What did you do in the garden today?

[dunnmom]

What's a delicata?

It's like a butternut squash with thin skin. We have all sort of bugs, but yes, tent caterpillars in the pecan tree every year. Last year there were so many of them they started coming in the house and cocooning in whatever fabric they could find. We also get a lot of stinkbugs and earwigs every year. Yup, they all get to share the blame with my black-thumb and stubborn refusal of insecticides.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Wow, that stuff is pretty! I would grow that just to look at it every day.
Yeah, i try not to use pesticides. The beetles are getting the squish treatment. My Dad used to pay me a penny a piece to pick Japanese beetles and throw them in a can with a little gasoline in the bottom, when i was a kid.

 

[dunnmom]

Those vines are really gorgeous and they put on a TON of flowers. I probably should have treated them with BTK or whatever it is that kills the grubs when they start eating. One of the articles I read said it's organic. I know there's a huge learning curve to gardening, and this is my first year, but it isn't fun watching good plants die young.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Yeah, it is disappointing to have your plants chewed up. My string bean leaves got all chewed up but are still producing beans. My poor tomato plants are wilting but not from lack of water. Never had that happen before. I bought 2 more plants and will mix sand in the dirt where i plant them.

 

[AuntJamie]

Today we gathered enough peas and cherry tomatoes to munch on as we meandered back to the house.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I can fondly remember sitting in the garden eating peas or pulling carrots and picking beans cleaning the carrots off on my shirt my own version of candy as a child

 

[Sara Ranch]

Delicate is a great squash, serving size one.

Have you added crushed eggshells or diamatrous (sp?) earth to your soil? I mix in the crushed eggshells regularly. Kills the vine borers! AND other bugs that live in the soil.

Plant fruit trees from organic fruit seed. Takes a few years before they are big enough to produce fruit, but worth it.

 

[NorthTexasWink]

Do tell: what do you "hide in your sauce". I used to make my crock pot sauce that way. Used a blender, buzzed up all the veggies. (zucchini, pepper, onion, carrot) I love my sauces and veggies chunky, but hubby and kids don't like chunks.

I put in sweet peppers, various squash, carrots, beets, parsnips, turnips, greens/spinach/kale, celeriac, onions, potatoes, green beans, peas, whatever I've got and whatever I think won't hurt that sauce flavor or texture. Whatever veggies I can't poke down their throats otherwise. I like chunks too, but I compromise to keep the peace, and to get my kids their proper doses of good vegetables.

 

[NorthTexasWink]

Got my henhouse functional for now. The girls are happily asleep in it, and I'm beat. Soaking in the tub, then bedtime. Sweet dreams sweet peeps.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I am so happy for you! Also thrilled i got the keets out of their brooder. Put them all in a mesh laundry bag to cart them up to their new tractor. So they are in their new space too. Gosh, they are getting big. Pictures tomorrow. Kittens getting big, i need to get more canned cat food. Mamma does not let them nurse any more. Hate to sell them but they need new homes. Good night, all gardeners.