What did you do in the garden today?

[BeachBumBiddies]

. You can check out your local extension service. They should tell you all you need to know. They probably have a planting website.

Thanks!!!

 

[GardenNut]

I garden shopped today!

I ordered a Reliance dwarf peach tree and a mix of 50 day lilies for a steep slope on my new homestead!

 

[lazy gardener]

I garden shopped today!

I ordered a Reliance dwarf peach tree and a mix of 50 day lilies for a steep slope on my new homestead!

You're gonna love that peach. I had one here, till I killed it. I'm thinking I should buy one to fill in a bare spot in the orchard.

Hubby and I picked tomatoes tonight. I plan to put a bunch of them in the crockpot, and can them early tomorrow morning. About 2 more pickings of tomatoes. Then, I need to see what's out there for potatoes, harvest the bean, lettuce, and other seeds, and put the garden to bed for the year.

Slowly getting the green house buttoned up. Need to re-pot one tomato for my indoor plants!

Picked some Jewel Weed, starting to make an infusion with coconut oil. Will do the same using plantain/sage with olive oil and combine with bees wax for my first home made salve.

First frost in northern part of the state tonight. Used to be that we could expect first frost here in central by Sept 10.

 

[GardenNut]

You're gonna love that peach.  I had one here, till I killed it.  I'm thinking I should buy one to fill in a bare spot in the orchard.

You deserve an early Christmas present!

 

[lazy gardener]

Perhaps I'll order one this spring.

 

[dan26552]

Has anyone ever seen one of these before and if you have, what is it?

 

[Beekissed]

I never have and it's kind of pretty....but I'm betting it's the moth of some nasty worm that will eat the garden, isn't it?

Will be working in my son's little BTE garden today, pulling Bermuda grass and cleaning out old vines. Tasted his watermelon last night, of which he has 4 HUGE specimens(15-20 lbs each) and many more on the way, and can honestly say it's some of the best watermelon I've ever tasted! He still has nice looking tomato vines with big fruit still growing and his flowers in the garden look amazing...but the grass is growing well too, so it must go.

After his garden comes mine....HUGE mess this year, with much grass and weeds growing among the tangle of various vines that are now starting to die. My watermelon of the same kind as his didn't make big fruit at all, so doubtful if we'll get a taste of it here.

 

[dan26552]

I never have and it's kind of pretty....but I'm betting it's the moth of some nasty worm that will eat the garden, isn't it? 

Will be working in my son's little BTE garden today, pulling Bermuda grass and cleaning out old vines.  Tasted his watermelon last night, of which he has 4 HUGE specimens(15-20 lbs each) and many more on the way, and can honestly say it's some of the best watermelon I've ever tasted!   He still has nice looking tomato vines with big fruit still growing and his flowers in the garden look amazing...but the grass is growing well too, so it must go. 

After his garden comes mine....HUGE mess this year, with much grass and weeds growing among the tangle of various vines that are now starting to die.  My watermelon of the same kind as his didn't make big fruit at all, so doubtful if we'll get a taste of it here. 

I figured out what it was, it's a Long Tialed Skipper.

 

[jewelsong]

I got 14 jars of bean salad ready for the cellar as soon as they cool... and we need to get the apples picked off the trees. the deer have decided it is their buffet line. i don't think so. between the deer picking them off the tree and the chickens pecking all the windfalls... i'm not going to get much pie apples canned!~

 

[Beekissed]

Helped my grandgirl in her garden, pulling weeds and such. She's grown a great little crop of moon and stars watermelons and a few flowers, along with tomatoes, beans, peppers, rhubarb, onions, squash, chives, basil, lavender, and flowers.





Wall to wall of weeds and watermelon!!!! My "after" pics didn't take for some reason, but you can really see the plants in there after all the grasses were removed...that Bermuda grass just LOVES the BTE gardening method. This is their first year using the wood chips.


Some of the Moon and Stars watermelons they have grown...the largest was around 15 lbs and these are around 10. There are 13 more still growing in that garden and we hope they make it all the way to maturity....these are the best tasting watermelon I've ever eaten!!! Lot's of seeds, but great melon!