What did you do in the garden today?

[TillyPeeps]

I can relate with this dude. Those little jerks went thru my starts on the table that I was hardening off & pulled them out of their pots! Dirt everywhere, such carnage for no reason. My garden beds are covered with hardware cloth right now while the seeds are germinating. & I use Repels-All. It mostly works, but they still get in there sometimes. I hate them. I don't know why they bother to come over here when the neighbors have seed out 24//7/365.

No clue. It's purple is all I know. LOL

Squirrels don't bother my gardens too much, but they stole some eggs last year. I didn't get any blue egg for a while last early summer and didn't think about it because my ameraucanas are seasonal layers. One day I went to check the chickens and heard a squirrel screaming and running away. I found a blue egg at the ground where the squirrel ran off. My black ameraucana girl, Pepsi, was mad! I guess she attacked the egg theft. That squirrel never came back again.

 

[Smokerbill]

I was out watering the garden and new berry patch before the sun came up this morning. Out of the 16 currants I planted yesterday all look great except for one that's kind of wilted. I still have three replacement plants left, just in case.

Today I'll plant tomatoes and peppers, maybe some seeds too. I'll get the planting holes ready while the sun is hitting the garden. When the sun goes behind the trees this afternoon I'll put the plants into the ground.

I planted 6 bok choi in March, I think. Five were destroyed by cutworms, and I noticed that the last one is starting to bolt. Gonna have a salad today with bok choi, red kale, red leaf lettuce, parsley and chive blossoms, all from the garden.

ETA:

Watered the potted tomatoes, peppers, berries and chives. Need to up-pot lettuce and marigolds today.

The diakon-in-the-bucket project is going well. Seems like the plants are getting plenty of sunlight through the floating row cover that I put there to keep out root maggot flies.



My salad. Even threw in a few dandelion and wild lettuce leaves.

 

[igorsMistress]

G’morning all. Been a busy week but I got out to water this morning and the xeriscape garden is happy! Plus the lemon tree is loaded with fruit and the bougainvillea is happy too. Elvis was my escort, called the girls over for bugs and such than ran from the water. Have a great day!

 

[Liz Birdlover]

God bless you for caring!

I tell ya, the feelings can't even be put into words, my love for helpless or injured creature just overwhelms & immediately sidetracks me. Anything else on the day's agenda is put on hold & rescue takes precedence. It's ticked off many over my lifetime .

I recall I was about 20, I had a few dates with a guy, who invited me to Thanksgiving dinner at his dad's & on my way I saw 2 horses running around...right into the roadway. I immediately pulled over & spoke softly to them, holding out my hand & rustling my other hand in my coat pocket, as if I had treats. I did have those Canadian mints, remember those...they were round & pink or white, looked like chalk but they were good mints. Anyway, the horses curiosity calmed them down & eventually they trotted over to me. My hands smelled like the mints. I gave each horse 1 mint & then they were glued to my side lol. I made my way slowly to the only house I figured they could be from...it had a large fenced area. When I started getting closer to the fence they ran off, snorting & kicking up their heels gleefully. What brats! They got out & were Not goin back in. I knocked on the door & asked if they had 2 horses...she looked out & saw the horses frolicking & headed towards the roadway again. So now it was me, the owner & her son trying to gather & persuade 2 horses back to where they belong. We got them back in, but needless to say, I was late for dinner.

I explained what happened, but his dad was ticked. He said some snide comments...like we were waiting to start dinner & you were out having fun. There were many more smart ass comments, I can't even recall them now, but instead of making me feel bad, I lost respect for the man, especially later when he was trying to fix something & swore so foul-mouthed (Much Worse than when fire ants make me cuss). I saw the way he treated others...really nasty. I felt bad for his son but I also witnessed that bad temper at times in him.

The following week he came over as we were going to go see a movie, and he got ticked off that I needed 15 minutes to staple gun some polyethylene over the pigeon pens, since we had an approaching storm with sleet, ice & snow that would be blowing in about 2am. Well, now was the time to secure the pens, while it's still light & I can see what I'm stapling. I'm sorry, but getting to a movie 30 min early & where we sit, is Not as important as my feathered family. He was going off about it! I told him go see the movie alone & I broke up with the guy! Don't ever come between me and animals. Not ever. Because when it comes down to it, the critters will win!

Well, sorry for the long story. I got the sacroiliac shots & I'm on ice packs & rest. It is cold, rainy & windy here all day today. The garden is getting watered! That's a good thing. Indoors, I can separate my tomato seedlings & put into larger pots. They're doing great. I still have 3 Brussel sprout seedlings clinging to life...not sure about those.

Ok, have a great day!

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Missing my garden... And my animals. It's funny... I spend all my time daydreaming of a vacation and then my vacation wishing I was home because I miss it.

Sweet little Matilda with DD...

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That is exactly why I do not travel anymore! Lol

 

[chicken opey]

Baby cucumber!
We had a storm last night so my last row of corn will have to wait! Wild loofahs I think I might let grow on table (table we used to clean last years!). Btw, loofahs make great tools for cleaning out chicken feeders/water/perch

 

[chickengr]

God bless you for caring!

x2

 

[Sueby]

Squirrels don't bother my gardens too much, but they stole some eggs last year. I didn't get any blue egg for a while last early summer and didn't think about it because my ameraucanas are seasonal layers. One day I went to check the chickens and heard a squirrel screaming and running away. I found a blue egg at the ground where the squirrel ran off. My black ameraucana girl, Pepsi, was mad! I guess she attacked the egg theft. That squirrel never came back again.

That's crazy! I wish my girls would attack the squirrels, they all hang out together.

Cool & cloudy today. DH just picked up a bunch of plastic pallets to rebuild the compost bins with. My wooden ones only lasted 2 years. Not necessarily a fan of plastic, but I have to pick my battles I guess.

 

[cj2024]

Today, I was looking at my Genovese Basil sprouts and in a small pot next to it there were some tomato sprouts, but I thought they were volunteers, so I pulled them out and right after I threw them on the ground, I remembered that I planted some Princess Yum Yum F2 or third generation seeds from a plant that had round and tear shaped fruit with a softer skin than the original Princess Yum Yum Hybrid. The fruit starts off orange and then turns red, so I think it has been pollinated by a Sun Gold plant.

Next time, I will label them. I didn't think I would forget.......................

 

[fuzzi]

Yesterday

Cantaloupe and watermelon plants are up!

Milkweed blossoming

Tomatoes and lettuce

Peas!

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