What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

I cut a bunch of Sunflowers and they are sperming all over my kitchen table....

 

[WthrLady]

Does anyone have Chokeberries? I have a bareroot chokeberry that I planted last fall. It's still small but has been steadily growing all spring and summer. It's leaves were a dark glossy green but now they are turning a weird shade of red & yellow and dropping. I went ahead and sprayed them with Captan but does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this? It's normal for their foliage to turn red in the fall but not in July.... They have been watered regularly and are in a raised bed with well drained soil.

Yup I DO know what that is. YANK it immediately. IT's Stonefruit disease. Bugs take it from tree to tree. No cure.

 

[oldhen2345]

Gathered more tomatoes, a couple of bell peppers and a corn cob. Will blanche, peel and freeze the tomatoes and bell pepper. Will Decobb the corn for the chickens tonight.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Yup I DO know what that is. YANK it immediately. IT's Stonefruit disease. Bugs take it from tree to tree. No cure.

We have a antique one here was told you can make jam from it but just let the bids have it

 

[Sooner Magnolia]

I'll have to catch up. It may take me a while. We've been at the family compound having a reunion. So many kids and even more food!

 

[BReeder!]

Weeded and picked a few cucumbers and banana peppers and one bell pepper. I noticed two tomatoes are started to ripen finally. If they are any indicator, we will soon be canning and eating tomatoes like they are going out of style. The short sweet corn is developing ears I noticed. There's also a lot of cucumbers developing and many more banana peppers developing for pickling soon. I have more jalapeños growing than I will know what to do with. I'll likely pickle some and put others in canned salsa.

 

[WthrLady]

Managed two hand fulls of cherry tomatoes and one of blackberries/strawberries.
The grapevine is going insane.
A few ripening tomatoes, but I think the excessive heat for the prolonged period is zapping them back. I'm not sure I'll be up to my eyeballs this year, yay and boo. But is is STILL early. Everything needs tied up again.
The chicken tomato garden is going insane. The chickens will have plenty of tomatoes.
The sunflowers are lovely.
Hope you all have a wonderful night.

 

[Acre4Me]

Hot day today.

Ate cooked turnips and greens and squash from the garden (with some meat from the store). Yum!

potato beetles: found some more of the soft body pre-beetle phase munching my potatoes. , now dead.

a Robin has raised more chicks in our maple tree. Hadn’t noticed them until today. They may only be there a few more days, can’t see into the nest.

 

[Sally PB]

I watered the uphill heavy soil garden today. The soil is back to rock hard.

I hauled the last of my compost pile up there and also forked on some oak leaves left from a pile this spring. I'll be spreading whatever I can around to mulch the plants.

We're going to have 4 oak trees taken down because they are very near the house; too near for DH to do himself. I'm going to call the place I used a few years ago to bring down a 100+ oak in the front yard. They felled and bucked the big stuff, and shredded the rest. So I am hoping to have a HUGE pile of chips to add to the gardens and the chicken run.

I have a chipper, but it takes a lot of 2" limbs to make a decent amount of chips. Bigger than 2" can be firewood.

I tilled that garden in spring 2020, to reestablish the edges, since the field grass comes in on all sides. I plan to till it at the end of the season this year, and hopefully have soil that is less brick-like next spring.

There are a fair number of green tomatoes up there, but no cherry tomatoes yet. The tomato plants in the downhill sandy soil garden look good, and the one cherry tomato plant is HUGE.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Met up with the breeder today got 5 silkie 2 EE nutri drenched all of them heat place over them