2021 Garden

[Slippy]

Been closing down most of our garden - picked pounds of peppers and cut, bagged, and froze them. Racked all the Delicata squash, butternut squash, sugar pie pumpkins, and made 3 quarts of marinated eggplants

Then, I go and crack my head this afternoon with a heavy duty post pounder! Oh my! I hate doctors/hospitals, so a wonder scare will be had by me...I don't care. I don't have to look at my ugly head anyway! I've never seen SO much blood! My hands were soaked, clothes, floor, towels...oh my!

More orchard work - that's where I cracked my head...putting up new posts and deer netting around the larger (dwarf) trees...

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Peace,
Michael J.

Dang Michael J.

That sucks! Get well soon and make sure you treat that with anti-biotic ointment.

PS...there should be plenty of illegals to hire to do heavy duty post pounding so get with the program and support the federal gubmint immigration plan!...

[Slippy]

Well...

We got our first 2 eggs today. They are kind of small, but at least they are something. I do not even want to think about how expensive they were on a per-egg basis. Yes, those are some hot peppers with the eggs; our chickens are some Billy-bad-ass chickens!

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The problem is, Mrs Inor found the eggs on the floor of the chicken shack, in the corner. I made some nice nesting boxes for them and the chickens go into the boxes. But for some reason, they laid the eggs on the floor. We heard you are supposed to put fake eggs in the boxes to "explain" to the chickens what the boxes are for. Unfortunately, the only egg-like things we had are some artsy-fartsy rock eggs that Mrs Inor spent way too much money on somewhere. So the too expensive rock eggs are sitting in the nesting boxes, covered with shit and the chickens are laying eggs on the floor.

Since we let the chickens out of the chicken yard every day, I am sure if I walk through the weeds on the back of our property, I would find several dozen eggs.

Great news on the eggs, the girls should figure out the nesting box thing soon!

[stevekozak]

Been closing down most of our garden - picked pounds of peppers and cut, bagged, and froze them. Racked all the Delicata squash, butternut squash, sugar pie pumpkins, and made 3 quarts of marinated eggplants

Then, I go and crack my head this afternoon with a heavy duty post pounder! Oh my! I hate doctors/hospitals, so a wonder scare will be had by me...I don't care. I don't have to look at my ugly head anyway! I've never seen SO much blood! My hands were soaked, clothes, floor, towels...oh my!

More orchard work - that's where I cracked my head...putting up new posts and deer netting around the larger (dwarf) trees...

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Peace,
Michael J.

Post-pounder or angry wife with cast-iron skillet? You can tell us, we are all friends here!!

Seriously, though, that looks like it hurt! Heads bleed a lot. Butterfly bandages and a calm demeanor is going to be your best ideas for a bit.

[Prepared One]

Been closing down most of our garden - picked pounds of peppers and cut, bagged, and froze them. Racked all the Delicata squash, butternut squash, sugar pie pumpkins, and made 3 quarts of marinated eggplants

Then, I go and crack my head this afternoon with a heavy duty post pounder! Oh my! I hate doctors/hospitals, so a wonder scare will be had by me...I don't care. I don't have to look at my ugly head anyway! I've never seen SO much blood! My hands were soaked, clothes, floor, towels...oh my!

More orchard work - that's where I cracked my head...putting up new posts and deer netting around the larger (dwarf) trees...

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Peace,
Michael J.

Damn! That had to hurt. Head wounds bleed a lot, so do chin wounds. I once got cut on the forehead in a fight and there was blood everywhere. The cut itself was nothing actually, deep, but not long, stopping the bleeding was the hard part. Got cut across the chin once, couldn't stop the bleeding so that required an emergency room visit and stitches. I still have that scar.

[Mad Trapper]

Well, here's what the amateur has done, so far.

I planted six broccoli plants in a stock tank. Over night, a deer stopped by and ate two. I put up fencing, and that deterred her. Turns out, there are other things that also like my future food. Something was eating the leaves, so I sprayed neem oil on the leaves. It looked like the leaves had little fingers that were flipping me off. Turned out that they were little worms that were the exact same color as the leaves! I plucked and crushed the bastards.
The next day, two leaves were eaten to the framework, so I went to Marvins and got some sort of fruit and vegetable spray. No more missing leaves.
Planted romaine lettuce and collards in the other stock tanks. So far, nothing is interested in the lettuce or collards, but I expect an attack at any hour.

Green worms are cabbage worms. Check over plants and squish them for immediate control.

Best spray is BT. Organic approved and harmless to humans/animals/benificials. Can eat day of spray. Those worms might hit the collards too.

[Mad Trapper]

First frost here!



Update, we got a good one, ice on the windshield. Will check the covered stuff (peppers) when it warms up, still 30 oF at 8 AM