What did you do in the garden today?

[Ascholten]

I've been freezing mine. So when I cut them before popping them in the freezer I can tell if the knife goes through easy, they're good. If not, I chuck them. I don't have nearly enough to make gumbo with, lol

I throw mine in the freezer too. When a quart bag gets filled, I run it over to the neighbor and give it to her I'll save up a gallon or so myself for making a big ole post of gumbo or general seafood stew, soup, whatEVER you want to call it... it's got water critters in it and taste yummy !~

Aaron

 

[TJAnonymous]

The only thing I have growing like crazy right now is loofah. I probably need to feed the tomatoes. They look petered out... Oh, and the tomato plant I have in the bucket in partial shade is starting to get leaf curl. No idea why and I'm annoyed by it....

 

[SheaLoner]

Been busy. So. So busy. Missed half the tomatoes ripening. Plants got hit by blight bad. Have a box of half ripe tomatoes to deal with.

Missed my watermelon vine dying, found these survivors. Do they ripen further off the vine? Or should I just open and pray?


Many, many more things waiting to get done. And I start a new job end of Sept. Better hours better pay. Ought to leave me with some time to Actually garden. And farm.

 

[Elyrian1]

Been busy. So. So busy. Missed half the tomatoes ripening. Plants got hit by blight bad. Have a box of half ripe tomatoes to deal with. View attachment 3242591

Missed my watermelon vine dying, found these survivors. Do they ripen further off the vine? Or should I just open and pray?
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Many, many more things waiting to get done. And I start a new job end of Sept. Better hours better pay. Ought to leave me with some time to Actually garden. And farm.

So long as the tendril opposite them on the vine was crispy, I think they should be ready? But maybe wait for somebody else more experienced to chime in, lol.

This time I fell in the puddle with both feet because I tried to yank out a bunch of amaranth overhanging the garden. Had to wash my legs and change pants. Dang it.

Edit: The amaranth has been going absolutely nuts with all the rain. We've pulled so much it's just becoming compost at this point.

 

[Ascholten]

My tomato's seems like when they are starting to ripen, they get ate. I come out the next day and something ate half of it. Don't see any worms on them, but getting tired of whatever it is. It's not chickens either. they'd take the whole thing if they did.

Aaron

 

[jerryse]

I've been freezing mine. So when I cut them before popping them in the freezer I can tell if the knife goes through easy, they're good. If not, I chuck them. I don't have nearly enough to make gumbo with, lol

FYI you can use okra seeds from those that are a little tough . Shell them out like shell out beans . Cook them the same . I hung 6 mini blinds and started a bifold door hanging . I think I am done for the day .

 

[Sally PB]

So to use them, you just dig them up and eat like any other normal onion right?
How do they taste? Mild, sweet, ??

Mine are fairly hot/strong. I dig about half the clump, so it fills back in. If you dig the whole clump, that's it for that one, so I do that when I need to thin the plants out.

I didnt protect my EWOs in winter and theyre fine, zone 5b. Can you eat the tops, the small bulbs on top? When can I share them? I like the different shapes they make as they fall over.

The entire plant is edible. So you get green onions, regular (though small) onions, and the topsets are edible too. They're quite small -- a big one is the size of the end of my thumb -- and the layers are more tough/chewy.

When the stalk that has the topsets is turning/has turned brown, you can gather them for sharing.

I'm in zone 5b too. I threw some straw over my EWOs, but only because I had some left over. I have put some raked up leaves over them, but those matted down under the snow and were difficult to rake off the next spring because the plants were trying to grow through the mat. I had to pull the soggy leaves off by hand to avoid damaging the greens growing up.

 

[DParker75089]

We really like the spaghetti squash that my garden has produced, but the skins are so hard and tough that they're nigh impervious to even the sharpest kitchen cutlery. But I'm a man and I have cordless power tools, so I'm not going to let that stop me. Of course the circular and jig saws would be overkill (c'mon, I'm not a barbarian), which left the oscillating tool and angle grinder with cutting wheel as options. Both were effective at cutting through the stubborn cucurbit's hide like it wasn't even there. But the oscillating tool gets the win for neatness...simply because when a cutting wheel spinning at 9,000 RPM hits the soft guts of a squash the aforementioned guts tend to not stay as confined as one would prefer. Plus the oscillating tool is much easier to use with one hand.

This has been today's helpful tip from the Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor School of Culinary Arts.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I've got some serious trouble going on inside my hoop house. I recently sowed seeds for spaghetti squash, pumpkins, and green beans. My curcubit seedlings are all dying. My green bean seedlings have this weird white spotting. Not sure what is going on but everything I've planted OUTSIDE the hoop house looks totally healthy and fine. So I'm thinking about yanking everything out, uncovering the frame, putting down clear plastic and "baking' the soil.

 

[DParker75089]

I've got some serious trouble going on inside my hoop house. I recently sowed seeds for spaghetti squash, pumpkins, and green beans. My curcubit seedlings are all dying. My green bean seedlings have this weird white spotting. Not sure what is going on but everything I've planted OUTSIDE the hoop house looks totally healthy and fine. So I'm thinking about yanking everything out, uncovering the frame, putting down clear plastic and "baking' the soil.

That sounds like a fungus of some kind