What did you do in your garden today?

[FarmerJamie]

I had planned to construct a butterfly and hummingbird garden. This, plus the other work on the list means getting a truckload of topsoil delivered. More tractor time once things dry out.

3 of the 4 asparagus plants (year 2) have thrown up shoots

 

[FarmerJamie]

Dirt coming tomorrow

 

[Hinotori]

Anyone know anything about red elderberry? Ive identified one on the property that's blooming pretty good right now. A tiny one has also come up in the silkie courtyard that I'm considering leaving

 

[Mini Horses]

Mine are black. I've read that the red have more CG but, that this compound is destroyed(??) with cooking. No personal knowledge. Seems the northwest has more reds than here on East Coast. I've never seen any red around here.

To save some "look up" time
The seeds contain cyanogenic glycosides that release hydrogen cyanide in the gut, causing potential poisoning. Cooking breaks down these compounds, making the fruit safe to eat.

 

[FarmerJamie]

Dirt coming tomorrow

Dirt delivered. Let the games begin

 

[Hinotori]

Mine are black. I've read that the red have more CG but, that this compound is destroyed(??) with cooking. No personal knowledge. Seems the northwest has more reds than here on East Coast. I've never seen any red around here.

To save some "look up" time
The seeds contain cyanogenic glycosides that release hydrogen cyanide in the gut, causing potential poisoning. Cooking breaks down these compounds, making the fruit safe to eat.

I knew they should be cooked but kept finding conflicting information about deseeding them. Some sites said cook for so long, some said have to remove seeds.

There are tons of black elderberry up by my parents cabin in eastern Oregon, but west and east of the Cascades is very different.

The black elderberry starts I'd bought are ready to plant out but I need to decide where.

 

[akroberts]

I planted all of the pepper plants and these stinkin dogs went out and laid down on some of them. GRR. I'm now trying to put up a make shift fence to keep them out of it. I'm about ready to decide it's time to get rid of them all.

 

[flowerbug]

i was out with the air rifle to scare off the groundhog. later on it was back again and ran away but i did take a shot at it anyways just to let it know it wasn't a good idea to be around.

a bit later i heard a chainsaw over on the dirt road which we share with the neighbor who owns the land to the north of us so i thought perhaps it was him over there clearing the dead trees that had fallen on the road (i'd broken off and moved parts of them already, but not all of them).

when i'm walking over there i see the tractor over in the field spraying so it was the guy who's farming the field on the tractor and his dad was cutting the trees so they could get to the back field. i'd found a plastic light cover over there a few weeks ago so i had a good talk with him and introduced myself and then mentioned i had that cover here if it was theirs.

he came by after they finished spraying and picked it up and we did a quick tour of the gardens and talked about the deer, etc. he said his wife would love to see them sometime, i said come on by any time. always good to have more friends...

they are relatives of the people who used to own a lot of the land around here and live just around the corner up the road from us. i think in the underground house...