What did you do in the garden today?

Got far too much sun today. My body did one of those Nope. crashing now, episodes at about 5. Just managed to get back up for evening feed.
Anyway only did a little bit in my own garden today. Finished weeding the tomatoes. Got them tied up further, did some pruning of the lower branches. Did a little weeding in the onion patch, really should have weeded those weeks ago. Oops.
Went and dropped of a 10wk old cockerel to a freinds farm. Cause their RIR roo has decided he is going to attack people now. Set up a time frame to butcher that fellow and his compatriots for them in a few weeks. Still have to baby the broken elbow some anf its hampering alot of my normal projects.
Then swung by my SIL's place to do some "quick" work in her garden while they are gone for the holiday. Spent 3 hours on that. Layed down some cardboard paths and hand pulled a few weeds. But it is a patch of just turned this year pasture land. And my brother just turned everything in. :th
Rigged up a barrel and hose on a wagon for a water system. Since the "only" place the garden could go was 400' uphill of the nearest water source. Fun times. Took an instructional video if you want to see it. Will have to go over it again, left a few bits out. Like how to start the siphon. 🤦‍♀️

 
I made some wicking buckets for my semi determinant tomato plants. I have been growing Okra in this wicking bucket set up, It holds about 2 quarts of water.....I will try to only fill the bottom with water, so my fertilizer doesn't wash out.

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Why use the cloth? Aren't the rocks providing enough of a surface to limit contact with the water?

Like the idea about using the net pots....
 
Decided to make some bread and butter pickles tonight from the cukes I've collected so far. Sliced my thumb pretty badly while cutting up cukes. Double bandaged it and then wrapped it in some Press-N-Seal to keep the bandages clean and dry.

Of course, as soon as I cut it, DH calls me to say one of the mares is bad lame and has swelling under her knee. Probably injured it from being spooked by all the fireworks. I hosed her down, gave her some Bute, and let her go. I will try to soak it in ice water tomorrow. Not happening tonight with all the fireworks going off... I tried to keep her stalled but that was only making her more anxious.
 
Hi everybody!

Gearing up for hunting season here, two short months from now. Garden is taking off, did some hoeing for weeds upkeep here and there. The dog has been rabbit hunting where we planted some greens; he killed them all. That’s our fault though as we didn’t fence it off.

Herbs are doing well, we are grabbing chamomile as the flowers are ready. At John’s Wort is on the way as well. (Tall guy on the right with the yellow flowers.). Tomato’s and squash are starting to produce flowers and have been growing as the days have been warm. Kale/chard/cool season stuff is popping up. Corn is barely making its goal of “knee high by the Fourth of July.” Onions are doing well, robins keep hitting the strawberries.

I am excited that the tomato’s are doing so well so far. We have had bad luck the past few years. Beets go in next week with one other that I can’t remember…we had great luck planting in mid July for harvest after frost.

Chickens are starting to lay eggs (one at least, a second is maybe close) at 14-15 weeks of age. I put a photo of the rock who started laying in another thread but will include her here anyways.

All the best!

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Also, the dog is no longer obsessed over the chickens. He’ll definitely kill one of it gets out, but he’s not glued to their fence as much anymore. (The run is quite secure, with bird netting over the top.). He’ll watch but seems to be relaxing around them, and as long as both parties don’t make sudden moves, everyone stays calm. Small victories I guess.
 

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You think it'd be worth trying? We are in a drought and 90-100s.
DH will be irrate if I have him dig new holes and they don't make it lol.
Or guess I could put em in large pots and cut em back to see what happens.



trim them and water well where they are now. if they survive transplant them in november. it worked for my mulberry tree.
 
I wish I had a root cellar. I really want to build one but it's next to impossible on my property. My whole property is on the slope of a foothill. The bedrock is about 2 ft below the surface. My best bet is to do it above ground and build a mound around/over it. But I don't really have a good spot for that either...



I am going to take advantage of the slope to make a storage room. I will cover it with dirt so it will be hidden. no air photos:lau
 
I am going to take advantage of the slope to make a storage room. I will cover badly with dirt so it will be hidden. no air photos:lau
I want one really badly! There's really only 2 spots where I think I could put it but both would have challenges.

The most ideal spot is in the center of a ring of giant oak trees. I call it my fairy ring... 😂 Seriously, with all those trees around I have to imagine the bedrock must be deeper down than 2 ft. The downside is, of course, tree roots will be a problem. I don't want to kill the trees or destabilize them. They provide critical shade for the animals around my coops and barn. That same shade could be helpful in lowering temperatures if I can't get very deep in the ground.

The 2nd spot is on the back side of my pond levee. There's a good 8 - 10 ft drop which would make it not stand out against the slope and easy to mound around. The problem here is there's a cross-fence right through there which separates my side pasture and pond from the back pasture. There's also an overflow washout right through there when the pond overflows from spring and fall rains so drainage may be difficult to control in that area.

Unfortunately, even though I live on a gradual slope, there's not any perfect place to really mound up a 6 ft x 8 ft root cellar which is the minimum size I'd like to have...
 
Why use the cloth? Aren't the rocks providing enough of a surface to limit contact with the water?

Like the idea about using the net pots....
Its so the soil doesn't clog the drain hole, and to limit the amount of water that can be absorbed by the soil. Furthermore, its not a cloth, its a scrap piece of green house fabric. Its either made of nylon or polyester.
 
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The rain they've been promising for days hasn't materialized so I gave everything a good drink last night. If course this means it will rain today. :lau
Same. I just checked the weather... 10+ more days of 100+ degree weather and not a drop of rain in the forecast... We had 5.5 inches of rain above normal in May but I don't think we had even a half inch of rain the entire month of June..., 😒
 

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