What did you do in the garden today?

[hennible]

Yes, hennibal! Could you please give us a compost tea refresher course/recipe?

No recipe, sorry. I just fill a burlap bag half with green manure and half with compost. I use a garbage can... Maybe a 20 gallon size, I leave it a few days, let it get smelly and thicker than plain water... I add water to it as it empties, the one burlap bag make my tea all season...

 

[Stuffedcritter]

Compost Tea: throw everything into pillow case manure, nettles (iron) molasses (sugar sulfur) fish, second cutting, 20 gallons of water, bubblier (neighbors complain smell)cover in sun for week. 50 % 50 watering with it. Kinda like soup you can put what ever you want in it pending on what your need is. I also use my dish water and sour milk for watering my plants.

Zucchini wounder if you could make like a fruit leather with it, older tough ones would dry better.

Planted some more Jacob beans, and green beans do to frost warnings waiting intl next week for tomatoes. Cosmos are one my favorite flowers this year self sowed them self's everywhere_) Everyone stay safe enjoy three day weekend

 

[politicalcenter]

We had mass casualties in the cucumber patch so I had to replant some today. The soil has finally gotten to the temperature that I felt safe putting in the okra. It will rot at the base instead of growing if the soil isn't warm enough.

I live in St Clair county and we have had okra in the ground for several weeks now. We planted the Clemson and Burgundy okra. The Burgundy always seems to do better for us.


We weeded the cukes, some more corn, watermelon, squash,and will finish the cantaloupe tomorrow....maybe...looks like rain.

 

[Arielle]

Thank you for the "recipes" for manure tea. I get the gist!!!

Came home with mint p lants, and more tomato plants and husk tomato plants from my mother; and seeds for marigolds, annnnnnnnddddd larino kale!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jenn-]

I live in St Clair county and we have had okra in the ground for several weeks now. We planted the Clemson and Burgundy okra. The Burgundy always seems to do better for us.


We weeded the cukes, some more corn, watermelon, squash,and will finish the cantaloupe tomorrow....maybe...looks like rain.

Well... there might have been a wee bit of lazy gardener in there as well. I've been working from morning until night trying to get my coop ready (getting chickens tomorrow!!!) so the garden has been left to fend for itself.

 

[A-K-A]

I live in St Clair county and we have had okra in the ground for several weeks now. We planted the Clemson and Burgundy okra. The Burgundy always seems  to do better for us.


We weeded the cukes, some more corn, watermelon, squash,and will finish the cantaloupe tomorrow....maybe...looks like rain.

We must be neighbors st clair county also- i planted some Alabama Crimson Okra it is just comin up. I'll give it a drink of tea later this week. Cukes and zucinnis and crooknecks are doing good. Mammoth Sunflowers at chicken coop are doing well

The creator blessed us with a much needed rain this past evening.

Jenn good luck with new brood

 

[hennible]

Okra leaves as tea? @A-K-A can you tell me more?

 

[politicalcenter]

Well... there might have been a wee bit of lazy gardener in there as well. I've been working from morning until night trying to get my coop ready (getting chickens tomorrow!!!) so the garden has been left to fend for itself.

I know how that goes. I built a coop and run not too long ago. It worked out well. The rain delayed the garden anyway.

 

[politicalcenter]

We must be neighbors st clair county also- i planted some Alabama Crimson Okra it is just comin up. I'll give it a drink of tea later this week. Cukes and zucinnis and crooknecks are doing good. Mammoth Sunflowers at chicken coop are doing well

The creator blessed us with a much needed rain this past evening.

Jenn good luck with new brood

Well howdy neighbor!!!

We got Kentucky wonder, cukes, okra, squash, sweet corn, butter beans, watermelon, cantaloupe, purple hull peas, crowders, and other stuff.

So far it is a good year for gardening. The mud got us off to slow start but it happens...

 

[lazy gardener]

Planted sage seedlings, 4 kinds of peppers, parsley. Need to transplant some self sown squash seedlings, plant some yellow summer squash, and flowers, then a few paste tomatoes, carrots, and garden will be finished. Have 5 of my 10 trees planted. slow going there with the "soil being heavy clay subsoil, kind of like well cured concrete... with the many boulders thrown in just to make it more challenging. I'm amending the "soil with some loam we had brought in, and will top dress with aged tree chips in the BTE style. Hubby made a neat little rig to use to transport those boulders across the yard. It's 2 parallel 2 x 4's placed about 15" apart, with a piece of plywood screwed across the middle. We lever the rock onto the plywood, and then place 3 lengths of 2" PVC under the 2 x 4's to roll the rock to it's resting place.