What did you do in the garden today?

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good afternoon gardeners. We got about 1/3 inch of rain the other day and the high temperatures have gone away. I’m not sure what that is on your beans @TJAnonymous but I have the same on my eggplant leaves. My eggplants are still producing in spite of that. I’m thinking higher than normal temperatures. My okra are still producing well. I get 2 to 3 per day. I have 1 pound of slices in the freezer and getting ready to put another 1/4 pound up. My first batch of San Marzano tomato sauce is on the stove. I’ll get that canned later on. Wood pellets being delivered tomorrow so until that’s all settled, everything else is on hold. I started picking peaches this morning. Hoping to get the top of the tree picked on Saturday morning with help from DD. I’m actually a bit behind on the lawn mowing. I ran out of gas so I need to make the trek to the gas station. Busy, busy and having trouble getting motivated.

 

[jerryse]

I've got some serious trouble going on inside my hoop house. I recently sowed seeds for spaghetti squash, pumpkins, and green beans. My curcubit seedlings are all dying. My green bean seedlings have this weird white spotting. Not sure what is going on but everything I've planted OUTSIDE the hoop house looks totally healthy and fine. So I'm thinking about yanking everything out, uncovering the frame, putting down clear plastic and "baking' the soil.

Could be mosaic virus .

 

[Ascholten]

Possibly like a tiny little aphid or mite or something? IM trying to remember what I used when I had that issue a few years ago. It's not copper salts, but something else, let me go look at my goops and see what I got. Good ole soap might work too, like I want to say a tbsp of dawn in a gallon of water or something like that to wash the leaves down, it was a tiny aphid or mite or something.

BTW Dawn soap is generally considered like organic, that is what they use to clean off birds when they get oil slicks on them. It works very well... I have a story about a cockatoo and cleaning a deep fryer and an oil slicked bird but we'll save it for another day.

Aaron

 

[igorsMistress]

I'm trying to bonsai too! I'm not very far into it but I have some strangler figs I've been working on for a couple of years. Just letting them grow for good trunks, so not training them yet. They love the heat and they grow well from cuttings. Gotta love a plant you can reproduce every time you trim it.
I picked up a rock fig to try to bonsai too. Poor thing was down to just one leaf when I got it, which our silly kitty promptly tore off for a new toy. So it's spent the summer just recovering. But it's got some good leaves now ands growing.

Good luck! I’m just starting again after I tried many years ago and didn’t do well. Mostly because I had no clue lol, which I still don’t, but I’m giving it a try anyway and I’ve learned a lot since then. I have a Golden Gate Ficus that’s a few years old but new to me, and a few green willows that I started in water which probably weren’t my best choice. I took some cuttings from rosemary, Arabian lilac and a dwarf olive in my yard to try starting in water so we’ll see how it goes.

 

[igorsMistress]

Good afternoon gardeners. We got about 1/3 inch of rain the other day and the high temperatures have gone away. I’m not sure what that is on your beans @TJAnonymous but I have the same on my eggplant leaves. My eggplants are still producing in spite of that. I’m thinking higher than normal temperatures. My okra are still producing well. I get 2 to 3 per day. I have 1 pound of slices in the freezer and getting ready to put another 1/4 pound up. My first batch of San Marzano tomato sauce is on the stove. I’ll get that canned later on. Wood pellets being delivered tomorrow so until that’s all settled, everything else is on hold. I started picking peaches this morning. Hoping to get the top of the tree picked on Saturday morning with help from DD. I’m actually a bit behind on the lawn mowing. I ran out of gas so I need to make the trek to the gas station. Busy, busy and having trouble getting motivated.

That sounds pretty motivated to me Sarah. You’ll get there, it has been a busy year!

 

[SheaLoner]

Any recomendations on how to cure a large number of potatoes? Normally I use my little 4 tier greenhouse with a blanket over it, but I have at least 3 times as many to cure this year. No barn or garage space. I have a pop-up tent shed but it dosent block much light.

 

[BullChick]

Any recomendations on how to cure a large number of potatoes? Normally I use my little 4 tier greenhouse with a blanket over it, but I have at least 3 times as many to cure this year. No barn or garage space. I have a pop-up tent shed but it dosent block much light.

Newspaper or straw.

 

[Ascholten]

Ive seen people put them in newspapers and then into a brown paper bag to store them.
avoid plastic. Me, i threw them literally in the closet they are on the ceramic floor and some are budding but they are still GOOD from last december when I harvested them, regular and sweet potatos. id maybe not eat them, bit dried out and soft but absolutely plantable to get new plants from.

aaron

 

[Sueby]

Hey all. Been busy with the first week of classes & packing for vacation. Going away for a couple weeks. Picked all the veggies I could, will water in the am. I pulled the blue lake beans, very disappointing this year. Pulled the last of the cucumbers too. Did all I could, now the garden is in DH's hands, Godspeed veggies!

Have a great couple weeks y'all.

 

[WthrLady]

@TJAnonymous That looks like spider mites, especially if it is in a greenhouse. Mites thrive in there.