What did you do in the garden today?

[pennyJo1960]

We have a few more days for salads to be had again our garden is pretty small and mostly do salad fixins and zucchini my arugula is doing great this time

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning gardeners. Hope you all are doing well with all the weather issues and earthquakes on top of it. We were fortunate to get good soaking rain in my area, however the south shore of Massachusetts got a lot of rain and subsequent flooding. It was crazy humid yesterday evening. Hard on me, but good for the garden. The pea harvesting is slowing down, which is fine for me. I've picked more than I expected. Next year I will definitely put poles for these plants to climb. The package said they are a bush type that gets to maybe 24 inches tall. Sorry, make that 3 - 4 feet tall. Maybe it's the dirt. My cherry tomatoes are 5 feet tall right now. My pole bean vines are nearing the top of the 5 foot poles so I think I need to add some more climbing structures for them. The butternut squash plants are starting to form flower buds so I'm glad I'll be able to move the pea plants out of their way. I couldn't buy sod for my front yard so I picked up some grass seed to put down on the bare spot where the giant shrub used to be. Not planning on doing much else outside. There's a heat wave moving in on Wednesday. The forecast is for 5 days of 90F + temperatures. There goes the electric bill. Have a great day everyone and stay safe.

 

[WthrLady]

KITTY! I thought we lost all of them in the flooding this spring! Guess he made it. The first one I've seen this year.

Plague carries on, but is getting better.

Major sporting competition for us today, but tomorrow it's back to ranch work. A big batch of alpaca poo tea is going on all the plants. Temps heading over 100 for the next week and head indexes going into the 118-115. Gross. The tomatoes will love it. The livestock will not.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning everyone slow starting here but bought a older pepper plant at home depot has flowers two small peppers already

 

[cavemanrich]

"Wee Farmer Sarah, post: 21556157, member: 526417"]Next year I will definitely put poles for these plants to climb. The package said they are a bush type that gets to maybe 24 inches tall. Sorry, make that 3 - 4 feet tall. Maybe it's the dirt. My cherry tomatoes are 5 feet tall right now.

When plant grow in fertile soil,,, they tend to grow bigger,and taller, and wider,, and more lush,,,,,,,, and so fort.
There is nor substitute for good growing medium
Of course some of you may want to correct me and point to hydroponics. Well that is like growing plants on steroids.
Similar to the below.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Planted then watered the tomatoes where on deaths door wilted awful phone is charging no photos yet

 

[WthrLady]

Haven't seen the garden today at all. Snuck out at 3am to close the barn door as it was lightning, but rain and wind missed us.

Left for competition at 10am, ears ready to explode. Got home at 7 to cook dinner and send results via email to local paper. 9pm and I am beat down tired. Sinus' and ears are paying me back for today.

Skirting alpaca fleeces for a trip to the mill Monday (maybe), and alpaca poo tea for the garden.

Brought home 3 gold state level medals

 

[Beer can]

Will be spraying the copper spray on the tomatoes today, might help.

Had a slight prob with late blight one yr, overnight killed all our tomatoes, plants turned black, the yr I grew the most varieties ever... I've been using copper fungicide ever since. Haven't had to use it yet this yr cause we were super dry but since recent rain I see some leaves iffy so I'll give them a light spray. Been saving my plants since the bad yr.
Not sure where you bought yours or how much but first time I just bought a spray bottle of it for like $7? Didn't go very far with 30 huge plants... Home Depot had a little jug of concentrated for $7, makes 50 gallons! Bought a pump sprayer and I'm still using the same container now for 6yrs? Still plenty left.

 

[MissChick@dee]

Haven't seen the garden today at all. Snuck out at 3am to close the barn door as it was lightning, but rain and wind missed us.

Left for competition at 10am, ears ready to explode. Got home at 7 to cook dinner and send results via email to local paper. 9pm and I am beat down tired. Sinus' and ears are paying me back for today.

Skirting alpaca fleeces for a trip to the mill Monday (maybe), and alpaca poo tea for the garden.

Brought home 3 gold state level medals

Oh how exciting! What for??
I hope you get feeling better soon.
Don’t play with all that infection. Seriously, perhaps a trip to the doctor could help your recovery. I have chronic problems and antibiotics are helpful. I’m not a huge fan of Steroids either but sometimes I get too run down and then it’s a hot mess.

 

[Beer can]

Had a slight injury today heading out to the garden. Was going to weed the rows of onions. Walked past our outside wood boiler with open toed rubber sandals and kinda tripped over a wood splinter from splitting wood by it. Hobbled back inside to ask DW to pull a splinter out of my foot, hey mommy I said, can you pull a sliver out of my foot?. She picked on me on her way out and then about freaked out, ... It was about a foot long and turned out to be 3/4 a inch drove into between my big toe and the next about a little smaller than a pencil, left a hole . I thought it was worse than it was, wasn't a big deal. She pulled out a little meat digging with tweezers getting a piece that broke off. Didn't bleed much, been eating kale omelets about every day high in vitamin K.
Crazy, never would have thought that could ever happen lol
Luckily I'm on last day of work first day of vacation so hopefully healed up before back to work lol.