What did you do in the garden today?

[chickengr]

my experiment with not pruning tomatoes has worked. first time ever my tomatoes didn't die of heat. they are bushy but alive with green tomatoes. from now on I will start to prune them and after harvesting fruits I will cut stems leaving just the central one or two.

the rest of garden space that I didn't plant filled with weeds without any watering. those weeds are not edible by any animals so I have to plow it again.

 

[nao57]

They sure are weird aren't they? Thank you for the reply!

Nothing in the garden today but I did snap a big pan of green beans.
DH has shelled out a gallon bucket of butterbeans so I will process these tomorrow.



These may be seed pods. I've seen them on my potato plants (non-GMO) before.
Here's a link with photos.
https://www.uaex.uada.edu/counties/white/news/horticulture/202007Tomatoes_or_Potatoes.aspx

 

[fuzzi]

I hate August in the South.

There's a possible natural reason for the hotter summer this year: water vapor injected into the atmosphere by an unprecedented underwater volcano explosion last year:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/to...precedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-022-00652-x

The water vapor injected into the atmosphere will slowly dissipate over the next few years. It will affect the stratosphere, and therefore the climate, until water vapor levels get back to normal.

Stock up on popsicles!

 

[Grandmas Coop]

I am going out at first light, I want to get so much done in my garden today,
I want to feed my Fetid swamp water , turn my compost I'll use in the fall. Its never to early to prep for next spring.

 

[Sueby]

I hate August in the South.

I hate August in CT too! I would melt if I lived in the south.

The cucumber cake is a little weird. We'll eat it, but I won't make it again. I need to pick beans today & blanch & freeze them. My cucumber plant is succumbing to the cuke beetles. It's still got some life for now.

 

[WthrLady]

Amen sister... We waited for the sun to go down but the temperature still sucks. And this is with 70% humidity. We did have a couple of fans going but you couldn't feel it unless you were standing directly in front of it. At one point, I was so hot that I thought I was going to puke. Luckily I didn't.

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Felt llike 120 when we were loading. I was beyond wanting to loose it, but there is no stopping. Has to come in before the dew settles or the rains come.
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Currently 915am and as dark as 915pm, with rain and thunder. Clap of thunder the same time my lightning alarm went off, it was CLOSE, knocked me out of bed. Still coming down from that adrenaline burst.
Tossed right into a weather work morning. I'm sure it's creating havok in the city at the tourist's farmers market.
No real plans for the day. Will check the garden for ripe tomatoes after the rain and make up a batch of tomato puree for the pressure canner. But that's about all.
Maybe sewing.

 

[MotherofOrpies]

I remember back in the days when we went haying, always the fear it could rain while the hay was lying on the ground to dry you had to rely an the radio for the weather forecast, no internet app which tells you when it might rain ( or sunshine for longer periods) and when the hay got wet, you had to buy expensive hay I think round bales had just started to be produced, kind of a novelty, the square bales were the ones which were normal, also, they could be carried and stacked, the round bales were just left on the field, too heavy to be moved by one person , nobody had the money to buy a baler, so we had to rent one for 3 days and pray during that time the hay would dry and no rain would come

 

[jerryse]

Thunderstorms overnight. Wet out there. Rain watered the garden. Back to more normal hot.

 

[Sally PB]

Rat-tail radish. I need to look up options for pickling these seed pods. The seed pods are edible, and taste like radish.

I'd read that they're edible! I had some kind of radish planted in my butternut squash to deter something (squash bugs? Dunno.) I tried a seed pod, and yup, it tasted like radish. I'm not a big fan of radishes, but I wonder if I'd like the pickled pods?

Pickled pods... That sounds like nursery rhyme material...

 

[Sally PB]

Big thunderstorm came through last night. Rain, but not the high winds they'd forecast.

Now it's clear, sunny, humid, but not nearly as hot as yesterday. A good day to get stuff done outside.