Gardening Thread 2021

[Mini Horses]

Last month, too dry...drought like. This month, rains almost daily. Ok for rain except the grass is growing there in the garden Need a magneto for the pull tiller. Hope to get that today. Haven't had time all week, having worked 63 hrs! Home today and thinking I'll go to a livestock auction to "visit"... relax, look, maybe have a hotdog!

Slept until 7, slowly got up. Finishing coffee fix. Need to have a walk in some fields, see what's going on out there this week, check fences, pasture growth. Say hello to animals as I haven't had time to do more than fill troughs and toss feed all week. Looks like it could rain at any minute. Muggy and hot out.

It's time to slow down and smell the roses!

 

[Baymule]

My Painted Mountain corn is dark green and growing. The green beans are growing. I haven’t been in the garden the last couple of days to see if the squash is coming up. Got 15 big Cornish Cross chickens on ice to cut up and vacuum seal, will probably take me two days. Then only 8 more to do. THEN I can get back in my garden to plant some sweet corn and purple hull peas

 

[Grizzlyhackle]

. THEN I can get back in my garden to plant some sweet corn and purple hull peas

Purple Hull..long pod,tan pea with a dark spot?

 

[Grizzlyhackle]

CRS.
I didn't mark them should sugar baby watermelon and the other tall ones should be cukes.
Question is why'd they get so leggy been in the greenhouse. Basil and flowers are ok I don't get it. Try plant them tomorrow.

 

[Grizzlyhackle]

Haven't seen the wren in about a week. Eggs have been there a month. Quail hatch about 21 days so I'm taking these out the greenhouse before they crack.

 

[Baymule]

Purple Hull..long pod,tan pea with a dark spot?

Yup. Hulls turn purple when they are ready.

 

[Baymule]

I walked through the garden today and the zucchini and yellow squash are breaking ground.

 

[Grizzlyhackle]

Yup. Hulls turn purple when they are ready.

Ok I had one called pink lady. Looked like and tasted like black eyed. Black eyed peas was a nice bush in the 70's now they get all viney. Don't get it. I'm the only that eats them. Boiled, salsa , add to my salad, mixed with corn, cold.

 

[Grizzlyhackle]

I've always been a fan of rabbits and pretty hospitable. That little fella has now wore out all of his welcome. Cayenne pepper , the battle begins.

 

[Baymule]

My garden is fenced and I hog ringed chicken wire to the bottom 2 feet, plus laid a wire skirt all around it. Little stinkers still find a way in.