What did you do in the garden today?

[pennyJo1960]

I will add lettuce seed have a few left I found.

 

[Swiss]

I was going to ask for id ing this - hoping mullein

Nope, not mullein. If I had a picture of mullein on my phone, I'd add it here, but I'll have to try to remember to get a picture of it tomorrow.

Today, I got to pick out a free bouquet of yellow roses that were passing their prime. I'm not normally a cut-flower/bouquet sort of gal, but they were free, and I had heard that it is possible to root roses from bouquets. So, I did some research and decided to try. I wanted to get some rooting hormone on the way home, but the beginning of rush hour traffic on a Friday before a holiday is no time to dilly dally! I got 11 cuttings in some soil under a humidity dome, and if they root, I am going to be absolutely psyched! And absolutely confused about where the heck I'm going to put them!

 

[pennyJo1960]

I promised the gal that owns Nachos the mexican restaurant in town for slips rooted of my climbers they are all over 100 years old.

 

[fuzzi]

Round up ready corn and soybeans are the most common GMO farm crops around me. They can spray the crops with round up and it doesn't hurt them and is supposed to kill the weeds. But the weeds are becoming resistant. The pollen, which has the chemicals in it from the crops, blows onto plants butterflies caterpillar and such feed on. It an endocrine disruptor and the caterpillar are effected. Same with fireflies larvae that lives in the ground, fertilizer and pesticides effect them.

They also spray Roundup on the crops AFTER harvest, to use as a dessicant. Traces of it are in everything we eat. I can't escape it entirely but I eat as much "natural" as I can.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Round up...what is sad is that you can do your best to make your own slice of land as chemical free as possible, but then right next door they can be spraying that crap. I have a neighbor that sprays down the entire side where our properties meet, as they put a fence in & that's how they address the weeds. Now, a new neighbor across our gravel road, has sprayed 8 acres. Of course the 80 acres that is farmed in back of my lot & down the other side is constantly sprayed with who knows what, applied by crop dusters & tractors. The owners of that land do not even reside in this state. So yeah...basically on all 4 sides, completely surrounding my little 2 acres spot, is full of chemicals, no doubt including Round up.

I have some excellent tasting well water here. It's probably tainted. Just pondering the chemicals used all over this beautiful planet, between the poisons & plastics, making our land & oceans toxic...it really is depressing.

 

[chicken opey]

Is this the start of watermelon? I’ve never gotten this far w them.
Squash still look happy and healthy. The plants that were blown over righted themselves.
Soon to have Romas! Does anyone clip off the whole bunch and just hang in kitchen to use? I’ve seen that and wondered if true or staged for pics.
Soon to be pickling!!

 

[chicken opey]

Round up...what is sad is that you can do your best to make your own slice of land as chemical free as possible, but then right next door they can be spraying that crap. I have a neighbor that sprays down the entire side where our properties meet, as they put a fence in & that's how they address the weeds. Now, a new neighbor across our gravel road, has sprayed 8 acres. Of course the 80 acres that is farmed in back of my lot & down the other side is constantly sprayed with who knows what, applied by crop dusters & tractors. The owners of that land do not even reside in this state. So yeah...basically on all 4 sides, completely surrounding my little 2 acres spot, is full of chemicals, no doubt including Round up.

I have some excellent tasting well water here. It's probably tainted. Just pondering the chemicals used all over this beautiful planet, between the poisons & plastics, making our land & oceans toxic...it really is depressing.

That means their soil is basically ruined - if you wanted to grow wo roundup - glysophate

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Borers took over my fig tree and I just cut it down instead of treating it. I have 2 new small ones I was thinking of putting in one of the chicken runs. If the borers return at least some sort of justice w my peeps eating them!!!

Fig tree in the chicken run? That sounds like a cool idea. I've had fig trees in the past, that did get huge. My chicken runs are enclosed so a fig would need to be pruned to only reach a certain height. As far as growing one...no doubt I'd need to block it off from the chickens at 1st, to give it a chance to grow, without them scratching & digging it up when it's still small. Anyone have experiences growing something like a shrub or tree inside a chicken pen/run? Please share your results.

 

[Sally PB]

They also spray Roundup on the crops AFTER harvest, to use as a dessicant. Traces of it are in everything we eat. I can't escape it entirely but I eat as much "natural" as I can.

One Degree is a brand of oats for oatmeal that I've bought at Costco that says it round-up free. $10/5 lb, roughly 2x the cost of Quaker, but worth it to me.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

That means their soil is basically ruined - if you wanted to grow wo roundup - glysophate

It's really very sad. Ya know, I relocated here so at least since I've been here, no chemicals have been used here. I've waged war on weeds with vinegar, unsuccessfully, but at least I try, right? There is no way of knowing what's been used here prior to my arrival, though. I did get a chance to talk to the previous owners...yup, they farmed it & used chemicals. So unless you have had your own land for generations, you don't know who did what, or when they did it.