What did you do in the garden today?

[pennyJo1960]

Oh heck mine have barely started

 

[igorsMistress]

You can plant Spring trees in a slightly larger pot in a large mulch pile and keep watered until Fall for planting in soil. You have to keep up on the fertilizing all summer (and it won't work in the desert) but it works here. They don't sell as many varieties here in the fall, which is the best time to plant here, so I buy in the spring and baby things until fall.

That’s a good idea, thanks. It may work here if they had afternoon shade, say from the lemon tree. I’m going to get a pressure gauge and see what’s coming out of the spigot as well and use my other soaker to water them the next time. It’s long enough that I can wrap it around each tree a few times and wet the plants and soil as well. Likely better than flooding.

 

[igorsMistress]

Hello! It's been a long time. I hope everybody's garden's are doing well.

Ours it's a mixed bag this year - since it's doing great and some is not. My tomatoes did not start well twice over. So most are direct sowed and just a few inches tall so far. They should be several feet now, but we will eventually get tomatoes at least. I planted all the scarlet runner beans that came in a pack, which was just 10 brand I think. It looks like only 3 are actually growing. Apparently I failed to plant half the row of snow peas. I could probably sneak them in late still though. And of the 3 varieties of cucumbers 2 are doing well and one had 3 or 4 plants fail - the plants actually disappeared so maybe something ate them. The other thing that's having issues is the shallots - these were an experimental planting though and I used store bought shallots. 3 or 4 are growing, but we planted approx. 20.
Potatoes are growing very well - many are flowing now. Onions and garlic seem to be doing well. The garlic I planted is store bought and two different varieties, one of which is growing HUGE plants and hopefully large tasty bulbs to match. We have plenty of lettuce. Zucchini is flowering. Eggplant has been flowering although I removed the first set of flowers to let the plants get bigger. Radishes are great - french breakfast variety has been pleasing this year. We have pumpkin and watermelon vines that are started and should be taking off any day. Carrots are hopeful - maybe I'll finally be successful in growing them. And the strawberry patch! It is doing well this year and is certainly the kids favorite part of the garden.

So good to hear from you BReeder!

 

[CNJ]

I skin, nuke, and dice my egg plant before I mix them with chopped tomatoes, onions, daikon, cucumbers, garlic salt, black pepper, lime juice, and a lot of olive oil. I use this as a salad dressing for my lettuce. I would think this would be the standard way to eat lettuce, but I live under a shell, and only leave my house once a month to buy supplies, so I am not sure what's it called.

 

[igorsMistress]

I skin, nuke, and dice my egg plant before I mix them with chopped tomatoes, onions, daikon, cucumbers, garlic salt, black pepper, lime juice, and a lot of olive oil. I use this as a salad dressing for my lettuce. I would think this would be the standard way to eat lettuce, but I live under a shell, and only leave my house once a month to buy supplies.

I leave weekly for supplies but I’ve considered the delivery services recently. I do use Amazon Fresh from time to time and usually get a delivery time before 0700.

 

[CNJ]

My coffee can compost bin is working, the pile went down couple of inches.

I recently pruned the branches of my Brazilian Cherry tree and instead of throwing it out, I put them in a Rubbermaid trash bin filled with fish poop water. I think I screwed up when I sprinkled in some chicken manure. It look and smells nasty. However, the smell is contained when I put the cover on. I wonder if the hard braches will decompose?

I don't like to leave these branches in a pile because the small braches are like thorns and it hurts the under side of my chicken's feet.

 

[CNJ]

I picked 3 mild long green peppers from my pepper plant and put them in a cup of boiled and cooled milk and left it out covered on my kitchen counter over night. It turned into a yogurt the next day, so I am going to use it as my yogurt starter.

The reason why I am getting into making my own yogurt is because heavy whipping cream is really expensive where I live. If I can go 50/50 yogurt/heavy whipping cream to make my mango ice cream it will be cheaper to make and I may be able to use the Pure Cane brand of sugar which is a diabetic friendly sugar, instead of sweetened condensed milk.

When Carrie Mango turn ripe they don't last long, so I have to turn them into ice cream to preserve them.

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

Ate the first of my harvest today. Fresh baby lettuce on burgers

Filled up the potato bags. One is full to the top, the other two not quite. Hopefully lots of taters to come! And I read that wrapping aluminum foil around shoot stems will keep off the cut worms. So I tried that on my three remaining sunflowers.

 

[Duckpip]

Ate the first of my harvest today. Fresh baby lettuce on burgers

Filled up the potato bags. One is full to the top, the other two not quite. Hopefully lots of taters to come! And I read that wrapping aluminum foil around shoot stems will keep off the cut worms. So I tried that on my three remaining sunflowers.

Nice. First harvest, always rewarding. After all, that's why many of us garden- for tasty home-grown goodness!

 

[Rise722]

I have a couple of tomato plants but since we've had over 2" of rain this weekend, they're still in pots.