What did you do in the garden today?

[karenerwin]

Today’s harvest. There are some jalapeños in there under all those cherry tomatoes.
I have 14 big luffas on the vine. The Jerusalem artichoke is just starting to for flower buds.
We got rain yesterday and more this morning. It was a whopping 63 degrees outside at 10am. It feels like Fall.

 

[karenerwin]

Forgot to get a picture of the 1 peach I got from my 3 peach trees.

 

[jerryse]

Fished off the dock last night . Bullheads 6 of them . Enough for a meal for 2 . On tomato sauce reduction there is no need to simmer for hours . You can run the juice - sauce through a cider mesh bag or jelly bag . I can the nearly clear juice to drink or add to soup . I shared a link last year on this method . I have a very slow connection and can not get youtube to load .

 

[WthrLady]

Dropped to 48 last night, and despite the inch of rain yesterday, the tomato plants are looking rough. Tossed yet another worm over the fence.

40 pounds of tomatoes that were waiting in the kitchen have been processed and are simmering on the stove.

Soon I'll be cutting the plants off at the ground to force them to direct energy to the rest of the orange tomatoes. But that's at least 15 days away.

Dug one sweet potato plant. ONE potato. Good grief.
Two more buckets to go, those plants looked better so wish me luck on that one.

 

[Acre4Me]

Dug one sweet potato plant. ONE potato. Good grief.

Yikes!

When did you get yours in the ground?

I'm not sure when I should dig mine!

 

[WthrLady]

This was a sad pathetic plant. It was at the end of the water train and was neglected. Usually mid september is harvest here, up until Oct 4th-ish the first frost. Mine have been in the ground since...pfffft..um, 2nd week in June. Yours look SO Much better than mine did. We are 6 inches below normal on rain and our heat this summer stunted them almost to the ground.

 

[esturtz27]

Dropped to 48 last night, and despite the inch of rain yesterday, the tomato plants are looking rough. Tossed yet another worm over the fence.

40 pounds of tomatoes that were waiting in the kitchen have been processed and are simmering on the stove.

Soon I'll be cutting the plants off at the ground to force them to direct energy to the rest of the orange tomatoes. But that's at least 15 days away.

Dug one sweet potato plant. ONE potato. Good grief.
Two more buckets to go, those plants looked better so wish me luck on that one.

I planted mine the second week of may....dug up one last week. One potato....I'm gonna leave them be a bit longer. I'm in zone 7b this is my first time growing sweet potatoes and I did rush and just put them in our loamy soil. I did add dirt on top of them but so far one good healthy plant....one potato

Eta-we are good on water, but we were pretty hot early in the year...I think I may call it and pull them up this week just because we gotta get stuff done

 

[Happy Novogens]

Found this mohave rattlesnake just 12' from our back door yesterday afternoon. It was already dead... can't figure that out.

 

[Paz]

oh man thats rough. I had that happen to my fig tree a lot with the bugs getting into them. That looks like some sort of nectarine or something there.

aaron

Not a nactarine. This has many small seed covered by small fruit and it has this crown and if you cut the edges and divide it to two parts, it kinda looks like brain. We call it Rimon.

 

[Paz]

I planted mine the second week of may....dug up one last week. One potato....I'm gonna leave them be a bit longer. I'm in zone 7b this is my first time growing sweet potatoes and I did rush and just put them in our loamy soil. I did add dirt on top of them but so far one good healthy plant....one potato

Eta-we are good on water, but we were pretty hot early in the year...I think I may call it and pull them up this week just because we gotta get stuff done

Give them a lot of chicken shit. Potatoes and sweet potatoes need a lot of nitrogen.