What did you do in the garden today?

[CatInTheHenHouse]

Almost 80 today! Moved the strawberries, sweet peppers, one kale plant and a few of the onions into what will hopefully be their permanent homes, and buried all the mulch and dead plants from last year in the garden boxes so they can break down. Also found ants in one of the boxes.

Still need to plant the hot peppers but I don’t have the energy today.

 

[Sally PB]

I turned the compost pile today. It's a big pile. Lots of chicken poop and garden stuff from last fall. I'm going to do the Berkely "hot rot" method (turning every 3 days) so that it'll be ready to use in a month or less.

I also called a local garden center to see if they have rhubarb crowns. They do, and I'll pick up two on Monday when I'm in town.

 

[SkyAJK]

my chickens have always eaten mint. good for their health too. that's my experience.

Oh....thank you for sharing that. Google says bad for chickens mint.

I had removed one part of my garden of Mexican mint, they are climbing up the fence everywhere in my garden.

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

I brought out some seedlings for a bit of slow acclimatization. I'm in zone 5 and we're getting a day in the 70s F . I will up-pot all those leggy tomato starts and have the baby chicks out with me while I do that in the pop up greenhouse. Also, I just ordered a lilac leaf Greenstalk planter (they are having a sale) for my culinary and medicinal herbs. I want to be more organized with herbs so they'll have their own growing space.

I grow in two green stalks and love them. I have herbs and strawberries in one and carrots and strawberries in the other. No slugs on the strawberry plants.

 

[akroberts1085]

My husband and I were working on getting the corn, beans and everything else vining area tonight. He fixed our heater in the bathroom, that took way too long time. I came in and got my phone to see that our son had called so I called back and he was at his long time friends house ( since the 6th grade), his friend offered me tomato and pepper plants. Yes I will take them considering mine just flopped over after I planted them. He said that he will put together a care package for me to send with the son.

 

[Minanora]

Thank you. My chickens eat them and they are very hard to remove as they have long sterms.
One good thing about them is that they smell really good.

I did a quick google and some returned that it is not good for chickens to eat anything that belong to the Mint family.

They will be removed

I don't think that's accurate. My understanding is that mint is beneficial for chickens.

My chickens eat mint plants. They are ravenous creatures. Any mint that grows where they can eat it, they devour it. I've tried to get it to grow where they free range and they eat it to death, every time. No matter how established.

 

[Minanora]

Going home tomorrow. I'm very blessed. I've had my best friend taking care of my chickens and garden for me while we're camping. She's my savior. It's so great to have someone I can trust to check on everything.

Trails here are already too dusty to enjoy. And with the high risk of valley fever, I'm over it. I just want to be home.

 

[drinkoj]

I don't think that's accurate. My understanding is that mint is beneficial for chickens.

My chickens eat mint plants. They are ravenous creatures. Any mint that grows where they can eat it, they devour it. I've tried to get it to grow where they free range and they eat it to death, every time. No matter how established.

Agreed, mint is a great treat for our chickens. We had mint in containers next to the run and had some OPS! cherry tomato plants that we allowed to grow so they could peck some extra treats themselves.

 

[Grandmas Coop]

The Plumb has blossomed so full this year, So has the pear.
Now that I see the plumb blooms, I think the small tree is plumb, maybe.
The apple is just about to flower.

 

[Ponypoor]

Growing them in containers are a little tricky. They die if they don't like the potting mix. I killed a lot of them along the way, now I use an inert 50/50 peat and perlite mix and feed them with Alaskan fish fertilizer once a week depending on how often it needs water and add Alaskan Bloom during the flowering time. Desert sand and peat 50/50 or Paver sand and peat 50/50 or small size lava rock and peat also works, beach sand is a different animal, it has an alkaline composition with a higher ph.

Mango trees thrive in slightly acidic to neutral soil, with a pH range of 5.5 to 7.5. Keeping the soil within this range ensures optimal nutrient availability and healthy root development.

They can be grown and kept in containers. I recommend dwarf or medium size trees for containers. They don't like manure and compost based potting mixes, but it can be used on top. In addition, the size of the container needs to match the root mass, if the pot is too large, they may not like it. The pot should be upsized as the tree grows until the last size you will keep it in. I think it has something to do with waterlogging the roots in oversized pots.

Thanks! Sounds promising!

Only issue now is were to find a tree