What did you do in the garden today?

[fuzzi]

Watermelon sling made from the short sleeve of a t-shirt:

Watermelon #4 hanging above the cantaloupe vines:

First tomato!!!

I did some mowing after I got home from work. Yes, it's hot, but it needs to be done, the yard is getting deep.

 

[Smokerbill]

I grabbed my tiny scissors, put on my glasses and trimmed away all the extra beet and chard seedlings. It's strange how there are multiple seeds in each little nugget. I fed the little plants to the chickens, and hung up a few big pea vines in the run for them to pick on, too.

Exploring the woods out back I discovered a native red huckleberry plant. Had to do some research to learn what they were. Tiny berries, but they're sweet. Now that I know what they are, I'm going back out now to have a snack. They're not quite ripe, but I want to have some before the birds find them.

I think there's a wild gooseberry plant, too. The entire stem is covered with small spines.

 

[Smokerbill]

This is the plant with bristles all over the stems. The leaves don't look like gooseberry leaves so I don't know what it is. I'll watch the fruit as it ripens.



I'm going to have some Oregon grapes this year.



And salal berries.



I don't know what this shrub is. I ate a couple of the purple berries yesterday and they were good. Didn't get sick so I guess they're not poisonous.




This pollinator is at work on the salal blossoms. Looks like a bumblebee but I don't think it is.



The red huckleberry shrub...



And chickens...

 

[TJAnonymous]

Some of today's harvest...

 

[Hocus pocus]

You aren't the only one lol I'm amazed by folks and what they will believe.

Yeah, someone was trying to tell me they've never had problems with Grazon and that it was given a bad name...it's a persistent herbicide that can remain in the soil for years and kills many crops. It will also pass right through horses and cows when they eat hay that has been sprayed with it so when someone unknowingly puts that manure on their garden they could ruin that soil for years...
I'm never rude to people that have a difference of opinion. You do you, but I was stunned that there was actually someone out there that was actually FOR the stuff. My parents paid $350 to have a lab test their herbicide contaminated soil and even the lab technicians said they were fortunate it wasn't one of the "bad ones". Freudian slip maybe? lol
Even with it being a "less" damaging herbicide they're still remediating the soil this year to make sure they aren't eating it. I could jump down a deep rabbit hole of my thoughts on that, so I'll stop.

I see this is an older post, but for anyone following it, here’s some information from NC Extension
https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/herbicide-carryover

 

[WthrLady]

Watermelon sling made from the short sleeve of a t-shirt:
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Watermelon #4 hanging above the cantaloupe vines:
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First tomato!!!
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I did some mowing after I got home from work. Yes, it's hot, but it needs to be done, the yard is getting deep.

LOL. Your melons need a bra!

 

[Smokerbill]

Some of today's harvest...
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A pumpkin in June? Wow!

 

[Smokerbill]

LOL. Your melons need a bra!

I was going to say jock strap...

 

[fuzzi]

I was going to say jock strap...

LOL. Your melons need a bra!

Neither of those would be big enough!

 

[Acre4Me]

I grabbed my tiny scissors, put on my glasses and trimmed away all the extra beet and chard seedlings. It's strange how there are multiple seeds in each little nugget. I fed the little plants to the chickens, and hung up a few big pea vines in the run for them to pick on, too.

Exploring the woods out back I discovered a native red huckleberry plant. Had to do some research to learn what they were. Tiny berries, but they're sweet. Now that I know what they are, I'm going back out now to have a snack. They're not quite ripe, but I want to have some before the birds find them.

I think there's a wild gooseberry plant, too. The entire stem is covered with small spines.

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An old lady that lived next to my great aunt would make huckleberry pie. She would go into the woods at the edge of town to pick them, in the general area of NE PA. I loved that pie, I still remember the experience of eating it when I was young.