What did you do in the garden today?

[MotherofOrpies]

My cherry tomatoes are still green

I won’t be harvesting any, cos I will be away for the next 4 weeks, getting a hip replaced ….and when I get back in October, I’m not sure there will still be plants left alive to produce any ripe tomatoes , I’ve already harvested some blush tomatoes,

I fear I won’t be getting any ripe peaches either, the tree has a lot,

but some pesky critter is eating them while they are still to hard to harvest

my eggplant has 2 fruits (?)
harvested my first big tomato, it weighs 479g

 

[CNJ]

It would take 8 Earth Boxes to fill a 4X4 foot raised bed. At $60 each, 8 Earth Boxes would come out to $480 dollars. So, I will continue to make my pallet wood 4X4 raised beds with free wood and maybe a dollar or two in screws and nails. I have more free time than free money these days.

It only cost about $26 if we make them ourselves. These totes at my Local Lowes sell for $12.

 

[gtaus]

It only cost about $26 if we make them ourselves. These totes at my Local Lowes sell for $12.
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Those look bigger than the Earth Boxes online. Are your DIY Earth Boxes also bigger?

It looks like you are putting one tote into a second tote that is probably the water reservoir. Is that correct?

I had been looking at buying a larger 40-gallon tote, almost 2X3 foot, and using the lid as that bottom piece separator. That way it only takes one tote per DIY Earth Box.

I was thinking about building a stand for the tote out of some pallet wood and making it into an elevated planter for out on the deck. I have a sub-irrigated elevated planter out on my deck right now, and it works great, but I spent about $50 just on the drainpipes and pond liner to hold in the water reservoir. It would be less expensive for me to build a sub-irrigated planter from these totes.

Having said that, here is my latest 4X4 foot pallet wood raised planter this spring that cost me less than $2.00 for the screws and nails I used. The wood was free...

 

[Farmer13]

What are you planning on doing with your bajillion cherry tomatoes? I'm only about halfway through my cherry tomatoes so any ideas are most welcome. Thanks.

We are growing Sweet aperitif Chery tomato's. We cut them in half & dry them for
pizzas soups etc. So sweet little tomato flavor bombs.

 

[Sueby]

Got my greenstalk all set up. Lettuce is already coming up. Muuuuch better than the crappy soil I had in my other lettuce bed.

 

[SarahLadd]

Still crying every day over Jasper. She was my buddy... I buried her yesterday next to my rooster. It's been just so damn hot, too hot to dig a hole

Tomatoes, tomatoes onions peppers and herbs becoming pizza sauce, another iris label

 

[jerryse]

Interesting squash gourd. One of your hybrids?

Yes, gourd was many years ago. I prefer the bicolor but genes are a gamble.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Did a little picking this morning. I pulled the mostly chocolate tomatoes because they were splitting. The SM in the nightshade garden are ripening now. I have several jalapeños and an eggplant forming. Also have some okra pods forming. I picked a few lima beans and some corn from the corn patch. The ears were small but ready for picking. It is the Wee Farm after all. Lol!

Blooming sunflower

 

[jerryse]

Pic of juice and sauce. As you can see the juice does not have much tomato. I drink the juice and or add to soup etc.

 

[WthrLady]

Phew. the 36 hours of cooler weather and the tomato ripening went nuts. 35 pounds of red and orange in the baskets and half a gallon of cherry tomatoes.
Down side is the pollen (ragweed, grass, and hemp, pigweed) is off the charts, sinus' on fire, and no wind today. But so far only heading to 85.