What did you do in the garden today?

[Sueby]

It's icing now. We lost power. We ALWAYS lose power. We bought an all home generator to just yesterday, as a matter of fact, to replace the one we use now. We needed something that could run the hot tub in an emergency, can't have that freeze.

 

[Tahai]

I shoveled a path through my garden to my hen house. Does that count as gardening? we were only supposed to get 2 inches, but ended up 6. Luckily I'm able to work from home and didn't have to burn a vacation day

 

[fuzzi]

A woman out here brought her horses into her house, HER HOUSE. I'm sorry, as long as they're well fed, moving, have warm water and out of the wind, maybe a coat on, they're fine.
She will never get 5 days worth of horse wee out of her hardwood floors.

Misty of Chincoteague was housed in the kitchen when the island became flooded and the family had to evacuate. She was expecting her first foal at the time.

Hey, the house is still standing!
https://www.chronofhorse.com/article/saving-misty-of-chincoteagues-home/

 

[fuzzi]

Speaking of layering...

For me
Headband/earcover is first level
Then gloves, long sleeve shirt, jeans (any order or combination until all three)
This gets me into the 40's if I'm moving or not out long; sometimes the mid 30's. But it depends on the humidity, windiness, whether the sun is out, and my mood.

Then add a sweatshirt or heavier flannel shirt
Then a coat
That is usually good down to mid twenties unless I'm out a long time and not moving very much.

About here, I switch to more insulated boots (all insulated instead of just the bottoms).

Then hat instead of earcover, mittens instead of gloves, a scarf (any order)
That gets me down into the teens.

Then a thermal vest undershirt and/or another layer of flannel shirt and/or add wool socks and/or add flannel lined jeans.

Pushing zero or below, I start switching to alpaca.

The colder it gets below that, the more layers get switched to alpaca. Eventually, I just add more alpaca. Or cashmere, or cashmere/angora before I accumulated enough alpaca.

All this, assuming it is dry enough and not horrendously windy. For windy, nothing beats leather. Certain Carhart jackets come close, though, if they are in good shape.... older ones, at least. Last time I looked for a replacement, they seemed to have changed a lot. I ended up mending mine.

I love this description. I sympathize, I lived in Connecticut, where we got our share of cold weather.

 

[CNJ]

I finally got my black Surinam Cherry tree to hold some fruit. I grew this plant in the first picture from seed, and this is the first year it has set some fruit. The black Surinam Cherry variety is sweet unlike the sour red one.

A bee or fruit fly stung my first Kajari melon through the mesh bag, but I have more that I manage to put mesh bags on, so I still am hopeful. This Kajari melon is in my front yard and I have another one growing in a 40gal Kratky trash bin in my back yard. A bee stung the main stem on that one, but it looks like its healing. I hit it with a fungicide and insect spray to help it heal and it's kicking out a lot of baby Kajari melons.

I got an idea for my Thai melon, instead of growing one large melon on one stem, I decided to let it run wild and grow a lot of smaller ones.

The skinny small melon in the middle picture is the mango melon, it's shaped like a long squash. I wonder if it will taste like mango?

 

[Happy hen lover]

Walked by in the snow and looked over at blanket of snow covering the garden, smiled, and dreamt of the springtime.

 

[WthrLady]

Trudged through the high drifts, looked over at the garden, drifts are up and over the 4 foot fence surrounding the garden, rolled my eyes, and realized we still have the traditionally snow heavy month of February into March to go.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Trudged through the high drifts, looked over at the garden, drifts are up and over the 4 foot fence surrounding the garden, rolled my eyes, and realized we still have the traditionally snow heavy month of February into March to go.

Look on the bright side... Hopefully you will have less garden pests and mosquitoes....

 

[akroberts1085]

Misty of Chincoteague was housed in the kitchen when the island became flooded and the family had to evacuate. She was expecting her first foal at the time.

Hey, the house is still standing!
https://www.chronofhorse.com/article/saving-misty-of-chincoteagues-home/

That's an awesome story. Very sweet and kinda sad at the same time.

 

[akroberts1085]

I shoveled a path through my garden to my hen house. Does that count as gardening? we were only supposed to get 2 inches, but ended up 6. Luckily I'm able to work from home and didn't have to burn a vacation day

I'm going to say yes. Shoveling snow is a job in itself.