What did you do in the garden today?

[PopoMyers]

I am trying my hand at making Pico De Gallo. I’m wondering if you really have to peel the tomatoes or is it okay to leave the skins on? It’s such a chore to skin all the smallish Romas I have.

Skins are fine if you don't mind.

 

[PopoMyers]

cook those fresh beans/seeds with the good green ones. my granny did that all the time.

Just be sure to string them well. One year I just cut up some that were "past" and canned them. Ended up with 'pick out the strings as you chew' . Hubby will ask, to this day, if the beans for dinner are the bad ones. I have not planted that kind since.

 

[PopoMyers]

fahrenheit, not celsius.

For the same number, Celsius is way hotter than Fahrenheit. What unit of measurement is used where you live? Learned more about tomato ripening from link below.

https://www.purdue.edu/hla/sites/ya.../#:~:text=Ripening and color development in,F.

 

[PopoMyers]

Figured out that my uncovered purple broccoli is now infested with cabbage loopers and Harlequin bugs. Considering just yanking it out altogether. I planted more under other row covers....

Assuming your poultry gets to have what you pull. I give all caterpillars and pupa to them.

 

[NewBoots]

Dining room table is covered with ripening tomatoes, salsa canning will begin soon. Canned 6 1/2 pints of apple jelly yesterday, a mix of crab an regular apples with cherry juice for half of the water. It took so long for it to reach temperature I was afraid it'd gone bitter so I opened one jar this morning and it is heavenly. Apple and faintly floral, couldn't decern the cherry juice at all. Making pickles out of the last of the cucumbers today but I have to run to the store for more sugar first. The pickled fish fillets are delicious, I wish I could can them but from what I've read it isn't a good idea. DP got some Apoquel pills for Penny for her summer skin allergy and they seem to have worked like magic. Poor baby was so itchy and Benadryl wasn't helping much. Now she seems normal again.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Moved the ducklings out to the back side of the duck pen. My Pekins look giant next to them... My adult ducks look confused and perturbed by the ducklings. They keep trying to figure out how to get through the fence to them... Not sure if that's a good thing or not?

My little drake getting a drink.

 

[agarnp]

What temperature and for how long?

just guessing but maybe 10-15 minutes on 350? just long enough to cook bacon well -idk but sounds yummy

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good afternoon gardeners. My harvesting is slowing down as well. Two drizzly days in a row, but not enough to measure in the rain gauge. I’m getting some green beans and okra every day but it seems like everything else has slowed down. I sliced up another pound and a half of peaches for the freezer and canned 7 and 1/2 half pint jars of salsa. My jalapeños are really spicy this year and I think I got some of the capsaicin residue on my cellphone. I still have quite a lot of green SM tomatoes on the bushes that are really slow to ripen. I’m hoping the sunshine predicted for tomorrow will get them ripening a bit. Last resort is wrapping them in newspaper and letting them ripen in the basement.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I wish I understood why chickens seem to intentionally kill their chicks sometimes... The broody whom I was playing musical nesting boxes with last night has decided to kill her chick this afternoon. I moved them down to the ground corner of the goat house this morning. Then locked them inside so no other chickens or goats could bother them. Made sure they had plenty of water and food. When I left, the broody was hunkered down protectively over her baby but was calm. Went back to check on them only to find the baby has been pecked to death by her mother...

 

[WthrLady]

Moved the last 10 tons of stone. I'm sick of stone and stone dust.

I installed geocloth on the downhill slope from the barnyard under the gate, and down into the pasture where we were getting a lot of erosion and the hill dropped from the barnyard to the pasture 8 inches. It was getting hard to get in and out of the pasture in a vehicle safely.
I installed a geogrid on top of the geocloth, filled it with stone and crushed it down with the gator.
Then I had to clean up. BLEH
Heat, sun, stone dust, crabby chickens. I'm in cooling off and then I'll go out and feed the critters.
Fresh Pico and tacos for supper.
I THINK there might be two more harvesting days in the garden. I've been pulling smaller greens off the plants so they can focus on the remaining larger fruit and getting those ripe.