What did you do in the garden today?

[Acre4Me]

Muggy day. It rained some this evening, but not a lot.

Weeded, tamed the squash jungle too. Trimmed the tomatoes so there is more airflow -particularly where there are squash nearby.

Picked squash and cucumbers and a couple onions. Currently I am cooking squash fritters and will vacuum seal to freeze most of them.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Made salsa tonight... Or at least we are TRYING to can it. Water won't boil. Grrrr...

I froze the extra blanched tomatoes I didn't use. I'll have more ready by this weekend which I'll use for either tomato juice or spaghetti sauce. Haven't decided yet.

All my spaghetti squash was killed off by squash bugs. I did get 4-5 fruit off of them but they are super small, like my melons. Very odd.... Not sure what to think of that!

Trying to clear out the hoop house from all the stuff that's either dead or done for (corn, cauliflower, lettuce, etc) and replant some more green beans and cukes. But it's been too hot to go out there until dusk so I only get 30 minutes or so to work.

It stormed this evening around 10 PM and yet it's STILL 84 degrees outside, 102 with the heat index! It's going to get even hotter over the next 2 days before another cold front comes through. This has been the weirdest, wettest July weather I've seen in a long time.

 

[Smokerbill]

I watered the garden today, even the tomatoes and squash. Most of the beans and squash I planted have broken through the ground. Deer can NOT get to them. That makes me happy!

I'm keeping an eye on my first zucchini squash. It might be ready in a day or two. The first one I thought I'd eat is shriveling up. Didn't get pollinated, I guess.

There were lots of pollinators hovering around my 2nd year parsley plant. It's blooms are just starting to open up. One was a mason bee, I think.

 

[MotherofOrpies]

my romanian black chilies are coming along nicely

my other chilis are lagging behind

My striped Roman tomatoes are starting to show their stripes

Mystery tomato, I lost most of my tomato stickers to the storm, but I think it’s going to be a large one

 

[Acre4Me]

Some of yesterday’s harvest.
3 kinds of cucumbers, 3 kinds of squash.

Young praying mantis hunting among the soybeans

Part of one large garden bed.
On the left, 8 varieties of melon.
Middle many peppers in the cages for three rows.
On right, pumpkin vines filling in walkway in front of tomatoes.
Appraising all is Penny the cat.

So…what bug has left this pile of poop on the Borage?? Not a lot of damage, could not find a single caterpillar of any kind, and any hornworm would show up well on borage, but the poop doesn’t look like hornworm anyway.

 

[Sally PB]

I weeded the next to last place that hasn't been weeded yet yesterday. I'm going to try to get the last one today.

Then start all over, I guess!

Tomatoes are getting bigger, but still green, green, green. Waiting...

 

[Tstraub]

Just a few pictures of my very weedy garden. We always start with good intentions but life gets in the way and things get out of hand real quick

 

[MotherofOrpies]

They say it’s better for nature to have a rambling garden than a sterile “neat” lawn

 

[saysfaa]

Any advice on getting fall crops going? I had great success with most things I started in the early spring but obviously there is a significant difference in starting plants in the middle of summer. I'm trying for peas, lettuce, brussels sprouts, and radishes.

I think there is still time for beans to make a crop also - few of my beans have survived. I think a ground squirrel is still eating them but it is odd that it isn't eating anything else so maybe it is something else.

I'm about 10 pages behind in this thread and probably missed some of the pages before that. So apologies if this has been talked about recently.

 

[Acre4Me]

Any advice on getting fall crops going? I had great success with most things I started in the early spring but obviously there is a significant difference in starting plants in the middle of summer. I'm trying for peas, lettuce, brussels sprouts, and radishes.

I think there is still time for beans to make a crop also - few of my beans have survived. I think a ground squirrel is still eating them but it is odd that it isn't eating anything else so maybe it is something else.

I'm about 10 pages behind in this thread and probably missed some of the pages before that. So apologies if this has been talked about recently.

We are 6A in Ohio. We sow peas, mustard, spinach, beets direct sometime in Aug. if you want brassicas, then start indoors now or try from seed end of July into Aug. So, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, rutabaga, turnips are all cold hardy. yes, beans may have enough time to produce, just pick a shorter season one.