What did you do in the garden today?

[Elyrian1]

We had a proper gully washer last night, bit blustery, and a free light show from nature. No 80mph straight winds like that one storm though, so all good. I don't imagine I'll need to water for two or three days after that one. However, the forecast says 100F every day for two weeks. Not looking forward to it.

 

[Wolfie2]

Went into town yesterday and there were puddles in the low spots in the streets/ parking lots. It had obviously rained. I am only 1 mile outta town. We never got any.
This morning @ 6am, turned on the news. Weather Lady showed a thunderstorm headed our way and just outside our area, Showin Red. I pulled up a weather site I look at. Radar showed it BUT, It was mysteriously fizzling out about 5 miles out. No H20! Just my luck. Well, turn on the water hoses!

 

[Iluveggers]

Every time I even think of complaining about the lack of rain, I think of last summer where it rained every day and we couldn’t mow for months. Entire crops got washed out, and it was so muddy I couldn’t even weed. At least I can make up for too dry with the hose. You can’t make the rain stop….I’ll take dry and no rain over the summer of monsoons.

 

[WthrLady]

was behind the lens at 330 this morning and then the garden chores at 8. These are the german red tomatoes. I'll let them continue to ripen in the house for a couple days.

 

[wyoDreamer]

I think I grew those tomatoes a couple of years ago. Some tomato starts that I picked up at a small, local greenhouse. I know they were German something - but the lady didn't know what kind they were when I went back the next year to get more. They were very good, my Mom loved them.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

The bugs weren't too bad the few times I did it but you gotta have a head lamp with a red light. That way you aren't a walking attraction lol....I was out for a little weeding one night and found out what had dug under the fence. It was a burly little armadillo! Those things are tanks! He wasn't happy to see me hanging out either. Also the constant coyote ruckus... they aren't a pack anymore they are a herd.

What'd ya do with armadillo?
I'm all big n bad til I come in eye contact with the critters then like the snake I took off! So not sure what I'd do with armadillo, coon or groundhog. But they dug up another thing of potatoes yesterday ...dadgum turds!

Picked my first Lemon Boy tomato yesterday, never had this type before so we will see.

Let me know! I'm looking to venture out and try another few types myself! I was so iffy bout the chocolate cherry tomatoes but they are amazing! And first time growing Romas and they are just gorgeous and large...and finally seeing little red comin in!

Anyone else going to seed more now to further the harvest on longer? I'm really considering it!!!

 

[Sueby]

Morning. Pollinated, watered a few things & just poked around this am. Even the perennials are looking wilted, boy do we need rain.

The newly seeded squash look good so far, only 1 didn't come up. I watered the onions for the last time (hopefully) last night. Hoping to pull them this weekend, or most of them anyway, & get them drying. That & the hard neck garlic. Got the first 2 suyo long cukes picked - lots coming in behind them. Will be swimming in them soon. Thinking of a sour cream cucumber salad tonight.

Did the pork chops in the pressure cooker - nope, still don't like pork!

 

[TJAnonymous]

We have had any measurable rain for nearly a month and a half but the grass in the garden is going gangbusters. It's dead everywhere else. I need to get DH to mow and trim in the garden but he complains that it's too hot.

It's about this point in the summer when I get sick of gardening. Getting up at 6 AM to water every other day. Bugs everywhere. Constantly battling disease. And very little harvest or too much harvest. Ugh....

 

[Kidwantschickens]

I have been trying my hand at hand pollinating my zucchini. This is my third year of having a garden here in Montana and so far I think I've gotten one zucchini maybe two out of the entire thing and let me tell you they weren't very big. I think the first year I had tone zucchini plant and last year I had a zucchini and a squash.

This year I have two zucchini plants and two yellow squash plants. We'll see what happens but overall they actually look a lot healthier and bigger and are having more blooms so I don't know if I did something right in my soil prep this year or if it's just a better year so far. I did work some fertilizer in like some organic fertilizer in before I planted them and I've been giving a Miracle-Gro once a week. They look so much better than they looked last year even though they got into the ground about 2 weeks later. Still no produce yet but that's pretty normal for Montana I think next year I might try to do something where I cover it with plastic and get them started in the ground a little earlier not sure though.

My green beans still suck horribly

 

[Acre4Me]

Hot and steamy out there, but temp isn’t all that high yet (low 80s), so it’s unexpectedly steamy. DH is trucking around wheelbarrow loads of mulch around the garden for the paths. I’ve got a friend coming over, so I bought a peach pie and some cinnamon rolls. The pie is “local” (within 2 hours, I guess) and Amish made. Crust actually looks flaky. We shall see what the inside is like. Cinnamon rolls aren’t really my thing, but they have caramel frosting, so the teen is excited about that.

So far, no more SVB seen (dead) in the yellow bowls. I know I pulled vibes and killed all the SVB caterpillars I could find last year. So maybe not many are around. I’ll still keep squash covered for at least 7 more days. But, next year might be terrible bc I’m sure that neighbor’s mass of pumpkin vines have SVB in them. But, he doesn’t care about them bc he just like some pumpkin blossoms to eat and seeing the green leafy mass in his garden.