What did you do in the garden today?

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Happy sweltering afternoon gardeners. I did mg usual garden walk early this morning and picked more tomatoes, a couple of leeks, a handful of mustard greens and a few ears of corn. There are a few female flowers starting to develop on the summer squash in the corn patch and I will be harvesting the first pole / green beans from there on Thursday morning. I shelled and processed the lima beans for DD yesterday evening. There were 1 1/4 pounds of beans in the pods that turned into 1 1/4 cups of shelled beans. I pinched a small serving of the beans and mixed them with buttere rice to go with my dinner. They were quite tasty. We are having a spell of hot days here in New England. It was 85F yesterday, right now it’s 88F. Thankful for the occasional breeze. I did get 3 t posts sunk in the new chicken yard so that part needs a little fence wire on it. It’s too hot for anymore work over there until the temperatures drop early next week. I have medical appointments tomorrow and Friday so hoping Thursday I can at least open the boxes of materials I purchased. But with 90 degree temperatures forecasted I’m not going to push myself.

 

[Sally PB]

I am doing a small experiment with comfrey leaves. I have some comfrey plants that are getting too big for their 3-inch net pots, but I am still debating where to plant them. In the meantime, I cut and stuffed a bunch of comfrey leaves in a small tray without any holes on the bottom and covered the top with plain peat moss and watered the tray. I want to see how long it takes to break down and how it will look after a month. I will use it to feed a new tomato plant and compare it to another new tomato plant fed with regular organic fertilizer.

I want to hear how this goes!

 

[Smokerbill]

Never thought to even try making it. Hmmmm, what would that flavor become after fermentation?

I guess tomato wine IS a thing! I looked around a little and found a lot of tomato wine recipes. Like this one...

https://winemakerscorner.com/wine-recipes/tomato-wine-recipe/

Not sure if I'll try it, but tomatoes are fruit, so it makes sense that they could be fermented. It could be a good way to use up tomatoes.

 

[Sally PB]

I had to take our dog for her checkup today, so that took a chunk of time. Oh well. It's supposed to be the last really hot day. 84 tomorrow, then down to the 70s and even some 60s out there. Surely better than the 90 we had today!

 

[Smokerbill]

I had to take our dog for her checkup today, so that took a chunk of time. Oh well. It's supposed to be the last really hot day. 84 tomorrow, then down to the 70s and even some 60s out there. Surely better than the 90 we had today!

First day of Fall is September 23, so less that three weeks to the change of seasons. I can feel the change in the weather here, too.

 

[CNJ]

I want to hear how this goes!

I tipped and poured out all the excess water from the small comfrey compost pot, now I will just let it sit and wait. It's in a place where rainwater can't reach it and it gets 5 hours of morning sun. I'll take a picture after a month.

I saw one red snapper tomato seed sprout this morning. I was getting a little worried it's been 14 days since I planted my seeds. I stuck one seed in each 4-cell row. I have 3 rolls on a tray with Red Snapper, Hossinator and Tycoon determinate tomatoes. All three are heat resistant and has the Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus resistance. I took the tray off the heat mat and removed the dome and took it outside where I will add water to the bottom of the tray every morning. The water evaporates by end of day.

My tomato season starts in September, I live on a tropical island.

 

[Officialchickensnuggler]

I chased the chickens out of the garden boxes for 1,345 time lol

 

[WthrLady]

The heat just snapped here. OMG It feels SO NICE out. Windy as all get out, so it feels chilly, but I'll take it.
It feels weird to put the pressure canner away at the beginning of september, but again, that's how it goes.
We are so dry.

 

[CNJ]

I've been wanting to grow comfrey, but the Russian Bocking roots are pretty expensive. Seeds are cheaper, but from what I understand seed started plants can become invasive. The Russian cultivars won't.

If you have chickens, they will eat all the leaves if you let them. Comfreys need moist soil to keep alive. They are not draught resistant, so it can't be invasive where I live.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Sueby I just wanted to let you know that I have received the seeds. Thank you so much.

I haven't sent mine yet because I haven't been able to get away from work to go to the post office. I should be able to go tomorrow though