What did you do in the garden today?

[Sally PB]

The cherry tomatoes are starting to ripen. We had a handful in a salad with dinner. There will be more ready tomorrow, and it looks like that should be just about a daily occurance from now on.

 

[Smokerbill]

View attachment 3595482View attachment 3595480View attachment 3595481View attachment 3595483View attachment 3595484 .y tomatoes I have up front. I planted a couple of sunflowers. I usually do the big ones with seeds, not this year. My tomatoes in back were planted layer, still green. Cherry tomatoes starting to turn red. I ate one today. My zuchinni bush..left one has one ill puck tonight or tomorrow. My yellow squash, picked another today, first photo crook neck, second one by my mint bush, straight. View attachment 3595488View attachment 3595487

Is that lemon balm in the last picture?

 

[WthrLady]

Allergy and flu jabs this morning, which means university and school season is just around the corner.
Thunder was rumbling nearby as it got dark, so I pulled all the almost red tomatoes IN CASE we got hail. That was a basket of almost 15 pounds.
This morning I found ANOTHER hidden giant cucumber.
OH and the reprocessed two jars of puree. ONE didn't seal on that. I emailed ball yet again.
Tomorrow I'm going to buy new lids, not kerr, not ball (all are really ball brand).
I'll grab bulk from the mennonite market. I'm sick of reprocessing food and spending $ on flat lids to toss them.

 

[Cynthia12]

Is that lemon balm in the last picture?

Mint

 

[NanaK]

Got a bunch of pickling cucumbers from the garden over the weekend. Today I made 9 pints of bread and butter pickles.

 

[CNJ]

I ordered determinate Red Snapper and Hossinator tomato seeds from Hoss. The Hossinator has resistance to the Isael TYLCV strain and the Red Snapper has resistance to the US TYLCV.

I did some research on the Red Snapper on Youtube and found that they are very large tomatoes and have Disease Resistance to Alternaria Stem Canker, Fusarium Wilt, Verticillium Wilt, Gray Leaf Spot, Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus, Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus.

They perform well in Florida, so I want to try them in Hawaii.

I like this guys take on Red Snapper tomatoes:

 

[karenerwin]

It rained here today. Didn’t get out to the garden.

 

[chickengr]

I'm hoping I don't have a repeat of last year with my butternut squash.
-Great looking plants
-lots of male flowers
-da da da da da, dum dee dee dee, da da da da da....
-Oh! It's late August. Maybe I should put out a female flower...? 1? Or 2?
-yeah. Nothing.

Whole, or broken open?

never break eggs when planting. my dogs digged and destroyed my tomatoes. any predator would do the same. where I left whole egg they didn't dig.

 

[chickengr]

Hello, I came across this wonderful idea on starting seeds. Instead of planting seeds directly in soil, she plants them between tissue paper on top of soil. This keeps the seeds in place. I must try this..............

I make it similar but put some soil over paper too.

 

[nao57]

Time to make sandwiches!

Got a bunch of pickling cucumbers from the garden over the weekend. Today I made 9 pints of bread and butter pickles.

Put in some bacon, mayo, and tomato slices! XD