What did you do in the garden today?

[Jenbirdee]

added more compost to le heap

 

[TJAnonymous]

I've put eggs that are ready to hatch in the brooder under a heat lamp. Mine have hatched out just fine in a pinch. If you want another option.

She is not being very accommodating, for sure. I don't think she has sat on the eggs all day since I moved her. I just peeked in on her and she is just standing in the box. I'm going to check her one last time right as it starts to get dark. If she isn't sitting on them when it's dark, I'll move her and the eggs back into the goat house for the night and try again tomorrow. They are literally a day or two from hatching. I thought they would be hatched today!

 

[akroberts1085]

Does anyone have a good pomegranate jelly recipe without a huge amount of sugar being used in it?

 

[cj2024]

I had a back-to-back epiphany while I was eating my instant Noong Sim Udon noodles from Costco. Typically, I would pick up a bunch of noodles and stick it in my mouth, but while I took my first unconscious bite, I notice that the noodles I just bite into were cut in half, leaving smaller pieces of noodles. Then it dawned on me, and I started eating just one to two noodles at a time. I found out that one noodle is kind of long and if I ate it all in one slurp, I wouldn't be left with a lot of smaller pieces.

The other epiphany I had was when I finished the bowl of noodles. I got an idea to use the food grade bowl to sprout my two-year-old Black rice seeds that I saved from black rice I grew from my local supermarket. I decided to put sifted soil in the bowl and bring the water level up slightly above the soil. I know the seeds are viable because I recently saw them sprout in a petri dish filled with water, but I forgot all about them and they dried up and died.

I plan on growing Milky Mushrooms with the rice paddy straw after the harvest, so I have a long way to go.

Although the rice harvest will be insignificant, the milky mushroom strain that I have preserved can grow up to 8 inches round, so it's worth the effort to grow my own substrate.

 

[cj2024]

I just found this Brazilian plum on my small three-foot tree. I thought it was going to look like a small plum, but it looks like a cherry. The taste and texture are similar to a mountain apple; I will let the next one ripen more before I try it. I may have to cut out the seed and sprinkle sugar on them.

 

[Sally PB]

I was planning to plant my potatoes this morning too, my experiment. Volunteer potatoes do well and produce spuds after being in the ground all winter, so planting potatoes in the fall for the next year's crop should work just fine. And that'll be one less thing for me to do next spring.

I'm really tempted to try this! I would have to mark where I planted them...

 

[Sally PB]

I dug the rest of the potatoes today. I covered the bean plants with two layers of sheets. We'll see if that will keep them from dying with the expected freeze tonight. It's saved them from 3-4 nights of frost.

 

[TJAnonymous]

She is not being very accommodating, for sure. I don't think she has sat on the eggs all day since I moved her. I just peeked in on her and she is just standing in the box. I'm going to check her one last time right as it starts to get dark. If she isn't sitting on them when it's dark, I'll move her and the eggs back into the goat house for the night and try again tomorrow. They are literally a day or two from hatching. I thought they would be hatched today!

Well, just went out and checked on our little rebel... Thankfully the little diva decided to sit her tush on the eggs overnight at least... Or so it appears unless she pushed them behind her. We'll see how things look in the morning. It was relatively warm today in the upper 70s but it's dropping down to 50 tonight. I was more concerned about them getting chilled overnight. The nesting box is 16" x 16" and I have food/water in there too so she doesn't really have a lot of room to sit EXCEPT on the eggs in the corner where there is more space. I'll feel bad if they don't make it.... But between a prowling possum in the area and a couple of egg esters in my flock, I was worried they wouldn't make it a few more days in the goat house. Every day I left them in there felt like Russian Roulette.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

I was planning to plant my potatoes this morning too, my experiment. Volunteer potatoes do well and produce spuds after being in the ground all winter, so planting potatoes in the fall for the next year's crop should work just fine. And that'll be one less thing for me to do next spring.

Please let us know how it works out! I love the idea, but I have to make too many decisions on what I actually want to do next year before I can allocate garden space to anything.

 

[Smokerbill]

Please let us know how it works out! I love the idea, but I have to make too many decisions on what I actually want to do next year before I can allocate garden space to anything.

I will!