What did you do in the garden today?

[5Australorpasaures]

Weather permitting we will set up shade cloth and mister for transplants that I didn't have time to harden off completely. Severe thunderstorms predicted though. Lightning gives me a real case of the bejeepers.

 

[cj2024]

It's been a while since I hatched eggs, I forgot to take out the Brinsia rotating bottom tray and I almost made a big mistake. I was going to open the incubator and take out a couple of hatched chicks because of my exploding egg phobia. That would cause shrink wrapping on the other eggs with one day left to go. I got 3 Isa Brown chicks so far.............one male and 2 females. I am happy because when I candled them at 10 days, I saw only one egg with movement. The rest of them were black and I couldn't see anything.

 

[Smokerbill]

Unlike most everyone else here, it seems, my garden is enjoying cool, moist weather. The lettuce and brassicas are going crazy.



I took a bowl and scissors out and filled it with 2.176 pounds of leaf lettuce and 0.187 pounds of watercress. There will be a lot less cress when I remove the leaves from the stems, which I chopped off with the scissors.



I think I'll have a dill crop this year from all the volunteers that came up.



The chicken run woodchip compost pile is still hovering at 105° at 10 inches depth. Kind of hard to see on the pic.

 

[BladeBoundMagus]

I need to go out and add dirt to my potato buckets. I have 5 going with various small potatoes varieties.

 

[cj2024]

Unlike most everyone else here, it seems, my garden is enjoying cool, moist weather. The lettuce and brassicas are going crazy.

When I get tired of eating my lettuce, I feed them to my tilapia, my chickens won't eat the leaves unless it's on a living plant.

 

[Smokerbill]

When I get tired of eating my lettuce, I feed them to my tilapia, my chickens won't eat the leaves unless it's on a living plant.

My chickens eat lettuce. With this much lettuce on hand I think I'll make some wilted lettuce like my grandma made.

In a skillet with a little bacon grease add some apple cider vinegar and sugar to get a sweet and sour flavor. Pile in roughly chopped lettuce and cover it. Cook over medium heat for a few minutes until the lettuce has wilted down. Stir, plate and sprinkle on bacon bits.

It takes a lot of lettuce, because it wilts down to nearly nothing.

 

[WthrLady]

winds howling over 50mph today.
Guess what? It's dry out. LOL
The hens are out for now, but I'll get them back in by noon. They're just out there hiding from the wind. At least in the coop, I can create still air spaces.

Pollen is still off the charts.
Waiting for beans and corn to emerge. Tomatoes in the greenhouse are about 20 inches tall and I'll deliver this week.

 

[muddy75]

On the to-do list this weekend is removing an unwanted mulberry tree and pulling bull thistle out of my garden beds so I can plant

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

I made myself a salad out of some of my leafy greens today. Mostly Brentwood lettuce but a little of my usual boring green variety and a few pieces of Romaine.

 

[RoseHawke]

The recent storms and rain we had did a number on my onions . A week ago these onions were all standing straight. Looks like I'm going to have an early harvest. I'm still working on getting the gardens sorted after 4+ years of neglect. Slow and steady wins the race.