What did you do in the garden today?

[OnlySympathy]

6.5 foot tall tomato growing in a 1 gallon pot, not sure how it is doing so good

 

[OnlySympathy]

I've called a giant tomato's bluff before and pulled it while green to ripen on the counter. Took probably 7-10 days, but the thing made it!

The second I see a hint of orange it makes a going on vacation to the kitchen counter

 

[OnlySympathy]

Picked some half ripe cherry tomatoes as well because they always split when they get close to ripe if it rains

 

[chickengr]

planted black turtle beans, transplanted the second round of oaxaca corn (the first got eaten by grasshoppers), wanted to do more gardening but it started to rain. temperature dropped but little rain, just mud. my plants and trees still need a lot of watering.

 

[Smokerbill]

Your garden is really awesome! I see your hard work has paid off!

Thank you!

My Brunswick cabbage seeds arrived from Baker Creek and I got a dozen seed cells planted with some of them. Fall cabbage, I hope.

I think I'm going to pull up an onion and slice it up to pickle with that cucumber I picked this morning. Vinegar, water, salt, pepper and sugar. So they taste a little like sweet pickles. Hahahaha

 

[Rick589]

Didn’t work in the garden today nor did I spend much time with the chickens. No, I decided to do my better half a favor and cut the grass for her as a surprise(she usually cuts on Fridays). Well, imagine my regret when a task that usually takes about an hour and a half turned into a 4+ hour journey, with a zero turn I might add. This variable sequence of heat and a bit of rain has caused this grass to become thick and tall and this is since its last cut last Friday, plus I had to replace the blades and clean the mower deck after mowing about a quarter of the property after realizing something wasn’t quite right with the mower, which meant a re-mow was in order. Well, I survived, she’ll be surprised and happy and we got 3 or 4 overflowing wheel barrows of compost material……and, I managed to survive so again I’ve been blessed on yet one more day.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

We are actually getting rain. It’s been raining on and off all day. We’re up to 1 inch in the rain gauge. I checked the big garden this morning before the rain started. My tomato plants were very dry and stressed despite watering with the garden hose. I think there’s just so much chemically treated public water the plants can handle. I did pick another handful of peas and a pound of green beans this morning. In one of breaks in the rain this afternoon I picked some shallots that were begging me to pick them. One is huge for a shallot, the other a bit undersized. I haven’t been up on the hill yet. I’ll check on that tomorrow morning weather permitting. I’m guessing I should start freezing the green beans. I’m thrilled to be getting such a good harvest. The rain is supposed to continue on and off until the early morning hours. Fingers crossed we get another inch.
This morning's harvest. I picked the carrots to check their progress. They need more time.

The bean stalks after picking the ones that were ready this morning

Cucumbers loving the old potato bed

And the afternoon shallots

 

[Smokerbill]

We are actually getting rain. It’s been raining on and off all day. We’re up to 1 inch in the rain gauge. I checked the big garden this morning before the rain started. My tomato plants were very dry and stressed despite watering with the garden hose. I think there’s just so much chemically treated public water the plants can handle. I did pick another handful of peas and a pound of green beans this morning. In one of breaks in the rain this afternoon I picked some shallots that were begging me to pick them. One is huge for a shallot, the other a bit undersized. I haven’t been up on the hill yet. I’ll check on that tomorrow morning weather permitting. I’m guessing I should start freezing the green beans. I’m thrilled to be getting such a good harvest. The rain is supposed to continue on and off until the early morning hours. Fingers crossed we get another inch.
This morning's harvest. I picked the carrots to check their progress. They need more time.
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The bean stalks after picking the ones that were ready this morning

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Cucumbers loving the old potato bed

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And the afternoon shallots

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What variety of shallots are those? They look kind of like mine, that are growing a single bulb instead of multiples on one plant. Mine, I think, are not true shallots. Got 'em at Baker Creek.

 

[jerryse]

Cooler today. Mowed and pulled weeds. Cooler through Sunday.

 

[Smokerbill]

Did maintenance on the grandkids' little garden plots. Pulled weeds, harvested the tiny red onions. Getting that area ready for planting my fall collards and kale. Pulled up a few carrots to thin them out, largest were maybe pencil diameter, two inches long. Ate a couple and they were sweet.

I put the other tiny carrots into the sweet pickling liquid along with some sliced red onions and that little cucumber.

Baked a loaf of bread today too.