What did you do in the garden today?

[jerryse]

A systemic herbicide, such as glyphosate or 2, 4-D, can be applied to the foliage in late summer. It will be taken down to the root. A more targeted approach would be to cut the plant near the ground and apply undiluted herbicide to the wound. The herbicide has a shorter trip into the taproot.

Remember to always read the label for specific application sites, precautions, and mix rates. l
I found this on removing pokeweed.

 

[Sally PB]

I add olive oil some days

How much do you add and how do you mix it in so that it doesn't just float on top?

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

You should grow a few coffee trees! I mean, you can grow them where you live so, why not!

If you want to go that route, MIGardener sells coffee seeds. (With a note that they aren’t restocking their store until around the 1st of November.)

 

[Sammster]

Still not feeling great. I hate being sick. But I went to the doctor today for a regular appointment. I've been instructed to take it easy... I do not like being idle. But I want to drink beer on Saturday so I will do as I'm told.

Watered the carrot patch. I hope to see sprouts soon. Transplanted some scarlet kale. Picked raspberries and strawberries. I hope to plant garlic this weekend.

Feel better ♡

 

[Minanora]

How much do you add and how do you mix it in so that it doesn't just float on top?

Usually a tablespoon. I eyeball it these days though.I have a few methods, I drink my coffee out of a portable, sealing, stainless steel, insulated coffee/beverage tumbler. So, I shake my coffee up once it's about half empty every time I go to drink it. Or I froth it into a bit of heavy cream which is a pain in the butt. Or when I'm at my MIL I use the milk steam wand on her fancy machine to mix it into milk foam, which actually works pretty well. Sometimes I just fill a shot glass with olive oil and drink it before I have my coffee...

It's an acquired taste in my opinion. But the health benefits are worth learning to love it. But, we get oil for labor every year. We harvest olives at my MIL house. We usually make 40ish gallons of oil. I'm a few years we'll be getting way more since my MIL tore out her fruit orchard to plant 92 Olive trees. We have the best oil I've ever tasted. We hand sort the olives, so no bad or damaged olives, or leaves, go in the press. Every year we get about two cases of 500ml bottles of oil for our annual supply. We use almost all of it.

 

[Smokerbill]

Half the raised beds are close to being put to bed for the winter. I trimmed off all the chives and pruned back the oregano, lemon balm and tarragon. Then I took the hoe and the rake to two beds, weeded them and leveled the soil.

I'll let the upcoming atmospheric river settle the soil then I'll top them off with chicken run compost, the stuff I grew my butternut squash in this season.

There are a dozen garlic plants above ground now. 78 to go.

The smallest raised bed has the grandkids' carrots in it, plus a few brassicas, but the open spaces need cleaned up and mulched. And the last bed is filled with the kale, cabbages, collards, bok choi, watercress and daikon and those will be left in as long as they continue living.

I want to dig out all the lemon balm but I don't have the dirt I'd need to refill the hole, so I guess it stays for another year. Not a fan of tarragon either so it might also go eventually.

 

[cj2024]

You should grow a few coffee trees! I mean, you can grow them where you live so, why not!

I grew a Kona coffee tree before internet, so I didn't know how to prepare them. I ended up chopping it down, I remember it kind of looked like a Christmas tree filled up with red beans.

 

[cj2024]

Next Time I will gather all the eggs before placing them in my incubator, instead of putting them in when I find them.

Two more chicks just hatched, and it is kind of working out for me, since the older 7-day old chicks don't sleep or hang out directly under the heat lamp anymore, so the newly hatched chicks aren't getting trampled on. I got three more eggs to go with different hatch dates. I have been working with two incubators and been moving eggs between them for different lock down cycles. I am still at 100% hatch rate.

 

[dirkandlorie]

Frost coming tonight, so all the peppers were picked and ready to go in the dehydrator. Removed the insect netting and put row covers over all the veggie beds and frost blankets over the houseplants that I haven't sprayed yet for moving in the house yet. So much to do for end of season! Oh well, at least the chicken coop is wrapped and ready for cold weather.

 

[TJAnonymous]

A systemic herbicide, such as glyphosate or 2, 4-D, can be applied to the foliage in late summer. It will be taken down to the root. A more targeted approach would be to cut the plant near the ground and apply undiluted herbicide to the wound. The herbicide has a shorter trip into the taproot.

Remember to always read the label for specific application sites, precautions, and mix rates. l
I found this on removing pokeweed.

I did this with glyphosate in the spring (applied Roundup to cut stalks). The pokeweed still returned/regrew later in the summer. It didn't get as tall and big though so you can tell that the Roundup definitely damaged the rhizomes but didn't eradicate it completely.