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What did you do in the garden today?
I'm going to freeze dry my celery!!! It's almost ready to harvest. Going to cut it all up and vacuum seal it in mason jars. Sure I'm not making bloody marys with it, but soup, salad topper, stuffing, etc. 😁 -
What did you do in the garden today?
Do the hen raised chicks go out to free range? What percentage protein are you using for the brooder raised chicks? I would imagine it has to do with diet. -
What did you do in the garden today?
Similar here, even my cherry tomato varieties are just starting to take off. I'm enjoying the break though. Having to process tomatoes, peppers, squash, cucumbers, beans and berries all at once takes too much time and space. -
What did you do in the garden today?
This was an early fruit year for us as well, I got apricots 3 weeks earlier than usual. I'll have Santa Rosa plums soon, which is weeks early as well. I need to start writing harvest dates down.... 🤦🏻♀️ -
What did you do in the garden today?
Freeze dried ingredients are used almost like fresh ingredients. If you use the mylar bags, the sizes are like Mason jars. So you can have a bag of diced tomatoes that has all of its nutritional value intact, weighs nothing, and can be used for anything you would have used a jar of diced... -
What did you do in the garden today?
I caught another rat today. I am on fire! Freeze drying more apricots. Also two peaches sliced. Yay! I harvested a fraction of what is ripe on one of the peach trees today. Loading them into baking sheets to pre freeze for the next freeze drying run. Gobstopper Cherry tomatoes are incredible... -
What did you do in the garden today?
Two fences. Tall one on the inner fence, second fence... I think it's supposed to be like 6 feet away.... Maybe that one is supposed to be tall as well... 🤔 MIgardener did a YouTube video on a deer fence to help protect their orchard. It was a good design. And not super costly. -
What did you do in the garden today?
I caught another skunk... I went to go bag the dead one for the bin and saw the trap door was closed... Luckily I had a trenching shovel to get the carcass of the dead one by the trap. So I didn't have to get close. I'm trying to decide how to put this one out of it's misery. Ugh. Second... -
What did you do in the garden today?
I think mine are from MIgardener. I'll have to double check. Mine are from last year. -
What did you do in the garden today?
You are not alone. I've never had Amish paste so big. Where did you get your seed? -
What did you do in the garden today?
I can attest to this. It may not be a native plant but it's too good to not grow. I haven't mowed my orchard in over a month. White clover gets about 8" at the tallest. Photos below. The chickens saw me, came running 🤣 -
What did you do in the garden today?
I don't mind any other kind of spider. Except fiddle backs. But we don't have those here anyway. I save spiders from my son often. Spiders catch bugs. That's all good. That tarantula is rad. We have a migration of tarantulas here when they're breeding. I pull over and move them off of the road... -
What did you do in the garden today?
Your widows must be different than ours. There's nothing classic about their webs aside from that texture when you run into it and you know deep in your soul that you just ran into a widow web. 🤣 The worst! We have so many widows here, brown and black. I go out at night and smash them with my... -
What did you do in the garden today?
My zucchini is already pewtering out. Not sure what the deal is; but I never got to stake it up. I'm going to sow new seeds and have a late harvest. Pull the ones that are dying out. Maybe they got tired of competing with the tomatillos I refuse to pull out. -
What did you do in the garden today?
BURN IT!!!! Lol! No but... That there looks like a widow... A healthy one.