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So sorry to hear about your hens @AAnightowl , I hope your new barrier works well .

 

@AAnightowl so sorry about your hens and I hope that it works.

Nothing today it's raining and I've done everything that needs doing at the moment, so I've taken up the legs of hubby's 2 new pairs of jeans, he's been going on about them for a long time.

 

Not a lot today as we are having rain on and off and at times fairly heavy. Still can't spot any on our weather forecast map though.
I have however been busy in the greenhouse tidying and repotting some of our houseplants.

Have also done a couple of online jigsaw puzzles of..... a beautiful garden in Autumn ( reminded me of Pacs) and a vase of flowers !!!!

So all in all keeping the garden related vibes flowing much like the water falling from our skies.

 

The only thing with burying the wire, is that it will rust away...

I have a sliding latch on the door, plus a piece of chain wrapped around the door post that I clip at night. The chain goes through the chicken wire on each side.

I have cement blocks on the one side, and did put wire anyway on two other sides. I have a common wall between my shed and the chicken coop. It saved me from building an extra wall. I did dig down on one of the outside walls and put in metal grating. I use sulfur powder to repel things like snakes and rodents and other varmints, but the feed store has been out of it for over a month (maybe I am there on the wrong days?), and other local stores do not carry plain sulfur powder. They have a couple of sulfur compounds for $30 for 3.5 lbs, but the feed store usually has plain sulfur for $9 for 4 lbs. It is a huge difference in price. I hope the feed store has some today when I go to town.



that metal wall is the common wall for the shed and the coop. they got in behind and under that wall... I am getting fresh straw for in there today. I raked out all the stuff full of feathers ...

 

I got my other really big raised bed cleared out of couch grass and, I found two brassicas coming up off roots from last fall !! They were hidden under the hay. So, I've left them for now.

Then I saw that my lettuce seeds germinated and my mache (corn salad) are all coming up !! Also, one little turnip seed has germinated too !!

Right now and earlier today I have been watering and I am working on making my South flower bed a couple feet wider. I used my electric edger to cut through the sod. I made squares about a shovel's spit wide and long. All I have to do , when I finish carving up the sod, is to dig under ther squares and lift them.

That bed has a big 'ol cedar tree just outside of the fence so, nothing can be planted there in the back due to roots. Once the bed is widened I intend to move my day lillies forward and get some taller plants behind there. I have 3 pots of Imperial blue plumbago anf 4 pots of groundcover plumbago to stick in there. All blue !! They should look good with the day lilies and gerber daisies.

 

So sorry to hear about the chickens @AAnightowl I've lost a few in past too

 

You are lucky to have such a long planting season and still planting cold weather veggies.
It’s raining cats and dogs here again and another wind storm is due soon. How bout I send the storm your way with lots of rain.

I luv your idea of planting blue plumbago in with the day lilies. Will look spectacular and keep the soil moist and cool at the same time. I planted day lilies along with Veronica Georgia blue and variegated leaf ground cover ‘Vinca minor’ blue and purple blooms. It’s a steady growing season here for the evergreen ground cover, then in early spring day lily leaves pop up a foot higher than the ground cover , when the bright orange day lilies appear, such a dramatic effect … if the deer don’t sneak up and ravage all the day lilies first. It’s always a gamble who get who first. Me or the day lilies or the deer.

I saw a huge herd of antelope cross the pastures early this morning. I’m glad they kept it movin. I’m not ready to tackle a whole beautiful herd yet and at the same time so awesome to see them.

 

Oh yes !! I would love to have some rain !! Send it on.

Pac, you need a nice big Female Donkey. She'll chase those deer and Antelope, coyotes and any other critter right off the property.

My Molly Mule tore hide off of two coyotes that got in her pasture. I never saw a coyote after that, AND, she tore up a gopher turtle that had the audacity to come into her pasture. It's shell looked like puzzle pieces when she got through with it. Mules and Donkeys hate strangers, interlopers around them.

I bet your ground squirrels would avoid your place like the plague !!

 

Nothing will be getting done today as it's my turn for a medical app..........what are we like, a right pair of dilapidated old codgers !!
We'll go on into the city afterwards for some lunch.
It's suppose to rain all afternoon.

 

Nothing today it's rain showers, so I'm cleaning the conservatory.

 

.... I meant dilapidated.....not decapitated!!!!!!!

 

So sorry about your hens.

 

Today I raked several wagon loads of leaves. That's it for the red leaf maple and one of the lindens. Other trees still have some leaves to drop. A lot in the chicken yard, too.

 

Yesterday I watered, and watered, and watered. This morning I got another raised bed ready to plant more Fava, or Broad beans in. I ran out of sticks for it to grow up so I intend to cut some of my bamboo for that.

I hadn't intended to plant more beans but I found that I had two more packs and two more empty beds. The vines will make good compost even if I do end up with more beans than I need. I have a neighbor I can pawn some off on.

 

Annie— okra. I remember that. We thought the flavour was oké, but found it slippery and slidey.