What did you do in the garden today?

[BigBlueHen53]

My huckleberries are garden huckleberries, related to tomato plants and grown the same way as tomatoes. They taste nothing like true huckleberries which are delectable. These take a bit of work making them edible, but I'm working on it.
I'm told true Montana huckleberries don't transplant well that's why you can't find them on the market. Again , what I was told, no direct experience with that.

Well. Oh well. Thanks anyway. Guess I get to keep my arm, lol.

Maybe someday I'll move back to MT, but man, I really hate the cold nowadays.

 

[dirkandlorie]

Well. Oh well. Thanks anyway. Guess I get to keep my arm, lol.

Maybe someday I'll move back to MT, but man, I really hate the cold nowadays.

Might be worth a visit back to Montana during huckleberry season. Eat your fill while you're there, lol.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Just a little side note: one of my old BO hens gifted me an egg this afternoon. So the tally for the old hens today is 2 C. Wyandotte eggs and one B.O. Happy old ladies.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I order my sunscreen from an online company called Butter Me Up Organics. We took this on our cruise last fall. Worked wonderfully both in and out of the water.

Ingredients: Coconut Oil*, Shea Butter*, Mango Butter*, Non-Nano Zinc Oxide*, Non-GMO Grapeseed Oil, Vitamin E*, Beeswax*
*Indicates certified organic

 

[TJAnonymous]

Where do you get huckleberries? Are they really, truly, honest-to-goodness Montana huckleberries? Are you in the market for a left arm, because I will gladly send mine for Montana huckleberry bushes. I've been wanting some since about 1974.

I know Gurney's sells them online. I've also seen them locally at Lowes. But I tried to go the cheap route and grow them from seed... However 2 years in a row, they failed to get beyond a half inch tall. I've tried to sow them in both pots and in the ground.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I know Gurney's sells them online. I've also seen them locally at Lowes. But I tried to go the cheap route and grow them from seed... However 2 years in a row, they failed to get beyond a half inch tall. I've tried to sow them in both pots and in the ground.

Would this be the tame ones or the Montana wild ones?

 

[Rick589]

I order my sunscreen from an online company called Butter Me Up Organics. We took this on our cruise last fall. Worked wonderfully both in and out of the water.

Ingredients: Coconut Oil*, Shea Butter*, Mango Butter*, Non-Nano Zinc Oxide*, Non-GMO Grapeseed Oil, Vitamin E*, Beeswax*
*Indicates certified organic

Soooo, wouldn’t Crisco be cheaper?

 

[Rick589]

All ours do. And the vehicles are in terrible condition. No heat, no AC, bad tires, barely road worthy. I'd gladly go back to just picking up mail once a week at the post office if they'd just do it. I don't get anything but professional magazines and junk anyway.

Our rural routes are brutal in the winter.

I have considered a PO box BUT then the address would need to be changed AND I’d end up paying rent on a box as a specific consequence of crappy/untrustworthy service. So, the USPS would get me to spend more money on horrible service AND I’d have to go get it.

 

[chickengr]

Kinda like me with the goji and huckleberries... Instead of wasting money trying to get seeds to grow, I may bite the bullet and buy established plants. Need to figure out if I'm going to end up moving first.

I bought plants: currants and goji. all died. this year I bought again currants but I keep them in pots and they have shade in the morning. their leaves got sunburn but at least they are alive. I water them every day.

 

[Smokerbill]

I celebrated today by digging out all of my garlic, 59 heads. There were 60 but I dug one a couple weeks ago. I layed them all out on top of an empty rabbit cage in the sun to cure for a couple days, then into the shade they go.

I think that overall they're bigger than last year's heads. I'll save about 100 of the largest cloves for planting this October. All of this garlic is the progeny of 9 little plants I started from Home Depot seed garlic in 2022.

I need to dump a couple big buckets full of chicken run compost into the garlic bed and work it in so it's ready for planting in a few months.