What did you do in the garden today?

[Sally PB]

Nothing gardening this weekend. Stuff to go do/see, so we went did/saw.

Great weekend. Now I gotta get busy this week.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

I've had to go back to watering everyday here too...my beefsteaks are finally GROWING!!! No red ones yet but atleast they don't look all puny anymore!
Noticed 1 more green bell pepper growing! Which reminds me I forgot bout the first one I got lol!
Found lil man in a wagon that had connections to get me a huge box of Fugi apples! Cost quite a bit but supposed to have no chemicals or anything on em! Based on the few bad spots here and there I'd say that's accurate.
Pumpkins are going insane! They've rooted everywhere they touch and are taking over the area underneath the deck now! I can see 3 growing so that made grandsons all excited! Dreading having to untangle the vines from the leftover hardware cloth under the deck though!
RA flare-up with a vengeance...so not sure what I'll be able to do. Passed out dead asleep yesterday afternoon and daughter woke me up at 7:30 then back to bed til 6 this morning! I got body parts hurting that I didn't even know had a joint! Ugh
And I reverted to takin morphine to ease some of it so I could sleep 3 nights ago and didn't help hardly at all. So didn't wanna do that...but so desperate...frustrating I got more relief from bathing in cbd and essential oils than I did a prescribed med! I swear if they ban kratom I'll be even more illegal than I already am with roos!!!

 

[Ascholten]

And I reverted to takin morphine to ease some of it so I could sleep 3 nights ago and didn't help hardly at all.

I don't want to lecture you, you are a grown adult, but here is my quick pitch.
Ive been on meds for years due to my back, PLEASE don't trifle with that stuff if you can help it, sometimes just taking one like an asprin won't really do the trick right, you have to elate /sedate yourself to get to a pain limiting zone, and then you gotta be careful you don't od, especially if you didn't use for a while.

You don't need to be eating them like candy to get hooked either, you can get addicted even at low doses. it's also a PHYSICAL dependence, meaning when you do come down and off, you WILL get sick.

Just please be careful is all I am saying.

Aaron

 

[WthrLady]

Nothing from the garden today but a bouquet of 6 hornworms.

@Gammas Bearded Babies laughing at body parts...yep I tell DH I feel like I've been hit by a bus, rolled up into the tire well, spit back out on the road, run over by a truck, steamroller, SUV, trolley, and a marching band, then rolled down a hill into a rock.

 

[Ascholten]

Nothing from the garden today but a bouquet of 6 hornworms.

@Gammas Bearded Babies laughing at body parts...yep I tell DH I feel like I've been hit by a bus, rolled up into the tire well, spit back out on the road, run over by a truck, steamroller, SUV, trolley, and a marching band, then rolled down a hill into a rock.

What do you mean nothing? That's a FEAST to a chicken !!
So far ive been lucky and they havent found my papaya or stuff yet but im seeing those moths and other crap bugs flying around at night, it's only a matter of time before they start showing up. Im going to have to spray that caterpiller poison i got but hate to do it when it's raining every friggin day, it's kind of worthless when it washes right off.

Aaron

 

[TJAnonymous]

Went out to get the ducklings since I'm still overnighting them up next to the house. Interrupted a coon trying to crawl through the fence to get to them. Yelled for Freya (my Great Pyrenees - Husky mix) to "GET HIM!" She couldn't REALLY get him because she is locked in the backyard but her fence lines up with one side of the duck yard and, more importantly, the corner where the little beast was trying to crawl through. Freya tore across the yard towards the critter. (Note - I'm a little miffed that she didn't notice him WAY before I did...) The beast made a beeline for the brambles along the fence line. I chased the little (bleep) down the fence line towards the back field. When I came around the front of the barn, I noticed he was standing on our flatbed trailer which is parked in front of the shop right next to the barn. I slipped in the barn and launched a bottle rocket at him. DH had come outside because of all the racket. Told him we really needed a bigger live trap because ours is too small for that coon. Anyway I also realized a group of juvenile chickens was still out. They had flown on top of the netting and on top of the coop. I only managed to catch 3 of the 6 so the other 3 spent the night outside on top of the coop. They were all alive and being a PITA this morning. Took me forever to get them down off the netting.

 

[Ascholten]

I find that if you got skittish ones that just can't be scooped up or won't follow a snack trail i nto the coop etc, the easiest way to get them is at night when they are sleeping go out and snatch them up. But yes, it's a lot of work and a big pain trying to round up brats who don't want to come in.

Aaron

 

[TJAnonymous]

I find that if you got skittish ones that just can't be scooped up or won't follow a snack trail i nto the coop etc, the easiest way to get them is at night when they are sleeping go out and snatch them up. But yes, it's a lot of work and a big pain trying to round up brats who don't want to come in.

Aaron

It was night time but they were stuck in the netting some 7 ft in the air or on top of the coop which is 10 ft off the ground. There was no way to reach them. The ones I did manage to reach I had to slowly "relay" them through the net until I could get them to a spot where I could pull them through. By "relay" I mean I'd hold them feet with one hand. Poke my other hand through the netting a little distance away and then transfer the bird's feet from one hand to the other. This was a painstaking process when you are trying to cover a distance of 15 ft or so. And the birds were screaming as if they were being horribly murdered in the process which caused alarm amongst the rest of the chickens both inside and outside the coop. Naturally if I had realized they were still outside the pen, I wouldn't have shut the gate and they would have gone back inside like normal. The error was mine by not realizing they were still roaming about so I inadvertently locked them out. They flew into the netting to simply get back inside. Generally they were probably safe from coons up there. I would be more worried about them flying down at dawn and getting snatched by a fox or coyote but luckily that didn't happen.

 

[Sueby]

I accidentally locked mine out of the coop a couple days ago too! It annoys me that when I touch them they scream like I'm murdering them. So drama.

Got the peach tree in. It looks pretty good for being shipped across the country in a box, Stark Bros. does a good job.

 

[Happy Novogens]

Got the peach tree in. It looks pretty good for being shipped across the country in a box, Stark Bros. does a good job.

It looks great!! We are planning on planting a few fruit trees too. We just have to wait another month or two for the weather to cool. Will have to keep that Stark Bros company in mind if we can't find locally.