What did you do in the garden today?

[GracePoultry]

Today I worked on tearing up some weeds for winter and then forced my chickens to dig it up as well.

 

[Nym]

I keep a cloth bag in my car so I can use it for shopping. I grew up with cloth bags.

still no rain here. if we don't get snow this year I'll be worried about water supply.

I hope you get some decent rain soon! We haven't had any to speak of since May.

 

[Molpet]

eggs that didn't hatch can be boiled for at least 30 minutes and fed to animals (poultry, dogs, pigs, etc). if you don't have a pot for that you can burry them in your garden or around the trees. great fertilizer.

I need something to pick them up with. They sound like a gun going off if they explode... only have a couple a year that exploded but it's traumatic if not contained. I scoop up the eggs and the bedding with the bag.
I had one explode in my face. Rotten egg in my eyes, mouth and up my nose. Yes it was as horrible as it sounds.

I use the eggs in the box traps for varmints. I tie the bag to the back of the box... so they have to step on the trip pan.

 

[Sueby]

I need something to pick them up with. They sound like a gun going off if they explode... only have a couple a year that exploded but it's traumatic if not contained. I scoop up the eggs and the bedding with the bag.
I had one explode in my face. Rotten egg in my eyes, mouth and up my nose. Yes it was as horrible as it sounds.

I use the eggs in the box traps for varmints. I tie the bag to the back of the box... so they have to step on the trip pan.

That sounds absolutely horrific!

 

[jerryse]

Mouse trapping report. Caught one in large glue trap and one in repeating mouse trap. One got out of small, covered glue trap. My homemade bait is seldom touched. Figured out how the get out of the repeating trap. I taped the lid down but still happened. Looked them over and sometimes the ramp is down just a little allowing them to pull the ramp down and walk out. More weight on the door or adding a little more length to the area that covers the end of the ramp are two ideas.

 

[jerryse]

I need something to pick them up with. They sound like a gun going off if they explode... only have a couple a year that exploded but it's traumatic if not contained. I scoop up the eggs and the bedding with the bag.
I had one explode in my face. Rotten egg in my eyes, mouth and up my nose. Yes it was as horrible as it sounds.

I use the eggs in the box traps for varmints. I tie the bag to the back of the box... so they have to step on the trip pan.

Goose eggs are the worst. Grandma had 3 China geese, and the eggs never hatched. Gander likely at fault. It was my chore to bury them once one blew up. I learned to dig a hole first and gently get them on a shovel and into the hole. Hold breath and cover quickly with dirt.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Light rain expected all day... Need to go put out more carrot seed.

Read a good idea that I'm going to incorporate in my containers next year... Cut up sponges to put in the bottom below the soil... My flower pots get dried out too fast. Hopefully this will help!

 

[cj2024]

Mouse trapping report. Caught one in large glue trap and one in repeating mouse trap. One got out of small, covered glue trap. My homemade bait is seldom touched. Figured out how the get out of the repeating trap. I taped the lid down but still happened. Looked them over and sometimes the ramp is down just a little allowing them to pull the ramp down and walk out. More weight on the door or adding a little more length to the area that covers the end of the ramp are two ideas.

I used those small mouse plastic poison mouse bait traps that they sell at Lowes before, and I don't see any mouse anymore.

I also made a bait with baking soda and Jiffy corn bread cake mix and got rid of the rats.

 

[fuzzi]

Goose eggs are the worst. Grandma had 3 China geese, and the eggs never hatched. Gander likely at fault. It was my chore to bury them once one blew up. I learned to dig a hole first and gently get them on a shovel and into the hole. Hold breath and cover quickly with dirt.

I remember in the book Charlotte's Web one of the goose eggs doesn't hatch, and Templeton the rat claims it for his own. Later on it explodes.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

I finally checked the rain gauges in the garden and confirmed we got 5 inches last weekend. Started raining again this evening and expected to continue all day tomorrow.

Garlic is finally sprouting.... Broccoli and cabbage are flourishing now that grasshoppers are gone. The Nantes carrot tape I put down doesn't seem to be sprouting so I may have to use a different seed packet. But I did notice I had some tomato volunteers coming up... Sorry but I don't think you're gonna make it, little guy. Dahlias are blooming again too. I'm leaving them in the dirt this year... We'll see if they come back up in the spring.

I also saw a whole bunch of divets in the grass all over my garden area. I can't figure out what it's from? Maybe squirrels digging? They are about golf ball sized depressions in the ground that are just dirt, no grass. Whatever is causing it is not doing it in the vegetable beds... Just in the grass areas.

That could be from skunks looking for grubs.