What did you do in the garden today?

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning gardeners. Slim pickings in the garden today, Just a few green beans and one peach that had fallen on the ground and another from the tree that was actually ripe. They still need another day or two. The peaches I picked before the storm hit are slowly ripening so I now have 4 in the refrigerator. Yes @Sueby, it's nasty here as well. The temperature is 77F and the humidity is 69% right now. Heading up to maybe 93F. My summer squash plants are totally done now. When I checked the bed with the remaining plant I was greeted by a hoard of squash bugs. The big brown ugly ones. ICK! I also noted that something has been munching on the baby kale plants. Most likely the chipmunks. I planted the dinosaur kale this time and it isn't doing as well as the curly kale, so I'll stick with that variety. The chard is still going pretty strong so I should have more to pick in another day or two. The lima bean plants are full of blooms and a few more large pods have developed. Still lots more SM tomatoes ripening on the vine. I am quite pleased with the results. Nearly zero bug damage so far and no blossom end rot. No plans for much else in the garden today. Staying indoors and hugging Mr. air conditioner. Have a great day everyone.

 

[BullChick]

I played with my indoor plants, mowed, and then played with the morning glories that are choking out the yuccas and peonies. Unfortunately, it seems they are to blame for pulling down my bird feeder stand. I tried to get the stand back up, but it’s no use. I am thinking of how to get the vines down low, and then keep a cover over them until next year when they will hopefully be dead.
I added a new seat to the lawnmower. Do you like it?

 

[BReeder!]

hot and humid here. Still 6 pages behind on this thread and no time to catch up right now. I went in the garden on my lunch break and picked the last of the cucumbers, which are dying back now, along with a bunch of tomatoes. Carrying in the crate it felt pretty heavy, well over 50 lbs. I'd guess 75 lbs. That's a lot of tomatoes and about a dozen or more cucumbers.

I have plenty of maintenance to do in the garden along with more harvesting. It's too darn humid out there though. We had a storm last night and now you can swim through the air.

 

[vall]

Found a bunch of fig beetles hanging out on the corn.. now they are hanging out in a bucket of water. Cleaned up a few spots to plant fall crops in, the seeds I started in July are ready to transplant. Went to the store looking for lima bean seeds since only a couple of mine came up, but couldn't find any. Didn't cross my mind till I got home to buy a bag of butter beans and hope they sprout, but maybe I'll do that tomorrow. Have to set more rat traps tonight, I found a half eaten jalapeno in the garden.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Gardeners will be looking for extra to go in salad tonight

 

[Aaliwelshharlequin]

I’m going to pull some weeds and pick all those tomatoes I forgot to pickI’ll also be picking the remaining of my lettuce for my lil welshies

 

[Sally PB]

it took road maintenance in our county 2 weeks to fill in 2 potholes by the stop sign.

That's really fast by Michigan standards.... Sigh.

I have a tomato I'm growing for sure next year: Ace 55. Since I'm canning them, all I can go off of now is production and ease of processing. I'll know if they taste good when I open them and see how the spaghetti sauce, or whatever, tastes. Fresh tomatoes almost always taste good to me.

Off the list: Sophie's Choice (succumbed to late blight in about a week; didn't get any tomatoes at all!) and Backa (a real pain to peel for canning).

 

[BullChick]

I decided to cut up the early pumpkin. I’d rather cook it up now, before it starts rotting. The innards were foamy with pockets of seeds. It was like putting my hands in meringue.
I am going to try again with a compost pile since the chickens won’t be free ranging for a while. It’s not safe. Later on, I think I need to harvest the biggest pumpkin. It looks done, but I’ll have to physically test it.

 

[WIchickMama]

Nothing today, raining and way too much smoke in the air from the MN fire this morning

but i am going to go and pick up my CSA share. haha yep, two gardens of my own and I still get a share

 

[TJAnonymous]

we’ve been dealing with a yellow jacket nest In our wall!! The entire house is brick..except for the wall area at the deck. This is thick cedar shake shingles. This wall is quite protected from the weather too. We started to notice a lot of wasps a few weeks ago. So, one night sprayed expanding foam wasp killer into the hole, under shingles…etc. but, not very much reduction in population /activity. Then we started to use a vacuum cleaner….just sitting in a chair sucking up wasps as they flew into/ out of the hole. Over several days, sucked up hundreds. Only 1 sting on one person this whole time.

today, with the population much reduced, we opened up the wall. The nest was about 12”x12”x 3”. The killing spray didn’t really work earlier bc they were entering and moving through a hole drilled into a stud for electric into another wall cavity. Luckily that cavity was accessible.
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so, we know what we are doing the next few days -fixing the wall!

I had a yellow jacket fly into my ear once while I was fishing and get stuck. I screamed bloody murder and began thrashing around. My youngest daughter (6 yrs old at the time) could hear me screaming from a 1/2 mile away and was convinced I was being murdered.... Well....if they had been murder hornets......