What did you do in the garden today?

[NorthTexasWink]

I noticed I haven't posted pics in a while, so here's some harvest baskets. I haven't even been taking photos of the piles of cukes, tomatoes, beans I've been picking lately. Too busy putting them by! That cantaloupe starting is near the top of the teepee. And a couple of pics of the chicks with their first sod today, because . . . Cuteness!

 

[pennyJo1960]

none of my tomatoes have any color yet are not even big enough for fried green tomatoes

 

[Pensmaster]

The board for the brooder is painted, another painted to hinge it to. Picked several more handfuls of nails, glass and bullet casings out of the old burn pile by the house. Right where you have to drive the mule to get down from the river. The people that lived here before us left stuff like that all over. I am on bucket number 5 since we moved in. I got more gladioli planted, and all but 8 of the vincas. My cucumbers are coming up, and the morning glories i planted in pots have gone crazy since the rain. I need to get them in the ground near the fence.

Oh my that sounds like my place. 22,000 pounds to the dump so far. Now a few pounds of that was my stuff however most was his. Old camping tent trailers, which I gave away, really old truck beds full of "good" metal scraps. Hardly. The only good thing he left here was a t-post driver which I let my BIL borrow and someone stole it from the back of his truck. Cases of screws now that was good almost out of them.

 

[Pensmaster]

none of my tomatoes have any color yet are not even big enough for fried green tomatoes

I have a few ripe ones. Several green ones.

 

[pennyJo1960]

nope mine do not seem near as tall either and no near as large tomatoes either

 

[Pensmaster]

It's 106 out right now. Tomatoes don't set at all in these temps. I've got to get out there an check the chickens.

 

[NorthTexasWink]

Well, you ARE in Washington @penny1960 , have faith! You'll be swimming in red juicy goodness while we down south are ripping out the fungus-laden tangled remains of our tomatoes and hacking our way through squash and melon vines, getting rashes from the stubble.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Well, you ARE in Washington @penny1960 , have faith! You'll be swimming in red juicy goodness while we down south are ripping out the fungus-laden tangled remains of our tomatoes and hacking our way through squash and melon vines, getting rashes from the stubble.

yup had the most rain here since like 1964 this last winter into spring
but our year does run later planted my second crop of lettuce and such about 4 days ago

 

[NorthTexasWink]

My spinach, lettuce, mache, most all my greens bolted a week or two ago at least. Now they are setting seed and act as pollinator attractants and pest traps. Got a few in pots in deep shade, but it's been so hot so long they taste bitter anyway. Trying Malabar spinach this fall and next spring in hopes of having greens in summer.

Just gotta get through our Texas heat. No getting out of it.

 

[NanaKat]

We hit 100 today. I have feed in the back of the pick-up that I will unload in the cool of the morning. Didn't get the beans planted because I turned into a sprinkler in the heat just tying up the final beds. Will do that in the morning too. I did move the mid aged ducklings (born late May)outside to a temporary day pen so they could swim a little and watered the plants on the deck.
A few ducks...7 weeks old...

The deck is where I can enjoy coffee in the morning and escape the heat a little...
I'm drying a few onions on the picnic table and enjoy both tropical and annuals. This is the area too where all my seedlings for the garden harden off before going into the garden.