What did you do in the garden today?

[gtaus]

When I raised rabbits I used gutters to dump their waste directly into my garden. Everyone said those were the best tomatoes I had ever grown !

That's a great idea. I saw a YouTube video where the person had their rabbit cages sitting directly on top of their pallet wood compost bins. Another great idea. Anytime you can save a step or two in the process chain, that is a big win.

 

[Acre4Me]

That's a great idea. I saw a YouTube video where the person had their rabbit cages sitting directly on top of their pallet wood compost bins. Another great idea. Anytime you can save a step or two in the process chain, that is a big win.

We have talked about this exactly! Rabbit cages above the compost. But, it will take time to plan, and build….and it’s not high priority right now.

 

[gtaus]

We have talked about this exactly! Rabbit cages above the compost. But, it will take time to plan, and build….and it’s not high priority right now.

I know about priorities. But a good idea usually finds time to come to fruition. I have lots of ideas working their way up the priority list. Always something to work on...

 

[CNJ]

I will watch out for the potting soil falling out. Someone mentioned that they use a coffee filter in their net cups so the soil does not come out. I saw a YouTube video where they lined the net cup with a paper towel. Evidently, both are good enough to keep the soil in but the roots will still poke through and air prune. Obviously, I'm hoping that the slits in the net pots I ordered are not too wide for my soil, whatever medium I end up using.

I use glass petri dishes to start my tomato seeds and wait for them to grow half inch roots., before I put them in a small 12 slot tray with dome cover. I leave the seeds that are not ready in the petri dish until they are ready.

 

[BReeder!]

We have talked about this exactly! Rabbit cages above the compost. But, it will take time to plan, and build….and it’s not high priority right now.

I've been tempted to get meat rabbits. Their manure can be used straight in the garden. Urine might be good to leave in the compost though as the ammonia might increase N levels too rapidly in a garden bed and burn plants.

We used to have a pet rabbit. It's hard to go from pet to meat, especially for DW, and I hesitate to add more work load to or plate right now. So rabbits are a thought but certainly not a priority at the moment for us.

 

[gtaus]

We used to have a pet rabbit. It's hard to go from pet to meat, especially for DW, and I hesitate to add more work load to or plate right now. So rabbits are a thought but certainly not a priority at the moment for us.

I enjoyed having meat rabbits when I was a young kid. Butchered them myself. Later in life, when I got married, I tried to have meat rabbits again. But Dear Wife was firm in her mind that rabbits are pets and you don't eat pets. So, that whole adventure was shut down in no time.

I kind of miss having rabbits, but Dear Wife was unmovable on the subject of eating them. I did not want to have pet rabbits, so I just moved on to other things.

Fortunately, Dear Wife is just fine with our backyard flock. She loves the fresh eggs and sells our excess eggs to her friends. In theory, I bought dual purpose chickens thinking I would butcher them after a few years. I'll have to cull some chickens this summer, so we will see if eating our own chickens will work or not. My main value out of the chickens has been all the compost I harvest from the chicken run which feeds my garden beds. Chickens just have been a better fit for my family then the meat rabbits I wanted to raise. I can live with that.

 

[Paz]

Took Rose of Sharon cuttings and potted them. The videos I watched they were doing theirs in summer. Might not work now but I will try.

I was wondering what these look like? Are they like lilies or are they like roses?
I live in the (biblical) area, so I was always wondering which flower it was…

 

[Paz]

I was thinking that tomato plants can grow roots out from the root bound ball and they will also make new roots along the buried stem.

I am doing a test run on semi root bound tomato plants in 5 inch net cup bucket covers in my Kratky 5 gallon buckets. Prior to this I have been rinsing of the potting mix from the roots and putting it in 5 inch net cup bucket covers with clay pebbles. They struggle and wilt and their growth gets set back. However, when they recover they send down roots and follow the solution down.

In this test run, I put the plant from the small pots straight into the 5 inch net cup bucket covers without rinsing off the potting mix and filled the sides and top with clay pebbles. The plants didn't even know that its been transplanted.

Now, I want to see what happens when the plants use up the 1/2 inch of solution they are sitting in, will the root bound plants send down roots and follow the water level or will it die?

I would post a picture, but can't find my camera.

Your experiments remind me of grandpa Julio. He loved doing experiments with his plant and mushrooms.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

This is a rose of sharon. It’s in the hibiscus family.

 

[Sueby]

Took a walk around yesterday, it was above 50. My EWO are showing signs of life. My garden fencing is falling down, its plastic deer netting that I was going to replace with chicken wire this year, but, well…it has to wait till next year. The heavy snow we had last week took its toll & I was sick of the rabbits chewing holes in it. I can’t complain, that plastic netting survived 5 years.

Looks like something made a meal of a turkey out back, feathers everywhere. Must have been a bobcat but I couldn’t find any prints. As long as it’s not the bears hanging around. Would a bear catch & eat a turkey? I know they’re done sleeping, I’ll have to watch my back out there & maybe carry a pistol. A big one, lol.

eta: oohh, coyote maybe, they’ve been around lately & prints would be harder to see than a bear on the packed wood chipped ground.