What did you do in the garden today?

[Sally PB]

Got over 100 garlic planted and mulched today.

What variety do you grow? Mine is Music.

Tomorrow will top off with litter from the chicken run.

Ah! Yes, I should do that too.

 

[Iluveggers]

What variety do you grow? Mine is Music.

Ah! Yes, I should do that too.

I wish I knew! I got a bunch from a local farmers market a few years ago, one is pink (just slightly streaked), and the other white. I’ve been keeping bulbs and replanting a bunch every year since then! It grows really well here in NY…I wish I knew what kind it was! How does the Music do for you?

 

[Sally PB]

How does the Music do for you?

Very, very well!

 

[TJAnonymous]

I planted some garlic today too... Just some bulbs I picked up from the store. They were quite large. I hope they produce an equally large bulb themselves!

I also did a little bit of weeding today but it got really hot and my heart wasn't in it so I went inside. Started storming about an hour ago. Supposed to rain off and on all night. Praying we get an inch. Forecast is for a half inch, I think... Anything helps at this point.

 

[allenw]

I need to get my garlic and potato onions in, this is the first time in several years I'm gathered up enough to get them put in on time.

 

[Coldd]

The garden is done for the year, almost at least. We are supposed to get a frost here the ne t few nights so we pulled everything minus some of the hardier cool season vegetables.

Tomatoes are in; cherries were prolific, romas did well, and there was some sort of beefsteak variety that was slow to star but snuck in a bunch of fruit deep in the plants. Brandy wine I think it was. one of the cherry types was beautiful, roughly the size of a golfball. The brandy wines had a lot of cracking going on but produced large fruit. Not seedy, very fleshy. A burger or BLT tomato for sure.
Sunflower heads are in to dry.

Chickens had a lot of treats today. Nice have been eating the roots of our greens, beets (super annoying), and other root veggies. We opened up the garden for the dog to hunt around in and he bagged a mouse. Sorry mouse…they ruined half or more of our beets. The dog didn’t help the matter but at least he got one of the mice.

Corn isn’t ready, we’re going to leave what little we have out. All the herbs came in. Trying to overwinter some rosemary and bell pepper plants. I’ll be starting super hot pepper plants in another month or so.

We’ll be canning tomorrow. Bow season’s last day is tomorrow, which is a bummer. At least things will be quieter for general. Bear has been by the front door but passed by our place. Maybe the electric fence worked? He’s not big, maybe 2’+ at the back.

Thanks

 

[TJAnonymous]

Wow... These temperature fluctuations are killing me. Check out Tuesday and Wednesday... Ugh... I'm guessing this will pretty much kill off the rest of my tomatoes. I need to finish getting the peppers out of the ground and into their winter storage. The garden and I are not ready for this yet....

 

[WthrLady]

Tuesday morning we'll see a hard freeze of 21. That will put an end to the pumpkins in the fields for the kids, the late season apples on the trees, done. I'll put the mums in the garage.

 

[Happy Novogens]

Tuesday morning we'll see a hard freeze of 21. That will put an end to the pumpkins in the fields for the kids, the late season apples on the trees, done. I'll put the mums in the garage.

This coming week our night time temps are finally going to drop below 70F. I was finally able to start planting some seeds.

 

[hugyourchicken]

What did you do in your garden today?

I picked a bunch of Rattlesnake green beans and Cherokee wax beans, a few tomatoes, three eggplants, some broccoli shoots, and jalapenos. Pretty happy with today's harvest!

It’s beginning of fall, I watered spinach and beets today and harvested some.