What did you do in the garden today?

[akroberts1085]

That’s great! Welcome to BYC and the thread!

Welcome to the BYC family. Happy you're here.

 

[akroberts1085]

I'm almost out of room! Well, on the canning shelf anyway, although I can double stack the herbs, and put the two rows of canning supplies on the plastic shelving. I still have a garden full of tomatoes. I haven't even started apples, just wow.... LOL.
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I am so jealous of you right now. I don't have a pantry nor any room for one.

 

[akroberts1085]

I'm so far behind here its hopeless.

I walked thru the garden to get a cucumber for a friend. & she ate a green bean. That's all I got.

The weather is insane, so much rain. 4 inches in the last couple days. My niece is getting married tomorrow, I was dreading a wedding in August because I despise heat but it looks like I'll need a sweater. It's crazy.

It's not hopeless until one is no longer breathing.

 

[akroberts1085]

Squash. It’s big! But, will it turn a color? That is the question.
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Butternut, produced well, several still waiting to be picked.
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Supposed to be a Barbados (or Caribbean?) seasoning pepper, generally mild. But this pepper looks different than the mild pepper pics, and now similar to Scotch Bonnet peppers. Haven’t tried it yet.

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Makes my mouth water and tummy hungry.

 

[akroberts1085]

Yesterday and today (possibly Thursday), my husband and I tore down a shed that was so delapitated, it really needed to be removed. So not much with the garden. Today though I did get 7 cherry tomatoes. I gave them to my youngest granddaughter, middle grandson, son and a friend of the kids. They very much so enjoyed them. Tomorrow we're expecting some SERIOUS change in the weather . Yeah no more 100+ degree heat. Now maybe, just maybe I can get some food from my garden. This Northern California weather sucks dooty, or is it booty. LOL

 

[EuroChook]

I want some. I love bananas and pineapple juice. That would be an awesome treat for me. Forget about the family getting any I'll hide it from them

Enjoy, if you can find it! Just be careful you're not allergic to it!

Monstera Deliciosa (Im sure they changed the name, or it is called differently in other countries... or whoever told me had it wrong). When ripe, those little tesselating segments come away and you're good to go. Consider shakes made with these.. hmm "monster shakes?" Nah. Too Halloween).

 

[chickengr]

Picked beets and carrots.

Canned up beef stew, and garden potatoes. Lots of work to get that done, so not a lot of working in the garden.

Oh, and even standing in a chair, I was too short to get the hyacinth bean vines to go over the arch.

at this time of the year beets and carrots are mission impossible

 

[Acre4Me]

at this time of the year beets and carrots are mission impossible

I’m sure! Carrots hate heat/getting dry -especially when young. Beets, also don’t love heat, but seems really variety dependent as to whether they will be woody or not. We combat the drying out by planting carrots between beans or beets usually. They get a little shade and are not on the edge of any bed, so less likely to dry out. We also mulch with straw.

 

[Acre4Me]

The large pumpkins are supposed to turn color! Guess I’m waiting longer!

These squash are in moschata group, same as butternut. So, they are less preferred by SVB. So far, these plants are looking pretty good.

They have 3 recipes listed at bottom of seed description -I’m going to have to consider making them, if they look good. Looks like I’ll have enough squash to make a bunch -as long as they fully ripen.

 

[Sally PB]

Washed, dried, and frozen solid as rocks, the cherry tomatoes will be stored out in the garage in the big freezer in quart baggies until we use them this winter...

I'm going to freeze a bunch this year. I haven't done it before, but I didn't know about frittatas back then either!