What did you do in the garden today?

[drstratton]

I am jealous of your corn!! I grew corn for the first time this year and all my ears were small like half the size (or smaller) than what you would buy in the store.

We've had good years & bad years growing corn...who knows what next year will bring! I think the drip tape played a part in the growth!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Did not plant corn would need a ground bed not just tires

 

[drstratton]

Did not plant corn would need a ground bed not just tires

Yeah, corn takes quite a bit of space!

 

[WthrLady]

@karenerwin it's a place in the acreage that we are composting in place to fill a large area of erosion. It's a space about 12x 20 feet-ish.

I pulled 4 GIANT tomatoes out today. LOL. Birds aren't sick of them yet. I'm amazed.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Very tired after all the wire cannot think of more space just now

 

[drstratton]

Very tired after all the wire cannot think of more space just now

I know exactly how that feels! You've earned the right to a good rest!

 

[drstratton]

Good evening all! I'm relaxing at my son's house & thought I would share a couple of pictures of my flock & their space...it's right next to the garden!
We initially built this for our Bantams, so we needed to make changes. This is a before picture!

We added a nesting box!

The enclosed pen!

The new free range pen!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Looks like happy place for them

 

[NightingaleJen]

However I use vinegar to remove the gel .

So do you just swirl the seeds up with the vinegar instead of fermenting? Does the vinegar work with cuke seeds, too?

All of those gourds are such fun to look at, @Acre4Me! Do you dry them for any purpose at the end of the season? Not sure about the fig...we'd like to grow those ourselves. I, too, have heard about folding them over and burying them 'til spring, just as @Sueby was saying. Maybe ask someone at your local nursery?

Another snow fort kid here, BTW. I'm native to the Motor City, but we have many family in the UP in Sault Ste. Marie. You want to see SNOW? They get SNOW! Forget forts, my cousins and I would build tunnel complexes. Such a ball!

Your peppers and tomatoes look gorgeous, BTW!

@NewBoots That all looks amazing! Very pretty apples, I miss the trees we planted in WV. And hooray for Natasha! The Swedish Flowers are very pretty—we saw them for the first time at the Ohio National last year and I was quite enamored of them.

Is there a good site for dehydrator recipes? A very sweet woman at church thrust hers at us a couple of Sundays ago because she never uses it. I'd love to put it to good use!

Handsome RV gate, @igorsMistress! And the chicks look so cute.

Just got my first pumpkin of the year (paintball) and I'm so proud

That's a nice-looking pumpkin, congrats!

Gorgeous garden, @drstratton!

Just rinse it off well and inspect like a hawk. No one wants pickles with baby caterpillars.

If it happens just call then tequila pickles and move on.

Oh, now this makes me want to can with plastic caterpillars in the jars of dilly beans. Surprise inside!

Nice to see you with your pop, @karenerwin!

If you still need paper plates, @Sueby, I think we still have some left from our Independence Day BBQ... ;P

We had on-and-off rain again during the weekend, plus we were helping our neighbor with a few things. We also have a 500' gravel drive that really needed weeding—and everything near the house is done by hand because of our animals. Amazingly, I only broke one nail! Y'all eat more eggs, they make for strong nails. Still plenty of tomatoes coming in; not quite enough to put up, unfortunately, before they start to turn, so I may just begin popping them into the freezer. Whether or not they'll become good salsa...ehhhhh...oh well. The beans aren't producing very heavily, either, but we're getting enough to make a good snack or part of a side dish.

I've also been creating many vibrant, cheery nasturtium bouquets! One of my yellow-orangey varieties smells like roses. That's new! Is there a way to save nasturtium leaves, by the way, other than pesto-fying them? I might freeze a small bagful to see if they end up acting like frozen spinach.

Tomorrow I hope to get some starts going for the fall/winter garden. Probably means some things will be yanked... Unfortunately my friends the mosquitoes managed to find me repellent-less and left me in somewhat bad shape, but that is what coffee is for!

Happy gardening!

 

[drstratton]

Looks like happy place for them

They love their space! Plenty of room to roam!