What did you do in the garden today?

[BReeder!]

recipe please.

No recipe yet, just a thought so far. I'll post if I do make it though. Still waiting on those real hot peppers to ripen.

 

[chickengr]

I watered the heavy soil garden today.

Today, August 5, is usually the day I cull all the melons that are not yet the size of my fist. On my 4 muskmelon plants, I have 1. Single. Melon. on each plant. I have a watermelon the size of a golf ball on the watermelon plant.

I could have had another 40 tomato plants in the space I gave to the melons.

Next year, I will have 60-70 tomato plants up there. I give up on melons.

Remind me of this next spring.... I have a short memory when it comes to melons.

plant melons between tomato rows - my jungle style.

 

[Happy hen lover]

I planted two more zucchini & 2 more summer squash plants last week. Although I’ve been able to fight off the vine borers who did get in to my plants, (they took a hit before I dissected the stems and are now recovering), off of the 5 plants I planted we’ve only had about 10 squash the whole summer. Usually I am GIVING them away. . It is 55 days til fruit for both varieties, and I saw two sprouted yesterday, which would put harvest date around late September which is two weeks before first frost here. Keeping my fingers crossed that I’ll get a few more on the second round. I didn’t even freeze any since we’ve eaten the few I’ve been able to grow.

Same on zucchinis here

 

[BullChick]

I asked about keeping peppers over winter before. I remember a few, “I don’t think so,” answers, but I don’t know if anyone came across this after I asked that. Apparently pepper plants can be saved for a few years.

 

[Sally PB]

Well, I looked at the butternut squash. Out of 4 hills, probably 18-20 plants, I have 1 (one) single tiny 2" long butternut squash.

This will be the "remember the year we only got one butternut squash?" Sigh.

 

[Wolfie2]

Pullin weeds and pickin okra and the wife picked a mess of black eye pea leaves for greens tonight.
Also Still gettin peppers, eggplant, long beans and a chinese squash she calls Opu. Those things will grow to 4 foot long though they will not really be edible @ that stage. The one she picked today was over 2'. Good eatin, baked or broiled, a little cracked pepper, garlic & butter.
Had a good amount of rain this week and some last week also and the tomatoes that I thought were goners have turned around. We'll see what happens

 

[Wolfie2]

I asked about keeping peppers over winter before. I remember a few, “I don’t think so,” answers, but I don’t know if anyone came across this after I asked that. Apparently pepper plants can be saved for a few years.

I've kept peppers for years before but our climate makes that pretty easy. Chili pequins (birdseye) Will usually overwinter naturally here as long as we do npt have a deep freeze like we had this past winter. I have kept Jalapeno, and cayenne with cold frames before and have kept them in pots for the winter also but they do not do as well with the transplanting

 

[Iluveggers]

Picked a bunch of chard today, found it keeps well in the fridge if I put it in a cup like fresh cut flowers! Also, how cool is this Berkeley Tie Dye tomato? I’ll prob just eat it plain with my dinner tonight!

 

[Iluveggers]

Well, I looked at the butternut squash. Out of 4 hills, probably 18-20 plants, I have 1 (one) single tiny 2" long butternut squash.

This will be the "remember the year we only got one butternut squash?" Sigh.

My 8 squash plants have given me TWO honey butternut (mini-butternut) squashes. It looks like I MIGHT have a delicata started as of this morning...I hope so as they are my favorite and they grow fast. Haven’t checked the squash field at the family farm, I planted 128 squash & pumpkin but I know the last3 rows got knocked out by bugs. Fingers crossed...

 

[oldhen2345]

Made a chicken tunnel for one of the flocks
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That is such a good idea- especially if you have a lot of hawks