What did you do in the garden today?

[jerryse]

Rain is coming. Just spitting a little. I have squash and pumpkin seed I can share. Summer squash Boer resistant project, Dickinson pumpkin. pink banana, and cushaw. Message me if interested.

 

[FrannyNZooey]

It’s a nice fall day here. 51 and sunshine breaks. At lunch I dumped a few buckets of leaves in the chicken run. I also pulled out our ollas from the garden beds. I usually put those in the garage for the winter. Not sure if they’d crack if we get an extended freeze, but I’d be pretty bummed if they did.

I sign off early from work, since it’s pretty slow this week. Good time to do some raking and make a grocery store run.

 

[Sally PB]

No time to work in the garden this week, and the weather is going south anyway. Up to an inch of rain on tap for tomorrow, so it'll be an inside day tomorrow.

 

[akroberts1085]

Went out and had to try to stand up the gates I used for trellis'. Had 2 of the grandkids here so I showed them that Darlin would sit on my lap. They were so surprised.

 

[akroberts1085]

Got the laundry room floor done. My husband says we intentionally did mismatched flooring because you always have mismatched socks.

 

[fuzzi]

I have bees and the taste of honey depends on what the bees made it from. Clover honey is very good and light in color. The darker honey is often called wildflower honey. It is said basswood makes a very good honey. I do not have basswood trees but they are common in your area. Many beekeepers will not harvest honey made from goldenrod. They leave it for the bees. Some say they can smell goldenrod when they open a hive during the goldenrod bloom.

Speaking of bees, this popped up on my feed, and I thought some of you might appreciate it!

 

[Acre4Me]

YEP. That damnable thing!
120 gallons, no heater, no insulation fiberglass so water got cold really fast.
The jets were nice BUT it was so high up and far into that box that you had to be 6 feet tall just to get in. Getting out was dangerous with wet and tile. I've used it twice in 10 years. DH never used it. We kept the dirty laundry hampers in there. LOL.
TOTAL waste of water and space.

We did the same - a saws all made nice work of it. Took a 9x12 bathroom (and hall closet) and turned it into a 9x9 full bath, a 7x3 half bath, and a normal size hall closet (previous one was 3’deep with only a 20” door) way better use of space!

 

[Acre4Me]

For a while "gluten free" was a marketing ploy for some companies to sell more product.
I actually saw gluten free bottled water a couple years ago.

Last year, for a HS assignment, the teens needed to create a new product…present and market it… one group created “Diet Water” …still makes me laugh bc water has no calories …but we all know people would actually buy it if such a thing existed.

A couple years ago I bought grit for the girls. A 25lb bag. It’s crushed granite. But sold by a big brand from TSC, so it was a colorful labeled bag. Had to laugh bc there were several marketing items on the bag, such as “100% Natural” and a few others, all of which made me laugh. I wondered if they set the marketing intern on the job of package redesign and what can one say about rock?

 

[Acre4Me]

think the store bought eggs are full of antibiotics, and I am allergic to most of them.

Antibiotics are very regulated. With chickens, it would not make sense anyway. But, animals with antibiotics have strict rules about getting back into the food chain.

Many years ago I worked at a cheese factory. This was of modest production and several things still done by hand. They only produced 5lb blocks of a couple types of cheese for restaurant type use. Milk came in via tanker trucks. The milk was from a variety of farmers and one tanker could hold milk from 1,2,5,7 (you get the idea) farms. When it arrived, the milk was tested for a variety of things before being unloaded, including antibiotics. If antibiotics were found, then individual farm samples were tested (that arrived with the load of milk) to determine the farm that would have to pay for all the milk -as the entire load would have to be dumped as it was unuseable. This only happened 2 times, maybe 3, in the time I worked there. And was typically accidental. But various rules for various antibiotics.

 

[Sally PB]

If antibiotics were found, then individual farm samples were tested (that arrived with the load of milk) to determine the farm that would have to pay for all the milk -as the entire load would have to be dumped as it was unuseable.

That would make you want to be reeeeaaaallly careful, wouldn't it?