What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

I took some eggs up to the food pantry at lunch today. My neighbor was up there working. Her backyard backs up to the far corner of my pasture. She said she was out on her deck a couple of days ago and saw a fox chasing one of my chickens through her yard. She said that another chicken (I assume a rooster) attacked the fox and it ran off. She wasn't sure if it ran off because it saw her or because of the attacking chicken. She also said she was having problems with coons & squirrels getting into her bird feeders. I told her I'd seen a coon recently too. This is a new predator for our area... We haven't had any around in 2 years. I told my DH we need a bigger live trap to catch the coon ASAP. The foxes have always been a problem. I hate keeping them penned up in a dry lot with tons of fresh green grass and bugs just out of reach. I guess I just have to learn to be OK with losing one here or there to a predator... Wouldn't be so hard if I wasn't so attached to my flock!

 

[Ascholten]

Planned to up pot a bunch of pineapples but realized I used up the last of my perlite so off to the store I went..

Just checked rainfall for the month - 1.48". That is 5.35" below normal for the month and I doubt we'll get any today/tomorrow as we're at 40% chance of rain.

I got a pineapple been growing for a few years now, doing good but never got any fruit. Not sure if it ever will. I have a cavendish banana that is acting that way too. This is year 3, if it don't fruit this year it's done, im shredding it and done what that species.

Aaron

 

[drinkoj]

Night time hornworm hunting with the black light on the tomatoes plants and then feed them to the hens in the morning.

 

[Ascholten]

Night time hornworm hunting with the black light on the tomatoes plants and then feed them to the hens in the morning.

does it have to be night time? they hide during the day or something? or just too hard to see them?

Aaron

 

[NewBoots]

Picked a bunch of cherry tomatoes this morning, going to make pasta with the tomatoes, basil, and marinated artichoke hearts for lunch. Then I'm going to try pickling some crappie fillets.

And while I wish I could keep a rooster, my boss girl Amelia does her job well. The sapphire gems were fighting about something and Amelia charged right in and busted it up. She's such a good girl, she was second in charge behind Glynis (my bestest girl ever) and when Glynis died, she stepped right into first place. Amelia's also the one I was sure I'd have to cull after she had a terrible prolapse problem but you'd never know now and she's a dependable steady layer of huge eggs.

 

[vall]

I got a pineapple been growing for a few years now, doing good but never got any fruit. Not sure if it ever will. I have a cavendish banana that is acting that way too. This is year 3, if it don't fruit this year it's done, im shredding it and done what that species.

Aaron

Might want to wait till spring since you get frost, but you can stick an apple core right in the middle of that pineapple. The ethylene from the apple will force it to flower then 5 months later you can pick your pineapple. How many pups does that banana have? If it's more than 1-2 cut off the rest. Bananas need to make a set number of leaves before they fruit and the pups slow down the main trunk. Some banana varieties end up 5 ft tall, some end up 12 ft before they flower, but Cavendish is often sold as dwarf so it may not be that much longer.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Hey Gardeners. I brought a bunch of Roma in. I have it under a grow light see if they can ripen..

We may see some cooler days hopefully more than three days worth.

 

[Iluveggers]

Got 7 quarts of sauce canned and stored! Picked all of my green tomatoes, which will hopefully ripen on the counter. Then I pulled the 6 plants in the raised beds (some BER and blight were starting to spot the tomatoes). Will burn the plants this weekend. Left the other 30 plants in rows on the other side of the garden. There is some blight on the bottom leaves, but I’ll see if I can squeak out another week before I have to pull them too. I wanted that first group out because of the rain, and got them pulled right before it started. This weekend if it isn’t raining, I’ll also pull the rest of the tomatoes, and my summer squash plants (except for the Latino squash, it is the gift that keeps on giving). I’ve seen 3 SVB entry holes, that I found maybe 2 weeks ago, and I am STILL getting about 3 big squash per week. I will probably only plant this variety next year. 3/4 of the squash I got were from this plant, and I planted 7 squash plants. It is FABULOUS.

Would like to pull the pole beans, but they are STILL producing so will give them maybe another two weeks. It was 90 yesterday and 85 today.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I'm happy with my harvest of green onions, celery and carrots.
I left a few green onions and a bunch of celery to get later.

 

[Ascholten]

I got some, Egyptian Walking Onions??? from someone, because they were supposed to be something special and really hard to get down here, and expensive too !!

Anyways, they are doing well, but I don't see anything special about them really. Nipping off piece of a leaf and eating,it's not really special up there either. So, what's their thing that makes them unique?

Aaron