What did you do in the garden today?

Picked some tomatoes and used some with dinner. Bacon wrapped cherry tomatoes! They were good! Even the kid liked them!
Oooooo! 350 oven? I am making those for sure!
The thyme might not make it. I like the way it looks but it's not something I use so I'll try but it won't break my heart if it doesn't make it.
I love thyme, I use it in soups and sausage rolls and more that I can't think of just now. Mmm time to make sausage rolls again. I can eat those till I fall over. Anyway, thyme is so pretty once it blooms. It's one of those plants that even if I never used it for anything I'd want it near a path way so it gets bruised and gives off scent.
If you want your tomatoes to ripen faster once you bring them inside, cover them up. I put them on a large cotton dishtowels and put a couple more on top and then top that with a dark old (clean) beachtowel or blanket. The gasses given off in the ripening process, speed up the process in other tomatoes.
Thanks, that is a great tip!
Man I do love a fresh chain when you have a good sized job to do.
It's like a freshly sharpened knife, a pleasure to use.
Next year, I am definitely going to pinch off all the suckers off my tomato plants (and keep them much shorter).
Same here, and I'm planting the ones in the raised beds further apart so I can find all the ripe tomatoes.
I'm also not sure I'll bother with the green beans either, I'm not good at picking them & seem to find most when they're too giant to eat.
I have terrible eyesight even with glasses on and I think that's part of my problem. Anyone using a overhead trellis for green beans? Does that work? Can you find the freaking beans?
I never venture out of this thread so I'll never see it, lol. Unless someone links it. *hinthint*
I stay mostly in this thread and one other that used to be a coop building thread but's now a chit chat thread. :)
@penny1960, you have a lovely house and property! It's nice to see folks yards beyond just the garden, seems more neighborly. :)

Good afternoon gardeners, the watering and critter care is done for the day. When I was scooping the poop from the poop boards this morning, Natasha, one of the speckled sussex was checking one of the upper nest boxes for size. No eggs then cuz I check the nest boxes first thing when I go in. But some time later, I think she snuck in, laid her egg and got out again, no singing. It would have been the first egg from whomever and the sneaky laying makes sense for Natasha. She's smart as a whip but bottom of the pecking order and knows how to stay out of trouble. She'd be smart enough get in, drop and egg and get out quietly so as not to get any attention. I'll find out sooner or later.
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Not the best picture but she and her sister are beautiful.
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Natasha and Cleo.

Mahogany, a Swedish Flower Hen:
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Dotty, also a Swedish Flower Hen:
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Glyness and Koraline.jpg

My two top birds. Glyness with the black head, and Koraline. Glyness is the boss.

So anyway, I now have 2 layers. :wee
 
Apologies for chipping in. Just got my first pumpkin of the year (paintball) and I'm so proud 🤣
Seeds were mailed to me by a pumpkin-loving best friend. Yes, it's rather on the small side.

Welcome chip in anytime you choose what state are you in?
 
Apologies for chipping in. Just got my first pumpkin of the year (paintball) and I'm so proud 🤣
Seeds were mailed to me by a pumpkin-loving best friend. Yes, it's rather on the small side.
And no need to apologize, we love newcomers and newcomers with pictures even more! It's a lovely pumpkin. I can't grow pumpkins to save my life!
 
I have an eggplant plant (my first!) and it is just now flowering....it is about 30 inches high, and is strong and sturdy and healthy looking-- and lots of "blooms"...Im just worried it took so long to happen-- will there be time enough for the fruit to grow before winter? Im in southern Ontario...so we will have frost in about 6 weeks......
 

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