What did you do in the garden today?

[Sequel]

Cuke trellis and baby butternuts...

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And this is how I'm training my indeterminate tomatoes up ropes this year. As the vines grow and set fruit, I prune off the leaves and suckers. Doing this supposedly encourages the top to continue growing and setting on more clusters of fruit. Seems to be working, and it will be super easy to harvest the ripe tomatoes when it's time.

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And just for the heck of it, this morning's eggs so far. Each box has one large ceramic egg in it.

View attachment 3600369That’s cool how you’re growing your tomatoes! I just can’t seem to be able to keep up all the pruning like you are.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Went to my mom's house and spent 5+ hours trying to clean out her she-shed. Got about 70% done. Apparently my mom had a box fetish. I have never broke down so many empty boxes in my life... I also uncovered yet MORE gardening fertilizer, an entire 55 gallon trash can full of peat moss, some garden solar lights, soaker hose, and a gazillion more pots of various sizes. And then there was the bird seed. My mom had DOZENS of bird feeders all over her property. Well, she had probably 8-9 of these giant tubs with various types of bird seed in it. I threw several away because they were moldy or infested with bugs. Then there were several large unopened boxes from Wild Birds Unlimited which were full of bird seed. Never opened. Some of them had to be thrown away because mice had gotten into them. Then there were several boxes of suet. She had 8 giant tubs of Christmas decorations! That's not counting 2 bags which I suspect are trees and another that's probably a wreath.

Just insane. And I'm still not done going through things in the shed but the dumpster was full.

 

[igorsMistress]

We’ve been having a lot of rain and are supposed to be getting even more the next few days.
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Yesterday I cooked up the few multi colored carrots that I grew this year. The one purple carrot was white inside but had a purple bullseye! And it turned the water purple
The carrots pretty much tasted like normal carrots but I had a hard time getting used to the colors.
I picked a bunch of tomatoes at the church garden but had to cook them down into sauce because they were all split from so much rain. They were nice big slicing maters too.
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One of the pumpkins at the Farm garden is starting to turn color!
Yesterday while watching my grandson, he was playing with the kid next door, I cut up a trailer load of branches and limbs from the tree work that my daughter had done. Today I put them through the chipper. Worked on it for 6 hours and got almost all of it done but ran out of daylight.
She still has probably another 4 trailer loads of limbs and branches at her house still.
We are going to take the bags of wood chips to the church garden and put them on top of cardboard on the paths between the raised beds to help with weed control. I got 5 big contractors black trash bags full from what I chipped today.
Lol. The rain just started again. I’m heading to bed.
Anybody have any good yellow squash recipes?
Oh, and whoever was looking for cherry tomato recipes, I love the cherry tomato & corn salsa. I think the recipe is in the Ball canning book.

I make them into fritters. Add to zucchini or just by themselves, sometimes a little green onion is nice too, maybe a little grated carrot. Or grilled, super yum. Sliced and sautéed with a little garlic, S&P is great too.

 

[Smokerbill]

"That’s cool how you’re growing your tomatoes! I just can’t seem to be able to keep up all the pruning like you are."

@Sequel I got the idea from James Prigioni, youtube the garden channel. Seems to work for him so I though I'd try it out.

But with my determinate tomatoes (Roma, Oregon Spring, Stupice) I only prune the lower leaves and branches to keep them off the ground so they can get air and to prevent infections.

I only have 12 tomato plants total, and purposely prune them maybe once every couple of weeks. But anytime I see something that shouldn't be there, I'll break it off.

 

[WthrLady]

Dill pickle slices are out of the canner - 100% seal rate

Whole kernel corn is next today.

 

[Sueby]

I'm glad to hear their sealing well @WthrLady.

@TJAnonymous at least the boxes were empty? LOL, less work than going thru full ones?

 

[WthrLady]

@Sequel I got the idea from James Prigioni, youtube the garden channel. Seems to work for him so I though I'd try it out.

But with my determinate tomatoes (Roma, Oregon Spring, Stupice) I only prune the lower leaves and branches to keep them off the ground so they can get air and to prevent infections.

I only have 12 tomato plants total, and purposely prune them maybe once every couple of weeks. But anytime I see something that shouldn't be there, I'll break it off.

I'm also a pruner. and this time of year, I start pruning them higher and higher off the ground so energy can go into the tomatoes above instead of lower, moisture laden leaves.

 

[Smokerbill]

I'm also a pruner. and this time of year, I start pruning them higher and higher off the ground so energy can go into the tomatoes above instead of lower, moisture laden leaves.

There's a similar way to prune cucumbers that James Prigioni uses. I need to find the video and relearn the method so I can try it out. I'll post the vid here if I find it.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Just a quick note. My corn is tasseling and I have baby corn emerging.

If you’ve never grown corn the little bits of green poking up out of the stalk next to the leaf.

 

[Smokerbill]

Pruning Cucumbers....