What did you do in the garden today?

[pennyJo1960]

We did get the other soaker hose have enough now to cover the entire garden.

 

[Ascholten]

We did get the other soaker hose have enough now to cover the entire garden.

I never did have good luck with those soaker hoses, even boosting the water pressure to like 50 psi it'd only make it like 3/4 thru the thing and never the whole hose soaking right. which is why i went with pvc and just drilling a small hole exactly which plant needs the water, that way I can control which crops get how much water by hole size and know its getting watered.

Aaron

 

[Sally PB]

I dug about 1/4 of our dead potato plants up today. Since we had all that rain on Saturday, the weeds were coming up well too, so that area got thoroughly weeded. Die, crabgrass, die! Wish I could do that around the whole garden. Not enough time or energy.

Next year, I will not be planting butternut squash. For the first time in a long time. Last year, zero squash. This year, one or two, if I'm lucky and the critters don't get them. Two years ago, I had about 60. I recall getting about 90 one year. Sigh.

 

[Fishychix]

I find that unless you totally decimate it. Boil the corn slowly, or shuck it and heat it in a slow cooker, corn chowder or just with a little butter and spices, or corn and green beans, bla bla, you get the idea.. but you can easily re hydrate it and it's still very good. No you may not be able to gnaw it off the cob but you won't waste / lose it either.

Aaron

Edit: Don't forget the low country boil either !!

Huh. Interesting. I wasnt aware you could still eat it. I have some in the fridge thats been in too long as well. I know nothing of a low country boil, sorry!

 

[Compostflower]

I had no luck with squash last year only got like two. This year I had gigantic zucchini and they keep on coming. I think that they grow in fall too so you can always plant the butternut squash now might work out if you start it from a small to medium sized plant.

 

[Fishychix]

Today for at least the next10 days will be the only day above 84 it'll be 90. I'm ecstatic but a bit confused by this very cool August. While June was almost intolerably hot. I have some tomato sets on a couple different heirloom tomato plants which I thought weren't going to do anything but look pretty. Pumpkins are coming along...have only lost one squash to borer beetle. Should be a nice day.

I happened across two articles this morning one from Australia and one from the U.S both stating something along the lines of "have chickens? You probably consume 40x more lead" or "growing veggies, don't give them to your children they have 10x the heavy metals"
Hmm seems suspicious to me. Read the articles, the aussie one compared eating a "free range urban egg" to eating lead paint. Both were very broad and vague. Seems there is a push to get people out of the country side

You’re probably right. One would only really have to worry if there was an old building or a factory or something like that on the property before the garden, chickens, etc. Lead and arsenic, etc stay in the soil pretty much indefinitely, but I think its one of those things where someone hears that and writes an article or gets on the local tv and spouts off instead of doing research. Fear mongering is all it really is.

 

[Ascholten]

Low country boil.
Corn on the cob
Small Potatos Reds work best
Carrots
Onions
Shrimp
Sausage links
Crawfish optional
some people do mushrooms. I never did

Big pot of water, add spices, you can cheat and just use old bay or otherwise season to your liking. bring water to boil. By BIG pot I generally mean like a turkey fryer big pot with propane burner is traditional.

Bring to boiil, add ingredients in order of which takes longest to cook generally taters go in first, then corn and carrots, followed by onions the meats. bring back to boil and when done serve. Poke the food with a fork you'll know when it's done. The shrimp craws will only take a few minutes to be done you don't want to overdo them they get rubbery.

serving is usually done by removing the basket out of the water with all the food in it, the water drains out, and you spread newspaper on a table and dump it all on the newspaper in a big heap, people walk by with plates and forks and grab what they want and go back and eat it !

Aaron

 

[Ascholten]

I dug about 1/4 of our dead potato plants up today. Since we had all that rain on Saturday, the weeds were coming up well too, so that area got thoroughly weeded. Die, crabgrass, die! Wish I could do that around the whole garden. Not enough time or energy.

Next year, I will not be planting butternut squash. For the first time in a long time. Last year, zero squash. This year, one or two, if I'm lucky and the critters don't get them. Two years ago, I had about 60. I recall getting about 90 one year. Sigh.

I LOVE butternut squash.. actually to be honest, i have yet to meet a squash period, I did not like but I don't have good luck with squashes. They will bloom like crazy, maybe 1/4 the blooms will actually start to grow, and out of the ones that grow, probably 8 of them will go about a weak then fall off the vine, I don't get a good return at all on them.

Aaron

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I LOVE butternut squash.. actually to be honest, i have yet to meet a squash period, I did not like but I don't have good luck with squashes. They will bloom like crazy, maybe 1/4 the blooms will actually start to grow, and out of the ones that grow, probably 8 of them will go about a weak then fall off the vine, I don't get a good return at all on them.

Aaron

In comparison to other veggies that I grow, I don't get the greatest harvest off of my squash either but it's almost a requirement to grow summer squash if you're going to garden, lol.

 

[Compostflower]

You’re probably right. One would only really have to worry if there was an old building or a factory or something like that on the property before the garden, chickens, etc. Lead and arsenic, etc stay in the soil pretty much indefinitely, but I think its one of those things where someone hears that and writes an article or gets on the local tv and spouts off instead of doing research. Fear mongering is all it really is.

I also think

Today for at least the next10 days will be the only day above 84 it'll be 90. I'm ecstatic but a bit confused by this very cool August. While June was almost intolerably hot. I have some tomato sets on a couple different heirloom tomato plants which I thought weren't going to do anything but look pretty. Pumpkins are coming along...have only lost one squash to borer beetle. Should be a nice day.

I happened across two articles this morning one from Australia and one from the U.S both stating something along the lines of "have chickens? You probably consume 40x more lead" or "growing veggies, don't give them to your children they have 10x the heavy metals"
Hmm seems suspicious to me. Read the articles, the aussie one compared eating a "free range urban egg" to eating lead paint. Both were very broad and vague. Seems there is a push to get people out of the country side

i think another part of it is whey companies trying to push whey protein products vs plant based. The problem with mushrooms and veggies are they can absorb some of the toxins in the ground but so can the animals that eat the product of what grows in the ground. So I think that it’s unhelpful information LOL. Also it’s counter productive but anything to make money for these corporations. They really want us to believe to at their products are magically better somehow I doubt it very much.