What did you do in the garden today?

[Beer can]

Since we are talking about butternut. I have that in my 3 sisters along with pumpkins. But I was tempted to get honeynut this year and didn't since I already purchased butternut seeds. Has anybody grown honeynut? I hear it's much sweeter and richer in flavor than butternut, but smaller. It's supposed to be delicious though.

I grew it last year. They didn't spread as much, not much at all stayed pretty close to the hills. Leaves were smaller vine thickness smaller. Size wise for the fruit some were small beer can size but so are some butternut. Most were pretty close to butternut size none big or huge. As far as flavor tasted like butternut to me I didn't find them to be any better or sweeter. Yup they were delicious just like a butternut. No complaints here just didn't find them to be 'better'.
Would be great for someone with a small garden or container planting trying to save space I don't think they spread more than three foot and leaves were on the small side. They did still produce a few fruits per plant. A yellow squash or zucchini plant prob takes up more space than them.

 

[Beer can]

I find planting a patch of dill as bait away from the tomatoes, but not far, has helped a LOT with hornworm.

I've only seen hornworms once, one
I did once have these caterpillar things on my dill that looked like monarch butterfly caterpillars looked them up don't remember what not looking them up again but remember they made pretty butterflies. Felt bad killing them but I need my dill!!

 

[Beer can]

I've been planting a new to me squash every year trying to find one better or as good as butternut. Haven't found one yet. Well except for new England sugar pie pumpkins. I have a pic of them somewhere on BYC. Planted four plants several years ago and ended up with 63 pumpkins. Gave away some canned some. Cooked and froze some. All for pies. Heard you could eat them like squash so baked one up, they had same texture and flavor as butternut. I'd rather eat a butternut squash than candy.
This yr giving Boston Marrow a try. Native to NY, Iroquois Indians, Haudenosaunee are the ones that shared the seed so hoping they are good as advertised.

 

[NewBoots]

I've been planting a new to me squash every year trying to find one better or as good as butternut. Haven't found one yet.

We like Delicata but they don't produce as much as butternut do, really delicious though.

 

[BReeder!]

Mowed the acreage. PHEW.
The pasture grew 14 inches in 7 days and the lawn proper 6. Good glory!

Drilled the holes and prepped them for the tomato plants. I'll plant tomorrow I think. DS has his grad photos tomorrow so that first.
Also want to get the mustard, dill, and started corn in the ground.
I'll plant the corn with the beans and the sunflowers with the mustard/dill.

Then weeding, feeding, and pruning....the cycle continues.

The littles were out the whole 5 hours I mowed. They snuck out a little further from the shop each time I peeked at them. Once the main flock was all mingled with them and no one cared or bullied. When I was done mowing I shoo'd them off to the lawn. Hilarity ensued when one found a worm. Then as a team, they decided they were thirsty and tired and went home. LOL. I'll have them out of the shop and into the big girl coop by next Friday.

 

[BReeder!]

I think I read four inches? Most corn is pretty strong tough stalk stuff no need for staking, but like I said that that painted mountain indian corn is small. I've also grown a variety of sweet corn once yrs ago don't remember what it was very short 3-4 foot stalks with full size ears doubt that would work good either.

I'm growing glass gem corn in the 3 sisters. It should get pretty tall I think. Taller than 4ft, more like 6ft at least.

 

[BReeder!]

Ok... What did I do in the garden today?
I say for a bit on a turned over bucket and just enjoyed being in the garden. I pruned the tomatoes. I watered things a bit - even though we had rain the last few days the heat today stole water from the top 2-3 inches of soil. I pulled a few weeds - I pull some almost every day even though the mulch is helping tremendously, just the clover and the darn thistle that keeps coming back right through the mulch. I also just wanted around the garden enjoying the results of all the hard work we have been doing here.

Outside the garden patch, I cut grass, weed whacked all the edges and tight spots the lawn mower cannot get, swept up a heap of maple seeds (helicopters are what we always call them), and used my new loppers to clean up some shrubs and a small make tree (Japanese Maple I think).
All of that was after my work day, except sitting in the garden and pruning tomatoes which I did during my lunch break. It was a rather busy 3 hours or so after work today.

 

[gtaus]

Love the pool noodle float! I have some mineral tubs and I just might find/make strip of styrofoam to float in my fill tubes.

I tried to cut a strip off a pool noodle to put inside my 3/4 inch fill tube, but I was never too good at cutting the piece straight. If you have a crooked Styrofoam float, then it will bind on the sides to the fill tube. Also, I found that the narrow fill tube was not big enough for my garden hose. Since I had to empty the planter to move it, I decided to just to cut off the pool noodle straight across and use a filler tube wide enough to fit the noodle. The other advantage is that I can now open up the garden hose with a faster stream and stick it down into the fill tube.

My other 2 planters still have the smaller, narrower fill tubes, but I'll be "upgrading" them to the larger fill tubes if I ever have to empty them to move the planters.

 

[Elyrian1]

About those hornworms for anybody that's interested, go out at night with a black light and the suckers glow. You can pick them off, throw them in a jar, and give the chickens a treat in the morning!

 

[jerryse]

This yr giving Boston Marrow a try. Native to NY, Iroquois Indians, Haudenosaunee are the ones that shared the seed so hoping they are good as advertised.

Boston Marrow is a good one . Was the standard for baby food . Replaced by a cross of Boston Marrow called Golden Delicious . A canning factory in MN used it for canned pumpkin . It had a huge following . Factory closed about 4 years ago . Fans scrambled to buy up the last cans . I have grown it . Very best pies and excellent used like butternut .