What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

I never managed to grow onions in containers. try to till a piece of land and plant them there. I think you are not late to do it now. frost will not kill onions. just harvest them on a sunny day.

This year mine were decimated by squirrels and a gopher. However... I had some green onions I bought at the store and forgot to use. They got all nasty and slimy. Rather than throw them out, I washed them off and planted them. They grew so big that they flowered. Now I'm not sure what to do with them? Do I leave them to overwinter? Pull them? Are green onions edible at any size? The ones I've always used were the thickness of a pencil. These are probably the thickness of a chair leg. No joke.

 

[WthrLady]

HTH do hornworms go from invisible to the size of a school bus over night?!?!?
I check every day!
This morning the entire top of a plant was missing. (Due to be trimmed off this weekend anyway) but there it was, HUGE, fatter than the stems it left me to find.
Found out ONE of my hens love them, so she's in for a real banquet this way because it's not the only one out there.
Crazy things.

Breakfast and then time to smash 'maters.

 

[WthrLady]

Was just getting ready to wash the tomatoes when I noticed TWO calves in the orchard. ARGH.
Called the rancher. I got out the gator and worked them down from the road. I don't know where they're coming THROUGH, but it's not my section. The fence is strong and hot and still standing. So it must be further down the line in someone else's section and then they're following the herd up the hill to my place, but my place ends in a speedy row.

Rancher showed up. One calf FLEW over the fence AGAIN. Damn thing.
The second didn't know how, so took some effort to get him up to the road, but not on it and through the gate. But NOOOOOOOO, it ran along side the road.

Its mom finally woke up and got a clue and ran down the fenceline after it, stupid cow. Calf pushed its way through the fence and we tightened it at the loose spot there.

Seriously wish this guy maintained his fence better. It's stressful to run out there gather these animals.

Alpacas and chickens tried to tell me there was something up out there for 30 minutes, but I took it as their normal goofball noises......

Quick cool down and back to tomaotes.

 

[Ascholten]

Oh man, yah young ones can be a bother, esepcially when they don't know much, havent learned much, and need mom to come show them how to do things. Hopefully they all got sorted, situated and back where they belong.

Maybe a friendly comment to the guy," You know, if you tightened this up, and straightened that up, your cows would not CONSTANTLY be getting out" type of thing may help? Explain to him how DEAD COWS that got splatted by vehicles, not only don't earn him any money, but may potentially cost him the entire farm if someone dies in an accident. Granted, its a scorched earth approach but might be enough to get him to fix his fence?

Aaron

 

[vall]

Made some hoops out of conduit and put up shade cloth. Planted bok choy and spinach seeds under that.. I've never planted spinach before. Used up all the peat I had left filling the bed so once again the pineapples did not get up potted.

Oh and after my rain complaint, it rained yesterday, about a third of an inch. Pretty intense thunderstorm but it stayed sunny for so long I thought it might miss me. Then I smelled smoke this morning so there must be a brushfire somewhere.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Can you freeze green onions?

I didnt protect my EWOs in winter and theyre fine, zone 5b. Can you eat the tops, the small bulbs on top? When can I share them? I like the different shapes they make as they fall over. Im really hoping I get sweet potatoes . Its been cool and wet, not super hot as is usual right now.

I'm freezing mine.
They said to keep the stink down to put it into a freezer proof container, so I bagged it and put it into a freezer container. I couldn't detect any smell at all.

 

[WthrLady]

I dehydrate mine. Just another thought.

 

[bruceha2000]

HTH do hornworms go from invisible to the size of a school bus over night?!?!?

Easy, they are aliens!
Blacklight flashlight after dark lets you remove the small ones before they have all night to grow.

Alpacas and chickens tried to tell me there was something up out there for 30 minutes, but I took it as their normal goofball noises......

My chickens don't alert on anything but the alpacas do. They mostly now ignore the deer and turkeys though they did alert on something that I'm GUESSING was a fox trotting out in the field the other day, it was light enough to see it kinda sorta and too far away to ID for sure without binoculars in that light. Definitely canine though.

 

[Elyrian1]

More rain. That is all.

The weeds are exploding but so are all the plants still in the ground. I'm going to check my okra now (it's grown at least a foot in the last 3 weeks!), I think I've got a couple pods ready to come off the plants.

 

[BeetaLiK]

I picked blueberries, cucumbers, green beans, and tomatoes! we have bucket loads of blueberries its crazy