What did you do in the garden today?

@Minanora I am so sorry.

It has turned hot here, like everyone else but you lucky folk in winter down southern hemisphere. I so miss Minnesota. I am more of a winter person. 101 deg is just simply barbaric. And I grew up in hot dusty dry Texas, on a cotton farm, if that gives you an idea of heat and misery. Left MN for NM 9 years ago. Love both but this of year I am hankering for a blizzard.

The three extra roosters leave for their final destination today. I simply could not be happier for them. A young guy who is living sustainably and doing all the permiculture things the young people have the energy and bodies that bend and move in the morning are doing.
We are sending him home with a roll of fencing we don't need, some hydroponic stuff we don't use. I told my husband I would pay him to take those roosters. They are going on 11 weeks and starting to fight.

Does anyone cook with a solar oven? I need to bake bread today and I think I will put a pot of flageolet beans to simmer in the solar oven when bread not baking in there. Might as well take advantage of the heat and sun. I bake in the sun as much as I can.


The tithonia are blooming and the saturation of orange is deeper than any tube of oil paint you could find. Also, the Bubba desert willows are in full bloom bringing in the hummingbirds. The smell of their flowers is amazing.
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But this clove size variation is specific to soft neck and silver skin varieties
I grow hardneck, not sure of the variety, and I also see a significant difference in the new harvest depending on size of the clove planted. We also use the small cloves for cooking and have since last year been processing into dried minced garlic. Not much, in any, in the way of saving versus store bought BUT it’s another small step further away from the grocery store.
 
Just piddled in garden. Wondering why I haven’t grown a beefsteak tomato yet. I fed them the other day in case lacking in calcium etc. 🤔
I picked weeds around yard for older chickens. My phone says this is lemon balm. It smells nothing like lemon. I thought it might be in mint family. What do you think?
 

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Just piddled in garden. Wondering why I haven’t grown a beefsteak tomato yet. I fed them the other day in case lacking in calcium etc. 🤔
I picked weeds around yard for older chickens. My phone says this is lemon balm. It smells nothing like lemon. I thought it might be in mint family. What do you think?
I can't tell from the picture, not even if the stems are square. Rub the leaves, does it smell like lemon then? Maybe catnip?
 
Just piddled in garden. Wondering why I haven’t grown a beefsteak tomato yet. I fed them the other day in case lacking in calcium etc. 🤔
I picked weeds around yard for older chickens. My phone says this is lemon balm. It smells nothing like lemon. I thought it might be in mint family. What do you think?
Looks like mint to me.
 
Just piddled in garden. Wondering why I haven’t grown a beefsteak tomato yet. I fed them the other day in case lacking in calcium etc. 🤔
I picked weeds around yard for older chickens. My phone says this is lemon balm. It smells nothing like lemon. I thought it might be in mint family. What do you think?
Could be a variety of bee balm. Lemon balm is absolutely unmistakable in smell. Here is mine: it is more lime color than bee balm and closer tighter foliage IMG_9120.jpeg
 

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