Helmcken Falls, British Columbia
LOL - that’s funny! I was going to eyeball the chickens this morning (dog/chix sitting next door) to make sure the fox lurking about our place didn’t grab anybody overnight & caught the flash of a white tail bounding out of the wildlife food plot. We have a doe & this year’s fawn hanging around, so it was probably them although one buck has been bagged & there is at least one more hanging around.
The flowers in the garden, which have been just gorgeous, bit the dust this past week. Temps got into the 20’s overnight. We have a fabulous weekend on tap - mild temps & sunshine so I’ll be outside all day (tomorrow, too) cleaning up dead stalks, doing some weeding, etc. My compost bin has settled probably 2 feet (wow!) so I’m going to top it off - plenty of leaves I can put in there.
Ny 4 new raised beds are in place ... got wood chip walkways around all 4 done. Now I just need to fill them with dirt. We’ve had so much rain that I cannot get near the dirt pile with anything ‘heavy’ (like the tractor with a scoop). I may try some hand digging/hauling just to see how that goes. I REALLY want to get those beds filled. I’m trying to consider it ‘bicep building’ ... ha ha! Actually, I had great biceps when I had a barn full of horses ‘back in the day’. The biceps can handle the work - not so sure the back can stand it, though.
Have a GREAT weekend, everybody!!
I want he’d a great video, called lasagna gardening. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nuNUTTFYArY
I’ve been saving cardboard, and my husband is going to pick up some pallets for me soon. The thing that wowed me the most, is that this guy had gone to his local grocer, and asked for fruit and vegetables they were throwing out, and he had a big box of it and just dumped it into his raised bed with the rest of this compost. I had never thought to do that,but it would certainly add a lot of compost material to the pile!
Opening Day, and here I am in New Hampshire, old and not in the woods!
I did get the load of compost I picked up at the local transfer station moved from my flatbed trailer to all the raised beds and the leftover into four plastic wading pools.
We have decided to stand down from our RVing. We are getting ready to move the 40 foot Sanibel to our property, right after Thanksgiving. Hopefully, the weather will cooperate and I can get it done before the snow flies.
Weather was beautiful today so I took advantage of it and planted some Dutch Iris bulbs, pansies and strawberry frosting windflower bulbs. Fertilized and watered well. Happy Thanksgiving to the group.
We're working at getting things ready for winter. Had no time to spend in the garden over the weekend. Still waiting on the garlic to sprout. Bumper crop of kale and collards waiting to be harvested.
Winterized the camper, put the sides on flatbed trailer and dropped it off at the sawmill, put a bit of surface rock on the driveway, turned the compost heap, tuned up the retaining wall around Mrs. Augie's flowerbed, planted a dwarf spruce tree, and hauled off a mountain of tree pruning scraps.
I dropped most of two middling sized dead mulberry trees and cut it up for stovewood. Also dropped a dead elm and a dead oak out of the fenceline in the back yard. That stuff made a nice addition to the woodpile. I've got at least this much more dead mulberry, and a pair of kentucky coffee trees that still need to come down. The fun never ends around here.
Would it be expected that seeds from a grocery-store butternut (or acorn) squash would produce proper butternut (acorn) squash if planted?