What did you do in your garden today?

[CrealCritter]

Free pallet + a few screws + drill bit + cheap kiddie pool + cheap top soil + seeds = cheap portable raised bed garden, that's really hard to beat.

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[Hinotori]

I need a cheap kiddie pool for the puppy. Havent been able to find one here. I refuse to spend $20 on one of the little ones.

 

[flowerbug]

as soon as we get enough of a break in the rains i'll get out and pick the tomatoes. enough should be ready for 10-20 quarts.

 

[Dreamz]

@CrealCritter totally agree with free.


We went to Sam's and the FFH for feed and saw a huge pile of free pallets. So, we came home,sawp vehicles,hooked the trailer and back we went. Now it sits at back to repurpose it.


Up since could not sleep because I was hurting all over. The only thing that does not hurt is my hair if I do not look at it. If I do, it hurts me to see how long it has been since I had it done,lol
This is what I worked on yesterday afternoon after finished the third wall of hardware cloth on the duck run. Removed dirt on one side to put Hardwarecloth as a skit. Had to do it 3 times to make it a bit deeper. However, came inside to use the restroom and had to do it one more time. My helpers pushed the dirt to the wrong side,back in,lol Ended up putting some netting at each end to keep them out.


Then picked one huge tomato. Almost a pound,

 

[flowerbug]

first batch in for getting sealed up. break time for now before finishing up. at least i have the routine down well enough i can practically do it in my sleep.

not much waste so i'm happy with that. about 1/4 of the tomatoes are big but have a lot of inclusions/bumps - the same plants also produced perfectly round tomatoes so it must be heat or weather related. either way they get done but the odd bumpy ones take more time to process.

 

[flowerbug]

plenty of rains the past hours. i went out to check out the erosion control layers to see how things were going and found one blow out where a mole had gone under a ridge so i stomped it shut but now the water can go through what i stomped shut. will have to fix that sometime tomorrow or the next day depending how these rains keep going.

it's always fun to me to go and see what is happening and to play in the puddles. i got two soakers. need a good pair of boots and miss my old stockingfoot waders i used to have which were very lightweight and i put a lot of miles on them walking rivers and streams while fishing.

i wonder how full the North Garden is going to get...

and the River Nile is running.

 

[CrealCritter]

Heaping 5 gallon bucket from about 25 foot row, about 75 feet left to pick. Horse fly thought I was a horse. I sang it a song, fly little horse-fly, just don't fly by me. Seemed to work and is proof even flies run from my singing .

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[FarmerJamie]

@CrealCritter we may have a stretch goal!!!!

 

[CrealCritter]

@CrealCritter we may have a stretch goal!!!!

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I was looking at sunflower seeds last night (seriously). There's a hybrid variety called King Kong that's multi headed and said to be the tallest. I wonder if that's what's this guy grew?

I couldn't grow something that tall here, the wind would knock it over. But I see this guy built a wooden support around his, that's dedicated determination right there.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=king+kong+sunflower+seeds&ia=web

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[livinglandnz]

Seaweed is excellent. But if it is high in salt it is best to rinse it off first.

Ive never had that problem, even planted seedlings directly into fresh seaweed taken from the beach and they grow just fine.