What did you do in the garden today?

[jerryse]

Morning . Some frosty mornings and a hard freeze coming this week . I have a few hollyhock started in pots . Big enough to survive winter . Only a few came up.and more will sprout come spring . Grandma taught me how to grow them 55 years ago . She would walk by the hollyhocks with ripe seeds and crumble the seeds onto the ground . She said do that and you will always have hollyhocks .

 

[TJAnonymous]

Tuesday morning we'll see a hard freeze of 21. That will put an end to the pumpkins in the fields for the kids, the late season apples on the trees, done. I'll put the mums in the garage.

I'm wondering if I can cover the pumpkin I started late and potentially save it

 

[TJAnonymous]

We spread 2 yards of mushroom manure and 2 yards of wood chips! Bringing us to a total of 24 yards of compost and 5 yards of wood chips so far!

We are switching to no till gardening next year. Looking forward to seeing how it does.

Your garden looks enormous. I can only imagine how much time it will take to weed it....

 

[Sueby]

Hey all. Beautiful fall day & I finally feel human again! I got so much done this am, got the garlic in & mulched & covered with HC. I tore out the entire garden, all the tomatoes, peppers, beans & squash are gone. A bunch of flowers & weeds gone. Just need a good frost so I can dig up the dahlias. Finally remembered to prune the hydrangea, it's only been 5 years. I have over a gallon of half turned hot peppers, hopefully they ripen & then I can make the hot sauce.

I got the compost all situated, got the rest of last years leaves added into the working compost. Got the back side of the chicken run covered in plastic & got the filters up on the windows. It didn't need to be done yet, but I like to get it done before my fingers freeze doing it.

Got bloodmeal down for the peach tree & fertilized the lettuce that is not growing AT ALL. I cannot figure out why, I should be eating it by now but it's just barely sprouted.

Almost time to start looking for a recipe for Christmas Jam. I'd like to put the canner away for the year.

& now it's football time! Have a great day all.

 

[DParker75089]

Now that the brutal summer temperatures are finally behind us (just barely) my tomatoes, which have been growing like weeds but not setting any fruit since I started them indoors at the end of February (and transplanted to the garden on April 11) have decided to start setting fruit like there's no tomorrow. Now it's just a race between getting as many ripened as I can before the first hard frost. This is about half the plants, representing 8 different varieties) and most are loaded up like this (with more blooms still).

 

[WIchickMama]

Hey all. Beautiful fall day & I finally feel human again! I got so much done this am, got the garlic in & mulched & covered with HC. I tore out the entire garden, all the tomatoes, peppers, beans & squash are gone. A bunch of flowers & weeds gone. Just need a good frost so I can dig up the dahlias. Finally remembered to prune the hydrangea, it's only been 5 years. I have over a gallon of half turned hot peppers, hopefully they ripen & then I can make the hot sauce.

I got the compost all situated, got the rest of last years leaves added into the working compost. Got the back side of the chicken run covered in plastic & got the filters up on the windows. It didn't need to be done yet, but I like to get it done before my fingers freeze doing it.

Got bloodmeal down for the peach tree & fertilized the lettuce that is not growing AT ALL. I cannot figure out why, I should be eating it by now but it's just barely sprouted.

Almost time to start looking for a recipe for Christmas Jam. I'd like to put the canner away for the year.

& now it's football time! Have a great day all.

How do you keep the filters in the windows for the chickens?

Also if you find a recipe for Christmad jam will you share?


Covered the rest of the strawberries and add some chicken run material to the gardens for winter with some pine needles. Not much else garden-y, rain and sleet on and off and only 42F

 

[DParker75089]

And, finally...the lima beans are setting pods. I have a 10 ft row of these that are about 5 feet tall and so lush the foliage is little over 2 ft thick, and covered in blooms. It's been blooming like crazy for the past couple of months, but the temps were just too high for them to set pods. I'm looking forward to a good crop of these.

And then there's this Charleston Grey watermelon that's being a weirdo and trying to impersonate a gourd.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning Gardeners or Afternoon. Making tomato pizza sauce today.huge amount of Roma's. most ripened under a grow light.

 

[GardenBlooms22]

Buena Mulata peppers (From rareseeds ((https://www.rareseeds.com/buena-mulata-hot-pepper)) and a pepper I grew from the seeds of an org. store bought green bell pepper.
All were grown in mason sized jars.
Since they were grown in jars, indoors on a windowsill (other than a few days that I left them outside because they got dirty) the produce is on a smaller scale (Coin for reference):

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Awesome! I had no idea you could grow peppers in jars until seeing you do it!

Some of your Buena Mulata peppers are close in size to the ones I grew in the field this year.

Amazing job!

 

[Sally PB]

We are switching to no till gardening next year. Looking forward to seeing how it does.

A neighbor did that 4 years ago. The next year was their best garden ever. I have used my tiller to break up sod around the perimeter, but not on the interior of the garden in the last 3 years. I pile on whatever I can get for mulch and compost, and each year is better.

How do you keep the filters in the windows for the chickens?

The filter material I have is about 1/8" thick, so I just staple it up.

Which means I have to be VERY careful when I take it down that I don't drop any in the coop.