What did you do in the garden today?

[SkyAJK]

Over here we are in our 2nd month of winter - June - August.
Only a bit over 1.5 months to get to spring, it is coming fast.

I put out sunflower seeds for germination a week ago, and nurture them like caring for baby chicks.

My Mom loves sunflowers and she has lots of wild birds in her garden. I am going to put all my sunflower seedlings in her garden so that there will be a field of sunflowers, that is if those wild birds not pinched the whole sunflower head off. They have been known to do that.

Once I have a whole field of sunflowers in spring, I will enter this

Outdoor Garden Show—2025 BYC Summer Fair​

Over your side be will be summer time.

 

[gtaus]

I use kosher dill juice from Claussens , then make devilled eggs from them. Takes longer though, need a good 8-10 days. If your sanitation is impeccable, you can use one jar of left over juice twice (in rapid succession). If its not, you get one shot at it.

I'm happy with just one use of the pickling juice from the can of pickled sliced beets or leftover juice from a jar of regular pickles. I don't trust my sanitation is impeccable.

Also, since there is no cooking or heating in the making of these pickled eggs by just packing a jar with leftover juice, I try to eat the eggs up in a couple of weeks in the refrigerator. That is OK with me because I probably only make 6-8 small, pickled eggs at a time.

Of course, different types of pickle juice will flavor your hard-boiled eggs that way. What a great way to try out which flavor you like best!

 

[C Siena]

Never tried. Dear Wife sells most of our excess eggs to friends. But we keep the smaller eggs for ourselves. Every once in a while, we have enough for a batch of hard-boiled eggs and then I will pickle some.

A couple of years ago, before pullets were laying, we had extra. Our neighbor had 47 layers and I was selling her eggs at Church. She had so many, she gave us 12-18 a week. Another neighbor's friend had a bunch of layers and would give us 2 dz a month.

As we eat eggs 3x a week and only 2 of us, it was way more than we could use. Instead of turning them down, I began to dehydrate. I did water glass a couple of 1/2 gallons jars of them also.

The dehydrated are fine for scrambled, quiche, baking etc. The water glass, over 9 mos old, are still fine, but are a bit thinner and I would use them the same as the dehydrated ones.

I began doing this in early '22, in case a store wouldn't let me in without proof of the "shot". When I read of a place in Alaska and S America that did this, denying someone. I made the final decision to be more self sufficient.

Wow, I typed a lot, must have ingested too much purslane.

 

[drstratton]

Kind of a lazy day today...for once lol. I took a picture of one of our resident Bumblebees hanging with some of our honeybee girls on one of my flowers.

 

[Smokerbill]

Kind of a lazy day today...for once lol. I took a picture of one of our resident Bumblebees hanging with some of our honeybee girls on one of my flowers.

Easy day for me too. Picked a head of cabbage, hand watered the onions and remaining cabbages and turned on the drip irrigation for an hour to water the zucchinis, cucumbers and 6 tomato plants.

 

[NetherLeeFarm]

So, I’m picking these blueberries and I get stung by this tiny tiny caterpillar, I think it was a caterpillar. Anyway, this thing couldn’t have been more 1/4” long and was sitting on the edge of my collecting bowl. Very small, with yellow hair and what appeared to be red spines or hairs at front and back. Little prick stung me and it felt like a mild bee sting. Didn’t get a photo…..wasn’t prepared to document anything….critter dispatched off of the edge of the bowl quickly and with certainty. Any thoughts on what it may have been?

Look up slug moth caterpillars. They can pack a wallop! Purple-crested might be what got you based on description. Probably wasn't eating blueberries but just passing through.

 

[OnlySympathy]

I collected some more spinach seeds. Still have a lot more to get

 

[OnlySympathy]

I collected some more spinach seeds. Still have a lot more to get View attachment 4170136

Guess who just spent 10 minutes getting even more just to trip and spill everything

 

[Sydney65]

Growing something different this year.

 

[Sally PB]

Do you ever water glass

I did another batch this summer.

The water glass, over 9 mos old, are still fine, but are a bit thinner and I would use them the same as the dehydrated ones.

Hubby doesn't like the texture/flavor of the WG eggs. Also, the yolk nearly always breaks, so I use them for scrambled eggs and baking.