What did you do in the garden today?

[DParker75089]

Is this the poem?

I used to like fresh air
When it was there
And water—I enjoyed it.
Till we destroyed it
Each day the land’s diminished
I think I’m finished.

I see someone did a YouTube search.

 

[igorsMistress]

I hate it when they take bite out of nearly every ripe tomato . Eat a whole one and leave me some .

Exactly!

 

[igorsMistress]

Let the chickens out to the big yard for a while…there should be lots of bugs and such to enjoy. All told we got about three inches of rain this week. We had a few puddles but nothing too bad and it has all soaked in quite nicely. No watering for at least a week

 

[Sueby]

Has anyone caramelized onions in a crockpot?

I saw a couple people doing it when I was looking for french onion soup recipes. I was thinking I could do 8lbs or so & freeze them then they're ready when I need them for burgers or something.

My big ole pot of onions for soup, my eyes hurt, lol. It's 5lbs.

 

[Elyrian1]

I watched a French chef (retired) on YT caramelize onions and I've wanted to do it since. But I haven't, so let us know how it turns out Sueby! The freeze and use later part really appealed to me.

 

[WthrLady]

Almost felt good enough to go to the market, until I blew my nose and my ear started hurting all the way down my neck and I got all off balance. UGH
So I just emailed a partial list to my DS, who'll will bring home groceries on his way.
Just enough for the weekend.
Wandered out to the garden and brought in a giant bowl of tomatoes. BLTs and hamburgers on tap for the weekend.
The air is ridiculously dry.

 

[Sueby]

I watched a French chef (retired) on YT caramelize onions and I've wanted to do it since. But I haven't, so let us know how it turns out Sueby! The freeze and use later part really appealed to me.

Will do, I think I'm going to try it tomorrow. Might as well do it before curing the onions.

 

[jerryse]

So not feeling so good today . Might be a delayed reaction to the covid booster shot I got a week ago IDK . My fishing plan is to hitch a boat ride with my grand nephew the first week then my nephew the second week . May not put my boat in at all this year . Just fish with those guys . They will be staying next door at the old cabin .

 

[CaroleW]

Almost an inch of rain (Chino Vally, north of Prescott AZ) while I collected eggs yesterday afternoon!

I had just set out some extra tubs at the pole barn where there's no gutter or trenching. And the Lazy River was FILLED now that DH routed the gutter to it from another 1/4 of pole barn roof. Lazy River downstream required some grading and drainage correction which I did this morning.

 

[CaroleW]

The last two days I've observed a ton of black "houseflies" on a particular greenhouse bed filled with eggplant and pepper plants. Other beds are way less affected even though same plants throughout other beds. I pruned severely over last few days to get more airflow and take away dead or aphid infested or touching ground leaves, and I sprayed with castille soap and neem oil mixture (before I pruned). This bed is very productive since I had chicks on it in 2020 and have never planted it until now. I don't think the aged chick bedding could still be attracting flies and I don't see any dead animals anywhere in the greenhouse.

I'm wondering if anyone else has this fly issue with eggplant plants?