What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

The heat just snapped here. OMG It feels SO NICE out. Windy as all get out, so it feels chilly, but I'll take it.
It feels weird to put the pressure canner away at the beginning of september, but again, that's how it goes.
We are so dry.

Jelly...

 

[PopoMyers]

I guess tomato wine IS a thing! I looked around a little and found a lot of tomato wine recipes. Like this one...

https://winemakerscorner.com/wine-recipes/tomato-wine-recipe/

Not sure if I'll try it, but tomatoes are fruit, so it makes sense that they could be fermented. It could be a good way to use up tomatoes.

Looks interesting. Strangely, the recipe says to sanitize the ferment just when doing the first racking instead of before adding the yeast.

 

[PopoMyers]

Today and yesterday, picking dry bean pods and straggling squash and cucumbers. A handful of late green beans. Seems to be more flowers coming on them, and small beans forming. Pulled up onions, and DH hung them. Deadheaded flowers, picked some mature sunflower heads. The birds have been eating some. Picked a good handful of late raspberries. Apples are starting to fall/thin. Looks like we have a good amount for cider this year. The chooks always enjoy weeds and apples.

 

[Smokerbill]

Looks interesting. Strangely, the recipe says to sanitize the ferment just when doing the first racking instead of before adding the yeast.

Yeah, that has to be wrong. Adding the Campden tablets to the secondary fermenter would kill the yeast and stop fermentation. Good catch. I missed seeing that.

 

[akroberts1085]

I haven't sent mine yet because I haven't been able to get away from work to go to the post office. I should be able to go tomorrow though

No worries. I'm not an impatient person so all good. I will let you know when I get them.

 

[MotherofOrpies]

Fall not here yet, all of next week temperatures around 80 forecast, and I’m in the hospital and can only send son messages to irrigate the plants since he doesn’t reply, I fear the worst hubby is also of no use at all in that department, he comes from the tribe of, less is more, concerning plants, and is only good at killing them by stepping on them, breaking them off while passing through or drowning them ( either that or the no water at all method ) my younger daughter came by this weekend and told me all the peaches were rotting away ( nobody picked them) at least she ate some ripe tomatoes and an apple, it seems to be the worst time for the garden for me to be missing

 

[akroberts1085]

Fall not here yet, all of next week temperatures around 80 forecast, and I’m in the hospital and can only send son messages to irrigate the plants since he doesn’t reply, I fear the worst hubby is also of no use at all in that department, he comes from the tribe of, less is more, concerning plants, and is only good at killing them by stepping on them, breaking them off while passing through or drowning them ( either that or the no water at all method ) my younger daughter came by this weekend and told me all the peaches we rotting away ( nobody picked them) at least she ate some ripe tomatoes and an apple, it seems to be the worst time for the garden for me to be missing

that's so not good. I would flip my lid if my husband believed that. He has mowed them down just not with the I will kill it before I water it.

 

[MotherofOrpies]

He just doesn’t care and that from a man who considered ( not for a long time) to study biology

 

[CNJ]

I decided to plant 4 Japanese cucumbers in my DYI earth box while I wait for my determinate tomato seeds to sprout. I want to see how my home-made potting mix, DYI earth box with 2 pints of Espoma organic fertilizer perform.

On my next DYI earth box I decided to use 4 bricks on the bottom to support the stacked tote. The brick is 4 inches and I have them in the middle of 4 sides. The bricks were $1.50 each, so it cost more than 2x4 lumber, but it will last forever. Moreover, I have a bonus item, I will use the left-over tote covers as a water base for my large grow bags.

I was surprised how snug and sturdy my 5-foot galvanized fence wrapped around the tote. I think it will work with my determinate tomatoes, but I may have to cut open some 4-inch sections, so my hand can fit through the back.

Oh, by the way, I am relieved that my Japanese round eggplant is growing back after my chickens ate all the leaves.

 

[karenerwin]

The blueberry jam I made the other day turned out too runny so I opened them all up and te cooked them. Now they are too thick.
Picked a small handful of cherry tomatoes, watered the church garden and picked some tomatoes , green beans and jalapeños.
Now it’s raining. There was no rain in the forecast