What did you do in the garden today?

[karenerwin]

I watered my garden this morning, but was gone the entire rest of the day. Got home around 8 PM and locked up the chickens. Did not even make it by the produce stand to see if they have any more boxes of slightly off tomatoes.
I also need to get some more apples. All of the apple pie jam I made is gone and I still have more people that want some.

Penny, I hope you feel better soon!

 

[Sueby]

Hope your feeling better Penny!

I debated tearing out the whole garden over the weekend. But everything is still going good & I could use more tomatoes so instead I brought up 8 tractor buckets of mulch & made it look nice. I have blisters & am sore.

My sickie was feeling fine, laid a regular egg thankfully.

I'm excited because the new fence is going up soon, so a great big chicken run will happen & that means I can get 2 more as I'll have room to introduce them properly.

 

[Sueby]

& I don't think it's wrong at all to compost what you can't use or give away!

Speaking of, my new compost bin! (Half of it for now anyway)

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning gardeners / canners! The very ripe tomatoes are still languishing in my dining room. I need to buy some cilantro and lime to make salsa so I'll run to the store in a bit. I did pick a few tomatoes this morning but found yet another surprise, cucumbers. Yay! I was actually missing them. The green beans need another day or two before they are ready to pick. I will have some poblanos soon. Not a good year for peppers. Last years pepper harvest was so good it kept me in peppers until Spring. That's not happening this year. Hope you are feeling better @penny1960. Have a great day everyone and happy canning.

 

[WthrLady]

& I don't think it's wrong at all to compost what you can't use or give away!

Speaking of, my new compost bin! (Half of it for now anyway)

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We added a third hole. One for super hot. one for about done, and one for totally ready to use.

5 more pillowcases to go. I'm taking a short break and I'll finish by 3.

The garden is still there. Fed and happy in the high heat and humidity. I'll tear it out when IT decides it's done. Then I'll tear out the old and cover the growing rows deep with grass clippings for the winter.

My peppers are FINALLY waking up. I think THEY think it's spring! LOL.

I have processed a bushel of apples and have 1.5 more to go. Some of these are chicken apples. Those I'll just pull out and cut into smaller pieces and put into freezer bags and pull out for winter. My hens LOOOOOVE warm apples and oatmeal in the winter.

The rest of the apples for people I'll make applesauce, and dehydrated apples.

I have a large batch of apple butter cooking now.

Happy gardening all!

OH and I'll be picking again in about 10 days.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning all or afternoon took a hot shower the cold has left the lungs now just my sinus dripping nothing new there have to eat the apple sauce I made before anymore is tried

 

[chickmom3941]

Hi everyone. Today is the first day of my 4-day "weekend" - yay! Thanks to those of you who offered suggestions for our green tomatoes. Green salsa verde sounds like a great idea - anyone have a good recipe for that? Last week we ended up with seven 1-gallon freezer bags filled with chopped bell peppers, which should easily last all winter long!
We're having Indian summer weather right now, hot and humid. I'm thinking things may keep growing a little while longer. We have some pumpkins and cucumbers still growing in the garden, and tomatoes & peppers in the greenhouse. I'm not going to pull any plants till I'm sure they're done.
We just got a membership at Costco, and today was our first time shopping there. Found a lot of great deals!
BTW, hope you're feeling better soon, Penny1960.

 

[karenerwin]

I did not even get a chance to look at my garden today! I had PT in the morning, then ran some errands. I did pick up 7 pounds of apples and another 20 + pound box of tomatoes.
I started burning a 3.5 foot stump that has been in the yard forever! I'll be working on that for many days.
After dinner I started prepping the tomatoes. I found 20 plum tomatoes in the bottom of the box, so I kept those out separate. So far, I have canned 10 pints of tomatoes and have about another 8 to 10 more pints to do tomorrow.
Then I can do something with the plum tomatoes.
I already know that I'm going to make more apple pie jam with the apples.

I wasn't happy with the flavor or texture of the zesty salsa I made the other day.
I won't make that one again. But you don't know until you try.
Tomorrow night I'm going to the Cardinal baseball game!! My Mom was supposed to go, but fortunately, she realized that she isn't able to do that yet. She's still recovering from her surgery. A friend of mine is going to go with me instead.

I do need to check on the green beans and cherry tomatoes tomorrow as well as plant a few mums I bought from my great nieces' and nephew's school fundraiser.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning gardeners. Hope all is going well. So I went to the store and picked up the cilantro and lime juice as well as some fresh spinach to make a salad with my radish + greens and a tomato. Quite tasty. I made the tomato and jalapeno salsa recipe from the Ball Canning book. It was sooo easy! It made 6 half pints. There wasn't anything left for a taste test except for a scraping or two in the cook pot. I think I got the heat right in this batch. There is a recipe for green tomato salsa in this same cook book @chickmom3941. It is probably on the Ball Canning website as well. I picked some more green beans this morning along with one of the bell peppers. Yesterday while hanging with my peeps during "free range" time we were visited twice by a pair of bald eagles and later by a pair of smaller, not chicken hawks. Very busy skies yesterday. Lots of butterflies flitting around too. I made a little more progress on painting the trim in my sunroom yesterday. It's taking 3 coats to cover up the brown so it's slow going. I'm getting my pellet stove cleaned this morning, then I will be already for winter. I have enough heating oil left for my hot water so hopefully this "spike" in oil prices will be over before I need to buy more. Have a great day everyone.

 

[chickmom3941]

Thanks for pointing me to the Ball Canning website, Wee Farmer Sarah. I'll check it out! I wonder how many green tomatoes we'll have once they are all finished growing for the season. Today is going to be near 90 degrees once the humidity is figured in, so even though I don't like the weather, I'm sure the tomatoes will.
Hubs just got through chopping up a bunch of our home-grown garlic, and he put it in a jar with olive oil (just like the stuff you buy in the grocery store). I'm going to love that - so handy when you're cooking not to have to stop and chop garlic!
When I was pulling rhubarb stalks last spring, I somehow accidentally pulled out a small leaf and a little bit of the crown with one single piece of root attached, so I planted it in a pot to see if by chance it would grow. To my surprise, it did! So now I have a small little rhubarb plant still growing in the pot, which I need to get planted in the ground so it has time to get established a bit before the cold weather sets in. One can never have too much rhubarb!