What did you do in the garden today?

[BirdsBeesTrees]

One of the Cantaloupes I picked from my garden. I put it on the people scale and it said it's 7 pounds!

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Last year I got 8 five gallon buckets of Peaches from 2 of my Contender Peach trees.
This year I got 5 peaches..
I think the tree felt sorry for me and gave me this monster peach though.

 

[vall]

Passion fruit are starting to fall, I picked three today. The orange watermelon have been producing for a few weeks but today I picked my first red watermelon, so I am stuffed full of watermelon and the quail are full of watermelon rind and a huge yellow cuke I didn't want to pickle.

 

[Sueby]

I'm thinking about ripping out my cucumber vines. I am going to try cucumber chips for the fun of it and see if neighbors want any cucumbers, but I have far more cucumbers than I need.

Oooh, you have to let me know how the chips are! That's one I haven't tried! I have cucumbers coming out my ears too, I'm over them.

I feed all my extra large cucumbers to all my birds. The chickens, turkeys, peafowl and even the geese love to eat the seeds out of them and clean them out to the rind. I throw them hard at the ground to bust them up, if I don't they won't even eat them.

I do the same, they love cucumber. I cut them in half & in minutes there is only rind left.

Speaking of...the cucumber beetles have found me! I noticed some wilt the last couple days, saw the bugs last night. Squished a few but it's such a jungle I'm sure I missed most. I will not fight this fight, I don't have the time or the heart, I'll just let the vines go if it comes to it.

Still disgustingly hot here. Too hot to do anything. We need rain, I'm going to have to water.

 

[Acre4Me]

Rain today, but only low 80s forecast. This weekend looks nice, upper 70s no real rain. The garden is nicely saturated as we’ve been rained on each of the last few days, heavy but short storms. These past few days have been really oppressively hot so this will be a nice break.

pumpkins are finally succumbing to the damage from the vine borer. They had been doing ok, but the heat over the past few days got to them and stressed them too much.

the seeds I’ve planted over the last 2 weeks are sprouting or growing, although something has been eating bean leaves!

I planted zucchini a couple weeks ago since VB killed the last plants. It has been growing well, but the squash bugs nearly killed one of these new plants!! I’ll have to keep spraying. Nothing is near these 2 plants, and they are small, no mulch for the bugs to hide, but they are crawling everywhere!! Neighbor’s pumpkins were killed by the squash bugs…I saw his patch that he mowed down, and there were so many bugs all over that part of his garden!

On a side note, we bought some rabbits - they are in the outdoor roofed shed that is predator proof and well ventilated. We raise meat chickens in it now and again, we currently have 4 turkeys in one half, and now rabbits. There are only 4 rabbits in one half. They are all caged separately and are in shade all day. Wow! They smell (to me)… I must be sensitive to something in their urine bc it is potent! But, rabbit poop is so good for the garden, so I’m motivated to keep the rabbits. At least they are well ventilated. Anyone else find rabbits a bit stinky?

 

[WthrLady]

@Acre4Me yup, I am grossed out by rabbit urine I think it's all the alfalfa in their ammonia pee
I don't care for the smell of ammonia pellets either and I feed monster sized ones to the alpacas. I used them two days ago and I'm still hacking up sinus'

Garden is slowing noticeably, so I'll give it a feed boost. The wild finch and canaries are going bonkers over the sunflower seeds.I need to cut heads and toss them out where I want them to come up wild next year.
We are currently in the upper 60s but heading into the 80s again, but not as humid for two days, which means weeding and mowing.

Dog to the vet today for a new wrap (she keeps walking out of her old one) and then canning up some tomato something or other. I've hit the 'I'm not in the mood but it needs done,' part of August.

Everyone have an amazing day.

 

[Birdsonghill]

Now that my spouse enlarged the garden by trucking in about 20 tons of garden soil for a new bed, we might have the space! I do love growing pole beans! Where did you get the Seminole pumpkin seeds?

Southern Exposure .com

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning gardeners and happy Friday the 13th! It has started for me. I did a quick walk around the garden this morning. Picked my SM tomato, a couple of early girls, some cherry tomatoes and some green beans. I have 2 zucchini that should be ready tomorrow and surprisingly 3 cucumbers that will be ready to pick in another day or two. The countertop measuring guys are coming in about 20 minutes so I spent a good part of the morning clearing everything off my countertop. Good golly I think I just heard their truck. Gotta go....

 

[Birdsonghill]

Poblano recipes! What to do with these poblanos??

the red one is a pimento, I think.

I have a bucketful and many more on the plant!

do they turn red? I picked them green as one had already fallen off the plant, and I’m more familiar with them being green.

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The poblanos are great stuffed anyway you like, most likely, but I like chili Rellenos! I use many of my poblanos fully ripened to an almost brown color, they then will have a dark red interior blush. They then are dried and ground into awesome chili powder! I dry and use straight up or mix my own blends, etc. from my homegrown peppers. I also smoke red ripe jalapenos and Tn. Cheese peppers, and dry for chipotles and smoked paprika (I use oak wood and it is great for this, not over powering but delivering a good smoke flavor).

 

[Birdsonghill]

@Elyrian1 bagged concrete doesn't seem to have
No idea about commercial in the truck tumbler.

concrete delivered and poured is way up as well. Lumber prices are 200 to nearly 300 % higher this year, as compared to last year! My last project went from an estimate of $330 to $1019. My roof cost $5000 18 years ago, the bids to replace this summer are $11,000 to $14,000, according to the roofers, much of that increase is this year! Gasoline up over $1.25per gallon in less than a year in this part of the country! This is mounting up to be the biggest loss of American income /purchase power of the dollar since the hyper inflation of the seventies took away nearly half of our economy, at the time!