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What did you do in the garden today?
I placed an order yesterday! I'd had a cart sitting for over a month. All seeds. At this rate I'm going to need another binder. Yesterday before we left I went in the garden and looked at the bed I planted more lettuces in. A lot have sprouted. I'm excited to have a good winter garden going. -
What did you do in the garden today?
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Thankful to be a part of our community. Blessings to all of you. Be safe and have a wonderful holiday. -
What did you do in the garden today?
We camp 2500' lower. We ride up to the top. It is a 6 hour day of riding. Crazy thing is, it's only 15-20 miles of trail up there. There's some good climbs. 😊 We sleep in a camping trailer. We used to tent camp, then we had a baby. We camp in all seasons so tent camping would have been miserable. -
What did you do in the garden today?
Thank you. I'm sure it's going to be a good one. It snowed up top during the last storm so there will be good riding and lots of fun for the kids. Be safe! Praying everything holds up. -
What did you do in the garden today?
I got into my compost heap in the orchard. It's good stuff! I also rotated my spinning bin. One side is almost done, the other will need about 6 months since I put it in a few weeks ago. Planted more peas, pulled weeds, getting things ready to mulch the garlic beds, and started up the freeze... -
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I may do that for my pots. It's getting harder to not shoot the cat. I keep telling myself that it's a predator for the rats and mice.... But it's getting harder. If I catch it in a trap, I'm taking it to the shelter. The owner can go get it. The cat also poops on top of the chicken run hardware... -
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Yeah, I've seen that. I'm not putting plastic in the garden though. I use wire fence, I just have not gotten it untangled from the clover patch yet. 😊 -
What did you do in the garden today?
Numbers are in! 1765# of olives, 31.29 gallons of oil! Samples go to the lab this morning. 😁 As noted: Delicious, buttery and smooth. We picked very late this year so there was much more ripe olives than usual. -
What did you do in the garden today?
Yesterday I shook and pulled all of the leaves off of the peach trees so I could spray them with copper and neem. The three that had it bad this year got a really thorough treatment. My 2 gallon sprayer took a crap on me and was pumping the mix out through the pump assembly. So I had to pour my... -
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We may pick more and brine but I don't really want to. -
What did you do in the garden today?
None for sale at this time. -
What did you do in the garden today?
Well the mill tells you to do it, and they will do it if you don't tell them not to. It can increase yield but it's not a benefit for us. It makes the oil cloudy and then you have to filter if. It changes the taste. It's just not what we're after. Here's a Google snip. We would rather... -
What did you do in the garden today?
Some of the trees are quite tall, we do get up on ladders of various sizes. The original owner of the home planted olive trees as landscaping but must have picked them, based on the varieties he chose. His gardens were used as test and show gardens for Sunset magazine. My MIL planted 100 that... -
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We pick all by hand. It's a long day. There were 14 of us for most of the day. Then 7 of us picked until we ran out of light. The thing is, when you pick by hand, you don't get stems and way less leaves. So the quality of the oil is superior. We also pull out all of the bad olives and any... -
What did you do in the garden today?
Today we harvested olives at my mother-in-laws. We ran out of light but got most picked. My guess is that we got roughly 1800#. Which hopefully gives 40ish gallons of oil. Maybe. I'm excited to find out the exact numbers! Pretty good year, not a lot of fruit fly damage despite picking late and...