What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

Wow... Thank you Jesus! Just checked the rain gauge and I'm officially floored.



Also around the garden... Fourth try on carrots have finally popped up in between my EWO.



Potatoes are trying to make a run for it... Lol.



Picked about a pint of fall raspberries! So happy about this... It's the first real harvest I've had in 3 years.



Not to be outdone, Garlic is coming up too!


The spring-planted purple broccoli that I pruned down to nothing is making a full comeback.



And flowers are putting on quite a show to distract you from everything else.

Then there's Emmy whose always trying to play dead.

 

[TXchickmum]

The fall/winter crops are planted and looking good. Romaine lettuce, broccoli, and cabbage are new. The collard greens came back from last year's crop. Shocked!! The herb beds are still producing very well. The roses, society garlic, Autumn sage, Rudbeckia, bee balm, various salvias, lantana, hostas, skullcap, asparagus ferns, cannas, coleus, creeping Jenny, and perennial mums look amazing! All of the impatiens and caladiums are spent and removed. Planting pansies and violas are on next week's to-do list.

 

[WIchickMama]

Just gonna say, I am a tad jealous of all you still growing food. 90% of our leaves are off the trees and it was 32F this morning when I got up.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Nothing happening in the garden. It finally stopped raining. We got a total of 1 1/2 inches since yesterday morning and this afternoon The chickens are happy to get out and scratch around their yard.

 

[TJAnonymous]

This morning when I got up I discovered one of the dogs had dug a Jobes fertilizer spike out of the lemon tree container. It was broken in half and I couldn't tell if any had been ingested. I suspected my Husky-Great Pyrenees mix (Freya) because it's totally a jerk thing she would do. However this afternoon my little Yorkie-Australian Shepherd mix (Odin) has been randomly whining like he's in pain. He's laying/napping in the recliner while doing this so not moving around. I can't decide if he's just dreaming or if maybe he ate some of that spike. I found a post from a veteraniarian online from someone else whose dog at a Jobes fertilizer spike. She indicated that they can cause upset stomach (vomiting and diarrhea) but aren't toxic.

Hmmm....

 

[jerryse]

My order of 8 persimmon trees arrived this afternoon . Now to plant them tomorrow . Probably in a garden row for 1 season . It is a tough life in the woods .

 

[Ascholten]

Now that we had a mild frost and it's autumn, a lot of the big scruffy is dying down.
The spanish needle is all over the place but it's just covered with bees and I really hate to cut it down especially this late in the season and they re adding for their hive winter supplies.

Ripped out all the remnants of the mouse melon. Looking at my two HUGE walking onions that didn't walk an inch, or flower or anything but are really big, Im going to have to figure how to cover them and try to keep them from burning down during frost times.

Been running the freeze dryer almost non stop. Man I love that thing, Turn about 20 lbs of veggies into about a pound once the water is taken out. It's crazy I can take a green bean, eat it, it's stringy, holds together, when you chew it, you have to like chew apart it's .. fiber or whatever you call it. BUT when you freeze dry it. It's light as a feather, BUT will crumble to dust with a very slight touch. Wow it turns to dust, BUT..... when you add water back to it and let it soak a minute it's RIGHT BACK to being fibry, have to tear it apart with chewing, and flavor is exactly right back too !! Im trying to figure so I can rub you and you turn to dust yet you can like re weave your integrity just add water? If only we could figure a way THAT works for medicine when people get hurt. Put powdered flesh in the hole and let it suck up water / blood and be new again !!

and finally to wrap up today's oddities. I already blew my diet by a fair amount, so figured wth might as well do myself a treat and did up a huge pot of boiled peanuts. I use the 8 qt slow cooker for mine and spice the hell out of them YUM !!!

anyways the shells, they don't really compost well, maybe sort of ok for filler or drainage. probably would work better as like wood chips or top layer stuff but anyways... I actually freeze mine, then when I am smoking food, throw half a gallon of them right on the coals. It's like wood chips, gives a nice nutty flavor to the food., I smoked some burgers, at the end of it, ill throw a slab of sharp cheddar on the burger to get it melty on it then pull the entire thing off and lay it on a paper towel to suck up any grease that might be left on it. Cool burgers, then freeze dry them. A year or whenever later you take that burger out, let it soak in a saucer of water for a few minutes to re hydrate and wham, freshburger right off the grill with cheese and a nice smoky flavor.

Aaron

 

[Elyrian1]

Now that we had a mild frost and it's autumn, a lot of the big scruffy is dying down.
The spanish needle is all over the place but it's just covered with bees and I really hate to cut it down especially this late in the season and they re adding for their hive winter supplies.

Ripped out all the remnants of the mouse melon. Looking at my two HUGE walking onions that didn't walk an inch, or flower or anything but are really big, Im going to have to figure how to cover them and try to keep them from burning down during frost times.

Been running the freeze dryer almost non stop. Man I love that thing, Turn about 20 lbs of veggies into about a pound once the water is taken out. It's crazy I can take a green bean, eat it, it's stringy, holds together, when you chew it, you have to like chew apart it's .. fiber or whatever you call it. BUT when you freeze dry it. It's light as a feather, BUT will crumble to dust with a very slight touch. Wow it turns to dust, BUT..... when you add water back to it and let it soak a minute it's RIGHT BACK to being fibry, have to tear it apart with chewing, and flavor is exactly right back too !! Im trying to figure so I can rub you and you turn to dust yet you can like re weave your integrity just add water? If only we could figure a way THAT works for medicine when people get hurt. Put powdered flesh in the hole and let it suck up water / blood and be new again !!

and finally to wrap up today's oddities. I already blew my diet by a fair amount, so figured wth might as well do myself a treat and did up a huge pot of boiled peanuts. I use the 8 qt slow cooker for mine and spice the hell out of them YUM !!!

anyways the shells, they don't really compost well, maybe sort of ok for filler or drainage. probably would work better as like wood chips or top layer stuff but anyways... I actually freeze mine, then when I am smoking food, throw half a gallon of them right on the coals. It's like wood chips, gives a nice nutty flavor to the food., I smoked some burgers, at the end of it, ill throw a slab of sharp cheddar on the burger to get it melty on it then pull the entire thing off and lay it on a paper towel to suck up any grease that might be left on it. Cool burgers, then freeze dry them. A year or whenever later you take that burger out, let it soak in a saucer of water for a few minutes to re hydrate and wham, freshburger right off the grill with cheese and a nice smoky flavor.

Aaron

Can't you throw the peanut shells in the coop as bedding? I would. Man I want to grow peanuts and make my own boiled ones. I turn into a dang pig around homemade boiled peanuts... That's at least a year away though.

Nothing much going on today. Very quiet garden day, just looked at stuff for a couple minutes and pulled a cherry tomato that was starting to turn. The coldest night we've had so far was 40... may have gotten lower here though. I wouldn't be surprised if we hit 39 or 38 that night because one or two pumpkin leaves got a bit stung. Everything that matters was covered though, so no worries.

 

[karenerwin]

I put down 2 of out extras roosters. Getting ready to butcher them now.
Cleaned off the poop boards and dumped it all straight into the garden.

 

[chickengr]

Viruses? Or poor soil? We have a tomato farm, so I can give advise if you need.

any idea why this year tomatoes blossomed but never had fruits? I thought it was hot but I have 4 plants now and the problem persists.