What did you do in the garden today?

[Decoyman]

I never grew that and they don't sell it where I live, but if its a squash I usually cut the outside skin off and use the tender inside for chicken squash soup or stir fry it with pork.

MANY THANKS - great ideas!

 

[BReeder!]

Watered and misted the starts in the grow tent. That's all.

 

[WthrLady]

Canned chickpeas and garlic for my son, who loves to make hummus.
Had another 50% failure rate for Ball Lids purchased during lockdown. Ridiculous.
I will save them as they are $$$$, but will only use them on food that don't suffer from having to be double processed.

 

[TJAnonymous]

These are the tomato varieties I've decided on for this season -

Olena Ukrainian

Amish Paste

Backa

Paisano Hybrid

Skyway

 

[Coldd]

Organized the chest freezers a bit…more organizing the garden freezer and then piling the venison into the other. Feeling good about the amount of tomatoes we got last year! Definitely don’t need two zucc plants! Cleaned up after the dogs (got a new malamute to go along with our middle aged husky. She’s a real athlete. Don’t let the photo fool you! She loves to chew young plants..) pruned our grapes/low hanging apple tree branches. Pulled all the old sunflower stalks from last year as those are a hot item apparently. Been processing the last of the Hubbards and freezing them to use in soups or whatever we want. We’ve been enjoying the ease of freezing over canning.

Feeling very fortunate to have the opportunity to provide for ourselves like this. My partner very much enjoys seeing a freezer full of things we grew or hunted ourselves. I do too.

 

[karenerwin]

We have some gardening goodies in our 1k giveaway at the end of this video if anyone would like to participate. Just comment on YouTube if you want to be in the drawing because I'll be using a random generator.

So, here is my dumb, no gardening question. How do you comment on your YouTube channel?
I managed to find you on YouTube and watched the video but every time I try to comment it takes me to a place to creat a channel. I don’t want or need a YouTube channel. Do I have to have a channel to comment?
Obviously, watching YouTube watching isn’t something I do.

 

[Paz]

So, here is my dumb, no gardening question. How do you comment on your YouTube channel?
I managed to find you on YouTube and watched the video but every time I try to comment it takes me to a place to creat a channel. I don’t want or need a YouTube channel. Do I have to have a channel to comment?
Obviously, watching YouTube watching isn’t something I do.

Yes, you have to have an account in order to like and comment, google account is good enough for them, so if you have a Gmail electric mail, you can just log in.
Brought to you with love from a gen Z weirdo.

 

[Paz]

Look at them grow! But my Malali watermelon and Matt’s while cherry tomatoes are not growing. They haven’t sprouted, not yet at least…

 

[igorsMistress]

Sorry to hear about the seed starts. At least you have plenty of time to get some more started!
I'll have to look up a foraging bag, sounds interesting!

It’s just a brown mesh bag, but I think it’s easier than a basket because you can wear it cross body and it leaves your hands free.

I hope I have enough time for more tomatoes, I always worry about the summer heat.

 

[igorsMistress]

Based upon @WthrLady comment, I looked up NORMAL leaf drop on a lemon tree and found this article.

https://www.fourwindsgrowers.com/blogs/four-winds-growing/citrus-tree-leaf-drop#:~:text=Since most citrus leaf out,in preparation for leaf drop.

This might account for some of the leaves. Some leaves are rather large but some are probably around 6 months old or so that have fallen. There is new growth coming out but only at the branch ends. Nothing along the branch where the leaves have fallen off leaving the branches looking rather bald.

Oh well, in the next 30 days or so, it should be warm enough to start transitioning it outdoors for the summer.

I always cut those branches off my tree