What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

Last day of upper HUMID 90s that put us over 100 in the feels like category. YUCK.
Even the boys have had enough and the whole herd wanted hosed off this morning when they usually don't ask until afternoon.

Hot and humid, but no rain mean a slow tomato ripening week. Only 20 pounds this morning, but that puts me at just under 50 for the week. I'll process later today or tomorrow.

Starting to get some more humidity issues on the plants. Might hit them one more time with copper. It's fungus, temps have been in the upper 70s for lows all week at night.

Have a great week all. Might go to the state fair this weekend. Haven't decided yet.

 

[pennyJo1960]

All fairs here have been cancelled Covid. Headed to the garden there is winter squash I need to pick make for dinner

 

[Acre4Me]

Great idea for next year!

thx! First time for us to grow gourds. The birdhouse gourd is the best for shade, big leaves, hearty growth. There are 5 kinds planted on the fence, but you can really only see 2 types!

 

[WthrLady]

All fairs here have been cancelled Covid. Headed to the garden there is winter squash I need to pick make for dinner

The county fairs were, except for 4H and kids events.
The state fair has limited concerts, and no open class events, and limited vendors and is mostly just there this year for the 4H class kids to place their events and sell their animals.

It will be sparsely attended as there is just no a lot to see or do there this year.

 

[pennyJo1960]

They even shut down even our local ones .. I will say not a fan of our Governor.
He has handled the pandemic great ..
Anything they have tried with large groups even in masks on some covid run rampant

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

All the fairs have been cancelled here. They did setup a drive through for people to purchase their favorite fair foods. Gotta get the corn dogs and fried butter!

 

[WthrLady]

Awesome!

 

[NewBoots]

You can keep the 25* and snowing lady! 65 is about perfect though. You can get outside and do some work and eventually take off the sweatshirt because you're warming up.

60 to low 70s here. It gets warm enough that it's uncomfortable to work in but lovely in the mornings and late afternoon. I have to say that as warm and dry as it is, I can tell Fall is coming.

We got the final dividing wall into the enclosure!

I love the diagonal boards, we usually go with easy, quick, and dirty but I really love how your work looks.

We leave it in the ground there, because it is protected. It dies down to the ground, comes back in the spring. Thought we might get some figs, but doubtful. Might have to try again in a pot format (in barn for the winter).

Figs become huge trees here, we planted at least 4 different varieties and they're all tiny now, but if we can get them through this first year we should eventually be buried in fruit.

Good afternoon gardeners, dry and really windy here so I'm still watering every morning. Critters Made out like bandits, more on that later. Glyness is laying like a good girl, Amelia my BO squatted for me this morning so I think she's going to be next to start laying. Once all 10 girls start laying we are going to be awash in eggs.

The house smells like vegetable soup. I've had the dehydrator going just about non-stop. My tomatoes, and zucchini but now I'm adding any other produce that might not get used in time so there're onion, celery, and mushrooms drying as well. It smells wonderful, gonna ask DP to please make some more bread and I'll make some soup to go with it. Or use the last of the minestrone soup I found in cleaning out the chest freezer.

Like I've said before, this is my biggest garden ever and man am I learning. Don't plant the tomatoes too close together, and don't let the foliage get out of control. I finally shoved my face into the rampant growth and picked 14 lbs of tomatoes but found about 1 or 2 lbs that had to be given to the critters due to damage and rot. I could have cried. I picked just about everything that had any blush to it if it was in dense growth or close to the ground to avoid that happening again. I think our damage is from the slugs and snails so I put out more of that iron based slug bait last night. There was a really big rosy one with a large bad area on it but it's no where near ripe enough so I cut off the bad with a super sharp knife and covered the open area with plastic wrap. I set it with the rest of the ones that are ripening so we'll see if it works.

Welcome to the new folks, remember to put your general location in your description and please post pictures, we love to see other folks gardens and nearly everything else for that matter.

Our Chehalis apples:

14 lbs of tomatoes including a few green ones I knocked off:

And our dinning table or as it's otherwise known the Ripening Deck:

 

[Sueby]

Fried butter?

 

[pennyJo1960]

This is the squash to go with dinner nice looking