What did you do in the garden today?

[User395221]

It's still got some green canes so I haven't given up on it.

It'll recover. (do you hear me, you WILL recover!) Just a shame that it was so hot when you'd just planted. Once they've found their feet, they are indestructible.

 

[igorsMistress]

It was on sale and would have gone to the trash pile so I brought it home lol. It was already HOT but I thought I'd give it a shot anyway.

 

[User395221]

It was already HOT but I thought I'd give it a shot anyway.

I've seen roses growing wild on the verge out at York. The ground is like baked clay, as dry as a bone and it's as hot as anything. Even though I know they are tough, we were still gobsmacked.

 

[GardenTillers44]

Choke cherry vine is inedible. The vine looks like a grape vine, is invasive and very hard to kill.

You have me curious now about this one. I can't seem to find anything on it by that name. The native edible chokecherry we are referring to grows as a shrub or tree.
We would try to beat the critters to pick possum grapes in Texas and make jelly...tasty on breakfast buscuits.

 

[Beer can]

Our county has dumpsters for residents to put their trash in free. Probably less dumping that way.

Our county also, everything free except for construction debris.

 

[Beer can]

You have me curious now about this one. I can't seem to find anything on it by that name. The native edible chokecherry we are referring to grows as a shrub or tree.
We would try to beat the critters to pick possum grapes in Texas and make jelly...tasty on breakfast buscuits.

My mom always made choke cherry jelly
I never cared much for the berries but the jelly is yummy.
Native Americans here used them in pemmican, ground the fruit pit and all into a pulp and added fat and meat ground. Dehydrated and smoked, the dehydration of the ground cherry pits takes the poison out.
We have wild raisins here also, fruit isn't grapes and hard and inedible until they dry out in the fall. I munch on them deer hunting when I find them, look and taste just like a raisin though not as sweet. Grouse love them.

 

[Beer can]

Looks like I'm barely keeping tomatoes alive with the late blight. Still got and getting lots of tomatoes though.
I've always rotated them to different spots but next yr I think I'll find a different spot to grow them, maybe the front yard Lol.
Have one big beefsteak that came up on its own from where I had a chicken run last winter. Mowed some down before I noticed tomato plants and saved the one. It's in a mostly shaded spot but still grew great and isn't getting the blight.

 

[chickmom3941]

I found a few young fruits in our pumpkin patch - so far porcelain pink pumpkins & blue hubbard squash, also I think at least one marina de chioggia squash. Don't know if there's anything else hiding underneath all those leaves. I planted several different kinds. The fruits are pretty small, I think because of the unusually cool month of August we had here. Hope they have time to grow before we get frost. Hubs was given a very large, great-looking butternut squash, but it's not quite ripe! I have heard that you can place unripe squash in a warm spot in the sun, and they will still ripen, even though off the vine. I've never done it before, but am going to give it a try because this squash looks like it would be REALLY GOOD once ripe!

 

[chickmom3941]

Picked a 25lb watermelon today.

I'm jealous! We planted sugar baby watermelon seeds in the spring, had probably close to 2 dozen plants that were looking good, and me & hubs carelessly left them (and our cucumber seedlings) outside during a cold stretch, and they all died... We didn't have time to re-plant them, so had to buy new ones at the garden store. They had cucumber seedlings, but no watermelon! So, we've had no homegrown watermelons this year...

 

[dan26552]

I'm jealous! We planted sugar baby watermelon seeds in the spring, had probably close to 2 dozen plants that were looking good, and me & hubs carelessly left them (and our cucumber seedlings) outside during a cold stretch, and they all died... We didn't have time to re-plant them, so had to buy new ones at the garden store. They had cucumber seedlings, but no watermelon! So, we've had no homegrown watermelons this year...

I didn't get my melons in till may. I was not very impressed with my sugar babies. Small ragged plants that produced maybe one good melon that was slightly bigger than a softball, maybe a pound and a half. My volunteer melon did the best.

That really stinks.