What did you do in the garden today?

[NewBoots]

Huh. I never thought of them as suckers, just as more stems. I did take a couple off today amd yesterday, so maybe that's good and i should do a little more.

From what I've read, you take the suckers off of the indeterminate plants and let the determinate ones go for it. I will know better next year than to plant determinates right next to indeterminates, it looks like a jungle and there is so much growth that I can't find the tags anymore. Next year there will be order!

Was it @NewBoots that mentioned they planted bush beans this year as well.

Yeah I have bush beans but they look scraggly and aren't producing much. I intend to pull them out and let the winter squash have the right of way.

Got up at 5:30 am and was on the dock by 6 but the fishing wasn't any great shakes. Of course I still stayed there and fished for 3 hours. Even slow fishing is fishing. Might try again after 5 pm tonight.

Haven't watered yet but I will shortly. I did get the first 2 artichokes planted and I'll get the other 2 done today as well. I need to up-pot some of those natives I bought since the space on the bluff isn't prepared yet. I'm using the sand and rocks from all the holes I'm digging to add to the downhill side of the plantings already on the bluff to slow down water runoff. I'll add mulch as well, we still have a lot left in the pile.

 

[WthrLady]

The weak hive of mine is gone. It was the hive that I had packaged bees for this Spring. It struggled. I don't think there was a good queen and package bond. I think the queen left early on and the remaining hive raised a new queen. As of 4 weeks ago, that group was making comb, and honey, and brood. I last checked it 21 days ago. Then it got too hot to put the suit on, but bees were coming and going. This morning I noticed no bees coming and going. I pulled the roof and opened her up, UGHHHH, wax moth!

The bees have left. Wax moth larvae had just hatch yesterday and today. The comb was ruined and honey almost all gone, ruined anyway. I am so annoyed.

The swarm hive is going well and strong enough to fend off moths. I'll spray mint oil anyway.

DS headed out to clean the coop, and screamed FOX (with a rice crispy treat shoved in his mouth), but I got it. I bolted off the sofa to the deck to scream at it. It hadn't spotted the free-ranging hens yet, and the rooster still hadn't even seen it. But the big boys had. So my guess is it ran from the open buffet neighbors coop across the hay field, where the boys saw it and chased it up the hill. Me coming out running and screaming like an insane woman kept it freaked out enough to run away into the cattle pasture. Quick put away and head count. All there.


FCOL...what a year.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have allot of the salad type bolting now intend to plant more .. hope the warmth stays in the soil get them going

 

[igorsMistress]

Good afternoon gardeners. Welcome to the newbies! @WthrLady I'm sorry about the wax moth but it's good your other hive is doing well. Everyone's gardens look great I went to Lowe's for some pavers to finish off the walkway out back and visited their plant clearance racks. I got a plumbago for the shade garden, an autumn sage and this thing called Purple Hopseed Bush. It gets huge, 12 to 16 feet tall and nearly as wide. I'm not sure where to put that but it's a pretty plant.

Hubs was out earlier than me and brought me home this dolly It came in handy to haul the pavers around back and will be awesome for feed too

I'm going to transplant the sage and plumbago tomorrow morning and figure out where to put the other thing. Have a great evening everyone!

 

[Sequel]

So who has the best way to freeze zucchini?? I am thinking of shredding them first but don’t want them to clump together in a huge solid mass.

I freeze my berries on a cookie sheet so they stay relatively loose in zip lock bags. Would it be possible to do something similar? My dad used to freeze shredded zucchini for hash browns I think he just stuffed it into bags. Wish I’d thought to pay more attention.

 

[Birdielee]

I got two of the from here, lets see if I can get them to post.
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When I lived in NC and was po',
I learned to make fish cakes. Zucchini fritters plus a can of mackerel in it. mash the fish with a fork. They're great. Even my picky son loves them.
Shredded zucchini, egg, salt, flour, mackerel.
Black Pepper, garlic, onion if you have them and want to add.
Fried in oil.

 

[Birdielee]

From what I've read, you take the suckers off of the indeterminate plants and let the determinate ones go for it. I will know better next year than to plant determinates right next to indeterminates, it looks like a jungle

I've only ever planted indeterminates and was always confused by people's little tomato plants i always have a jungle
Im trying to learn to keep more air circulation space. But i haven't learned it yet. I have a hard time cutting off flowers, and much harder still cutting off set fruit.

 

[adirondak5]

Hot and humid here today , not nice . Mowed the lawn , it needed it then checked the garden . Picked a squash and cucumber to have with dinner .

The beans are opening up

Checked on the tomatoes , particularly the Amish Paste , they are getting some decent size to them and nice clusters of tomatoes

I still give the edge to the Super Sauce at this point but the Amish Paste are looking good . Have a great afternoon all .

 

[WthrLady]

just found a nearly red, small, san marzano in the garden, first tomato of the season- half eaten by a pest.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Mine have not shown fruit yet but tall as the house almost