What did you do in the garden today?

[Sueby]

Morning all. Garden is slowing for sure but still producing. I pulled all the flowers off the peppers so they'll ripen. I pulled the small brandywines that had no hope so the big ones will turn. Squash are still growing & the beans have tons of flowers & bees.

I got up the hoop house poles for the lettuce & put some more seed in - won't put the plastic on for a while. I know it's super early but I got the back of the big coop plastic up - I have to do it while my back feels ok, even if it's early. & I still have the front & then the littles cattle panel hoop to do later on.

Everyone is fed, watered & coops are all cleaned. The littles are growing so quickly. They all have wing feathers and are pretend dust bathing in air. They aren't under the heat except to sleep now & they aren't even a week old.

 

[Elyrian1]

@Acre4Me They'll be about 14 inches tall when they're finished.

 

[Wolfie2]

We're 8a, supposedly. That map is almost ten years old though, and it was stinking hot this summer. I anticipate good fortune with fall gardening nonetheless.

Today dh got started on the first garden bed, which is going to be a whopping 3.5 ft wide by 30+ feet long. I need to get garlic planted in two to four weeks, so it's a timely move.

We've got the space to make three or four beds of that size, plus some smaller ones, which is going to be a lot of room for relatively high intensity gardening.

Thanks for the garlic reminder. I do that in the winter also. To touch on some of the other comments: Peppers, impalaya ( mom's filipino veggy) okra are all still doing pretty good but it's still pretty warm here, in the upper 80s during the day despite a couple cold spells recently. We didn't have a really hot summer, Only got past 99 once I think. But lots of mid 90's with gobs of humidity. But we have had a pretty wet summer. Cut down on the watering a lot and increased the weed pulling a lot.
Amd gotta add carrots to my list of things to plant for the winter. I always grow carrots!
Have a blessed day

 

[NewBoots]

And I don't know if its just my imagination, but they jumping spiders this year look BIG...not wolf spider big, but fat and big... and they turn to face you ready to jump! ick!

I don't mind jumping spiders but I hear you about them looking at you. They even turn their heads so they do actually see you! Mantises do that too and even though I really like them, that turn of the head to look at you is always just a tiny bit unnerving. Insects and bugs are not supposed to look at you like that, like they're letting you know they are watching you so don't try to pull anything!

Picked some more tomatoes this morning and once Penny was in the house, I let the chickens out for the first time in a month. They're having a wonderful time. I'll take Penny out on a lead and see how she is with them. She's doing really well. I take her for a morning walk every morning and she lets me know when she's had enough adventure. We go a little further each time and she's pulling less and calms quicker if we see a stranger. Here she is exhausted after a busy day.

She's such a good girl.

 

[sourland]

Planted 75 daffodil bulbs.

 

[Sally PB]

Do deer or chipmunks, etc. eat garlic and onions? They have never touched my chives, but I want to make sure.

Something nibbled on the early garlic leaves, but that was it, and it was in May. I think they don't care for onions and garlic, which is good, because I grow a lot!

will get processed as we are curious if we will like rabbit meat.

I've had rabbit once... it did taste a lot like chicken.

Planted 75 daffodil bulbs.

When we first moved in, I went nuts with daff bulbs every fall, because they'd be on sale at the grocery store at the end of the season. It is daffodil land here in the spring. They spread and we have had some grow up from seed, even.

I read that it takes about 7 years for a seed to grow a plant big enough to flower, so you probably won't see daffodil seeds in the store.

 

[Acre4Me]

@Acre4Me They'll be about 14 inches tall when they're finished.

A few inches taller than ours. We have 11-12” tall ones

 

[jerryse]

Interesting

 

[pennyJo1960]

How wonderful to know thank you

 

[NewBoots]

The pot of tomatoes on the stove now is destined to be bbq sauce. The whole house smells like bbq