What did you do in the garden today?

[esturtz27]

Has anyone seen these beetles this year?
https://www.growingproduce.com/frui...-a-puzzling-new-pest-for-stone-fruit-growers/

I'd never noticed them before, but I'm finding a lot of them in the soil.

I'm not seeing any here...just buckets of Japanese beetles, June bugs and other gigantic Japanese beetles( they look the same and are bigger than my thumb nail!)

 

[Fishychix]

Lots today. Bought a hose sprayer and filled it with fish fertilizer and fed everything I could reach with the hose. Pinched off tomato suckers and wilted branches that started turning yellow. I do the Florida Weave, so I added another level for that. Pollinated a couple more silks on the corn. Moved the pea netting to the bush beans cuz some just wanna lay down so Im hoping this will help hold them up. I actually have enough beans for a meal! (For one, lol) I feel like i did more, but maybe just because it took so long

 

[bruceha2000]

Very cool picture!

 

[TJAnonymous]

I need to look up a designer pickle recipe... I made Dill pickles last year. They weren't bad but not anything that DH went crazy for... I made bread and butter pickles a few weeks ago. Everyone has LOVED those... Now I've got about a dozen cukes. I would like to make DH a spicy pickle... I look at unusual flavors similar to what Starbucks did with coffee... Turned it from plain Jane black coffee to designer coffee with complex recipes. So I need to find the pickle equivalent...

 

[TJAnonymous]

Has anyone seen these beetles this year?
https://www.growingproduce.com/frui...-a-puzzling-new-pest-for-stone-fruit-growers/

I'd never noticed them before, but I'm finding a lot of them in the soil.

I haven't seen them here

 

[Iluveggers]

Weeding. Lots of weeding. It looks like the one female squash I hand-pollinated is growing, & another female flower should be open tomorrow! Pole beans are over my head, but no beans yet! Tomatoes still green…first cucumber looks like it’s developing!

 

[WthrLady]

Noooo! Ok, cucumber hating people. I need to send you all gifts of delicious cucumbers. Pickles, cucumber dill salad, cucumber tomato feta salad, salsa....I need to show you the way of the cucumber, someone has mislead you!

OH I grow them, use them in salads, use them in water, make pickles etc with them, but they are GROSS and I won't eat them.

 

[5 Points Wingfeather]

I did a lot of normal stuff today: watered some, harvested some, and weeded some. But I also saw a snake and by the time I grabbed the hoe, it was gone. So that is no fun

 

[WthrLady]

This has been an odd gardening day. I have a chicken named Henny penny... she is a favorite because she was poorly as a chick, and then beat up when slightly older(she 9-10 ish weeks now)...so we are kinda buddies I guess. Anyway I have a gigantic straw gardening hat (36 inch brim) I wore it today because I'm on meds...and there I am minding my buisness picking zucchini and peppers and BAM! 3 or 4 pound Rhode island red Henny lands on my hat I wasn't expecting a chicken interested in gardening...she got a small cucumber for her efforts.

You looked like a nest.

 

[Elyrian1]

Only bright red things I've seen in my garden are lady bugs and this guy:

I had leaned down really close because I thought I'd seen something red and was idly thinking it was a lady bug. Dang I jumped back fast. Didn't want him on my face. Jumping spiders are cute, but at three feet away.

Gave a little water to anything that looked wilty.