What did you do in the garden today?

[gtaus]

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=diy+basement+hydroponics+

Thanks. I'll be checking out those videos.

 

[chickengr]

I had relatives that lived in Las Vegas, NV. I would not visit them in the summertime because it was just too hot for me. But this time of year, I would have thought Phoenix would be much cooler than 100s F! Like, maybe in the 80s F?

I know many people wonder how I can live in northern Minnesota with all our cold winter months, but I can put on a sweater in the house or a heavy coat for outside and be comfortable. When it gets hot, there is only so much clothing you take off and still that might not be enough if the temps are in the 100s F. At least I hope it's a dry heat. It's the combination of heat and humidity that gets to me.

I don't feel comfortable wearing a lot of clothing and I cannot stand cold. I cannot stand heat and humidity either. luckily we have dry heat here.

 

[chickengr]

I was stationed in Santa Barbara, CA for 2 years. It had that great climate right around 70-72 degrees F every day, year round. Probably why everything was so expensive there, like housing. Lot of people like that climate.

I missed the snow. But I was born and raised in Minnesota so maybe that was to be expected. Still, I like the change of the seasons and always missed that when I was living in CA or when I was stationed in Guam, tropical all year round, just parts of the year that got lots of rain.

I wonder how it would be to garden 12 months out of the year? I get about 4 months of gardening outside. However, this year I started plants inside the house 2 months early. So, I guess I now garden 6 months out of the year.

gardening 12 months a year is a bit exhausting. I can do that, winter and summer crops. it is easier with winter crops as you don't need to water a lot and days are shorter.

 

[Sally PB]

If I get garden stuff done, it'll be more clean up. Still have a lot of that to do. Actually, anything done now helps with spring garden chores. Then I have time in the spring for other spring garden chores.

 

[Dadanga]

Today was a bit of a down day. Had to buy two bags of chicken feed for the flock. I like this one brand as the yolk appears a lot more orange in the chicken eggs compared to another feed I tried. I managed to setup around 4 x 60L kratkies. Hungarian wax and red cherry chillies and then two eggplants, bonica and long purple I think.

I did have to rescue my neighbors baby goat. Poor thing had wedged itself against the fence and mesh. Ran out and did a little dance and hop once freed. They are adorable little animals not gonna lie; even when they demolish the fruit trees. And eat all the chicken feed. I'm just lucky they don't bash open the quail coops.

Yeah, that's what I thought. I would like to grow maybe some lettuce, Swiss Chard, and Kale at a minimum. Those are all cool weather greens from what I understand. A nice 63 F with LED lights to encourage growth would work, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/hoocho

I get a lot of my NFT ideas from this guy. I've always wanted to try a flood and drain system with swiss chard as his one was quite a monster if I remember correctly.

 

[jerryse]

I feel like I wasted a really nice day yesterday. A dental cleaning and grocery shopping. Nicest day we have had in a while.

 

[Sueby]

Does anyone collect hickory nuts to eat? I cracked one open. It is a LOT of work to get the little bits of nutmeat out.

No, the squirrels get them before either we can, or before they're even ready for picking. I'd have to shoot a lot of squirrels to harvest any nuts. But, like you said it's not worth the work anyway to me, not a battle I'd choose to fight.

Looks like we may have a frost beginning of next week. That'll end the Dahlias & then I'll have to start digging them up & getting them put away. So I'll have vases of Dahlias all around the house come Sunday. I'll pick the last of the sungolds on Sunday too. I'll put the cover on the greenstalk.

 

[saysfaa]

I'm trying hickory nuts to eat this year. Some critter ate nearly all of them every year but this year. This year, I got handfuls and might get more.

Then, I was happy to get five or ten to plant. One of the seedlings is still alive.

 

[Paz]

Does anyone collect hickory nuts to eat? I cracked one open. It is a LOT of work to get the little bits of nutmeat out.

No, I don't even know what these are, are they tasty? Do they grow in meditieren weather?

 

[Paz]

ok I Yahoo! Ed it, Hickory are what we call "Egozei Melech", I hate them, very painful to eat, and don't really taste good, so both ouchy and icky make them inedible to my opinion.