What did you do in the garden today?

[B40chick]

Yesterday, I got a good picking of butter beans. I shelled them out while watching TV last night. Today, I am weed eating around the yard and trimming back the azalea bushes in front of the house

 

[NewBoots]

Along the way I saw 2 praying mantises (mantids?)! One brown and this green one.

Great picture of that green one. Even with it in the center of the picture I still took a second or two to see it. DP and I both love them. A bug that turns his head around to LOOK at you is just amazing. Haven't seen any here yet, but we didn't last year till September.

f my potato harvest is good I will need suggestions on where to keep them so they can dry / age a bit before storage.

It doesn't look like I'll have to worry about what to do with our potato harvest. All of the plants have pretty well died back but there just aren't many potatoes down there. Watched a video that said there are determinate and indeterminate potatoes (who knew?) and you don't keep putting soil or straw on the determinate ones, just on the indeterminate ones. I am betting we had the wrong kind. We won't put them in the raised beds next year just in those bags with the flap and make sure we get indeterminates.

Hope that migraine gets better quick @igorsMistress, those are just terrible.

Beautiful picture @adirondak5, best time of the day too.

Saw to the watering and critters, and put a sprinkler on the greenhouse deck. Later I'll transplant my baby snapdragons to the open spots in the raised beds. And maybe direct plant some more golden beets. Weather folks are saying it might rain on Monday and that would be awesome. Have a great day everyone.

 

[adirondak5]

Here's some tomato pics of some of my Super Sauce plants and some of the Amish Paste plants . I'm soon gonna be overrun .

Super Sauce , these tomatoes are huge , plants are loaded with them and have lots more blossoms .

Amish Paste
These plants like to grow tall , some are about 7' tall now , I'm gonna start topping them . Some of them are huge also , not as big as Super Sauce but close .

I'm hoping to get enough good sauce tomatoes so I don't have to buy any when do up my sauce for canning . My 11 yer old and 6 year old both love tomatoes , they are already chomping at the bit to get that almost ripe Super Sauce tomato .

 

[Compost King]

I finally harvested this pepper. Saved the seeds. I also picked 3 cucumbers and grated them up along with the skin (no seeds) of this Pepper. A Carolina Reaper. WOW! my face was on fire, the entire face, it spread beyond the mouth. Chemical Warfare Hot! I knew it would be hot but it was hotter than I thought. I figured that because I removed the seeds it would only be kinda very hot not extremely very hot! The heat has wore down and I am high as a kite on Endorphins.
I also picked some Tomatoes early because something is eating them just as they ripen.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

OK @NewBoots. Now I know why it’s important to use certified seed potatoes. LOL! Mine are just now starting to die back. I’ll hope for the best and be happy if I get any potatoes. I did the biggest shopping day in 4 months earlier. Walmart, which was disturbing both in the store and the parking lot. Screaming little kids and not a lot of social distancing going on. Then I picked up my order from TSC, which went very well, however, apparently I ordered a 50 pound bag of scratch, not a 30 pounder. I don’t have a container to hold that much scratch. Two stores later, I do now. I also ordered a 50 pound bag of oyster shell. Apparently I still have some strength left in me because I managed to get all of that out of my car and into my sunroom for now. They actually had copper fungicide so I picked up some of that as well. Lunch was 2 hours late. Thank goodness I cleaned the chicken coop yesterday so I’m just hanging out with my girls watching the chipmunks running the gauntlet of hungry hens. Oh, the treat of the day was finding a black eyed Susan plant. I love them and miss having them in my garden.

 

[igorsMistress]

Thanks for the well wishes, I guess I'll be taking migraine meds regularly for a bit. The storms usually bring them on and it's monsoon season.

Whew it's nasty outside. The humidity is up and I was pouring sweat, but I got some of the hay spread out. I found fly bait for the jug at TSC today and bought some seeds too, a bushing type of pickling cucumber to try. I had ordered a couple of elephant ear corms that came yesterday so I put those in and watered everything in that garden. I'm done for now, might make a few trips out to work on spreading hay here and there but I might not.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Migraines are horrible nasty I am sorry

 

[karenerwin]

Picked another couple cucumbers and a Roma tomato as well as a zucchini. I had 1 zucchini plant that was starting over the side of the raised bed but it had broken off today. It’s a shame too as it had 4 zucchinies on it. Small to very small in size. I grated them up and added them to the spaghetti sauce. I had planned to use zucchini for noodles anyway. I also grated up a nice large zucchini as well. I was worried it would be mostly seeds but it wasn’t!

Brood from the new bee hive. This 1 farm is very packed with brood on both sides. 2 other frames have a mixture of brood, honey and a little pollen. The 4th frame is very full of honey. The other 6 frames are just wax or drawn comb.

I’m hoping this is not the start of a Queen cell. It is the only one I see so I’m hoping it’s a drone cell.

 

[WthrLady]

queens are usually near the edge, but that's not a drone cell. SO....

 

[NewBoots]

@Wee Farmer Sarah, I'll keep my fingers crossed for your potatoes. And that's quite a day you had. Walmart scares me but I do outdoor pick up.

If that is a queen cell, what will that mean? Will the hive try to split or the two queens fight?

Any word from @TropicalBabies?