What did you do in the garden today?

[Rick589]

I must be tired. I read this as the Braised Amish recipe will be forthcoming. Not bread ....

All part of my plan to keep everyone off kilter, plus stuff just spills out of my head with no rationale……at times.

 

[Sally PB]

Best news of all, not a single vole hole or damage in any of the beds since I planted the garlic. Its like they just packed up and left. Yay garlic, its working!

Yeah! Garlic!

I'll be planting garlic and multiplier onions, probably next week sometime. We're supposed to get a good, soaking rain this weekend.

 

[Smokerbill]

Did a little garden cleanup this AM. Pulled up and put away a dozen t-posts, took down one of the cucumber trellis's and hid it under the trees and took the zucchini posts out.

I started incubating some eggs yesterday, 10 from my best pullet. Hoping to get at least 3 or 4 pullets from the hatch that'll be ready to start laying next spring.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I put eggs in the incubator day before 10 will candle in a week.
Morning Gardeners start on the garden when we don't have rain.

 

[cj2024]

My 5 eggs started to hatch and one of them hatched on the first day of lock down and have been knocking the other 4 eggs around like a football. Now, four of the unhatched eggs are spread out on four sides of my square incubator wall.

The problem I have is two eggs were placed inside my incubator 3 days later, so I plan to take out what ever hatches on day 21 and give any unhatched eggs 3 more days. I hope none of them are piping when I open the incubator tomorrow am.

The first 3 eggs hatched as planned and the other two were not piping, so it's all good. I am not sure what color these chicks will turn out to be, but they look yellow. Two Isa Brown rooster parents look exactly like Rhode Island Reds and one look like the traditional Isa Brow white and brown color. The hens were the second generation of a cross between a Breese rooster and a Cornish cross hen. I am hoping for a few of them to be fast fat growers that pull on the Cornish x side. These will become my line breeders, but I don't think I can mate them back to my old hens. They are too old and hardly laying.

 

[jerryse]

A little rain early and more coming tonight. Tried that bread recipe . I used half for a pizza and the other half for a loaf of bread. Maybe a bit too much dough for the pizza. Have not cut the loaf but it did raise really well. Full from the pizza.

 

[jerryse]

Cut the loaf and the best bread yet. I can slice it very thin. I used the posted recipe and took tips tips from this video about getting the gluten to the right point.https://youtu.be/phzRY8FDj4c?si=TJaLNCe0TrubV59R

 

[jerryse]

Cut the loaf and the best bread yet. I can slice it very thin. I used the posted recipe and took tips tips from this video about getting the gluten to the right point.https://youtu.be/phzRY8FDj4c?si=TJaLNCe0TrubV59R

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

I dug up the last of my potatoes; 1/2 pound from the whole pot. Which I grant those were the nickel and dime sized seed potatoes, but wow I hope the potash I got helps for next year.