What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

Hooked my seedling starter mats up to a socket in the grow-out pen and put them on the floor of the upstairs of the chicks house for radiant floor heating. LOL.
I moved the brooder plate, which they were no longer using at night to the lower level which is protected outside area for when they chill during the day. Apparently they don't have the brains to go UP in the daytime to get warm, so I had to get creative.

 

[Smokerbill]

I did a little more weeding and got the peas cleaned up. I trained the pea vines up the trellises. And got a little more work done to the chicken run, closing up a gap way up high that could look like an interesting escape route to a young ambitious chicken.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

Getting a very light rain- had my mom over for a little garden tour. Had my little gals out with the big gals. Did not go well. They started well but not so much now. They cornered one as I was standing right there and pulled about five feathers out in one Peck! But then I realized they were going to eat them. I have never had a chicken eat a feather. Let alone a group of feathers. Separated them and guess I will try again tomorrow. Darn. I am going to put more clutter out in the run tomorrow. Haha. It will be like an obstacle course for those big gals!

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

I think the weather is getting to where peppers and tomatoes can go into the ground. Planting bean and squash seeds will have to wait a little longer for the ground to warm up some more. I think I'll pull weeds out of the garden today. I've been slacking off in the weeding department.

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I upgraded the chicks' brooder box yesterday by adding a couple inch layer of decomposed woodchip mulch, straight out of the garden. They've been scratching and pecking non-stop in the stuff, eating who knows what. I'm sure there are tiny little bugs of some kind in the mulch.

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What breed are they? So cute

 

[TJAnonymous]

Bagged peaches and grapes today... Enjoying flowers blooming.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

I bought a bag of red onion bulbs too and out of the 90 I think 20 are growing. I got them mainly for the grandkids to grow in their little garden plots, so I guess it was worth the four bucks.

Box store bagged stuff doing terrible is why my garlic growing attempts start with grocery store garlic now. My first attempt was with a bag of garlic from Lowes, and almost all of it was dried out and dead! At least the grocery store garlic is usually plump and healthy.

 

[Smokerbill]

What breed are they? So cute

Two are Rhode Island Red pullets and two are New Hampshire males. I was planning to get a self sustaining flock of New Hampshires going and have seven pullets that are close to 9 weeks old now.

I got the pair of RIR chicks because I thought that just the two male chicks in the brooder box would make things a little lonely. RIR chickens are pretty close to the same as New Hampshires, and that's all I could find on short notice..

 

[Smokerbill]

Box store bagged stuff doing terrible is why my garlic growing attempts start with grocery store garlic now. My first attempt was with a bag of garlic from Lowes, and almost all of it was dried out and dead! At least the grocery store garlic is usually plump and healthy.

I bought a bag of 90 at home depot early in the season last spring and all 90 grew. This late in the season most of the bagged stuff at HD is dead or dying. LOL

My garlic patch started out with HomeDepot bagged starts, and 9 grew the first year. Three years later I have 60 big garlic plants growing from cloves I've saved. I'll have enough to eat for a year and plant too from now on from that single bag of starts.

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

Box store bagged stuff doing terrible is why my garlic growing attempts start with grocery store garlic now. My first attempt was with a bag of garlic from Lowes, and almost all of it was dried out and dead! At least the grocery store garlic is usually plump and healthy.

I usually save enough of mine to plant but if I need more I go to "Natural Grocers" and buy some garlic from them. It does fantastic and is usually hard neck so you get scapes also!