What did you do in the garden today?

[Rick589]

I use them for scrubbing out animal water troughs... Likewise, I keep one in the kitchen too.

I also make my own soap so I'll cut up smaller loofah to put in the soap mold and pour the soap around it.

Clever

 

[TJAnonymous]

Popped in to make a post about a broody that I CANNOT break no matter what I do - hoping for some new ideas. If anyone has any thoughts: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/cant-break-a-broody-please-give-me-ideas.1672528/

Also wanted to share that I made some freezer pickles, made a post in the preserving thread:
I made some freezer pickles. Who even knew that was a thing? But I have SO many cucumbers I thought I'd give it a try. I will thaw a jar in a week or so & see.

This is sort of the recipe I used, I don't like sweet pickles so I left out the sugar & added tons of dill, but I followed the directions on letting them drain & all that.

https://www.thechunkychef.com/homemade-freezer-pickles/comment-page-2/#comments

And lastly, an update. Garden is producing well now. DH is digging the pickled eggs, I almost gagged when I even tried one. They are disgusting, the texture makes me want to hurl. Hot out there today, smells like wildfire, but I got everything watered.

Did you try dunking her belly in ice water?

 

[Sueby]

Did you try dunking her belly in ice water?

Yes. Not seeming to help. She's in a cage with a wire floor & a 2x3, off the ground with a fan on her. 8 days now. She's a maniac. And a RSL at that! Never had one go broody.

I'm desperate to break her because the bear is in the neighborhood and while she's in the enclosed run and safe from most everything, nothing will stop the bear if it wants her. I'm about to let him have her.

 

[Sueby]

I wated to do loofa but my season just isn't long enough. I don't have the patients to start them indoors and keep them alive long enough for them to go outside.

 

[Rick589]

Sure.
3-4 cups of peeled, seeded, and chopped cucumbers
2/3 cup of sugar
1/2 cup of lime juice
6 cups of water, divided
mint, optional

Place the cucumbers, sugar, lime juice, 3 cups of water, and mint if using in a blender and blend until smooth. Strain the pulp through a fine sieve extracting as much of the liquid as possible into a pitcher than add the remaining 3 cups of water.

Done.
We suck this down by the gallons as long as the cucumbers keep loading us up. Once they’re done we switch over to a similar drink using watermelon.

 

[Sally PB]

Thank you! I copied and saved that. I'm going to put limes on the shopping list and make some for me. I'll give hubby a taste, but if I tell him it has cucumber in it, he'll probably make a weird face and not even try it.

Silly hubby.

 

[Rick589]

Popped in to make a post about a broody that I CANNOT break no matter what I do - hoping for some new ideas. If anyone has any thoughts: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/cant-break-a-broody-please-give-me-ideas.1672528/

Also wanted to share that I made some freezer pickles, made a post in the preserving thread:
I made some freezer pickles. Who even knew that was a thing? But I have SO many cucumbers I thought I'd give it a try. I will thaw a jar in a week or so & see.

This is sort of the recipe I used, I don't like sweet pickles so I left out the sugar & added tons of dill, but I followed the directions on letting them drain & all that.

https://www.thechunkychef.com/homemade-freezer-pickles/comment-page-2/#comments

And lastly, an update. Garden is producing well now. DH is digging the pickled eggs, I almost gagged when I even tried one. They are disgusting, the texture makes me want to hurl. Hot out there today, smells like wildfire, but I got everything watered.

Just curious, why do you want to break her?

 

[Rick589]

I don't like sweet pickles

Yes, they should be outlawed.

 

[Smokerbill]

Yes, they should be outlawed.

Hey, sweet pickles are great. Dills are too.

 

[OnlySympathy]

I don’t even know what sweet pickles are but they sound kinda good