What did you do in your garden today?

[Hinotori]

If you can get a eucalyptus plant for indoors you should be able to use the stuff that the plants shed off and mix it in the soil with the corn

Eucalyptus doesn't survive winter here. Too cold with wet feet apparently. I may try one indoors once I have the room.

 

[akroberts]

I am going to have to get to my neighbors house down the road from me and bag up a bunch of his eucalyptus debris. Well if I get enough I will make sure to put some in gallon Ziploc bags and let everyone know that I have it and ship it to you. It's worth a shot anyway

 

[flowerbug]

That's sad, I adore butternut personally, the neighbors grow a hug3 field of pumpkins though so I have to bag blooms for my seeds saving or get new seeds yearly.

kabocha (orange or green) and buttercup have been our favorites since we came across them. i can enjoy butternut but given the choice i'll go for the other first. also, i'm not really into the summer squashes that much even if i can eat them and enjoy them.

one squash i like for just the seeds is the hull-less green seeded kinds that are grown just for the seeds (to be eaten like any other pumpkin seed but nice that you don't have to shell them out). the downside is that the flesh of the pumpkin itself is often not very good at all. an obvious garden project would be to get them to cross and get a combination pumpkin with good flesh and also the hull-less green seeds but i never got far into it before we were overrun by groundhogs and i decided to not grow squash for a few years to see if i could break the cycle of predation and habitual raiding that was going on. oh, and also getting a better fence going.

the green seeded squash will happily cross with all your squash and turn them into a mixed variety of many that aren't very good.

 

[flowerbug]

this morning we got the windchimes put back up in a different location. i didn't have to do that much other than move the chunk of cement/rocks/etc with a hole in it to the spot where Mom wanted it and then stick the pole down through the hole and into the ground. Mom is happy to arrange things how she likes and i'm glad to leave it to her because if i do it she'll come along and redo it anyways.

 

[Grandmas Porch]

All day, I shall be in the garden. I am waiting for the sun to come up, it is a very cool 51 out and ACCU says it may rain at 6am to 7. I hope so, but cloudy or not, I will be in the garden. and then go down and work the compost.





PICS
turnips -happy collard greens, kale, romaine, spinach- newly transplanted garlic & zucchini, tiny chicory, happy fig, bunching onions & cilantro, AND small row of TURNIPS -small small carrots

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Garden is coming along. A few things are looking pretty promising too. I'm excited about that, lol.

There will be peppers!

The crop cover that I put together a couple days ago. There are 6 tomato plants and 2 basil plants inside.

 

[LaurenRitz]

Cool! I was thinking about setting up with bluefin carp. They are pretty temperature resistant, can even freeze and will just go dormant. They also eat absolutely anything. I was thinking of setting up some smaller drain-off tanks with grass shrimp, clean up the residue and food for carp and chickens both.

Why bluefin specifically? I'm still debating types of fish. What's your setup?

 

[Rillowen]

Why bluefin specifically? I'm still debating types of fish. What's your setup?

I dont have a setup yet I'm still in the planning/dreaming stage lol
I was thinking bluefin carp because then I dont have to worry about temps (because they are native around here and handle the temps well). I was going to set it up in a green house, with 2 linked larger tanks and1 smaller low one with a lower drain to naturally filter out the fry into the small tank, which would be the grow out tank. The small tank would then go into clay media beds (i was thinking tomatoes and peppers) which would either go underground and out to a small run-off duckweed pond (which would then be pumped underground in some pipes and back in) or just underground and around in some pipes, before being pumped back in to the next grow section. Before this everything is gravity run. Next is strawberry pipes, leading to an elevated floating bed of greens above the biggest tank, which then drains down into the largest tank completing the cycle. The underground pipes are to provide some temperature stabilization. Where we live It only takes 4 ft to reach a place that stays roughly 20° warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer, naturally at times it would take alot of pipe for the water to completely reach that temp but since it will be within a greenhouse and the fish are not sensitive to temperature changes i think that should be plenty. I imagine the warmest the pumped up water would get is about 70, and the coolest about 40, which is within the Carp comfort zone. I havnt done the exact math yet though, only rounded/estimations. I would prefer the duckweed pond overflow option, I think it would simplify alot of potential problems, but i have to get permission to dig out a small pond on our rented land for that lol.