What did you do in the garden today?

[akroberts1085]

Just writing about homemade salsa is making me hungry.

 

[karenerwin]

Started cleaning out the pumpkin bed this week. I got about 14 pie pumpkins from just a couple plants.View attachment 3617413

How do you determine when they are ready to harvest? I have several that are very orange but not sure if they are ready or not. Have more that are still green or are just starting to turn orange

 

[Smokerbill]

I started prepping for planting my kale and Brussels sprouts plants. Loosened up the soil in the bed, measured and marked out the spots the plants will go.

I mixed up potting soil, regular soil and Dr. Earth fertilizer in a bucket and wetted it down. I'll mix some of that in the soil the plants go in so they are growing into "familiar" soil before they hit the different garden soil.

Tomorrow morning I'll put the plants into the ground.

There are two or three more zucchinis that are getting really big. I'm letting them go so I can get the most out of the plant before my new zuke plants start producing, which will be very soon.

 

[jerryse]

I saw a groundhog. Now I know why I have no ripe tomatoes when I returned home. He did not share. He ate them all and no traces left. Now I must do something.

 

[jerryse]

Sliced some yellow squash on the 4 sided grater. Very thin. I had some with ranch dressing and seasoned some then into the dehydrator for chips.

 

[Smokerbill]

I saw a groundhog. Now I know why I have no ripe tomatoes when I returned home. He did not share. He ate them all and no traces left. Now I must do something.

Catch him and make some woodchuck burgers. When I tried one cooked on a spit over a fire it was kind of tough, so ground chuck would be better, in my opinion.

 

[Sequel]

@Acre4Me @SarahLadd Impressive tomatoes! I have a few ripening up, large cherry, Black Krim and something else I can't remember right now. The biggest of those is only 3 inches in diameter.

I watered the entire garden and saw a jumbo zucchini squash I have to pick, plus a couple buttercup (I think) summer squash. I'm going to let the tomatoes fully ripen on the vine, hoping the birds don't peck them.

Is anyone here familiar with digging and replanting crocosmia corms? I have a huge clump of it, and want to dig out half of it to replant somewhere. I think it's supposed to be done in the fall or early spring, and you use the largest corms (whatever those are) to plant. I guess the smaller corms don't grow as vigorously.

This is the crosmia clump...

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In my experience they are very very tough plants. My neighbor dropped some over the fence for me and I never got around to planting them and they are still growing where they dropped.

 

[akroberts1085]

So my mom said you boil pumpkin on the stove and when it starts to soften you can use a potato masher to get some of the chunks out. Then you put it in hot jars and then to the pressure cooker for 90 minutes.

 

[Sequel]

If we are allowed to share legal cannabis I can post my two plants?

You could post it in a spoiler.

 

[Sequel]

8b here, so cool. I think I'll wait until early spring to move them.

They are tough. You can move them at your own convenience! lol