What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

I‘ve got a food dehydrator , it depends on what you call cheap ( compared to a freeze dryer, it was a bargain) since I finally got some solar panels last year ( only 2 small ones, but hey, every little bit helps) I always try to run energy consuming machines when the sun shines

Yes, it's a cheap one. It's a Secco Pro Chefwave 6-tray. While I think it was more expensive when it was purchased, they are now only like $100 on Amazon. It's very limited in functionality and not produced very good results whenever I've used it.

So I'd almost rather sell it for a few bucks and get a freeze dryer. I just gotta come to terms with the cost.

 

[chickengr]

I've got red & a few varieties of green. Why does it seem to be the red lettuce that wilts fastest? Or is this just in my refrigerator?

I guess red lettuce wilts faster because it contains less liquid.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Regarding the peach trees. My peach tree always blooms before my apple trees.

Same. My peach trees bloomed around March 20th, according to this picture. My apple trees didn't bloom until about 2 weeks ago.



We had a freeze after my peaches bloomed. I really thought they'd be toast but both trees have fruit. I'm quite surprised... Now I'm just praying they make it to harvest. One has already dropped some fruit.

 

[Smokerbill]

Yesterday afternoon I pulled the weeds out of my raised beds. Took about 10 minutes.

Last fall I topped the beds with compost and then a layer of maple leaves, so there weren't that many weeds to pull. Most were little maple seedlings that were brought in with the leaves I used to mulch the beds.

I gave the garden a shot of water first thing this morning. Also watered my tomato and pepper starts in the house.

 

[muddy75]

Finishing tilling and hopefully start planting this afternoon

 

[WthrLady]

Chicken run is covered and completely predator proof now!! We put metal roof panels up to meet the wall of the barn, so something can’t enter up top between the 1’ gap that was between the roof and barn wall.

Asparagus fresh from garden is yummy. We’ve been picking it this week!

Something is just wrong with this pic.
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OHIO has most tornadoes this year?? So weird.

We have to have moisture and the right system set up for tornadoes to start up here. The tornado belt season hasn't started yet.....just sayin. We ramp up from late April to July in Tornado alley, and we just added 5 a couple days ago to that 8, in one 4 hour span.

 

[WthrLady]

Well, I did it. The pinnch-penny queen, I pulled the cord.
Harvest Right will be here between now and 430pm ( I get free one day delivery from TSC to the house)
I asked DH what he thought about it and he said go for it. So....
We already have a dedicated outlet for it in the pantry room.
I stopped by our little thrift store on the way home and found a really heavy duty sofa side table with a storage area on it for the oil filter pot, and oil, and supplies - $18.
So I guess here we go. LOL
@TJAnonymous

 

[TJAnonymous]

I also really have no place to put it except my she-shed... I'd have to bring it out only when I actually want to use it. Not ideal since it looks heavy...

But I'm so jealous of you right now! I might live vicariously through you for the time being.

 

[TJAnonymous]

It was supposed to rain on Thursday. 90% chance. We didn't get a drop.

Then it was supposed to rain last night and today. 75% chance. Still didn't get a drop.

I'm going to have to water the garden now.... So annoyed.

 

[NewBoots]

I've got red & a few varieties of green. Why does it seem to be the red lettuce that wilts fastest? Or is this just in my refrigerator?

That's my experience too but I've no idea why.

We got our soap making ingredients in the mail yesterday! I'm pretty excited because I've wanted to try making soap for YEARS. It should also cut our expenses down a bit, which is always nice.

I'd love to see that too please.

One of the bunny kits was out of the nest box this morning, cold and totally limp. It's tummy was flat so it didn't get milk this morning so I brought it in, warmed it up, and got a tiny bit of warm filtered water into it. Once it warmed up it was feeling so much better that it cussed at me and tried to bite me. According to the stuff I read online, it should be okay till Scarlet feeds them again tonight. DP has ordered milk replacer (Wombaroo) so we'll be ready for next time. I don't really want to get into hand raising bunnies but one feeding to get one past a mishap would be nice.