What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

Canned up 6 pints of navy beans this morning and spent 4.5 hours pulling buffalo burr. Managed two 5 gallon buckets packed as tight as they will go from two acres. I am bent in half and sunburned. I'll go back out once week for a month to see if i missed any tiny ones that will get bigger and easier to spot. All the ones OUTSIDE the pasture I will poison.
Another 6 pints in the canner now. I'll continue the canning thing, until I run out of bagged beans. Canned last longer.

 

[Acre4Me]

Garden Pics!!

Gourds finally sprouting (only one kind)

The other guard that sprouted in the peat pots

Cucumber

Cucumber and pea bed

Beans for drying:

Cabbage

tomatoes!

Beds with tomatoes and pepper plants

more green tomatoes!

Turnips and Beets, 4 varieties of each

Melons: watermelons and musk melons! And Pie Pumpkins

Squash plants (yellow crookneck and butternut)

Potatoes are flowering!

Pole Beans climbing!

Our newest thing: a shed for meat chickens or breeding sets of regular chickens..... or maybe turkeys!

 

[WthrLady]

I FRIGGEN LOVE THE NEW SHED!!!!!!!!!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Yes how wonderful of shed you have

 

[Acre4Me]

I FRIGGEN LOVE THE NEW SHED!!!!!!!!!

thanks! It’s not done yet, needs some diagonals and doors on the front. Our plan is two doors, and the possibility To divide in half when needed.

 

[AllenK RGV]

My day was spent clearing the Jungle out back and getting the front presentable from the streetside again. That was my 9:30 to noon activity. In the back I cleared the paths to my compost, and back coop, weeded round the house, but now it is possible to make a complete circuit around. My lovely Lab found me a new treasure trove of eggs so naturally I'm happy if they are happy, but cleared in a human path to it under some evergreen with the lopers.
Part of Front looking back:

Front looking at the a bit of the rest of the jungle:


And today is the first day in about 10 days straight no watering was required, yep, the drought broke. DW discovered we have 3 cantaloupes developing:


The cherry tomatoes we got from the nursery are dead/dying or setting red raisinettes. We have mortgage lifters coming and chose those because folks in Florida seem to do well with em.

I'll get back and mow in about another 30-45 minutes to give the sun to relax on its brutality. 5:30am and we were already 82F and 87% humidity.

Late edit: 637CST: Burn't through my 2 batteries in like 35 minutes. They normally discharge over 30 and charge in 25, calling today done but at least now it is only 90 out there.

 

[WthrLady]

thanks! It’s not done yet, needs some diagonals and doors on the front. Our plan is two doors, and the possibility To divide in half when needed.

See, and here I am making it a tiny bit smaller, shorter and slapping up clear panels for a greenhouse. ha!

 

[AllenK RGV]

Ok does everything really have to be bigger in Texas?

This Junebug was flying around inside, and it was crazy how well it flew, and yep that is a US quarter dollar for comparison. I stunned it by swatting out of the air and on to the floor.

 

[alfie10]

morning all been out early tying up honey suckle noticed evening primose in flower didn,t even know it was there .now the neighbours are up and about i can go out front with my strimmer and attack the weeds some of them are so tall it,s embarresing and the grass .it,s only a small patch but i,d much rather be in the back garden that,s big 70ft long 20ft wide ,not as big as some of yours but it,s big enough for me seeing as i,m on my own .

 

[littledog]

2 pounds potatoes, thinly sliced
1/2 onion, thinly sliced
9 tablespoons all-purpose flour, divided
6 tablespoons butter, diced and divided
salt and ground black pepper to taste
2 cups whole milk, or as needed
Add meat beef or pork

Directions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
Spread about 1/3 of the potato slices into the bottom of the prepared baking dish. Top with about 1/3 of the onion slices. Sprinkle 3 tablespoons flour over the potato and onion. Arrange 2 tablespoons butter atop the flour. Season the entire layer with salt and pepper. Repeat layering twice more.
Heat milk in a saucepan until warm. Pour enough warm milk over the mixture in the baking dish so the top of the liquid is level with the final layer of potatoes.
Bake in preheated oven until potatoes are tender, 45 to 60 minutes.

Thanks so much! I'm definitely going to try it - looks easier than I expected!