I love that you did this for her. So much fun!
fuzzi's "Gardens and Chickens...and Goats? Oh My!" Journal and More Thread
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SageHill
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Your yard and gardens look amazing. So much fun with the chicken videos!
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Not one drop of rain, all day.
Forecast was 90% chance of rain.
It's staying east of us.
I watered the gardens this afternoon, and the fig tree. And the yarrow, and tomatoes. And elderberries, and day lilies.
Soil is dry as dust, or hard as adobe.
Forecast was 90% chance of rain.
It's staying east of us.
I watered the gardens this afternoon, and the fig tree. And the yarrow, and tomatoes. And elderberries, and day lilies.
Soil is dry as dust, or hard as adobe.
canesisters
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Oddly, same here. Not a drop off rain.
But a flood watch until 2AM????
But a flood watch until 2AM????
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We have one of those as well...Oddly, same here. Not a drop off rain.
But a flood watch until 2AM????
Baymule
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With fall coming, leaves will be falling. I used to cruise around town and get bags of leaves from the curb. I piled them in the coop and covered run. Chickens had a blast! They scratched the leaves to bits, pooped on them and in a few months I had black crumbly garden gold. I practiced deep litter anyway, but bagged leaves was the program on steroids! Sometimes I stored bags of leaves and kept dumping them in the coop. It did wonders for my garden.
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We have a sycamore that drops TONS of leaves every fall. I run the mower over them and dump the bags of chopped debris in the chicken run, some in the gardens as well.
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Just in case you missed my post in the Coffee thread...
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I'll take it.
The soil around the raised beds had softened a bit with the rain, so I was able to dig up some sweet potatoes from the ground.
These are small, 3" or less.
Since the raised beds were also wet I planted my cabbage seeds and carrots.
If the cabbage doesn't do well I can feed the seedlings to the flocks.
This was my planned carrot bed. The milkweed sprouted, but before I could pull them a Monarch butterfly came by, laying eggs. After the caterpillars morph I'll remove the milkweed. I planted carrots around them.
"Hi 'pider!"
White-banded crab spider
Yay rain! Glad you were able to get your sweet potatoes out and get some other veggies planted.
