What did you do in the garden today?

[Sueby]

Today I prepped the two beds for garlic and multiplier onions. I put compost on, raked it level, and then hoed furrows in. I watered the furrows well. We might get a few hundredths of an inch of rain tomorrow, maybe more on Friday. I plan to plant on Thursday. That would be another garden thing marked off the list.

I hope to do this this weekend, get the garlic bed ready & get some compost on it & get it watered. Maybe for planting the following weekend.

 

[Sueby]

Any ideas on keeping the dang woodpecker from ruining my coop? I put out rubber snakes, it throws them on the ground, lol. So today I went & stapled cardboard up over the 3 holes till I could come up with a better idea & it actually found a new spot & pecked a new hole in in the matter of an hour or 2!
I am SO over the dang critters this year.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We are going freeze brought in all my small zucchini like 8 of them.
Also brought in the remaining pumpkins. Will start on squash also tomorrow.

 

[chickengr]

we are almost always in drought. I am thinking about digging a well on my second plot. it is placed down the hill near a tiny creek. just need extra money.

 

[Eagle343]

we are almost always in drought. I am thinking about digging a well on my second plot. it is placed down the hill near a tiny creek. just need extra money.

How deep of a well?

 

[chickengr]

How deep of a well?

not sure but there should be water at about 4-5 meters deep.

I finally bought a kumquat to plant! a stone pine as well.

 

[WthrLady]

well i checked it says my area is in moderate drought. I thought it would be more than moderate since it hasn’t rained in I don’t know 8 to 10 weeks? But apparently from January to August was the wettest year in a long time.

But the water measuring calendar runs from Oct 1st to the end of September the following year.

 

[jerryse]

Had a brief rain shower about noon yesterday. The beans we cooked were not gassy. Cooler. Lots of leaves down. Finally got the alternator out of the truck. A real PITA to remove. Now I have to install the new alternator. Should be a little easier.

 

[Jenbirdee]

But the water measuring calendar runs from Oct 1st to the end of September the following year.

well drought.gov said it this way . and i guess 35th out of 130 isn’t that bad actually. but in sept we had less than half inch rain , and none at all in oct.

 

[Molpet]

Any ideas on keeping the dang woodpecker from ruining my coop? I put out rubber snakes, it throws them on the ground, lol. So today I went & stapled cardboard up over the 3 holes till I could come up with a better idea & it actually found a new spot & pecked a new hole in in the matter of an hour or 2!
I am SO over the dang critters this year.
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He might be telling you something.
I had a woodpecker on the house going to town. Turned out I had carpenter ants in the siding he was going after.