What did you do in the garden today?

[akroberts1085]

It's been a marathon here. I've been running single threaded since Wednesday and it's starting to catch up to me. Sunday I mowed the lawn, and the clover. I pulled out more tomato plants. Yesterday I fertilized the kale trees and the squash.

Today I pressure canned 14 pints of chicken stock, watered the garden a little, and transplanted some of the broccoli into larger pots. I'm looking forward to my spouse getting over covid. It zapped him good.

I hope he makes a good recovery. My husband got it and it was bad but at least it didn't hit him as bad as what our children got. The son stayed in bed, the oldest daughter stayed in bed and the youngest daughter couldn't smell anything. When I got it over a year later, I had a headache that was insane but that was all I had.

 

[pennyJo1960]

It's been a marathon here. I've been running single threaded since Wednesday and it's starting to catch up to me. Sunday I mowed the lawn, and the clover. I pulled out more tomato plants. Yesterday I fertilized the kale trees and the squash.

Today I pressure canned 14 pints of chicken stock, watered the garden a little, and transplanted some of the broccoli into larger pots. I'm looking forward to my spouse getting over covid. It zapped him good.

The med we took zapped it great Paxlovid.

 

[jerryse]

Rain total .59 official and 3/4 or so in a bucket. Next chance of rain Sunday. Just right temps 50s - 70s. Should see some sunshine today.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Picked more tomatoes, these plants are goin gangbusters! So delicious, too. I ate a big Cherokee tomato right there in the garden like it was an apple. Yum! Pulled more weeds, of course, mostly around the perimeter. Inside the garden itself is all weeded & staying that way, for now. That'll change with rainfall. I weeded the stones surrounding the firepit & burned some small scrap wood out of a shed & yard debris last night.
Last of the embers at dusk. So relaxing taking 10 min to enjoy warmth of the fire as a nippy breeze rolled in after a warm day.




I did install 2 layers of weedblock fabric before I put stones down surrounding the fire pit, but the tough wiregrass roots poke right through it. Nasty weed, I can’t stand it.

We should've gotten rain lat night. I see some wetness on the deck this morning, but the ground is still dry. They're saying we get some decent rain on Friday. We shall see...

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Super busy past few days. I put the door on the littles chicken coop, then painted. I got a reprieve on the next rain system so I should have plenty of time to get the north facing windows installed. I finally got around to weeding the fall garden plots and picked a few radishes. I gave some of the radish greens to the old hens but kept the rest for me. I love the spicy leaves. My tomatoes are done. I have one bowl inside with almost ripened ones and one bowl of totally green. I think I’ll be making some green tomato salsa with those.

 

[WthrLady]

Chicken exploding season. I'm glad the severity of the molt isn't directly related to the severity of winter. This is two night inside the coop. The run is twice as large. They're also molting under the coop in the gravel and all over the workshop. It's insane!

 

[Molpet]

Chicken exploding season. I'm glad the severity of the molt isn't directly related to the severity of winter. This is two night inside the coop. The run is twice as large. They're also molting under the coop in the gravel and all over the workshop. It's insane!
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Looks like where a chicken plucker had been

 

[Smokerbill]

Rain is moving in from the west and should hit in an hour or two. The breeze just started picking up.

I picked all the tomatoes I could find that had at least started turning. Got 7 or 8 pounds. And I picked all the yellow and rattlesnake beans I could find, but left plenty of mature pods for next year's seed.

Most of the pods I picked are on the mature side. I shelled out the papery pods and cut the rest of them into one inch lengths. I've got them in the pressure cooker now to make the old pods tender. I hope.

ETA: The pressure cooker made the beans tender. There was a random string here and there, good roughage for digestion.

 

[WthrLady]

Looks like where a chicken plucker had been

RIGHT?! I just swept out the coop. But there are places around the yard where one will figure out the ground scratches just right, and they'll all use it all day, and OH the mess!

There has been no wind. It cracks me up when the wind picks up and sends all those feather all over the hilltop. It's like we're having a pillow fight up here.

 

[Acre4Me]

Thank you for the advice. I have an extremely long growing season. I planted them in April or maybe sooner than that. All of the vines are extremely dark green so since I haven't ever grown sweet potatoes I was wondering what to do next. I also found out that the leaves of the sweet potato vines are edible. Just something new for me to try.

https://www.sandhillpreservation.com/sweet-potato-growing-information

Ive bought my sweets from here, over 100 varieties sold there. They used to have over 150 varieties, but in 2020, there was a derecho that basically took out many varieties. Good info at this link.

This year I'm growing 11 varieties. I've grown purple (purple skin and flesh) and didn't care for them as much, but husband liked them. Ive enjoyed several white varieties, so am growing 3 or 4 White varieties this year. The rest are variations of orange types.