What did you do in your garden today?

[frustratedearthmother]

@frustratedearthmother ... I think you used to keep a larger garden the "old fashioned way" Are you converting to all raised now?

For the most part - yes. Raised beds are closer to the house and easier to work and access. However - I'd like to find a place to plant more sprawling veggies like squash, pumpkins and melons. Might need to move a piggy - their pens would be the perfect place.

 

[Rillowen]

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.

I need one. jelly of yours!

 

[Rillowen]

For the most part - yes. Raised beds are closer to the house and easier to work and access. However - I'd like to find a place to plant more sprawling veggies like squash, pumpkins and melons. Might need to move a piggy - their pens would be the perfect place.

All the pig manure in thr ground would make melons and pumpkins really happy!

 

[Rillowen]

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.

Hubby finished putting up the posts and pigs panels around our garden last weekend, i learned my lesson last year, nothing survives dog and chickens. Now its up I have started planting!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Hi @Rillowen and welcome! Nice to "see" a new face!

 

[Rillowen]

Hi @Rillowen and welcome! Nice to "see" a new face!

Hi! i mist say this forum seems like a combo of all the things I liked from both backyard chickens and easy gardening.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I've been working to fill a new raised bed. Got sticks and stuff in the bottom and putting dirt on top. It's a process and it's taking me forever.

I have to get on the tractor and go scoop some dirt from the mountain of pond dirt. Then I take it as far as I can with the tractor and dump it over the fence into my two garden carts which promptly turn over and spill all the dirt. ARGH! I pick up the dirt and roll the carts up to the raised bed area. This dirt is wet and heavy - but I put it into buckets and carry it about 6 feet to the bed and dump it in. Yes, I could roll it into the garden area, but it would mean opening several gates and going around obstacles so I take the shorter route and just dump it from the buckets.

After that I go to the huge area where I dump old hay which has rotted down into beautiful compost and get a scoop of that. Same scenario - dump it over the fence into the garden carts and pull them to the raised bed area. All the while I'm doing this I'm sifting any roots/debris out of the dirt. Lather, rinse repeat. I see this project taking a couple more days - mostly because I have so much other stuff to do.

Did some hilling around potatoes today - this will be last time since I see that blooms are about to start.