Picking before the storm

[Stubbornhillfarm]

With the impeding visit from Irene this coming Sunday, I guess I am just going to bite the bullet and pick all of my remaining tomatoes (red or green) , peppers, green beans and cucumbers. I figure it best to at least get them into the house no matter what stage they are at. Chances are really good that the garden is going to be trashed come Monday. The carrots, potatoes and winter squash I will leave in the ground. The carrots and potatoes for obvious reasons. The squash I am hoping are heavy enough that they won't blow away. Best wishes and prayers for all of you who may be effected.

 

[Carol Dee]

HAng in THere! I will be praying for all of you, also. Hugs...

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

Oh my gosh. I didn't even think of that for the backyard gardeners. Whew....1000 miles across. I think that is wider than California is long.

Wow.

 

[gettinaclue]

I picked all of mine the other day and ripped up all but 4 of my mater plants. I did it because my chickens figured out that they like green tomaotes and I don't have my raised beds fensed off (that's where they are planted). I had to toss several off into the woods because they had chicken bites LOL. 4 or 5 of them were half eaten. I also pulled up my carrots - but just because I wanted some to munch on LOL

Now that Irene is coming, I'm just gonna cross my fingers and hope for the best - garden included. I have some green beans, lima beans, sweet peas, cucumber, and watermelon out there. Some in the raised beds and some in the in ground garden. We'll just have to wait and see.

 

[Stubbornhillfarm]

I picked all of mine the other day and ripped up all but 4 of my mater plants. I did it because my chickens figured out that they like green tomaotes and I don't have my raised beds fensed off (that's where they are planted). I had to toss several off into the woods because they had chicken bites LOL. 4 or 5 of them were half eaten. I also pulled up my carrots - but just because I wanted some to munch on LOL

Now that Irene is coming, I'm just gonna cross my fingers and hope for the best - garden included. I have some green beans, lima beans, sweet peas, cucumber, and watermelon out there. Some in the raised beds and some in the in ground garden. We'll just have to wait and see.

I getcha on the just waiting it out part. If I lived somewhere else, even in the same town, I would quite probably do that. We live up on top of a hill and it is generally windy at our house even when it isn't elsewhere. Soooo.... I see however, that they have already decreased it to a tropical storm by the time it gets here. Crazy weather! Best wishes for you, your family and your home!

 

[vfem]

Well I picked all I could possibly pick today, got most of the chickens locked down (some of those girls were up perched and sleeping in the run for some reason) and cleaned the deck & front porch off best I could.

Whatever I couldn't pick will probably be destroyed tomorrow. Oh well!

Fingers crossed we pull through this well where we are... may or may not have electricity tomorrow, but we'll see. Going to finish some dishes, laundry, shower and then bed.

Wish us North Carolinians some luck!!!

 

[Greenthumb18]

Hang in there vfem! I wish you guys there in North Carolina the best!!

Hopefully we'll all still have a garden after this storm moves on.

Take Care & Be Careful Everyone

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

right now i am just planning to pick if the weather looks like it is going to stay bad. this far north we usually don't get a lot since most hurricanes turn back to tropical depressions or storms and just give us a slight whipping and not much of a beating! just make sure any loose stuff in the garden is secured in the ground or put a tarp or plastic under it (so they are not touching the ground) and tie them down as securely as possible. if you think the winds could take it i would say to pull it.

i think i am more worried about my chickens since this is the first time we are predicted to get this bad a storm since i've had them, and i have HUGE pine trees around their coop that have been loosing small branches. when we had hurricane Bob about 20 years ago i remember the pine trees received the brunt of the damage along with the dead/decaying trees in the area. most pine trees snapped nearly in half if they had been damaged by the winds!

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

well, most of the garden fared fine. a few plants knocked over but nothing that can't be staked back up.

but i am bummed this morning. yesterday after most of the rain and winds died down and it was still light out i went out to check on my chickens and the coop. poor birds were all cooped up for the day and i think that was very stressful on my 5 month old project faverolles pullet. she was hen raised and sort of skittish towards me, would whack my hand with her beak when i try to touch her and was always the one getting picked on by the other hens and the 3 turkeys. last night she wasn't in her usual spot ready from her bedtime. instead she was sitting on a hay bale looking a little puffed up and i tried to reach for her she gave me a half hearted peck that just didn't seem her. she allowed me to pick her up with no fuss so i brought her in the house and gave her some food which she pecked at like she hadn't eaten all day and tried guzzling down water. i thought she might have run into a wall in the coop or could have been pushed off her perch by someone bigger. she had no bugs on her since i keep my birds sprayed weekly and no signs of being hurt or plucked at. she slept in the house all night in my empty 55 gallon fish tank in my living room and seems fine till this morning after checking on her and then checking on all my other birds, i came back into the house to find her thrashing in the tank and throwing her head back, eyes so wide i knew she was not going to recover from this. i picked her up and held onto her to keep her from doing any more harm to herself, but she passed shortly after that.

i am really sad with this. she is the 3rd pullet from my own breeding i have kept that i have lost in the past year. she, like the others had not been laying yet either! i thought i should have brought her in yesterday morning before the mess really started here but i figured they would all make it fine. now i wish i had pulled her inside.

 

[vfem]

well, most of the garden fared fine. a few plants knocked over but nothing that can't be staked back up.

but i am bummed this morning. yesterday after most of the rain and winds died down and it was still light out i went out to check on my chickens and the coop. poor birds were all cooped up for the day and i think that was very stressful on my 5 month old project faverolles pullet. she was hen raised and sort of skittish towards me, would whack my hand with her beak when i try to touch her and was always the one getting picked on by the other hens and the 3 turkeys. last night she wasn't in her usual spot ready from her bedtime. instead she was sitting on a hay bale looking a little puffed up and i tried to reach for her she gave me a half hearted peck that just didn't seem her. she allowed me to pick her up with no fuss so i brought her in the house and gave her some food which she pecked at like she hadn't eaten all day and tried guzzling down water. i thought she might have run into a wall in the coop or could have been pushed off her perch by someone bigger. she had no bugs on her since i keep my birds sprayed weekly and no signs of being hurt or plucked at. she slept in the house all night in my empty 55 gallon fish tank in my living room and seems fine till this morning after checking on her and then checking on all my other birds, i came back into the house to find her thrashing in the tank and throwing her head back, eyes so wide i knew she was not going to recover from this. i picked her up and held onto her to keep her from doing any more harm to herself, but she passed shortly after that.

i am really sad with this. she is the 3rd pullet from my own breeding i have kept that i have lost in the past year. she, like the others had not been laying yet either! i thought i should have brought her in yesterday morning before the mess really started here but i figured they would all make it fine. now i wish i had pulled her inside.

I am so sorry sweety!