What did you do in the garden today?

[akroberts1085]

What will you do with them?

Make acorn flour. I posted it on here a few pages back. It explains how to clean the acorns and make the flour and then I also posted a recipe for what you can make from the acorn flour. You have to find roti flour.

 

[akroberts1085]

@Sammster you can find the acorn flour on 6579. The recipe is on 6580.

 

[akroberts1085]

My chickens are still laying eggs. They are RIR's. Is that normal?

 

[chickengr]

my ducks and geese laid a few eggs. is that normal?

some chickens lay year round.

 

[Sammster]

@Sammster you can find the acorn flour on 6579. The recipe is on 6580.

Interesting! Thank-you! So this is something you've done? Can you describe the flavor?

 

[CNJ]

Yes! We did that and Clemson spineless this year. Next year, the Louisiana will be the only one we plant!

Thanks for the reply, I am looking forward to them. I have an okra growing that I am found of. It was the only seed that sprouted from an old bag. I usually make seeds from the previous grow outs, but I must have thrown it out.

This one plant just started to produce okra, so I left a big one on my plant for seeds. They are tender at 4 to 5 inches but get bigger than that. The okra at my local nursery is short and stubby, it's not same variety that I like.

 

[CNJ]

I have decided to convert my 5 Kratky buckets with float and solution reservoir into wicking buckets. I will use my 3/8-inch poly tube strung buckets for the reservoir and put another bucket on top. I got inspired by this video. However, I will use a smaller 4-inch net cup for the wick and won't copy his float valve set up. I think the net cup in the video is too big and the float valve is limited to a 5-gallon reservoir. It would be better to use a separate 5-gallon bucket for the float valve and connect the float valve to a larger reservoir.

 

[akroberts1085]

Interesting! Thank-you! So this is something you've done? Can you describe the flavor?

I have not done it yet but I asked my mom and dad and they both said it's fresh.

 

[akroberts1085]

my ducks and geese laid a few eggs. is that normal?

some chickens lay year round.

This is my first year with chickens and I haven't ever had ducks or geese.

 

[gtaus]

I have decided to convert my 5 Kratky buckets with float and solution reservoir into wicking buckets. I will use my 3/8-inch poly tube strung buckets for the reservoir and put another bucket on top. I got inspired by this video. However, I will use a smaller 4-inch net cup for the wick and won't copy his float valve set up. I think the net cup in the video is too big and the float valve is limited to a 5-gallon reservoir.

Thanks for that link. I was really interested in the control bucket concept with the float valve. I will have to check out those grommets and piping. I was thinking about hooking up a tote bin (DIY Earthbox) system like that with the bins daisy chained on long support shelf. Maybe even having a two or three level shelf for the totes.

Would be nice to fill one control bucket on the third level and have the water automatically adjusted to the correct level on the lower two levels. Don't know if that is possible, but still kicking it around in my mind.

Kind of like this setup but with 27 gallon totes instead of 5 gallon buckets....

Just thinking it would great if that setup could be connected to a single control 27-gallon tote on the top tier and the water flows down to the lower tiers but automatically shuts off before overflowing.

If anyone has a suggestion to accomplish that type of setup, please let me know. Thanks.