What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

What's the little green and white striped thing in with the currants and berries?

 

[Sally PB]

I have one Cherokee Purple in the garden, it gave us our first 2 tomatoes of the season, one of which was the largest tomato I've ever harvested.

@MrLeeHo , if that is a Cherokee Purple, then I think I have a different kind. Mine look like very large cherry tomatoes. Dang. That's 7 of my plants. Sigh.

Like I said, they were seeds from a friend and they could have been mislabeled. Oh well. I
might have to buy some tomatoes to can this year. Worse things have happened.

 

[MrLeeHo]

@MrLeeHo , if that is a Cherokee Purple, then I think I have a different kind. Mine look like very large cherry tomatoes. Dang. That's 7 of my plants. Sigh.

Like I said, they were seeds from a friend and they could have been mislabeled. Oh well. I
might have to buy some tomatoes to can this year. Worse things have happened.

@Sally PB - I just walked out to double check my labels and it is labelled Cherokee Purple Heirloom. It has by far the largest tomatoes of the 7-8 vines in my garden. This is my first time growing them as well so I could just as likely have mislabelled plants as you.

 

[Scottin8a]

Well if this was 4 years ago you are good. I thought it happened very recently. Most of them have enough common sense to not cause trouble when THEY did something really dumb,but a few of them now. I am not trying to scare you, but just make sure you realize, this is not the somewhat nice little world we grew up in, there is no honor, humanity, or ethics left anymore. People will kill others at the drop of a hat and not even blink because those drugs destroyed what common sense they may have had.

You are absolutely correct, you DO have to call, THEY put YOU in that bad place. But if they do get stupid about it and show up later on, YOU may have to put them down like any other rabid animal that attacks or threatens humans. As I grow older I find myself with way WAY less tolerance for human ignorance, and this whole wave of violence that is sweeping the nation, NOT in my back yard, NO you will NOT!

I can tell you the REAL secret my garden is growing so well !!
Just kidding officer, it was a JOKE!!

You know, speaking of, lets segway this in another direction, this IS a garden topic.

I seen a composter, it looked like a cone thing, with a bucket buried underground, it was for meat products they claimed. This immediately caught my attention because of well, I eat steak, bones, I fish often, guts and bones, an animal dies, bones / compost... type thing. They claimed it works very well and did not really stink much. Has anyone ever used something like this? Me personally I can't see a pile of rotting meat NOT stinking somehow. I typically throw all my meat scraps and entrails etc out / bury them but is there a way to compost them into something usable that's not a huge nightmare?

Aaron

Edit: Let me add to this, I have seen where some will take fish, throw it in a bucket and cover with sugar and let it ferment for a few months to make a super potent tea out of it for fertilizer. While useful, you are spending more money on the sugars, my goal was to compost but not have to throw more money, down the toilet, so to say...A

I take all my meat, bone, grease etc scrapes and bury them under a good foot of dirt in a trench in my garden. I then mulch heavily. As long as you don’t pile it up too high it works very well. My latest addition was a six foot water moccasin that ate two baby chicks. If you do this on a bed that you normally till freeze your scrapes until after you till.

 

[gimmie birdies]

This is not really garden, but my husband was ready to smash and burn pile these chairs and table. I thightened the screws and painted them instead, I think it looks nice.

 

[Ascholten]

They do look nice. now if it was down south, the mockingbirds would poop all over them to tell you how pretty they are

Its always good to have chairs, Weather may be crappy / hot now but give it a few months to cool down and get a nice drink and sit outside and enjoy the girls.

Aaron

 

[Sally PB]

hot now but give it a few months to cool down and get a nice drink and sit outside and enjoy the girls.

Only on a chicken forum does this not sound sexist.

 

[vall]

Hard soil?

Sandy loam with plenty of rocks here and there.

 

[jerryse]

Well that's a bummer because I saved a bunch of seeds out of this watermelon. I still haven't cut the other one open yet to see if it looks the same.

Your seeds are fine . They were pollinated by watermelon . The only other thing that can pollinate watermelon is citron a close relative . No one I know of grows citron .

 

[BReeder!]

To far behind to catch up.

Too many tomatoes to eat. Not enough of the sauce varieties to can yet.
Plenty of jalapeños and banana peppers. I pretty much can pick those at free will.
A lot of cucumbers. I've now canned 7-8 gallons of pickles and a bit of relish.
I need to pull the rest of the onions. I'm regularly cooking with the onions we have hanging on the garden fence to cure. They are delicious, but made my eyes burn like tear gas earlier today.
I think one of the sunflowers is about to actually flower. It's roughly 9ft tall. The one next to it is roughly 8ft and not flowing yet. There's a few others growing too.
Corn is developing. I picked my first ear yesterday. It was slightly premature, but still tasty.
I really need to dig up potatoes. I dug up some the other day to easy with breakfast the next day. They were the Mountain Rose variety. They were beautiful and delicious.
Zucchini and yellow squash are growing well and producing despite rabbits stealing their flowers.
Our parsnips have quadrupled their foliage this past week. I'm hoping that's a good sign. I figure there's plenty of leaves to feed the roots now.
Kale is producing more than we can eat.
Carrots are not doing very well. Many got topped off by the same rabbits eating the squash flowers. Weeds are always a problem around carrots too for me. I've never done well with them.
The herbs are going insane. I have tons of dill seed and the cilantro is developing coriander for us.