What did you do in the garden today?

[Rick589]

Yes it is. My best guess is that it's Russian Red garlic.

Your best guess is better than anything I could come up with. We got our garlic from a family member a few years back and all anyone knows for sure is that its hardneck, the givers probably know but are keeping it secret from us.

 

[cj2024]

A brown chick hatched last night, and I finally got an unfertile egg. I have one egg left on lock down. I feel sorry for the little brown guy because I see the bigger yellow chicks bulling him. I am not sure if it's part of the pecking order process or because of his color, but I couldn't take it. I hit the guy who pecked him with a chop stick and kept hitting whoever else that bit him. I think it's working. Nope it's not, I think it's the pecking order thing. Oh well, now I feel like a terrorist.

The bigger chicks stopped pecking the little brown chick after they assigned him a feeding number. I will add a long type of feeder today, to ease the tension.

 

[Molpet]

We got our soil analysis back! We're in the desert so we don't have topsoil, just sandy dirt over layers of natural concrete called caliche. Not good for growing stuff.

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For the past three years we've been adding soil, fertilizer, organic material, etc. Considering what we started with, the results were better than I expected although some of those values are REALLY high and we need to add boron.

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Where did you have it done?

 

[Knobby]

Finally got the chance to rip out my tomato plants, my winter melons, leftover radishes..then tilled the grounds in preparation for winter.

 

[Molpet]

I planted soaked garlic yesterday and carefully marked each variety with flags. Then I leveled the ground. Leaving the pitchfork upright in the ground.
This morning I came out to this with racoons tracks.
First year I soaked the garlic

 

[Rick589]

I planted soaked garlic yesterday and carefully marked each variety with flags. Then I leveled the ground. Leaving the pitchfork upright in the ground.
This morning I came out to this with racoons tracks.
First year I soaked the garlic

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To me that would cause imminent gunfire.

 

[jxp]

I planted soaked garlic yesterday and carefully marked each variety with flags. Then I leveled the ground. Leaving the pitchfork upright in the ground.
This morning I came out to this with racoons tracks.
First year I soaked the garlic

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Greedy little buggers.

 

[Molpet]

To me that would cause imminent gunfire.

I have been culling since covid, over 150 in the last 5 years.
Stupid neighbors like to watch so they put out corn.... When the food is gone they come down to check out the poultry buffet

 

[OnlySympathy]

Most of my plants are done now. I got the rest of the peppers picked and started ripping out plants

 

[EmmaDonovan]

Where did you have it done?

MySoil Soil Test Kit. They were fast, they had the results online within 48 hours of receiving the sample.