What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

I got an inspiration in the middle of the night on how I can mark my chickens after I've wormed them...

Put some mineral oil in a spray bottle. Add blue food coloring. Spray their feet after I'm done worming. It's a good preventative/treatment for mites and I can see who has blue feet and who doesn't....

 

[jerryse]

Rain coming today and tomorrow . Anyone grow common ironweed ? I bought some seed . It needs to overwinter to grow . I see it growing wild sometimes . Did a drive to see the fall colors . I picked a few persimmons up . Tree was not ready to drop - just starting . DW is having trouble sleeping due to the full moon .

 

[WthrLady]

I got an inspiration in the middle of the night on how I can mark my chickens after I've wormed them...

Put some mineral oil in a spray bottle. Add blue food coloring. Spray their feet after I'm done worming. It's a good preventative/treatment for mites and I can see who has blue feet and who doesn't....

I use blukote spray. OC when I'm done, well... I look like mulberry season all over again.

 

[Acre4Me]

I got an inspiration in the middle of the night on how I can mark my chickens after I've wormed them...

Put some mineral oil in a spray bottle. Add blue food coloring. Spray their feet after I'm done worming. It's a good preventative/treatment for mites and I can see who has blue feet and who doesn't....

When we have sprayed the chickens, we just put them in the coop with door shut until all are sprayed. Of course, might be harder if there isn’t a run or a way to contain them while treating them. So, if the treatment spans a day or two, then color marking would be the way to go.

 

[Swiss]

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So true! I think I am going to make (or have my husband make) a sign that says this to hang up somewhere!

Does this look like a raccoon to yall?

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It looks like a raccoon to me (even though it was walking rather smoothly, and looked really stretched out a couple of times).

Yeah i thought I saw striped tail too...he'll keep comin back won't he? We live in city...can't shoot the dadgum thing and never caught notin in the live trap few months back...though they'd pull everything through cracks.

My sister had the same problem, and put some hardware cloth over the back and sides of the trap so they couldn't reach in.

I managed to catch an elusive game hen that's been loose for months now. Since I culled all the boys in the bachelor pen, I left the gate open. Yesterday evening I noticed her poking around that run so I ran up and slammed the gate shut. Needless to say, she isn't amused...

But in the process of checking her out this evening, I noticed one of the loofah has started to change colors. It was somewhere between yellow and orange so I went ahead and harvested it. It's one of the smaller ones but still a respectable size. I just cleaned it up and sprayed it with bleach to even out the brown spots.

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On that note, I'm going to have a TON of loofah seeds. Does anyone want any?

I might be interested... although, I think I'd need a greenhouse to actually get them to ripen....

Has anyone in MI successfully grown loofah to be sponges?

 

[WIchickMama]

Carrots.
So many carrots.

And this is only what is left if the first planting of carrots. There is still the later planting to pick, but there is less of them.

After washing them, and bagging them, there are 14 gallon ziploc bags filled to the brims/barely able to zip them, in the fridge.

So, carrot ideas? I’ve pickled done and canned some already!

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I cook, mash and then freeze. I then add to soups, hotdishes or sweet potatoes in future cooking/baking. Carrot cake or muffins, unfrosted you can freeze and eat later. You could try storing in sand over winter-I read about it but haven't tried it yet

 

[TJAnonymous]

When we have sprayed the chickens, we just put them in the coop with door shut until all are sprayed. Of course, might be harder if there isn’t a run or a way to contain them while treating them. So, if the treatment spans a day or two, then color marking would be the way to go.

My chicken run is too large (135 ft x 32 ft) for that to work. I just take them off the roost at night but there are a few corners where I have staggered roosts that I can't reach without a stepstool (which I forgot to bring out with me, of course). I'll wait 10 days and use the marking system so I can better tell who was treated and who wasn't. I have a bunch of Black Australorps and Ameracaunas that look the same. When they all started shuffling around, I lost track of which ones I treated. Not to mention the few I couldn't reach. Need to go pick up more wormer anyway...

 

[TJAnonymous]

If anyone is interested in any of the following, PM me your address....

Loofah seeds
Wisteria seed pods
Wisteria cuttings

I also have a few cuttings from a coral trumpet Honeysuckle vine. It's from my mom's place. She wants it cut down so I'm salvaging cuttings from it. It's a big draw for bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Carrots.
So many carrots.

And this is only what is left if the first planting of carrots. There is still the later planting to pick, but there is less of them.

After washing them, and bagging them, there are 14 gallon ziploc bags filled to the brims/barely able to zip them, in the fridge.

So, carrot ideas? I’ve pickled done and canned some already!

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I chop mine and freeze them.

I noticed this morning that the chickens ate my carrot starts yesterday that I had up at the house since the gopher raided my garden.

This will be FOURTH TIME I've had to reseed my carrots!

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Especially Johnson grass which can be toxic... I seed my pasture with Bermuda in the spring and spray for weeds. In the fall, I usually seed with ryegrass but I haven't yet because no rain. So I assume the grass under the panels is Bermuda.

We battle Johnson grass, there's also crabgrass & wild Bermuda grass, but there is a grass here that I had never encountered before moving here. It grew into tough clumps sometimes. I dug some up, that had grown long and was so tough the chickens didn't want anything to do with it. At the roots were these little round balls, like a bulb. I dug further and there were more balls, like a string of pearls going deep into the ground...which made me realize, to efficiently dig this up so that it wouldn't return, I'd basically have to scrape off the entire top 2 feet of a few acres. Yeah right, that's not gonna happen! I asked a neighbor what this crap is...what type of grass did these idiots plant before I moved here... it's a grass at the top but has a ball at the bottom...I started referring to it as "ball-grass" . The neighbor thought it was wild onions. Nope, entirely different grass stalk type, plus I have harvested & cooked with the wild onions, they're cool. No these bulbs had no onion smell. I took photos and emailed several people, local co-op Ag extension service included, and learned that my "ball-grass" is actually Nutsedge. It is a PITA too, very hardy, survives the driest drought or worst floods. And no I'm not going to harvest & eat it, although according to some it is edible. The reason...well those darn fire ants seem to like tunneling all around it. So the times I've dug up some, angry fire ants ran up the handle of my shovel, got under my gloves & stung me good.

I also have Bishops weed spreading everywhere.

Any advice on dealing with this crap is greatly appreciated.