What did you do in the garden today?

[Iluveggers]

Walk through in the garden this morning. Still picking just starting to turn tomatoes. Uncovered the squash since they are all flowering and hand-pollination will be tricky now. Planted a few rows of kale (but I have starts indoors to fill in gaps and to put in the onion patch once they are pulled…we eat a LOT of kale in the fall and winter, it actually lasts in mild winters in NY under crop cover cloth!

Let the chicks into the walkway between the run and the garden today for supervised foraging. I haven’t wweedwacked it in awhile. They did a great job! In about 30 minutes I could tell where they foraged as there was a noticeable difference in grass height! One of them reached into the garden and pulled out a caterpillar of some sort. Whatever it was, I’m sure it was up to no good in my garden. I feel like they deserve a treat, maybe wet mash for dinner tonight?

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Gardeners not allot of the garden it was stunted if I see anything from it I will not be surprised.
I have lettuce is all and my herbs all going fine.

 

[McPickle88]

Went out at 6 am and watered my bucket garden and pulled weeds! Checked on my bell peppers(still not ready) and checked my tomato plants to see if any tomatoes has grown. I started my tomatoes too late this year, so I am behind on them.

 

[TJAnonymous]

As predicted, we didn't get a single drop of rain from the storm I posted yesterday. I watered the stuff this morning that I missed yesterday.

I need to set myself a reminder to go pick broccoli tonight. I keep forgetting to harvest the side heads.

Oh, I bought some purple broccoli seeds from Clear Creek Seeds (I think). I'm rather disappointed in them. I started these back in February so they've been growing over 6 months now. They are well over 3 ft tall but not a single floret on them! I keep wondering if they are going to fruit at all or just have a crap ton of leaves but no heads.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good afternoon gardeners. We got a late evening downpour last night. Perhaps .25 inch. I pruned the tomatoes a bit this morning and pulled my last 3 onions. Two of the three cucumber seeds I planted a few days ago have sprouted. The heat is really stressing the pole beans and acorn squash. That bed may be a good place for heat loving plants. I have more tomatillos developing and a few okra pods. Also looks like more eggplants are developing. I do have a few poblanos and jalapeños developing in the front yard and the bell peppers are putting out a lot of blossoms. Today is less hot. The temp bounced between 88 F and 91F. There’s an occasional breeze that makes chicken sitting tolerable. Most of the girls are dust bathing. There’s 6 in this picture and 2 behind my chair. The rooster did a quick one.

Time to feed these hungry girls. Stay cool

 

[Elyrian1]

I was just out checking on my girls. Someone new has laid a little round pullet egg for me! It's speckled, so my bet is another cuckoo marans.

The garden is holding on. The watermelon has had at least one flower, but I don't see any set fruit. The single cucumber plant is fighting a virus. If any fruit survive and mature I'll see about saving seed as they might be resistant in the second generation. My okra put on a new round of growth and I see more flowers about to set, so they're not done for the year yet! I'm happy about that. Hubby has amused me. I put the okra that I pick in the fridge after washing to dry and cool before tossing them in the freezer, and if I don't get to them fast enough he eats them.

My cherry tomato is blooming, but also not setting fruit. It's so hot. I think it's to blame.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

My husband was disappointed that our sweet corn ears were smaller than usual.
I thought maybe it was because I just fertilized them once instead of twice, but my mom said she bought some local sweet corn, and the ears were smaller than usual.
Hmm, interesting, maybe there is something else to this. I plant Bodacious and she usually buys peaches and cream, so they are not the same kind.
Anyway, I'm happy with getting some. It's fully ready so I'll be processing corn for the freezer this weekend if all goes as planned.

 

[Sally PB]

I am way behind on this thread. We're in Caribou, Maine, for a friend's wedding. I watered everything the day before we left. I saw a Cherokee Purple tomato just starting to turn. We'll be back on Monday, so I hope it holds on the vine till then. The very first tomato is something special, to me.

Time for a shower and go to bed. It's hot here, but not unbearable. Unless you're DH.

 

[Wolfie2]

AANNND... Fruit trees didn't do good this year. I'm guessing due to the lack of rain. Lots of smallish peaches and persimmons. Was waitin to see if they would be gettin any bigger, already gettin kinda sweet. Well the mockingbirds have found 'em. Wife covered the fruit on the persimmon the other day with some door screen, due to some bird strikes but the fruit didn't like that and started fallin off. So she took off the screen covers. Today, found several fruit on both persimmon and peach that were almost fully eaten. They are fairly sweet so will pick tomorrow. If the M'birds are like they were with the grapes, you can't keep 'em off once they're almost ripe.

 

[All4Eggz]

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