What did you do in the garden today?

[Flockincrazy]

I had a dog food company first dehydrated in the US my dehydrator was a single car size building I am the dehydrator queen

Wow thats big my husband and I both hunt so we make a lot of deer jerky during the winter it doesn't last long my 3kids eat a lot of it we like chicken and turkey jerky to then during the summer we do fruit im a sahm so i do a lot of DIY stuff its more fun than buying it from the store

 

[Acre4Me]

Baby produce pics:


Baby green beans for fresh eating

Baby soybeans for Edamame

Baby yellow podded pea - it has a purple flower!

Bean flowers - just pretty!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Sat out in the garden as child eating my veggies straight from the vine

 

[Flockincrazy]

yummy I did have tomatoes but now I dont my 8yo son ate all the ripe one's he now has sores inside his mouth from tomato acid he ate so many so he is now grounded from the garden till his mouth heals

 

[WthrLady]

Managed 55 mph winds yesterday and .78 inches of rain in just 25 minutes.
Think the garden is good this week for water.
Will top dress feed the tomatoes tomorrow in prep for the next rain.

Tomatoes are over their transplant stress and have exploded in growth in the last week. Hot nights and hot days. They love that.

 

[TropicalBabies]

Garden Pics!!

Gourds finally sprouting (only one kind)
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The other guard that sprouted in the peat pots
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Cucumber
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Cucumber and pea bed
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Beans for drying:
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Cabbage
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tomatoes!
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Beds with tomatoes and pepper plants
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more green tomatoes!
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Turnips and Beets, 4 varieties of each
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Melons: watermelons and musk melons! And Pie Pumpkins
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Squash plants (yellow crookneck and butternut)
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Potatoes are flowering!
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Pole Beans climbing!
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Our newest thing: a shed for meat chickens or breeding sets of regular chickens..... or maybe turkeys!
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Whoa! @Acre4Me you folks are cooking with some gas!!!
Everything looks fantastic and SOOO big... ah to have such a big beautiful garden! Just dreamy .
Also, loving the new big multi coop. Well built with beautiful details especially the rafter tails. That was very nice of someone to go through the extra time and effort to add that detail. You folks really invested in yourselves an your adventure. Bravo! Looks perfect and wonderful!!!!

Ok.... so NOT to be outdone by A4Me... here is a photo of my jailed pepper. Just trying to keep up with you folks lol

 

[TropicalBabies]

Here are better photos of the massive mutant June bug. It has now been released from the Better than Bouillon jar it was removed from the house in last night.
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Looks like one of our dug beetles... Texas, always gotta be the biggest

 

[Acre4Me]

Whoa! @Acre4Me you folks are cooking with some gas!!!
Everything looks fantastic and SOOO big... ah to have such a big beautiful garden! Just dreamy .
Also, loving the new big multi coop. Well built with beautiful details especially the rafter tails. That was very nice of someone to go through the extra time and effort to add that detail. You folks really invested in yourselves an your adventure. Bravo! Looks perfect and wonderful!!!!

Ok.... so NOT to be outdone by A4Me... here is a photo of my jailed pepper. Just trying to keep up with you folks lol View attachment 2208799

lovely pepper, clearly not picked at by the chickens!

thanks for the compliments! The rafter details match the bean tower details...my spouse likes to make things look nice! Still more work to do, but the hardest parts are done.!

 

[NewBoots]

Our newest thing: a shed for meat chickens or breeding sets of regular chickens..... or maybe turkeys!

That shed is a thing of beauty and joy forever. And those garden pictures are gorgeous! Your garden looks so vigorous and organized to boot!

morning all been out early tying up honey suckle noticed evening primose in flower

One of the first native plants we found when we moved to the coast were those beautiful yellow primroses. We've found a lot more natives since then and not a few obnoxious invasive weeds.

Don't you just love the time of the season when everything's just starting to look like it's going to produce?

Yes! And you can see what plant experiments are not going to pan out. I might remove the sweet corn , turned out to be a waste of time (forming ears already) and the squash can sure use the space.

So, we've caught 4 coons so far and looks like there may be some more, so we will continue setting traps, as will the neighbors.

Good job!

I've been busy dehydrating vegetables, carrots and peppers are in now, celery is next. I'm doing some greens and then powdering them, Igor will never know I've added them to stuff that way I ordered a new handheld mandoline slicer, mine is quite old and its has a broken corner. Got a new vacuum sealer too, that is one kitchen gadget I can't live without!

Got a dehydrator picked out and ready to order. We let our friend back in Portland keep our old one, he was a wizard with it. What vacuum sealer do you have and do you like it? We don't have one yet but we need it.

Let's not forget tomato chips

Never had those. Mostly we dried split cherry tomatoes and used them in meatloaf and as a last minute addition to spaghetti sauce. Do you make them from the slicing tomatoes or the paste?

Good Morning Gardeners, watering is done, got the soaker hose going on the west fence. My oh so carefully planted radish seeds got used as a little box sometime between yesterday and this morning. I'll move some things around on the deck to protect them better. I pickled two quarts pf snap peas yesterday but they have to sit in the fridge for 2 weeks so suspense! The beets are going nuts so we're having beet greens for lunch and I'll roast beets and potatoes for dinner.

This is the first harvest of the golden beets so we'll see if they taste the same as the reds. I'm going to try pickling them too.

The greens are delicious, I fixed them with bacon, shallots, broken pecans and dried cranberries. We're eating them as I type. I planted a succulent bowl, it's perfect as a door-stop for the greenhouse and it's pretty:

 

[AllenK RGV]

Not a good garden day for me but no need to mow either as it has been drizzly and threatening to rain all day. Don't remmeber if I mentioned that the cantaloupe have set their first three baseballs.

Yesterdays mowing push saw me run over a brooding silkie at pm mowing time. She was blue koted and splinted up as she nearly lost a wing and some minor degloving at her rump. This morning I ran to my vet for lidocaine thinking that wing has to go, but after I gave her my best idea of a nerve block and giving a good physical exam after a warm epsom salt soak.....Just decided to cut the cold and dead part of that extremity. I must have judged right on the nerve block because she tolerated it well hardly a peep. She got repainted and right now she is moving about the house and eating and drinking well so isn't going to have anything that is warm taken from her.