A new journey into homesteading "pic heavy"

[sumi]

Gosh, my lawn needs mowing so bad It's starting to look like a jungle out there. In my defence though, we've had rain on-off for a week and the friend who's lawnmower I was hoping to borrow bailed on me. He bought a non-electric, non-petrol, non-anything but needing to push it number at Aldi. I'm going to see if I can find one when I go there next...

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Mine too - that's on the list for today or tomorrow. Waiting as long as possible so it can dry out as much as possible before the NEXT round of rain next week... UGH

 

[sumi]

Mine's finally dry enough, but no lawn mower… I wonder if I can borrow a sheep from someone for a day. Or a horse. LOL

 

[Chic Rustler]

Well we ended up with more clippings than the coop could hold so they got a couple wheelbarrows in the run as well.

We got 6 eggs today. The norm used to he 7. Hopefully they are getting back in the groove. Still got a couple weeks before the young pullets start to lay.

 

[Chic Rustler]

Are the white spots powdery mildew?

 

[Chic Rustler]

Are the white spots powdery

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I've never dealt with it so I dunno.... hoping someone else chimes in.

 

[Chic Rustler]

Seems it is. The guys down at the feedstore said to use sulfur . I went ahead and got a bag. Even if it doesn't work, its good for so many other things i figured its good to have on hand

 

[Mini Horses]

On line gardening site says - get plenty of air & sunlight (which you have) do NOT water at night, wet leaves promote this. Cut off leaves with the mildew & discard, do not compost them. Spray before onset with milk & baking soda mixture, diluted with water, to prevent
ETA: This might help.... ...sorry, senior moment

• Using a hose end sprayer, remove the bottle from the sprayer.

• Fill the bottle with 1/2 quart of milk (typically use skim milk, but any milk will work)

• Add 3 teaspoons of baking soda

• Add one drop of liquid dish detergent

• Mix contents well

• Reattach bottle to sprayer. Attach sprayer to water hose and spray the top and bottom sides of infected leaves

• Reapply solution once a week

 

[Chic Rustler]

Yeah theres lots of home remedies for preventing it. For every site i find recommending one thing theres another saying lab tests prove it wrong.

Im gonna try the sulfar and see what happens. If that doesnt work in a few days im going to make a detoction of cedar. I shoukd have thought of that first, but it didnt occur to me until i was on my way home.