What did you do in the garden today?

[Smokerbill]

I started up a batch of weed tea fertilizer this morning. I dug up a variety of weeds with roots attached, lightly smashed the roots and leaves, put them in a bucket and covered with water.

It needs to soak/ferment for a week or two before it's ready to be diluted and used as fertilizer for the garden.

https://www.almanac.com/fertilizer-tea-plants-weeds-and-grass

I gave my last three cherry tomato plants to my neighbor yesterday, then gave her a tour of my garden. Glad those plants found a home.

The weed tea fertilizer I started last Sunday has been fermenting the last few days. Lots of bubbles in the bucket. All that wild yeast and bacteria is gettin' down to business!

 

[WthrLady]

I get my next bonus on 6/15. I will most likely break down and buy one with it.

Tomorrow I have ice cream squares, shoo fly cake, and cooked french toast sticks going in. All are for boy scout summer camp.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Tomorrow I have ice cream squares, shoo fly cake, and cooked french toast sticks going in. All are for boy scout summer camp.

I watched a good video on YouTube about rehydration and what's good or what doesn't rehydrate well. Would love your 2 cents as you experiment...

 

[WthrLady]

I watched a good video on YouTube about rehydration and what's good or what doesn't rehydrate well. Would love your 2 cents as you experiment...

I've done cooked eggs, and I'll never do them again.
Raw eggs will be done the next time I have a load of eggs to do. I understand those rehydrate beautifully and make great egg products and go into baked goods well. (I will let you know.)
I also have not done meat yet. I'll also let you know when I do.
I used the uncooked French toast sticks as a base for bread pudding, OMG SO GOOD.
Everything else so far has been made to be eaten dry and not rehydrated.
OH WAIT, no I forgot, the Cincinnati chili and cheese. That was OUTSTANDING.
The tomato soup was incredible.
I also want to do sausage biscuit and gravy, to be rehydrated at camp.

 

[WthrLady]

@TJAnonymous make sure you have a place to put it before you buy one.
The medium, and I think the large, need their own 15Amp, with nothing else running on it-20Amp is even better, but most don't have those kicking back, relaxing in disuse.
AND the room, when it's running needs to stay below 72'F.
Those two things are tripping people up.
I have purchased a second set of pans, a disc insulator pad for the door, and a set of pan risers for freezing things first in the large house freezer first. They allow you to stack the pans, which also makes them easier to carry from point A to B.

 

[TJAnonymous]

@TJAnonymous make sure you have a place to put it before you buy one.
The medium, and I think the large, need their own 15Amp, with nothing else running on it-20Amp is even better, but most don't have those kicking back, relaxing in disuse.
AND the room, when it's running needs to stay below 72'F.
Those two things are tripping people up.
I have purchased a second set of pans, a disc insulator pad for the door, and a set of pan risers for freezing things first in the large house freezer first. They allow you to stack the pans, which also makes them easier to carry from point A to B.

Hmmm, that's REALLY good to know. I was thinking about putting it either in my gardening shed, garage, or sun room. None of those are below 72 degrees in the summer... And a dedicated circuit is also not ideal although I could probably make it work.

 

[cj2024]

I am 5 days into making my sour dough starter and instead of throwing out the discard I made a sour dough bread. I used my dough mixer, and I let the dough rest for about an hour. Then I stretched my dough in the bowl 3 times at 30-minute intervals. Then I put it in a glass bowl with a cover and cooked it at 480F for 20 minutes and took the bread out of the bowl and cooked it for another 25 minutes at 450F. This is how it turned out, but I don't know how it taste yet.

 

[cj2024]

I am 5 days into making my sour dough starter and instead of throwing out the discard I made a sour dough bread. I used my dough mixer, and I let the dough rest for about an hour. Then I stretched my dough in the bowl 3 times at 30-minute intervals. Then I put it in a glass bowl with a cover and cooked it at 480F for 20 minutes and took the bread out of the bowl and cooked it for another 25 minutes at 450F. This is how it turned out, but I don't know how it taste yet.
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Yay, it tastes like sour dough bread, I am impressed.

 

[chickengr]

Ducks completely ruined our new flowerbed we were trying to make!

Our chickens are kind pure-hearted souls who will use them to poop and such to help fertilize and further boost the progress. They will get rid of all those pesky destroyers of the flowers and get rid of small snakes around them.

Our DUCKS on the other hand are evil and cruel, If you gave them a cup of water and ask them to save half they would break the cup in half instead. They are evil despicable and horrendous, they are a threat to all of humanity and completely destroyed the flowerbeds and uproot the flowers and eat the earthworms and stomp on sprouts and bury their FAT beaks into the soil and eat the seeds and anything helping it grow.

Okay I am done with my rant.

what breed of ducks do you have? I've heard that khaki campbell ducks don't ruin garden.

 

[Ridgeback825]

Howdy all! We've been sweaty hot for a bit down here and I finally got my first flush of dragon fruit blooms.