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Riona Abhainn
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Speaking of anvils, our goal for my husband starting in autumn is to figure out a mobile blacksmithing set up for out in our driveway.  A goal from last colder season that never happened.

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Braided Daffodils


After our daffodil blooms have finished, we have a tendency to loosely braid the greenery in order to cleanup the beds they occupy. We had an excess of maple sprouts trying to get a foothold and being able to see where we are working around makes the effort worth it especially this year. I have not noticed any ill effects from this practice in the last few years that we have done it.

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While my wife is away visiting family in the south, there is nobody here to tell me not to do things on a whim. In the spirit of whimsy, I just couldn't help myself...

Two Aconas, Two Cream Legabars, A Black Copper Maran and a Blue Copper Maran


Say hello to all of the chicks I picked up! "Mama" the Australorp who raised a batch of adopted chicks last year had gone broody again and who am I to not allow her to enjoy the pleasures of motherhood? I simply placed each chick in front of her and she quickly stuffed them under her fluffed up frame. Nobody or nothing is going to come between her and her chicks. I love not having to drag out a brooder and worry about getting everything right when I can just let a hen do all the tough work. They have setup shop in a space between the nesting boxes in the main coop and the rest of the flock is playing nice. I'll put a feeder and waterer in there for them, and that's that.

What should I do next?

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Goats.

"The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance."~Ben Franklin. "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." ~ Plato

 
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Corn is not going well this year.

I planted my corn in late May and it appears that my germination rate of my prior years crop is rather poor. To add insult to injury, the few random corn sprouts that I have around got absolutely bulldozed by some sort of fuzzy woodland creature. There appears to be a family of two older groundhogs and three baby groundhogs in my neck of the woods. I'd be a little less perturbed if they ate the corn, but they decided just to crush them and bend them over. It's probably too late in June but I have attempted to replant three rows with the remaining seed that I have and thin if the corn germinates too densely.

I have fava beans interplanted in alternating rows with the corn that is getting really good growth. I'm worried however because we have had a period of hot weather and I've heard that favas may not do well producing pods if the temperature is too high.

As a little insurance, I have planted pumpkins and lima beans in the remaining spaces so I will hopefully get some yield this year out of the space I'm experimenting with corn in.

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Riona Abhainn
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Does your wife like the new chickens?  Sorry corn didn't work out so far, maybe you'll get really lucky and somehow it will grow fast and catch up?  My pumpkins didn't grow this year, probably due to the experiment I tried.  I'm going to plant some though once we get back down out of the 90s, its probably too late but I'll try anyways.

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Ohh, she adores the chickens! They are in their "teen" phase and are starting to show their personalities which is fun. We are still trying to nail down good names for each of the new hens.

I figure the worse thing I could of done is not tried, I don't really have much planned otherwise for the space so the second shot will either surprise me with success or give me a lesson to carry on to next year. I know the usual saying for corn in my area is "Knee high by July" but I would take ankle high as a success!

I'm rather impressed how fast some plants can catch up in the garden compared to starting early indoors and putting plants outside. My outdoor volunteer tomatoes catch up rather quickly with my starts. Maybe corn will do the same? We will see.

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Learning moment of the day.

Just because your compost pile is "shrinking" does not mean that it is composting. I have a smaller compost pile that I have been building by consistently adding kitchen scraps and household compostables to, dating back to the start of spring.  I have not turned it, thinking I would just let it be a cold compost pile and it would figure itself out, but got the sudden urge to flip it today. It is a good thing that I did because I found that there was a lot of carbon dense materials that was not breaking down. I unfortunately think there was some matting that ended up repelling water and further slowing the whole process down.

The good news is that the pile has been flipped, rained on, and hopefully will perhaps go into a thermophilic phase if I have any luck.

We will see!

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Thanks for reminding me to use the shovel on my compost pile.  I don't think about it as often as I should.

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Learning moment of the day.

For three years now, I have failed to grow carrots. I try all sorts of tricks and they just don't do very well. I tried covering them with a board, ensuring proper moisture, babysat them daily and nada. This year, I took my remaining old seed and just tossed them in a bed that had space that I had not had the opportunity to plant out. This particular bed has a bunch of volunteer tomato plants that appear every year and like clockwork, they started growing. I did not get the opportunity to really weed/thin this bed so it has been overflowing with tomato plants and some turnips until yesterday.

I started to thin the plants in the bed and suddenly I was starting to see what I thought was cilantro underneath the bushy tomato plants in the shade. It didn't smell like cilantro so when I pulled one and found a six inch carrot attached to the greenery, I was overjoyed. Apparently, I just need to neglect carrots and I can grow them! No special watering or care needed!

Gardens work in funny ways man.

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