Gardening 2021

[bwframe]

I'm pretty happy about having a spinach harvest big enough to put some up. Its been a few years since there's been enough to dehydrate.

Half gallon of dehydrated spinach...

 

[Jaybird1980]

I'm pretty happy about having a spinach harvest big enough to put some up. Its been a few years since there's been enough to dehydrate.

Half gallon of dehydrated spinach...

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Never heard of dehydrating spinach before? What do you do with it?

 

[bwframe]

Never heard of dehydrating spinach before? What do you do with it?

Add it to any dish that might benefit from adding spinach.

It's good in soups, stews and the like.

Scrabbled eggs with spinach and cheese is one of my favorite ways to eat eggs. I'm sure it would do well in quiche also.

It will eat like chips also.

 

[dprimm]

I have been dehydrating kale. Just growing like gang busters.
My 6 year old asked to plant more broccoli. We did. He loves the stuff.

 

[wcd]

I got my soil analysis back from A&L.
PH 7.8, high phosphorus, needs Potash. They recommended 13-0-13 fertilizer, which is kinda hard to find right now, and sulfur/peat moss

Your local co-op?

 

[wcd]

Add it to any dish that might benefit from adding spinach.

It's good in soups, stews and the like.

Scrabbled eggs with spinach and cheese is one of my favorite ways to eat eggs. I'm sure it would do well in quiche also.

It will eat like chips also.

queso and cheese dip for chips, so good.

 

[Jaybird1980]

Your local co-op?

No, they didn't have it. I got 6-0-6 and doubled it.

 

[wcd]

No, they didn't have it. If got 6-0-6 and doubled it.

Figured it was worth a shot.

That should work fine.

 

[Jaybird1980]

Figured it was worth a shot.

That should work fine.

Could have got it there, but it would have been a wait. Could probably get it there now

 

[wcd]

Could have got it there, but it would have been a wait. Could probably get it there now

Hard for working people to get there on the weekends, ours closes at Noon.

 

[spencer rifle]

Waiting for the forecast to stop with the freezing night temps - we have 6 flats of plants to put in.
Peas, lettuce and spinach still growing, brought in some asparagus.
Digging up chives and spearmint that is taking over a whole corner - you want any?
Finished attaching chicken wire fence all along the bottom of the regular fence to keep the bunnies out.
Raccoons are getting in the chicken pen again, either prying the top of the gate open, or digging under the gate. They can't get to the chickens or eggs, since they are closed up on the coop every night. So the work for this evening is to shovel in some landscape blocks along the bottom of the gate to prevent digging. The old shingles that worked for years are not enough to keep the raccoons out any more

 

[bwframe]

 

[bwframe]

I was really pumped to find a preying mantis cocoon while weeding last year's strawberries.

I didn't see it, until it came off in my hand. It's gotta be old, from last year, right?

 

[bwframe]

Nope...

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

That's awesome, my area must be good for praying mantis, I find egg-cases in almost every one of my raised beds in the spring. When I find them as I clear the beds off, I try to re-locate them into the asparagus, strawberries, or garlic beds so they can hatch later. I wonder if I get a lot of them because I tend to always have a few beds that I totally let go each year that get full of tall weeds in late summer. I haven't been lucky enough to see any babies yet. Maybe today as I put out all my tomato and pepper plants.

 

[spencer rifle]

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That's awesome, my area must be good for praying mantis, I find egg-cases in almost every one of my raised beds in the spring. When I find them as I clear the beds off, I try to re-locate them into the asparagus, strawberries, or garlic beds so they can hatch later. I wonder if I get a lot of them because I tend to always have a few beds that I totally let go each year that get full of tall weeds in late summer. I haven't been lucky enough to see any babies yet. Maybe today as I put out all my tomato and pepper plants.

Be aware that these are Chinese mantids and not native. They will also eat pollinators.

Planting today:

 

[bwframe]

Be aware that these are Chinese mantids and not native. They will also eat pollinators.

They look like the same one's I remember seeing as a kid? I remember seeing one eat a captured bee once.

Bumble bees seem to be doing most of the pollinating here? They are the most of what I see.

 

[bwframe]

I've not seen any more plants ate off at the roots and haven't caught any voles in the traps for a week. I caught 4, do you think that might be it?

 

[bwframe]

I always put buying one of these off as pricey. Ended up using someone else's and had to get one. So far so good...

 

[hoosierdaddy1976]

Between work and having four different ball schedules between the five kids, I am way behind. A year ago I had the first harvest of radishes, this year I have hardly anything in.