What did you do in the garden today?

[CluckNDoodle]

I have a bit of laundry on the line, trying my best to convince it to rain here!



If we don't get a decent amount, then I'll water tomorrow. Really need a good soaking.

Lol! Leaving laundry on the line to make it rain made me laugh out loud! I bet you would seal the deal for some heavy showers if you wash your car too.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Watering today. Have a sprinkler (spraying a mist) on the two compost sections. Have a hose watering the big beds. Hand watered most everything else.

All I have are FEMALE squash flowers. Can’t pollinate bc no male flowers!

Wow! It's almost always the other way around with too many male flowers!

 

[Sally PB]

I bet you would seal the deal for some heavy showers if you wash your car too

I tried that once. Didn't work.

 

[Elyrian1]

Yeah any time it looks like it *might* rain, I hose my car off really quick and taunt the sky.

Lol, lots of comments about the olive eggers. So they came from TSC, DH picked them out so... who knows really, lol, but! I've never had olive eggers before, and when I was reading up I saw it said they could look a number of different ways depending on the breeds they were derived from, and then I didn't give it another thought. Until I found a relatively dark brown egg and another that's speckled. I said to myself... "Speckled? What the heck? The only two with bright red combs are the olive.... eggers... uh oh." So I got poking around online and read that cuckoo marans pretty typically lay a dark, speckled egg. Look up the breed and bam! Yeah, that's what they look like. Cuckoo Marans. Dark gray bird with soft barring to my eyes, 'course I'm no expert so that's just what my eyeballs see. I'm not the refund chasing sort (I hate interacting with people in real life as a general rule of thumb) and wouldn't have a receipt at this point anyway, so ... meh. I have 3 cuckoo marans, with possibly two laying. I will figure out over the next couple of days if it's only one or two. My lavender orp lady, by far the most sedate bird in the flock so far, is the only other one old enough to be laying, but she hasn't got the red comb yet. I should get a picture of her and the rooster at some point. They're both beautiful.

I watered the garden briefly earlier and now I'm about to pop out and harvest some more okra. I've been just cutting one or two pods a day and slicing them and throwing them in a bag in the freezer. When I get enough, or when the plants give up on life, I'll bread them and fry them. I intend to save seed from these plants this year as well.

 

[DramaBrahmaMama]

Wait......those are pumkin leaves?

oh come on! Ugh. Sorry about all that.... scary lookin' buggers toooo

Yup... heebie jeebies allllllll evening after that one~~~~

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I feel bad even telling everyone that it has been raining here almost every single day for a couple of weeks now. I finally gave in and harvested my mini popcorn and glass gem corn even though everything is wet. I was worried about fungus taking hold if I left it any longer. It's so pretty!

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Just looked them up. Wow, is all I can say. I might order hatching eggs from them next spring. No way I can order anywhere near 16 chicks, their min for guaranteeing live delivery. Well, if my neighbor wants to split and order...

If I damage garlic when digging, I separate the cloves, wash them, let them dry on paper towel, and store them in the fridge. Any thing that doesn't wash clean gets tossed.

Not sure what you mean about the dried out stem. Can you take a picture?

How long will they be good in the refrigerator? Can I freeze them?

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

@Sally PB This dried out. It was in the back and I didn't see how far it was.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I feel bad even telling everyone that it has been raining here almost every single day for a couple of weeks now. I finally gave in and harvested my mini popcorn and glass gem corn even though everything is wet. I was worried about fungus taking hold if I left it any longer. It's so pretty!

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That's beautiful! Is it just ornamental or to eat?
Enter it in the new harvest/garden contest!

 

[Iluveggers]

Just looked them up. Wow, is all I can say. I might order hatching eggs from them next spring. No way I can order anywhere near 16 chicks, their min for guaranteeing live delivery. Well, if my neighbor wants to split and order...

I looked them up after your post…then immediately checked to see how close I am to you! too far though.