What did you do in the garden today?

[Elyrian1]

In the south, rattlesnakes are always in the back of your mind. Just too common.

All right, got my garlic in the mail and got it hanging on the back of the door in the second bathroom! I'll add a picture momentarily. Not all of the bulbs are going to be usable I think, but a lot will provided they cure halfway decent. Small bulbs are nootka rose, big ones are early Italian.

 

[BullChick]

In the south, rattlesnakes are always in the back of your mind. Just too common.

All right, got my garlic in the mail and got it hanging on the back of the door in the second bathroom! I'll add a picture momentarily. Not all of the bulbs are going to be usable I think, but a lot will provided they cure halfway decent. Small bulbs are nootka rose, big ones are early Italian.

I just figured I’d see them in that scenario. That is actually more vegetarian than the area of Ormond Beach I was crossing barefoot.

 

[WthrLady]

I’m getting anxious to can pumpkin. I can’t remember if I did purée the last time, but I do remember doing cut up pumpkin. Canning it raw meant I didn’t have to burn my fingers getting the skin off. I just did that when I opened the jar.

Raw and in chunks.
Puree can be too dense to hit the proper temperature for the amount of time needed.

 

[BullChick]

Raw and in chunks.
Puree can be too dense to hit the proper temperature for the amount of time needed.

Probably why I don’t remember purée. It sounded wrong, and now you’ve confirmed it.

 

[Iluveggers]

Tomatoes have a blush to them! Won’t be long now! Busy today with a baby shower...so much family I haven’t seen since before Covid!
Also added a few more babies for the little cousins to name...I’ll only have this group for a few days. They’ll be combined with my 15 in the coop at the farm for the fall & winter. 3 Eggers, 3 ISA brown, & 3 Rustic Ranger, whatever those are lol.

 

[Sally PB]

We went over to friends to visit and help out with yard work. He's recovering from a bad kidney infection. So DH mowed the yard and I weeded the garden.

When we got home, I felt so bad about not working in my own garden that I weeded for about an hour and a half. We could use some rain. There's a chance for some tonight.

 

[Elyrian1]

So I'm the person that gets so excited about garlic that that's what they tell everybody about... on their birthday. The family is all ... "Didn't you do anything else today?"

Well, I did go get a mani/pedi, mostly because I can't reach my own feet very well right now, which amused the nail tech.

Somehow an earthworm managed to hitchhike in the garlic package, and impressively MIL only managed to stab one garlic with a shovel. It had already started to go off so I tossed that one. Bit of a bummer as it was one of the BIG ones. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if she made FIL harvest the garlic, but we may never know. The extent of her gardening is how to get the little green caterpillars off the petunias apparently. So she immediately runs off to the store for powerful insect killer.

@Sally PB That was quite kind of you and the DH! I love community helping each other.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I get both done as vision is bad I draw blood trying to do my own

 

[MrLeeHo]

Now tell me, do you worry about rattle snakes walking through that pathway?

Lived within a few hours of here most of my life and never seen a rattle snake. Copperheads, cottonmouths, yes. I know we have them but ive never crossed em in nearly 40 yrs.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Our harvest from our 12 x 12 foot sweet corn patch in our garden.
23 baggies of corn to freeze and 27 fresh ears to eat now.