What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

Winds are howling. While DH cleared this week's manure from the pasture, the chickens got to play outside, or rather, blew around the yard for a while.
I installed the new front jack tire on the trailer and he put the tow dolly together for it. That only took me 4 years to getting around to finding and purchasing. Good grief.
I then put together the chip vacuum to clean the run out. I HOPE it works. I purchased the attachment to blow it right into a can.
Which reminds me, I need to get more pine shaving, which I saw were $7 a CUBE this week. UGH.
Then got supper started, took care of the trash and recycling and stained a new piece of brake lumber for one of the loom.
Progress.

 

[CNJ]

I found an easier way to search for specific tomato disease resistance like yellow leaf curl virus using this website: https://www.vegetables.cornell.edu/...varieties/disease-resistant-tomato-varieties/

I narrowed them down to two, one is a slicer called Camaro from https://tomatogrowers.com/products/camaro-vfffa-hybrid

And the other is a semi sweet balanced yellow cherry the shape of an apple called Apple Yellow from https://www.johnnyseeds.com/vegetables/tomatoes/apple-yellow-f1-tomato-seed-4461.html?cgid=tomatoes

 

[igorsMistress]

I am just so annoyed.

I would be too. It’s such a waste of everything.

 

[Heirloom Grown]

Who else gathers snow and lets it melt. Then uses it for a soft fertilizer? Learned this trick last year. I now have a barrel next to the coop and when it snows I scoop the snow into the barrel.

 

[WthrLady]

nope. but I have a hen who likes it for ice cream, so I scoop it for her

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Here's a new one for my books.
I reprocessed my three failed jars of beans.
When I took them out of the canner, all of them had sealed, lowered, no dipples left closed.
I went to bed.
When I got up this morning, all the dimples were down, BUT I ALWAYS ping check them.
Batch 1, ping, ping
Batch 2, thud, thud, thud
WTH???
I took the rings off and very gently pulled on the top, came RIGHT off like there was never a bond at all - BUT THE DIMPLE WAS DOWN!

Had I NOT checked, they would have gone on the shelf and spoiled and oozed, or worse, spoiled and been used (had I been a novice canner).

WTH BALL?!?!

Now I'm going to be ping testing AND lift testing AND sight and smell testing everything in my pantry when I go to use it.

Shoot them an email, maybe they will at least send you replacements for the defective package.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

So, here is my dumb, no gardening question. How do you comment on your YouTube channel?
I managed to find you on YouTube and watched the video but every time I try to comment it takes me to a place to creat a channel. I don’t want or need a YouTube channel. Do I have to have a channel to comment?
Obviously, watching YouTube watching isn’t something I do.

That's not a dumb question at all! You do need to have a login/channel to comment. You don't need to upload anything though. It's basically just so you can a public profile to leave comments with.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Who else gathers snow and lets it melt. Then uses it for a soft fertilizer? Learned this trick last year. I now have a barrel next to the coop and when it snows I scoop the snow into the barrel.

It hasn't snowed enough to stick to the ground here since 2018 so I will have to wait another 10 years to try this. Lol

 

[WthrLady]

Shoot them an email, maybe they will at least send you replacements for the defective package.

They won't. I tried with box #1 in july. 50 % failure rate on it. They blamed my canning. Thing is, neighbor had same lot and she had the same problem. So.....ya. I'm going to pull all of the lot boxes I have left and MAIL them with a letter to ball and see what happens.

 

[BReeder!]

Today's gardening activity was building a raised bed next to the greenhouse and filling it - hours worth of exhausting work as I don't have equipment some have to quickly fill a bed - I dream of a tractor loader one day when we get some acreage. DW and I are exhausting and still need to fill the teired beds. At least this new 8'x2.5'x2' bed is done. There's 13 bags of garden soil stacked in the garden still for the teired beds. Between that soil and a bunch of unfinished compost, I'll be filling 48 cu ft into the tiered beds.

Those bags of garden soil are 1.5 cu ft of miracle grow soil by the way. HD had them on sale for $2.90 per bag! It could use some sand, but it's seems like good soil and already has slow release fertilizer in it. I'm not usually fond of chemicals in the garden, but I'll give it a go at that price.