What did you do in your garden today?

[flowerbug]

Holy Cow! You have more goats than me!!! Yay - I'm so happy!

I'm still weeding and mulching. But, I still haven't even filled up all the rows with seeds yet. Finally had to spread tarps over 'em just to be sure I can find 'em when I'm ready to plant. Weeds... ugh.

i thought goats ate weeds...?

 

[frustratedearthmother]

They LOVE weeds! Especially with a side of Purple Dove beans, squash and sweet potatoes, lol!

 

[CrealCritter]

They LOVE weeds! Especially with a side of Purple Dove beans, squash and sweet potatoes, lol!

How are you planting your sweet potato slips? I'm dreading hilling up 50 rows with the tractor and landscape rake. How wide and high do the hills need to be for Georgia Jet?

Thanks

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[CrealCritter]

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[CrealCritter]

George seems like he knows what he's doin' I think I got this with tractor and rake. Probably make a mess but it'll be what it'll be.

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[Mini Horses]

Let me clarify on 30 goats... ... 14 are this year kids, so most are winter hay $. . But still here for a couple months.

CC thanks for the sweet potato watch.

I'm dead in the water as I wait for the throttle cable, now ordered...at last! . It should arrive by weekend, along with rain! . Maybe not much rain.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

How are you planting your sweet potato slips? I'm dreading hilling up 50 rows with the tractor and landscape rake. How wide and high do the hills need to be for Georgia Jet?

As usual - I'm doing it "my" way, lol. This is an experiment in the making. I was left with an empty area that formerly had pigs in it. It's lumpy and bumpy and I didn't want to till it. So, I decided to go rogue. There was no vegetation in there when I started so I just popped slips in the ground on some of the high spots and shoveled up a few more hills, lol. Basically I'm hoping they'll grow in an area that I didn't have time to prep for anything else. I've also put some winter squash and pumpkins on the other side of that pen. And as a bonus I'm finding volunteer tomatoes there too.

I hope to get a sweet potato harvest from there - but if not the greens are edible too.

 

[flowerbug]

nada today or yesterday, today is raining again. culvert replacement contractor stopped in and measured some things and looked at what we'd already cleared away from where he needs to dig, but we still have more to do. he said to put in the MissDig ticket for starting next week so i did that this morning. ti's not going to be any fun to finish moving those heavy slabs out of the way we have there.

 

[flowerbug]

They LOVE weeds! Especially with a side of Purple Dove beans, squash and sweet potatoes, lol!

i have heard that bean sprouts and sweet potato greens are a delicacy! the deer have eaten some Purple Dove bean tops here or there in the past but they rarely eat the whole plant. they do more damage trampling plants.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

i have heard that bean sprouts and sweet potato greens are a delicacy! the deer have eaten some Purple Dove bean tops here or there in the past but they rarely eat the whole plant. they do more damage trampling plants.

One of my goats managed to follow me through a gate yesterday - right into the area where the sweet potatoes are planted. Not quite sure how she managed that since she's my biggest doe at about 130 lbs - but she did. She nipped the top off a sweet potato plant before I noticed her and escorted her, not too gently, right back out, lol. Sneaky little she-devil! Thank goodness she's one of my friendliest goats so that I was able to snag her immediately.

I've done a little weeding and mulching this morning, but also planted some honeynut squash that I wanted to try last year and never got the opportunity.