What did you do in the garden today?

[Happy Novogens]

My squash have their first fruit forming and it's still too hot for my spinach or radish. They're my favorite veggies so I'm antsy to plant them! Nothing to do but keep waiting though.
My cabbage are growing slow but steady and some of the seeds I just planted are sprouting already. I oops and didn't mark what I planted where..I'm used to remembering! But for some reason I'm drawing a complete blank this year...I know it's not the carrots sprouting is about all.

Where are you that it's so warm. I'm also antsy to get seeds planted. Yesterday I measured my soil temp (elevated garden) at 1" depth and it was 101F.

 

[Swiss]

I have a gazillion small tomatoes... About walnut sized. I don't know what to do with them.... Suggestions?

I don't eat enough salad to use them up.

Don't you need to blanche them first? Seems like it'd be a pain to peel them when they are so small

We make a lot of pico... we've done it both peeled and unpeeled. Unpeeled is just fine.

If you have the freezer space, you can just freeze them. I like to freeze a few bags of them and pull them out for pasta dishes through out the year. Lemon basil pasta with popped tomatoes

If you freeze them and then thaw them the peels just fall off. Or you can process them with the skins on.

I blanched and peeled some, those I canned whole (and they look so darn pretty in that jar!). Others, I froze, thawed, and then squeezed out of their skins, and I was too impatient to cook some of the liquid out, so just canned them like that.

Freezing was definitely less work, and isn't so time sensitive. If you have tomatoes that are starting to think about going bad, toss them in the freezer, and they'll be there waiting for you to find them as you try to figure out how best fit a bunch of meal prep veggies in the same tiny little freezer and that you JUST stuffed about 20 lbs of beef femur bones into.... we really need to get a chest freezer...

Today's harvest:

(Yes, there are puppy paws at the top, she likes cherry tomatoes)

Post-shucking:

 

[Swiss]

You just slice em and leave em in open to air dry in the slice?
Then what do you do with them?
I had read something bout them needing to ferment?

We get colder than that but we can also get hotter than that in winter here so idk what is best.

Burned? I composted all mine ..is that not a good idea?

I know it's not a good idea to compost diseased plant material, as the disease will not die in the compost. Burning is ideal for the diseased stuff.

 

[ChicksnMore]

Where are you that it's so warm. I'm also antsy to get seeds planted. Yesterday I measured my soil temp (elevated garden) at 1" depth and it was 101F.

Arizona.... we're in the 90's now slipping upto a 100 occasionally still. Our growing seasons just starting but all the cool season stuff has to wait more.

I've never measured my soil temp...now I'm curious...lol. Most of my garden has at least some shade though so the soils probably not too bad a temp.

 

[Happy Novogens]

Arizona.... we're in the 90's now slipping upto a 100 occasionally still. Our growing seasons just starting but all the cool season stuff has to wait more.

I've never measured my soil temp...now I'm curious...lol. Most of my garden has at least some shade though so the soils probably not too bad a temp.

We are too. Just outside of Phoenix. Looks like they changed next weekend's forecast to around 100/101. (Before they were predicting 106.) So that'll be better. I haven't planted any seeds yet. I also have some seedlings (tomatoes & peppers) waiting to plant.

From what I'm reading, the cucumbers should be able to get planted soon-- based on soil temp anyway. I'm hoping to plant seeds for cucumber, bush beans, kale, lettuces, spinach, collards, parsley, carrots, and interplant marigolds and dill.

The heat is hanging on, it seems, longer than usual for Sept.. I hope it isn't going to be too late to start all those seeds.

(I'm just starting my gardening here after years of not really growing anything.)

 

[Ascholten]

I REALLY need to get my fall garden going, but between the tilapia pond im working on and getting the totes ready for the huge influx of leaves Ill soon be getting to mix with the grass ive been getting all year up to this point to make my final compost to plant stuff in next spring... got a lot of other stuff going on that this too will be shoved on the to do later plate until about may... then you don't need to worry about the 'fall garden' anymore right?

Aaron

 

[karenerwin]

My pico doesn't have green tomatoes in it.

They aren’t green the are ripe & red, just a lot are on the small side

 

[chickengr]

For the same number, Celsius is way hotter than Fahrenheit. What unit of measurement is used where you live? Learned more about tomato ripening from link below.

https://www.purdue.edu/hla/sites/yardandgarden/tomatoes-not-ripening/#:~:text=Ripening and color development in,F.

celsius in most european countries.

 

[Acre4Me]

Made Dilled Carrots yesterday. I now have a blister from all the washing, peeling and cutting into matchsticks:

The Hyacinth Bean Vine is really pretty! Nasturtiums are below them.

We planted 5 kinds of mustard. You can see 4 of them in this pic. They range from spicy to sweet.

 

[Paz]

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

It’s Israeli, I bet you can order it somehow, that’s super close. If you’d really like, I don’t mind shipping you a bunch of seeds.