it. I also have an outdoor grill with a burner & could do it there - but an electric one sound so much easier! & more doable in the snow.