What did you do in the garden today?

[BullChick]

I made it out to the garden while walking the dog. It’s not going to take much to get it into shape if I get to put things into the ground.

 

[WthrLady]

Spent the morning doing odds and ends around the ranch, made another wheelbarrow full of starter soil. Then I decided I couldn't stand to putter around the place all day as THICK smoke rolled in from a wildfire.

Tossed a GORGEOUS roast in the slowcooker for dinner and bailed on the countryside for the day and went shopping out of town. Came home to NOT the smell of roast. The slow cooker died. Roast wasted. was 75 in the house and so was the roast. Ruined.



Made a homemade pizza.
Now I'm planning out tomorrow's gardening/seeding shed work.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I'm pooped. Today had been hectic... I headed off to my favorite flea market to see if I could find some stuff to te-decorate my dining room. Spent WAY too long in there and didn't find much. Then I headed to Lowe's to go through the garden section and pick up the wood I need to redo the hoop house. I was there for 2 1/2 hrs... $500 and a migraine later I was BEYOND ready to go home. After I got all the way home, I realized I FORGOT to load the Weeping Willow I purchased at Lowe's. Took me 15 minutes to get someone at Lowe's to answer the phone. Luckily no one stole my tree. Since my migraine was so bad that I felt like I was going to have an aneurysm, my DH was nice enough to drive me back to Lowe's to get the tree. After we got back, it was tree planting time. DH, DS, and I spent another 2 1/2 hrs planting the Weeping Willow and 2 Pecan trees. I had picked up some Romaine lettuce and Basil starts at Lowe's so I went ahead and planted them in some raised beds in the garden.

I'm hoping I can get DH to start on my new frames tomorrow that I'll be using on the hoop house.

Also might pick off a couple of roosters tomorrow and try my hand at canning the meat.

 

[Ascholten]

WthrLady... I get it on the roast thing. But lets say 7 or 8 hours in the roaster?
It was beef right? Unless you cooked it really rare, I bet that roast was still plenty good.

Call me whatever names you want but I absolutely HATE throwing food away, and would have probably tried to salvage it. That's me though and if i get the screaming scutters, that's MY problem...

Poultry, Pork, oh NO, goodbye ! but beef, gives you a LOT of leeway. When you consider they hang the stuff for weeks to age, yah it's a bit more durable. May have decided to cook it a bit more done than one normally might have, but Id have tried to save it.

Sorry to hear of a good cut of meat going bad. Depending on your situation, that stuff is compostable too within reason.

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TJA, the migraines, oh don't get me started on those !! It being pollen season in North Florida, (in all honesty, when is it NOT some Pollen of the week season) that does not help migraine triggers either.

Good luck with the roosters. Doing your own any cooking without storebought 'stuffs' in the food dish is ALWAYS better IMO.

Aaron

 

[TJAnonymous]

WthrLady... I get it on the roast thing. But lets say 7 or 8 hours in the roaster?
It was beef right? Unless you cooked it really rare, I bet that roast was still plenty good.

Call me whatever names you want but I absolutely HATE throwing food away, and would have probably tried to salvage it. That's me though and if i get the screaming scutters, that's MY problem...

Poultry, Pork, oh NO, goodbye ! but beef, gives you a LOT of leeway. When you consider they hang the stuff for weeks to age, yah it's a bit more durable. May have decided to cook it a bit more done than one normally might have, but Id have tried to save it.

Sorry to hear of a good cut of meat going bad. Depending on your situation, that stuff is compostable too within reason.

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TJA, the migraines, oh don't get me started on those !! It being pollen season in North Florida, (in all honesty, when is it NOT some Pollen of the week season) that does not help migraine triggers either.

Good luck with the roosters. Doing your own any cooking without storebought 'stuffs' in the food dish is ALWAYS better IMO.

Aaron

I hate throwing food away too... I also would have tried to save it somehow...

Yeah, migraines suck. About 4 years ago, I started getting them really bad. First just here and there but within a year it was every day, all day long. I went to a neurologist who told me it was likely genetic and they'll never go away. I thought this was a stupid diagnosis. No one else in my family gets migraines. But they continued to get worse. I went to a 2nd neurologist for another opinion. They did a whole battery of tests. I honestly thought they would tell me that I had a brain tumor or aneurysm. My great grandmother and grandmother both died from aneurysms. But they found nothing abnormal. They put me on a monthly shot for migraines. At first it worked great. They went away completely for a few months but then started coming back. This time I decided to do something different. I went to a chiropractor.... Not just any regular chiropractor but a specialist who only works with the top 2 vertebrae that sit by the brain stem. When or if these two vertebrae are misaligned, it can cause a whole host of health problems (allegedly) because key nerves branch from this area and can become impinged. The clinic I went to was over an hour (one way) from my house. They took all kinds of xrays and reviewed the MRI the neurologist had done. Several times a week for 2-3 months, they monitored the movement in my neck. They only did an adjustment on those two vertebrae 2 or 3 times. I really wasn't sure if they were quacks or not but I was at the end of my rope... I was quite surprised and ecstatic when they completely CURED my migraines after 6-8 weeks. I continued to see every 1-2 weeks for about 6 months. I was even able to stop the migraine medication completely.... When no migraines returned, I stopped my visits. It's been a full year since I was last there...

Counting the migraine today, I've had maybe 2 or 3 migraines in the past month. Since they seem to be starting up again, I will probably go back and have them check my vertebrae again. I'm betting something has moved...

 

[WthrLady]

Nope not going to try to save it. I browned it, so brought it up to 70 degrees or so just to brown the sides, put it in the crock pot at noon at 530 pm it was raw as it had been sitting in the crockpot that was broken the whole time. NO WAY I'm eating meat that's been at 75 degrees for almost 6 hours. NO way.
I've had food poisoning 4 times in two years due to poor grocery store practices, them selling expired food and me not catching it, or selling poorly handled food. NO way I'm dealing with food that's been out that long on my own watch.

 

[chickengr]

Little corn starch on the nail will stop the bleeding

hot peppers (powder) also stops the bleeding.

 

[Sueby]

Morning all. It ended up not raining yesterday so I got tons done. Got the garden all raked & the new beds in & filled. Got the new extension bedded & the posts in, I'll put up the fence today. I need to wait for the rhubarb to come up before I can move it, then the garden is done - no more adding on! (I say that every year, but this year I mean it, lol)

Got a bunch of wood chip paths down by the coop all scooped up & in the bottom of the new beds - good filler. Got the compost turned, still a little frozen, as was the dirt/compost that went into the beds but it worked ok.

Got the plexiglass out for 2 beds, will think about putting out some bean seeds soon. Need to figure out where to put the cattle panels, I may cut them in half & use them vertically since I didn't leave enough room for a hoop between beds. We'll see. Need to get dirt in the herb bed then I can move the thyme out of the house.

Ugh, I need to rest!

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Just tweaking my garden plan a bit. I have a lot of pallets that I can use to make the sides of the additional raised bed. For those of you unfamiliar with New England soil, those quaint stones walls weren't originally built for decoration. Those stones had to be removed and piled to the side of the fields to clear the land for planting. New Hampshire is known as the granite state for a reason - dig down a few inches and you hit granite boulders. LOL! I'm on the southern edge of that so plain fields of dirt is rare. This is why I buy dirt. Ugh! Back to the new 4 by 8 foot garden bed. That will add a lot more gardening space than several grow bags. So I'm guessing I need to toss the old bags. I heard the bad news about the bird flu in Iowa this morning. So sad so many birds are being infected. The temperatures are a little warmer than usual today but I'm still keeping an eye on the long range forecast. We did get more rain overnight. If there was a thunderstorm, I slept through it. However, the window screens got a good washing overnight so I'm guessing it was quite blustery at times. I'm just hoping the warm temps help dry out the garden somewhat today.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Gardeners it will rain all week here .. I am only gardening in the first garage.