What did you do in the garden today?

[pennyJo1960]

Afternoon gardeners just 1 in the afternoon have more to plant started
zucchini here none to be had otherwise and spinach get them outside today.

 

[fuzzi]

Nice

Nice.. most important thing to do is for every 2 squash you cut you must remove 2 leaves/stems.. I try to keep all stems and leaves just above the fruit, and remove all the long blossum shoots, since they can’t support a squash, leave only short blossums/fruit connected directly to the main stalk.. it takes a week or 10 days to get the stalk goin good but pruning stems/leaves early on makes a faster straighter growing plant/tree.. yours look great.. just take the long straight non fruit bearing shoots off. All energy will go to thick stems and leaves above fruit and then the next 2 fruit and so on and so on

Thank you! I got the idea from a YT video, but am just muddling around learning what works.

 

[Smokerbill]

I looked again in my seed box and found my cucumber seeds! They are some kind of pickling cucumber I bought for some reason. I think because they were resistant to some diseases, and I'm not a big cuke fan anyway. I just wanted to plant some. My first planting is coming along, and this morning I planted the remaining 12 seeds along the now cleared off pea trellis.

There was damage to my garden last night. I'll post later with pics.

 

[Sueby]

I did my bush squash vertically last year too - but did them up a cattle panel hoop. Those things got so big they outgrew the panel & starting coming back down the side. I had one left at the end of the year that had to be 10 feet tall before it finally succumbed to powdery mildew. I did them under bug netting too so I'm not sure what contributed to the success, probably a bit of everything.

As a matter of fact, I just fed the chickens the last of last years harvest of squash. I made zoodles out of it & they weren't very good frozen & thawed. Won't do that again. Chips it is from now on! Course I don't have any growing this year...

Still smokey here, lucky us made reservations to take mom to dinner - outside. Can't wait for the rain to come & wash some of this nastiness away. I did water today tho.

Enjoying another rhubarita before dinner. Honestly, it's to kill the pain, having an auto immune flare at the moment & of course the back pain. I don't get out much anymore because of it so I refuse to let it ruin what little plans I have - rhubarita it is!

 

[Sueby]

Speaking of, has anyone grown a self pollinating summer squash or zucchini? Or spaghetti squash? (well, parthenocarpic really)

 

[Sally PB]

I took all the asparagus grubs I found to the chickens. They seem to like them. I also got some of the tomato plants pruned. Then I heard thunder and figured I better go in. There are 24 steel posts around the garden

 

[Scooter1A]

I bought a hollyhock plant a couple weeks ago. It was in the ground when we had our frost (a week ago today, hard to believe) and the leaves have turned yellow and spotted. The many, many buds have done nothing.

Is it toast?

I think it will come back next year.

 

[Scooter1A]

Pulled grass and added calcium to the tomatoes. Put in cilantro seeds. Looked around. Zinnias finally blooming. Got a nice rain in Central Illinois past few days. Fenced off everything this year from the chickens.

 

[Sally PB]

I think it will come back next year.

It has come back, and has some flower buds. It sure looks the worse for wear, though.

 

[Sequel]

Yep, that was a great article about growing red huckleberries. I hope I can get some cuttings to root. It would be cool!

Edited to add:

Dang, I think I'm starting to hear fireworks booming in the distance. I loved blowing stuff up when I was a kid, but these days I like peace and quiet.

I remember my mom getting us fireworks and saying “You might as well burn 10 dollar bills!” That was in the days before the tribes started selling good stuff!