What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

97 today. I will be spraying the tomatoes in the morning

 

[fuzzi]

I was wondering the same thing about the size of her plants. They seem incredibly small...

I wrapped mine with strips from a tshirt that I cut up to make a tshirt rug. It's been very effective so far but was a royal pain to do. I'd rather "paint" it on if that actually works...

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I have wrapped my squash with cut up athletic socks, and am tying them to stakes. The sock wrap extends below the soil surface.

They're growing like gangbusters!

I ran out of old socks, now I'm cutting up old t-shirts.

And, yes, that's electrical tape I used to secure the sock wrappings to the plants!

Watermelons:

 

[Acre4Me]

Happy Father's Day to the fathers on here. I hope everybody enjoyed the day.

Shopping, family picnic, fishing (both kids caught a small bass each) and worked on the shed. It was a great day.
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Two little Minnie-me’s! Great job on the shed too!

 

[akroberts1085]

I'm apparently living in the wrong climate. I only have garlic and onion greens, spinach and lettuce producing food. Northern California sucks. We had a thunderstorm today. Chilly morning and sunny afternoon then it just broke loose. Good for my garden but sucks otherwise.

 

[BReeder!]

I'm apparently living in the wrong climate. I only have garlic and onion greens, spinach and lettuce producing food. Northern California sucks. We had a thunderstorm today. Chilly morning and sunny afternoon then it just broke loose. Good for my garden but sucks otherwise.

I wish we had a good thunderstorm here. We need it. The retention ponds in our area are the lowest I've seen them. There's land in the middle of ponds that I never saw before - used to be reeds, cattails and lilly pads. Grass is brown. My neighbor decided to water - I don't want to stretch resources further than necessary by watering grass. I do water our garden though.

 

[BReeder!]

The shed has doors!!! And one post and beam for the 10ft overhang - another post and beam needs to go in on the other side still and then more trusses.
Edit: forgot to add the pics.

 

[Acre4Me]

Our wave of zucchini seems to be tapering off and the wave of cucumbers has begun!

I'm picking 10-15 cucumbers every other day it seems. We made fermented pickles, refrigerator pickles, freeze dried cucumber chips, we use the cucumbers daily in our healthy smoothies, lol, I need to find some good cucumber salad recipes that are acceptable on my husband's limited diet because I'm running out of things to do with them!
I've given a TON away too!

I have a book : the practical produce cookbook. It is organized by vegetable. Under cucumbers, there are the usual things, including pickles. But, the different recipes include: cucumber soup (creamy and non-creamy versions), molded cucumber salad (yes, lime jello is used, along with onion, dill, celery…), sautéed cucumbers, and stir fried cucumbers.

 

[Greaner_pastures]

I put up the pipes so I can string up the tomato’s soon.

 

[Acre4Me]

Garlic! Not all of it was dug up, but done of

A type of clover? The goats (Nigerian dwarf) don’t like it.

 

[akroberts1085]

I wish we had a good thunderstorm here. We need it. The retention ponds in our area are the lowest I've seen them. There's land in the middle of ponds that I never saw before - used to be reeds, cattails and lilly pads. Grass is brown. My neighbor decided to water - I don't want to stretch resources further than necessary by watering grass. I do water our garden though.

As long as the garden gets watered that's what matters.