What did you do in the garden today?

[cj2024]

Shipped Eggs?
I tried 3 x and ended up with one standard dark Cornish egg hatch

I remember you saying you had crossed Cornish X with your Dark Cornish rooster on another meat tread, and you also had a hard time with mail order eggs.

I don't have high hopes as the seller is from Texas and my previous experiences buying eggs from Texas took a long time to get to my place. I bought it on Ebay, it cost about $10 an egg plus $20 shipping. The seller had good reviews, so I took a buy it now chance.

I am hoping for at least one rooster.

 

[Finchbreeder]

Pruned the West Aust weeping pepermint - it keeps setting off the security lights when the wind blows. Which is 75% of the time here in "windy city"

 

[chickengr]

In our area mulberry trees are just large weeds. They spring up as undergrowth more often than not.

is there any possibility you send them here, lol? our weeds are fairly short and thorny.

 

[chickengr]

In USA the Red mulberry is native. However someone brought over Chinese white mulberry, for silk worms, and they are invasive.
The 2 have been hybridizing and there's few pure native red mulberry

I planted 2 or 3 white mulberries 2 years ago. they still look like dwarf trees. I wish they were invasive here.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Speaking of mulberries... I found a hidden mulberry tree on my property today!

I have a wooded tree line between my property and my neighbor. It's usually got a lot of thick underbrush so I don't crawl through there. Well the neighbor decided to get a property survey done and they cleared some of the brush out to find the corner of the property line. This caused me some inconvenience because now my goats go to the cleared area and can get through the fence. So while I was out fixing the fence tonight, I found a hidden mulberry buried in the treeline.

 

[MotherofOrpies]

I bought a 2 year old mulberry bush about 5 years ago, at first, it was tiny, but the last 3 years it exploded I harvested sweet (!) white mulberries 2023 and hopefully, this year ( last year, the frost killed off everything)

 

[muddy75]

This is the tree that has to go

 

[CabritaChicks]

I remember you saying you had crossed Cornish X with your Dark Cornish rooster on another meat tread, and you also had a hard time with mail order eggs.

I don't have high hopes as the seller is from Texas and my previous experiences buying eggs from Texas took a long time to get to my place. I bought it on Ebay, it cost about $10 an egg plus $20 shipping. The seller had good reviews, so I took a buy it now chance.

I am hoping for at least one rooster.

I had 6 eggs shipped over 3,800 miles. They even got lost in the mail at one point. I had two unfertilized, one failure to thrive- but the other three hatched and are healthy as can be little cuddle bugs!

I told my husband: 50% shipped will hatch, and of that there is 50/50 chance we get a roo. Well, I was right! (now we are expanding the roosting area in the coop- HAHA! Planting more fodder, and trimming herbs (rosemary, lemongrass, lavender and basil) to hang in the coop.

So keep the faith- it can all work out. Mine are white leghorn, easter egger and speckled maran mix.

 

[MROO]

I've done nothing in the garden yet today, but you can bet that's gonna change when I get home from church. Today is the first time in THREE WEEKS that the day has dawned sunny and dry with no rain forecast. It's time to play!

 

[Minanora]

I'm behind on the thread. No way I'll be able to catch up on so many pages.

Garden is coming along. Yesterday I removed suckers off of tomatoes and attached the ones that are large enough to their stakes. I watered things, caught a gopher, set more traps. My zucchini are putting on their first female blossoms already!!! It's looking like I'll have a great year for zucchini. Potatoes are dying off. Garlic has one more leaf to go until harvest! I'm so excited!

Isopods and earwigs destroyed all but one pumpkin sprout, so I'm going to have to replant. I will start in starter pots this time. I had this problem last year. This year I used a ton of DE and it still didn't stop them.

I let the chickens into my bulb patch and they cleaned up the weeds pretty good. Trampled the bulbs but they were done for the year.

Today is vehicle washing day. Then we bring the boat home to clean up for this coming holiday weekend.