What did you do in the garden today?

[chickengr]

I put Kat rat traps in the garden last night.
We put sausage in these they ate my only ripening tomato

I have been told not to put any meat in rat traps. they say if rats eat meat they might be after my chickens afterwards.

 

[Paz]

can you find out what variety it they are? I did not have tomatoes this summer due to heat.

Sure thing, we grow elongated cherry tomatoes, and the exact type is called "Lobelo". There was also one small roma type called "cocktail". There are a variety of big tomatoes called "Lancsore". And the most grown type we have is "Ikhram".

 

[Iluveggers]

@TJAnonymous Do you have a spare dog crate.

Sometimes people get rid of dog crates super cheap on CL. Good idea @pennyJo1960

 

[esturtz27]

Fall is in the air, finally some cooler days and evenings. We actually had some frost on the roof a few days ago.

The garden looks like it’s winding down a bit. I am having some powdery mildew issues with the squash (normal) so I pruned. Probably should have hit them with some potassium heavy fertilizer speed along growth, but I think they have done alright. Next year I’ll be doing a lot of spraying through out the year. Lots of pests here, particularly with the fruit trees.

Starting to take in tobacco leaves to dry, tomato’s are ripening, squash are doing well. (The big ones are quite a bit larger than basketballs…oddly enough we haven’t grown any ‘wrinkly’ long Hubbards, mostly roundish footballs…anyone have any luck with that?) I hope we can start a month earlier next year.

Chickens are producing mostly medium and large eggs. 5-6 usually per day. Some real pecking order stuff going on. Two hens look OK, but the rest look pecked at at the base of their tails, two of the giants look OK…suggestions? Bears are coming down out of the mountains and setting up shop in the river bottoms. One is very curious around our coop. It knocked over my trail camera and passed over it. It’s been blowing up trash cans and fruit trees. It’s a younger juvenile, maybe 80-100lbs according to a neighbor. I started putting up an electric fence around the coop and garden. T-posts are in and insulators up. I just need to run the wire and we can sleep easier at night. I love bears, just not in the yard. The kicker is that the one in our neighborhood comes out during the morning hours too and is not afraid of people or dogs.

It is archery season but goddang! I am so busy I’ve only gotten out once. Saw a large whitetail spike and doe. Really crossing my fingers I can find an elk and a deer this year. I enjoy eating it but very much like giving it out to friends who eat meat but weren’t lucky that season or don’t hunt.

We love squash. Does BYC do a seed exchange?

Idk about a seed exchange but your Hubbard's look perfect to me. Just like my moms back in the day. She did have some get "warty" but tasty is tasty lol

 

[TJAnonymous]

@TJAnonymous Do you have a spare dog crate.

I do but it's like 18x24 inches so not a ton of room to add food and water along with a hen and her chick.

 

[WthrLady]

old playpen from a garage sale or thrift shop works here

 

[WthrLady]

Removed 5 more hornworms of various sizes this morning. I know there are at least two more, but couldn't find them. The butcher birds were on the electric line this morning, judging my hunting skills and making all kinds of noises.

I still haven't figured out who my feather puller is,but as soon as I do, she's gone.

Today is the first time I don't have the pressure canner going. The season seems to be winding down rather quickly, as I suppose it does every year. high 40s in the morning with dew and fog, and into the 90s during the day.

 

[chickengr]

Sure thing, we grow elongated cherry tomatoes, and the exact type is called "Lobelo". There was also one small roma type called "cocktail". There are a variety of big tomatoes called "Lancsore". And the most grown type we have is "Ikhram".

it seems only "lobello" tomato is available in greece.

 

[jerryse]

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Fall is in the air, finally some cooler days and evenings. We actually had some frost on the roof a few days ago.

The garden looks like it’s winding down a bit. I am having some powdery mildew issues with the squash (normal) so I pruned. Probably should have hit them with some potassium heavy fertilizer speed along growth, but I think they have done alright. Next year I’ll be doing a lot of spraying through out the year. Lots of pests here, particularly with the fruit trees.

Starting to take in tobacco leaves to dry, tomato’s are ripening, squash are doing well. (The big ones are quite a bit larger than basketballs…oddly enough we haven’t grown any ‘wrinkly’ long Hubbards, mostly roundish footballs…anyone have any luck with that?) I hope we can start a month earlier next year.

Chickens are producing mostly medium and large eggs. 5-6 usually per day. Some real pecking order stuff going on. Two hens look OK, but the rest look pecked at at the base of their tails, two of the giants look OK…suggestions? Bears are coming down out of the mountains and setting up shop in the river bottoms. One is very curious around our coop. It knocked over my trail camera and passed over it. It’s been blowing up trash cans and fruit trees. It’s a younger juvenile, maybe 80-100lbs according to a neighbor. I started putting up an electric fence around the coop and garden. T-posts are in and insulators up. I just need to run the wire and we can sleep easier at night. I love bears, just not in the yard. The kicker is that the one in our neighborhood comes out during the morning hours too and is not afraid of people or dogs.

It is archery season but goddang! I am so busy I’ve only gotten out once. Saw a large whitetail spike and doe. Really crossing my fingers I can find an elk and a deer this year. I enjoy eating it but very much like giving it out to friends who eat meat but weren’t lucky that season or don’t hunt.

We love squash. Does BYC do a seed exchange?

I could share some squash seeds . Cushaw and Golden delicious ( Hubbard family) .Oh and Dickinson or is it Dickson . Any the variety the canning factories use around here .

 

[jerryse]

Hung another set of glass shower doors yesterday . Going to try and finish water lines to that shower .