Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

[CrealCritter]

Blaming Texas again…….

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[baymule]

Just finished my coffee. Still dark outside. Guess I’ll get dressed, maybe scramble a couple of eggs. I should eat something before I go out in the heat to work.

 

[flowerbug]

@CrealCritter plant Daikon long root radishes. Plant the whole garden in them, let them grow to maturity, flower, set seed and die back. Do not cut or trim the tops. Let them die all the way and fall over. Let the radishes rot in the ground. The radishes will bust up the hard pan and add humus to the soil. The rotting radishes will leave holes that water can penetrate through. You may have to do this in sections until you have done the whole garden, according the radish growing season. You may have to plant radishes for several years to truly loosen up the soil.

interplant with alfalfa, it takes a few years to get roots down deep but once it is established it can be cut back a few times a year. leave at least one cutting behind to feed the soil/worms and you'll have prime garden soil after a few seasons. that is what i did out back (in the NE Garden) and that was great looking soil (even if still mostly clay) that had darkened up several shades deeper down about 8 inches, but i'd been chopping back for 5 or more years by then. now it's been taken over by grasses and i'm going to have to sod bust it to turn it back into garden again. a lot of work so i'll be doing it in parts as i get time and energy. lack of rains has pretty much shut that idea down for now because it's going to be too hot and too much work for me and i could use a break to do weeding and scraping in other gardens... the stuff should not be called quack grass but croak grass...

 

[FarmerJamie]

Today's forecast

 

[The Porch]

Today's forecast
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Not fun, here in the PNW we get like this and boy it just messes up your nose

 

[Mini Horses]

Fresh coffee, sunshine, 77 out....lovely!

Have a few things to do outside. Then finish frig clear of milk. I'm thinking I'll spin some cream, make butter and more caramel sauce, which will give me enough of that for a while. Make spun out milk into cheese.....then frig ready for more milka vicious cycle. And eggs!! Yeah, take 6 doz to a friend...boil a couple doz. See why I don't need chicks hatching this year? Already get way to many eggs a day. Used to sell a lot, now so many have own hens.

Better pull something from the freezer...supper plans? Home for a week. I'll need fast meals. Plans to work farm projects over next few days. Hope it happens.

Summertime is the living easy???

 

[The Porch]

Fresh coffee, sunshine, 77 out....lovely!

Have a few things to do outside. Then finish frig clear of milk. I'm thinking I'll spin some cream, make butter and more caramel sauce, which will give me enough of that for a while. Make spun out milk into cheese.....then frig ready for more milka vicious cycle. And eggs!! Yeah, take 6 doz to a friend...boil a couple doz. See why I don't need chicks hatching this year? Already get way to many eggs a day. Used to sell a lot, now so many have own hens.

Better pull something from the freezer...supper plans? Home for a week. I'll need fast meals. Plans to work farm projects over next few days. Hope it happens.

Summertime is the living easy???

Yes Fast meal today for me to make is---

 

[baymule]

My lunch is 2 pieces of impossible buttermilk pie and a glass of chocolate milk.

 

[CrealCritter]

Do I dare ask, how the roof coming along?

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[CrealCritter]

Forecast to rain, ok... nothing yet.

Farmbabe said neighbors pasture is looking really bad but ours is still green, how come? I told her I ain't bush hogged it and I won't until we get a couple good rains. Neighbor bush hogged his a few weeks ago and well you know it looks brown and bad.

Honestly, I'll have to play bush hogging the pastures by ear or by rain clouds. Cattle kicking up dust just walking through it. That's pretty dry if you ask me.

Jesus is Lord and Christ