What did you do in the garden today?

[Acre4Me]

Morning Gardeners aside from gardening is anyone getting oyster in 50 lbs bags.

Yes, at my independent farm store. But it’s been a couple months since I bought some.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Duly noted, thanks.

My first thought as I came inside was baking soda paste, which neutralizes ant bites, and so it seemed to help. Then I took my antihistamine jic I started having an allergic reaction.

The ankle is just sore and swollen now.

Honestly, the ACV works. Regular vinegar will work as well but ACV is the best for stings.

 

[Sally PB]

The ankle is just sore and swollen now.

"Just."

I needed something out of my garden shed, and I know there's a hornet nest in there. I took some spray and gave it a soaking. Still 1 or 2 flying around, but I did manage to get what I needed.

Nothing else done in the garden. I crashed after I got back from my physical and took a long nap. I'm feeling better now, and will plan to work between the showers they say we'll get tomorrow.

 

[fuzzi]

Honestly, the ACV works. Regular vinegar will work as well but ACV is the best for stings.

I believe you!

 

[jerryse]

I've never seen PINK asparagus before.... Purple yes. But never pink... I'm intrigued.

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The light color is likely blanched = grown without exposure to light - covered.

 

[Swiss]

I've had that happen with avocado seeds in the compost. They grow but would never survive winter here.

Morning all. My walk thru the garden this am was productive, DH & I ate the first handful of green beans! The dragons lingerie is the first to produce. I have a couple cukes about 4 inches long so it won't be long before we're eating them.

Is "lingerie" a typo? I'm scared to google what a dragon's lingerie bean looks like...

 

[CNJ]

My dwarf banana tree gave birth to a whopper baby. I can tell that this bunch may reach the ground. I will need to support it when the bananas start to grow. I bought the plant from ebay, it was called, "Grand Nain Chiquita Banana Tree." Its going on its second year in my environment.

 

[gtaus]

I'm always repurposing things, especially wood. They tore down our old firestation to build a new one and I wanted to go comb through the rubble to pull out all the old 2x4 studs. Of course, that's when studs were $9 a piece... While prices have come back to Earth (somewhat), I'd still love to dumpster dive (not literally) on construction sites to sift through their scrap... Around here it's getting harder to find good pallets for free.

I was lucky enough to have stockpiled so many pallets, that I may never use them all. Dear Wife told me I had enough pallets and needed to start using them up before getting any more.

I am slowly working down that stockpile, mainly on gardening related projects such as raised beds, trellises, etc...

I don't feel bad at all for having a stockpile of pallets in my backyard. Last year, I went out to our county landfill and asked them if they had any free pallets to give away. The guy out there told me that they bury all the pallets as soon as they get them. It's in their name, he reminded me, county LANDFILL. There is no doubt I saved all these pallets from the landfill and, I hope most of them will get a second productive life in a pallet project.

Our county landfill does let us load up free wood chips, so I give them credit for that. Wood chips are great for many things related to gardening and chickens.

But you better not dumpster dive for anything out there. I once saw a perfectly good $200 scaffolding set that someone tossed because they had no need for it any longer, and I loaded it up in my trailer. The "main guy" out there got really upset with me. Since it was already loaded up, I asked him if I could pay him for it, knowing that they only get pennies on the pound, and I was willing to offer even more. He refused to take any money, but he let me take the scaffolding that one time and never do it again. I set that scaffolding up in the garage as an auxiliary shelf. And it's there to use as scaffolding if I need it.

I sleep well at night even though technically I was in the wrong for pulling it out of the dumpster. As a taxpayer, I just wish that they would let anyone salvage stuff that they could use. That would reduce the amount of stuff ending up in the landfill and buried over with dirt. Same thing with recyclable materials that I suspect get shipped off to some third world country and end up in giant landfills out of sight and out of mind.

Our local church charity Thrift Shop has a good attitude towards the donated stuff they get. They sell what they can for a rummage sale price, but things that are not resell ready or might not be fully functional will be set outside and offered up for free to anyone who wants to take that stuff. I have picked up a few items that needed a little repair work, or other items that I could repurpose for something else. If I can give something a second life, I'll pick it up and I hope the stuff I am not interested in might be of value to someone else. Anyways, it's good that the Thrift Shop offers it up for free before they toss it into their dumpsters.

 

[MotherofOrpies]

I am like that too, but DH is the type of person who would be happy living in a big hall with one or 2 “signature pieces” arranged so he is always stressed out when I drag home another thing which can be useful
My dahlia is in bloom, even though the storm ripped away 2/3 of it

 

[Sueby]

Is "lingerie" a typo? I'm scared to google what a dragon's lingerie bean looks like...

Yes, a typo for sure because I had no idea how to spell it, LOL.
But for real:

ETA: they are pretty good, I like them because they are not stringy & are tender.