What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

Picked a bunch of hot banana peppers and stuffed them with Italian sausage, cheese, spices, bread crumbs, peppers, and onions...

Then I whipped up a homemade wannabe marinara and topped with more cheese...

Final product

 

[WthrLady]

Thanks! I started considering doing a lasagna garden, but in the ground, which kind of defeats the less work side of it... I like this idea as it is even less work than the full on lasagna method! I am so excited to move in and learn about my land!!

One time, when I house sat for my sister, I left the hose running all night long (8+ hours)!! I am very much going to need to put bracelets on all of my outdoor faucets so I don't forget to turn them off (saw this tip a few days after soaking the "valley" in their backyard).

I put a bracelet on my faucet, and ya, forgot to put it on! LOL.
It's an in-ground slow drip irrigation system, but ya. LOL. We've been a week without rain and aren't going to get any until tuesday, so it has now been deeply watered.

 

[chickengr]

Very nice. I planted some pole beans along the chicken run fence, but they are only about 1 foot tall and not climbing up the fence yet. I hope they will take off. I have been watering them every other day as we have had no real rain for weeks and weeks.

My main garden is about 600 feet away from my new house. It's also on the other side of a creek. So I have no desire to stretch out garden hoses that far. In the past, I did have an old house on that plot with a well, but the pump up and died suddenly after 30+ years of service, and I just was not going to spend $500 to get the well pump replaced. If/when we sell that property, I might consider getting a new well pump at that time. But since nobody is living there, I just don't want to spend any money on it.

Like I said, I started building new raised beds in the backyard of the new house. Those raised beds are doing very well as I started off with good soil and chicken run compost in the beds. They also get better sunlight during the day. And I just have a single garden hose with a sprinkler out there and can water the raised beds any time I want. Dear Wife is encouraging me to move the entire main garden closer to our new home in the backyard. I think that might be the best option.

not only a good cook but smart as well. garden should always be near the kitchen. in case anything is missing while cooking we do just a few steps and get it.

 

[chickengr]

When I am queen of the world, I shall command it to rain for the hours of midnight to 4 am, gently, three nights a week. Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Y'all ok with that?

The plants are taking off, now that the drought is over. Unfortunately, the weeds are plants too. I went after them with a hoe today. Off with their heads! (I'm practicing for my queen of the world gig.)

I would command humidity in the air as they say it was at the beginning of the world, no rain at all, lol.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Reminds me scrubbed the grill plates we useon the grill in the laundry sink. So took my watch off to do it put it on the dryer

 

[chickengr]

I planted a 4X4 foot raised bed of corn this year using the square foot method. At 4 corn seeds per square foot, I had 64 potential plants in the ground. Only about 6 germinated and came up. Today when I went out to the garden, they were all gone. Don't know if they died or got eaten by some animal. Anyway, 64 seeds planted, zero left.

Probably going to replant with onion bulbs and radish. Need something that grows fast in Minnesota with limited growing season. Any other ideas appreciated. Thanks.

any brassica and carrots that can overwinter in soil. zucchini are fast maturing. I have just discovered mung beans are fast growing too.

 

[oldhen2345]

I would command humidity in the air as they say it was at the beginning of the world, no rain at all, lol.

No, please your highness, not too much humidity in the air- it is sticky and stifling.

 

[gtaus]

I am very much going to need to put bracelets on all of my outdoor faucets so I don't forget to turn them off (saw this tip a few days after soaking the "valley" in their backyard).

Never heard of a bracelets on an outdoor faucet. What is a bracelet? I have a manual timer on my outdoor faucet so I can just dial in time for the sprinkler and it shuts off automatically at the end of the countdown. I also have an Orbit automatic timer that I can set to turn on/off the water at specific times of the day. But I could not find it earlier this year so I bought an inexpensive, but very good, manual Orbit water timer. I just found the automatic timer a few days ago, but I'm happy with the manual timer for now.

But, yes, I would hate to leave the water on overnight. Depending on how you get/pay for your water, that could be a very expensive mistake. Hope you did not flood out the plants.

 

[gtaus]

any brassica and carrots that can overwinter in soil. zucchini are fast maturing. I have just discovered mung beans are fast growing too.

Other than woody plants, I don't know of any vegetable plants that are able to survive, or overwinter, our -40F temps in a northern Minnesota winter.

 

[Acre4Me]

I planted a 4X4 foot raised bed of corn this year using the square foot method. At 4 corn seeds per square foot, I had 64 potential plants in the ground. Only about 6 germinated and came up. Today when I went out to the garden, they were all gone. Don't know if they died or got eaten by some animal. Anyway, 64 seeds planted, zero left.

Probably going to replant with onion bulbs and radish. Need something that grows fast in Minnesota with limited growing season. Any other ideas appreciated. Thanks.

Cabbage could work. This year I bought starts of 4 kinds. “Stonehead” variety has a head already, and should be ready in 2-3 weeks for me. Tag indicated 50-60 days. The other three are large, but no real heads yet.

beets, some are pretty quick .

turnips. There is the classics purple top, but we often go for the white “salad” types that are small. eat raw or cooked. We like them better than radishes. Some of these are pretty quick.

Spinach. I’ve never had much success, but limited experience growing it.

arugula. We LOVE on sandwiches. Grow in pots too.

Mustard greens. Fast to grow and quite cold tolerant. We cook them, or we use raw in sandwiches. One where you cut off leaves, they keep growing more.

Good luck!