Recent content by Smokerbill

I think they can tell because of the ceramic egg's temperature. All the freshly laid eggs are warm, and the fake one is cold.

I bought a pound of Sluggo Plus bait. Parts of my garden are being munched on by slugs and I think, earwigs too. Sluggo Plus kills both. Just watered the garden, so after it dries a little I'll spread some of the bait around. I think the BT I sprayed on the bok choi helped. The new leaves...

7 out of 7 again. One had a little divot broken into the shell, I guess from dropping directly on another egg when it was laid. The membrane didn't break so it's still edible. Weird thing, the chickens almost always push the fake egg out of the way so they're not sitting on it. They prefer the...

I gave the tomatoes, peppers and squash a good soaking with some of the fermented weed fertilizer I made a few weeks ago. I diluted it down, 2 cups per gallon of water. Afterwards I soaked everything with the garden hose to push the fertilizer down to the plants' roots. Picked a big mess of...

I watered the lettuce/marigold/zinnia/crocosmia starts on the back porch railing. Mowed the yard yesterday. I ripped out the last four daikon radishes from the bucket and gave them to the chickens since the plants were bolting and the roots were woody. I think I'll move a volunteer tomato plant...

Saw this metallic green fly on the lemon balm and crocosmia plants. @PopoMyers , I haven't seen stink bugs here.

7 today, but one was broken in the nest.

Microgreens???

Thinking more about your potatoes, when I was a kid my grandpa grew a lot of potatoes, several acres at a time. They were always planted close to St. Patrick's day. Sometimes a hard freeze would hit and kill all the above ground foliage. The potatoes always grew new vines after the freeze, so...

7 from 7 again today, but one was big and wrinkled/corrugated, with an extra piece of shell stuck to it in one spot. There are lots of possible causes for corrugated shells but it happens so rarely so I'm not worried about it at the moment. Probably stress related. ETA: it had a single yolk...

I mixed some fine gravel with compost for my sage starts and got them up-potted.

Glad you replied to this interesting thread. I didn't know it existed and would like to see it revived!

I set out 6 okra plants in the garden today. Maybe they'll grow, maybe not. If they don't I won't be buying more seeds to replace them. I need to put together a sandy, rocky soil mix for uppotting the three sage seedlings I have. I'm glad they germinated. The rosemary seeds did not germinate...

That's got to hurt! Are there potatoes of any size under the plants yet?

Do they have any skunky smell to them?