What did you do in the garden today?

[Sequel]

I picked up my first melon I have ever grown in my garden! I did try to grow them but drought killed them. I do prefer my new place. temperature drops at night so we all can breathe.

cucumbers and zucchini are the only things that ripen. I have to wait for the rest. I hope that weather next year will allow me to plant on time. almost all plants are stunted due to heat. the good thing is we have 2 days more of brutal heat than we shall get back to reasonable heat.

I just saw on the news that Greece is having terrible fires! I hope the weather improves there!

 

[Sequel]

I guess officially yesterday I planted a bunch of starts my neighbor Bernie gave me. Still feels like today lol. A real rainy day, so welcome after weeks without! Might have another rainy half day tomorrow too!

 

[Sequel]

I cut it up and cooked it with the greens. I had to look close because some kind of worm tunneled into it. But I do love raw turnips too if they don't have worms. LOL



I can totally related. Dang DEER! I finally put a fence around my horseradish plant, which they've been slowly eating. I guess they can't handle eating very much horseradish leaf in one sitting.

You probably saw my solution to the deer problem...

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That’s a terrific shot! The defeated deer! I asked about your turnip because I wondered if you could grow them without worms.

 

[Sammster]

Crazy busy day, yesterday. I got most of the garden wrapped in chicken wire. I know it works - because a rabbit got in where I haven't wired yet - and then it couldn't get out. I steered it to the gate. It ran under the chicken coop! I need to stop at Lowe's for one more roll of wire and finish the job. The little sh*t chewed on 2 more tomatoes. I need to protect my freshly-planted beans that just sprouted. No time to waste. It's very hard to wrap a garden that's full, when you also have flowers around the parameter. I have about 20' and 2 gates to go.

I also mowed and trimmed with my new weed-whaker. Now the girls can come out of the run for supervised ranging. They are SO happy!

 

[Sally PB]

@Sammster

 

[TJAnonymous]

Well, my last yellow squash plant appears kaput. It was fine yesterday morning. By evening the entire plant was wilted. It's inside the hoop house, so other than squash bugs which I pick off regularly, no SVB. I thought maybe the high temperatures made it wilt so I gave it a good solid drink last night but to no avail. Still wilted this morning so it will probably finish dying off today as we climb back into triple digits. Oh well. I did plant some new zucchini seeds so we'll hope those grow instead.

 

[Sally PB]

I picked my first 2 big tomatoes today. Unfortunately, a critter -- ground hog, probably -- ate half of the bigger one. I showed him! I ate the other half!

The second is going in a salad to go with dinner tonight.

 

[Sueby]

Crazy busy day, yesterday. I got most of the garden wrapped in chicken wire. I know it works - because a rabbit got in where I haven't wired yet - and then it couldn't get out. I steered it to the gate. It ran under the chicken coop! I need to stop at Lowe's for one more roll of wire and finish the job. The little sh*t chewed on 2 more tomatoes. I need to protect my freshly-planted beans that just sprouted. No time to waste. It's very hard to wrap a garden that's full, when you also have flowers around the parameter. I have about 20' and 2 gates to go.

I would love a pic if you wanted to share! This is my winter project - to take down the deer fence & put up 7ft tall chicken wire. The deer netting did keep the deer out, but not the critters. I'm sick of, & grossed out by, the rabbit having babies in my strawberry bed. & like you said, it's hard to do with flowers around the outside so I'm planning it for winter when everything has died back. I'm saving up for 150 ft of 7 foot chicken wire. Hoping to find black coated.

Busy work day so I haven't even done my garden walk thru. It's hot out so I know the garden needs water - I hope it's not dead. LOL. It's supposed to get stupid hot in the next few days.

 

[WthrLady]

got up early to THUNDER! (remember I have cut hay rowed in the field)
It missed us. Now I'm waiting for the sun to come out and burn off the morning humidity.
I'll watch it all day and see if I can bale it today and put it up tonight.

Possibility of rain again tonight. I swear I don't sleep all of haying week.

I'll walk the garden after lunch when I check how the drying process is going.

I currently have 6 pound of stew meat and beef rib meat in the pressure canner. Always nice to have that on the shelf on a busy day.

 

[WthrLady]

Managed two large cukes, which I gave to the hens.
And half a gallon of various tomatoes.
Those poor plants are NOT liking 100' temps and dewpoints in the mid 70s, not ONE BIT.
I suspect it will be the curtain call for the cucumber plant as well.

Hay still hasn't dried enough to bale. I need the sun to come out.
I may turn it later, and then hope we don't get rained on, but it is what it is.