Ducks ALIVE in 2025!

Ducks here one giggle and one awsome kiddo.

Shades-of-Oregon said:

The mahonia’s are a pain the leafs can pinch ya if you’re not careful.

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Shades', have you used the berries for Jelly?

My gardening neighbor did that. He grew up in a family with a commercial orchard on Lake Chelan.

Steve

digitS' said:

Shades', have you used the berries for Jelly?

My gardening neighbor did that. He grew up in a family with a commercial orchard on Lake Chelan.

Steve

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Never have a chance to pick berries from the mahonia the deer and birds always beat me to it.
Jelly sounds different.

2025 has become "Ducks the 'garden lurker' ".
EVERYBODY has beautiful pictures of their harvests, or to be harvests.
SO.Jelly!!
I had to scoop out the ONE pepper I started from seed bc I had it in an old horse water bucket, NO drainage, and the recent rains had filled it up, so it was trying to drown.

I will try transplanting it to something With drainage this weekend. It's still only 6 inches tall and I am thinking it might be a good candidate for winterizing.
I guess I've learned a LOT about container gardening this year.
I have 7 hot peppers happily growing and producing in my whiskey barrel container.
The 6 (or 7) tomatoes and 5 hot peppers in the old horse trough look very good, and some fruit.
Ironically (for newbies) I probably have the largest growing space here.
I have to be patient for a few more weeks and then I get to:
1) mow
2) weed
..repeat, repeat, repeat...
Until the end of the season in November.
Container gardening can be done successfully with little maintenance for future reference...
OH, GSD puppies in two weeks.

So, missed the window to plant beans. I bought 3 lbs at the Wednesday Amish farm stand instead and processed Them. 2 1/2 hours to cut off the ends, then, a total of 8 hours to blanche, freeze on trays in the porch freezer, then bag and put them back in the freezer for next winter.
I Will remember this next year when I grow and harvest And process!!

Had a roofing guy (that we trust, NOT the Bozo that lives here in town), out to give us an estimate on building repairs.
We walked around--him on his 2 feet, Me with my walker, "Peanut,"--then he launched his drone to take video.
Since I had somebody to "babysit" me, I weeded for about 15 minutes in the wildflower patch.
I found the lone watermelon vine and freed it, discovered 3 Amaranth growing, and made a big pile of weed grass.
I also grained the ponies.
All.by.myself.
PT reminded me Wednesday that my leg is still broken.
Put the fear of God into me--gotta still be Very Careful!
No vodka before my showers...

Yesterday I got an hour of weeding in the wildflower patch. I credit somebody mowing and blowing trash grass seed into it.
Still DH is going to mow with my Godmower today. (PT agreed with me to hold off using this myself for a few more weeks.) He should blow the growing pile of this with seeds away from the patch and it will fertilize the lawn.

It is expected to be 47 degrees F at 6AM on Wednesday morning. We are having high's in the 70's ALL of this week.
Even so, I sweated while weeding yesterday, and weeding in my garden seat is all I can safely do outside for the next 2 weeks. My PT reminded me aGAIN that my left leg is still broken, and won't be tentatively fused until 8 weeks out, which takes me to September 4th.
I have heard of at least two women who screwed up their healing by pushing too much too soon.
They will both have to have another surgery to correct this.
NO.THANK.YOU!!
I have also talked to women who did the right thing and have had no issues. I would like to join Their club.
I let my PT push me. This isn't bc I'm any smarter than them. I had such a long healing and swelling with my right leg that I didn't want to push it, so I am reining myself in to WAIT. Now, my right leg only needs more bending stretching, and I have been assured that I don't have a window closing on that, just effort for results.
I am taking questions to my PT sessions, and, since we have been ending early, I want his advice on my right leg progress, as well.
You have probably noticed that I am very good at stream of consciousness and lack focus, so this Also has been an effort.

ducks4you said:

So, missed the window to plant beans. I bought 3 lbs at the Wednesday Amish farm stand instead and processed Them. 2 1/2 hours to cut off the ends, then, a total of 8 hours to blanche, freeze on trays in the porch freezer, then bag and put them back in the freezer for next winter.
I Will remember this next year when I grow and harvest And process!!

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Wow, good job! Those will be great to have in the winter!

Sorry, I am trying to eradicate Queen Anne's Lace (Great Britain invasive here,) from my property.
Otherwise, here is the list:
1) Sunflowers
2) Yarrow
3) Milkweed
4) Buckwheat
5) Native grasses
6) Wild Mustard
7) Queen Anne's Lace
8) Penstemon
9) Saltbush
10)Winecup
**I thought these would be widely available, apparently not.
Here is one dealer:

@Shades-of-Oregon , Hey, Lady!!
I was reading through another thread where you mentioned a really good cheesecake recipe.
Spill!!