What did you do in the garden today?

[Happy hen lover]

Thank you. Yeah I needed my own, and I got the 23qt because of that exact thing. If I'm going to can, I'm going to process as many jars at a time as I can. I don't have central air so it's important to heat the house as little as possible.

I understand if you could prep stuff early or even prep ingredients the day before . Such as, I cut up roast brown it day before next day heat with scraping and broth then put in jars and cook the next morning when it's not so hot. Or one of those unexpected cold rainy days.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Made it back home right about dusk. Walked down to the garden for a quick walk around in the fading light. Looks like a train wreck... About as I expected. Everything, especially the weeds, are super overgrown from all the rain.

Cuke vines are all over the ground instead of climbing UP the trellis...

Looked like weeds had choked out the new dahlia bulbs in at least one bed.

Lettuce and at least one broccoli look like they bolted.

Tomatoes are in desperate need of pruning.

Out of the 20ish bean plants I seeded, it looks like only 3 or 4 sprouted. I'm thinking that damn gopher got to the others...

Grapes have literally SWALLOWED my Egyptian onions. I badly need to find a way to tie them up....

And the grass needs mowed...but that's really no surprise.

I'll go back out tomorrow after work if it's not raining and take a full assessment.

 

[Minanora]

Made it back home right about dusk. Walked down to the garden for a quick walk around in the fading light. Looks like a train wreck... About as I expected. Everything, especially the weeds, are super overgrown from all the rain.

Cuke vines are all over the ground instead of climbing UP the trellis...

Looked like weeds had choked out the new dahlia bulbs in at least one bed.

Lettuce and at least one broccoli look like they bolted.

Tomatoes are in desperate need of pruning.

Out of the 20ish bean plants I seeded, it looks like only 3 or 4 sprouted. I'm thinking that damn gopher got to the others...

Grapes have literally SWALLOWED my Egyptian onions. I badly need to find a way to tie them up....

And the grass needs mowed...but that's really no surprise.

I'll go back out tomorrow after work if it's not raining and take a full assessment.

One battle at a time! Glad you are home safe.

 

[Yard Farmer]

I got rained out this evening, I hope my seeds don't get uncovered with the heavy rain.

 

[Minanora]

I understand if you could prep stuff early or even prep ingredients the day before . Such as, I cut up roast brown it day before next day heat with scraping and broth then put in jars and cook the next morning when it's not so hot. Or one of those unexpected cold rainy days.

I prep as much as I can in advance. I've spent many, many 10+ hour days in the kitchen canning. I try not to do that anymore.

We don't usually have unexpected cold rainy days. When we do, I am in the kitchen.

 

[chickengr]

I would trade brome grass for Johnson grass any day. Maybe I'd say differently if I had Johnson, but brome is my number 1, most pain in the butt, hand, and back weed! If I didn't have brome, I would have at least 50% less weeding to do.

I have both + 10 others + milk thistle. I am thinking how to bring my goats to take care of that. the overgrown area is not fenced and they might easily damage my garden and trees.

 

[chickengr]

Like people who plant privet, wisteria, and honeysuckle deliberately...

they are not invasive in my climate. we have to water them here. I would like to have wisteria like this (internet pic):

 

[cj2024]

I have done this three times in the last month

I left the empty pot alone and more tomatoes sprouted. It's like that because I originally squeezed a couple of F2 cherry tomatoes in the pot.

 

[cj2024]

Bet it still tasted good.

Tasted awesome, it was spongy.

 

[Sally PB]

In the world of drought, crappy soil, and prairie fires, it's an amazing plant.

I'm glad it does something good. If it just stayed out of my gardens...

One thing I've wondered about... the field is full of brome, and other grasses, and hasn't been disturbed in over 30 years (as long as we've lived here) and probably decades longer. So that soil has had decades of grass grow and die and decay, year after year. Yet it is greyish clay, not nice looking soil. LOTS of earthworms, so I know it isn't trash, or the worms would not be there.