What did you do in the garden today?

[dirkandlorie]

Chick number 2 has arrived

Congrats!!!!

 

[Rick589]

Congrats!!!!

Thank You We lost the first of the three…..very sad for me, I’m a real softie. Hopefully tomorrow we will still have two love chicks, mom and kids are in their nest box in the coop with 2 everyone else.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Thank You We lost the first of the three…..very sad for me, I’m a real softie. Hopefully tomorrow we will still have two love chicks, mom and kids are in their nest box in the coop with 2 everyone else.

I have chicks hatching today to one decided to cut it’s head on the fan of the bator lol

 

[Rick589]

I have chicks hatching today to one decided to cut it’s head on the fan of the bator lol

Sad, but best wishes with the rest.

 

[Rick589]

Potatoes are all pulled and canned, one quart failed to seal so we’ll just eat those tomorrow. Keep thinking I’m going to pull the carrots and process but haven’t pulled that trigger yet. Beets and cucumbers are being harvested as they come as for the sweet potatoes, watermelon, cantaloupes, and tomatoes, well, not much to do with them right now. Just wait and see.

 

[Ponypoor]

I have chicks hatching today to one decided to cut it’s head on the fan of the bator lol

Whoa Nelly - is it ok?

 

[fowltemptress]

Ok, give. What is pickle soup? Rather, what goes into pickle soup…..besides pickles.

It depends. The Russian variety I make is made with beef and barley, mostly, with carrots and onions. I think it's supposed to be made with kidneys, but I use ground beef. I mix in loads of fresh dill when it's finished cooking and serve with sour cream. It's my favorite version of pickle soup; come to think of it, it's now my favorite version of beef barley stew.
I found this pickle soup back when I was googling pickle soup recipes in an attempt to recreate the foods of my childhood. It was so different from what I grew up with I just had to try it. Both my husband and I thought it would be a failed experiment, but it's really good!

The one I grew up with in my Polish family was more like a potato soup, but with pickles, lots of fresh dill, and sour cream. In fact, when I make potato soup I'll often serve it with pickle juice for people to add in if they'd like. Potato soup tastes a bit bland once you've experienced Polish pickle soup, so I need the pickle juice to give it some zip.

 

[chickengr]

That’s the oil, I also get that. If you fry it, it gonna be even more painful. The aubergine together with the oil create an ouch.
Mayonnaise is scary.
What you can do is replace the aubergine with bottle gourd, tastes amazing.

I thought bottle gourd is ornamental, lol.

Interested in understanding how you define dead water.

not an expert but there is loss of oxygen, altered water structure, chemical chages, etc. if you google it AI will tell you microwaved water is safe but you will never grow anything with that "safe" water.

It's been my experience that whatever conclusion is drawn by the 'researcher' doing the research is usually based on an in going bias of the 'researcher'.
How many times in the last 20 to 30 years has the same chicken egg that has existed forever flip flopped between good and bad based on 'research'.

my way od thinking is simple: whatever didn't kill my grandparents will not kill me either.

Do you think it ever becomes cheaper to have backyard eggs than buying? I built and outfitted ourselves for about $1500.00 figuring 5 hens. We ended up with 6, 2 of which were roosters, which we got on the 2 of July this year. By the middle of December we got our first egg….so, I guess the first egg cost $1500.00 not $600.00. Of course, these gals have been pumping eggs out at an average of three a day. So, per egg price obviously dropped a lot but I always wonder whether it ever actually becomes cheaper.

my eggs might not be cheaper than store bought but they are very tasty and medicine/chemicals free.

no bator. There are other hens but no one seems interested. I’m thinking of of setting up the brooder and moving them there for these last few hours of hatch. Does this seem like. good plan?

good idea.

 

[User690263]

I picked some raspberries today, not as many as I hoped, but the plants are still recovering from when one of the goats got to them

 

[chickengr]

grasshoppers ate 2 varieties of yellow tomatoes I recently transplanted