What Did You Do In Your Garden Today?

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Didn't you read the directions that said to stand on your head while taking pictures? :D
StupidBird, if you are setting the mousetraps outside, please be careful to set them in areas that aren't easily accessible to birds. Earlier this year I was setting traps at night in the chicken yard to catch a family of mice that was eating the chicken food. Early morning before I let the chickens out I discovered that I had caught a cardinal. :ep He was injured so badly I had to put him out of his pain, which was very sad and traumatic for me as well.
 

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Havent done squat in the garden other than feed the Rotmores.
I did dig up my bulb garden over the weekend and add 2 wheelbarrows of old manure from the barn. I got a BUNCH of bulbs for my birthday and will be adding them one evening this week.
 

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StupidBird said:
. . . sorghum seed . . . I find the seed a delicious substitute for barley, and the flour is very good. . .
Wait a minute
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Do you mean for pearled barley?? 'Bird, what would you do with the sorghum seed to make it useful as a soup ingredient?!

Steve
who is right in the middle of digging dahlias and storing. oh yeah, you can put dahlia roots in soup too but i ain't gonna.
 

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I went out and took photos of the snow falling on flowers and autumn colored leaves. It is TOO early for SNOW. Well at least it will not last long.
 

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snow? that's incredible! today, I planted my garlic. first time for me. I was reading that it needs cooler soil temps & that's why it doesn't do so well in Tx. Therefore, we're supposed to plant it deep so the soil temp doesn't get too warm in spring. I planted it 6". we'll see.
 

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We got a few inches of the really big sticky fluff. It will be gone soon. Never stuck to the streets. Whew.
 

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All of the dahlias roots are home, cleaned up and in the garage.

Next step, peat moss and down the basement stairs . . .. ... . !

It is a pretty picture. I'd imagine that when there are sudden changes like, I guess, is happening right now in the Midwest - the trees lose limbs by not being able to shed the weight of the snow. It happens here in our, sometimes, miserable springs :rolleyes:.

Steve
who feels older by the hour during garden clean-up days. gets to be that it is real nice just to come home.
 

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YEP. there was a power outage across the river. A weighted limb fell and took out some lines.
 
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