What did you do in the garden today?

[CNJ]

I am having another wow moment, I put 3 home grown sweet potatoes in my Breville Smart oven and used the air fry selector and set the temperature at 425F for 25 minutes and found them in my oven this morning, apparently I got side tracked and forgot to eat them yesterday.

Anyway, this was my first time cooking sweet potatoes this way, the outer skin was puffy and easy to come off., and the inside look roasted, but the outside wasn't burnt? If I cook them this way I don't have to worry about a little dirt being left on the skin.

This is my first time tasting perfectly roasted sweet potatoes. The skin on my potatoes were red and the inside were light purple with a layer of roasted white on the outer part.

The roasted white part is a must have for the wow factor...........

 

[jerryse]

Better pics

 

[Sally PB]

@jnicholes, here's how you put your location in your profile.

The upper bar, where it has your online name? Click on that, then click on "account details." Scroll down, and there's a place to put your location. Fill that out -- the state is fine, and then click save.

It's really handy for garden questions, and anything chicken related that is climate dependent.

How much sap did you get??? That is so exciting, that you got enough to make some syrup.

 

[Sally PB]

I got the rest of my seeds planted in pots in the green house.

4 spaghetti squash
3 opal basil
2 Genovese basil
8 Marigold
3 Anise Hyssop
3 Lemon Bee Balm
4 more Ace 55 tomatoes
3 more Amish Paste tomatoes
2 more Super Sauce tomatoes
2 more Cherokee Purple tomatoes

I had to plant more tomatoes because 52 wasn't enough.

 

[Eagle343]

Rain stopped yesterday, today sunny, ground is slightly wet. Planted four honey berry bushes, two different verities. Now I wait.

 

[jnicholes]

@jnicholes, here's how you put your location in your profile.

The upper bar, where it has your online name? Click on that, then click on "account details." Scroll down, and there's a place to put your location. Fill that out -- the state is fine, and then click save.

It's really handy for garden questions, and anything chicken related that is climate dependent.

How much sap did you get??? That is so exciting, that you got enough to make some syrup.

How much sap did I get? The answer may surprise you:

- indicates boiling down that amount of sap
+ means collecting that amount of sap

Start at 19 cups (undocumented days)

03/19/2023
-7.5 cups
+9.5 cups

03/20/2023
+7.25 cups

03/21/2023
-28.25 cups
+6.5 cups

03/23/2023
+7.25 cups

03/24/2023
+1.5 cups

03/25/2023
-15.25 cups
+7 cups

03/26/2023
+3 cups

03/27/2023
-10 cups
+6.5 cups

03/28/2023
+6.75 cups

03/29/2023
+34.25 cups!
-30 cups

03/30/2023
-15 cups
+7.75 cups

03/31/2023
+10.5 cups

04/1/2023
+9.75 cups

Net total: 136.5 cups
Total unboiled: 2 cups
Total boiled: 134.5 cups
Total syrup obtained: 4 cups
Syrup eaten: 1 cup

Days documented: 13
Undocumented days: 3

Note: Had to boil down the syrup to subtract 1/3 a cup to make it less liquidy. 03/29/2023

 

[Jenbirdee]

Added plastic cups to my baby tomato plants . So those skinny stems can start growing roots now too.

 

[muddy75]

I brought home 4 kids (baby goats ) to clean out the garden before we move.

 

[muddy75]

I brought home 4 kids (baby goats ) to clean out the garden before we move.

DS1 bought our house and he’s not interested in having anything in the backyard, so we will be planting low-maintenance plantings for him in addition to other remodeling items

 

[jnicholes]

4 cups syrup total today. One cup eaten.