What did you do in the garden today?

[Acre4Me]

I dug about 1/8 of the potato plants. I was AMAZED at the size of the tubers!

Regular potatoes or sweets?

 

[Sally PB]

Regular potatoes or sweets?

These are regular, "Elba" is the name of the variety. Some of these are HUGE.

One thing I've noticed with this type, though, is sometimes they have a crack inside, in the middle of the flesh. Especially if there is a lot of rain at the end of the growing season. The crack then turns brownish and needs to be cut out.

I rarely make baked potatoes, so this isn't an issue.

 

[Acre4Me]

Harvested leeks. Probably should have been harvested a few weeks ago, but plenty for our needs.

We cleaned and chopped up 22C for a double batch of potato leek soup. Not sure what we will do with the rest. Any suggestions welcome.


Pawpaws are ripe!! They are so fragrant. Put some on a pancake yesterday -cooked, so ate it hot and it was almost too fragrant to eat, but very good. So today we are going to try pawpaw bread- using our favorite banana bread recipe. We have extra bananas in case we need more fruit than the pawpaws can provide. Hopefully it’s really good.

If you have pawpaws near you, they might be ripe-find a tree and shake! If they fall off, they are ripe. They are understory trees, and usually thinner/flexible trunk. Our local park has a few sections of pawpaws on the trails, but most of these came from a friend’s woods.

 

[igorsMistress]

Harvested leeks. Probably should have been harvested a few weeks ago, but plenty for our needs.
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We cleaned and chopped up 22C for a double batch of potato leek soup. Not sure what we will do with the rest. Any suggestions welcome.


Pawpaws are ripe!! They are so fragrant. Put some on a pancake yesterday -cooked, so ate it hot and it was almost too fragrant to eat, but very good. So today we are going to try pawpaw bread- using our favorite banana bread recipe. We have extra bananas in case we need more fruit than the pawpaws can provide. Hopefully it’s really good.
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If you have pawpaws near you, they might be ripe-find a tree and shake! If they fall off, they are ripe. They are understory trees, and usually thinner/flexible trunk. Our local park has a few sections of pawpaws on the trails, but most of these came from a friend’s woods.

I use leeks in place of onions when I want a milder flavor. I imagine you could slice and freeze, or dehydrate.

 

[littledog]

They are a bit of work & go against my motto of only if I can eat it, lol, but they make me happy. I cut them & bring them everywhere I go - camping, to friends, to picnics or parties, etc. Everyone loves them.

ETA: actually the bulbs are edible but I haven't tried. & they are not bulbs, but that's what I'm calling them.

LOL, I try to keep to that motto too, but dahlias are definitely a worthy exception. Didn't know the corms or bulbs were edible. Maybe if I eat some of the extras they'll transfer me some of their beauty!

I looked at my butternut squash patch and all the vines were pretty much dead. So I picked all the squash, green ones and all, then pulled up the vines and threw them to the chickens. Not sure what green, immature butternut squash will taste like, but I'll find out tonight. Hate to let anything go to waste.

My vines are not yet dead, but definitely starting to dry out, so I harvested the one that looked the least green just to see if it was ripe enough. It was perfect! I was so surprised how orange it was on the inside, so I'm going to harvest the rest in the next couple weeks.

 

[Sueby]

Stillllll raining here. Can't do anything in the garden, too cold & rainy. Tried to pick the sungolds so they don't split. Had a salad from the greenstalk lettuce. Cut some Dahlias. That's all I got, lol.

I moved the little girls into the big coop. Not dealing with 2 coops for winter & the death of my Red Red seemed like a good time to move them around.

Thinking I might need to build an Ark soon.

 

[littledog]

Summer's over in my area! Rain, rain and more rain, most of this week and for the foreseeable future.
I need to dig up all my potatoes and carrots, cover my tomatoes, and harvest all my butternuts and the rest of the apples.
And start winterizing my garden.

 

[Dadanga]

I got lazy and woke up late, blame it on meds! bought some more shelving to tidy up things and get ready for sexing the quail. I basically create a little ensuite and wait for them to start laying...or not. I just need to get 8 cheap drinkers and 8 cheap feeders. Roses are getting nice but I forgot to prune them for summer, too busy on other things. Testing this whoflungdung mulch with some kentucky wonder climbing beans along the mesh and dwarf yellow beans on the inside. Something seems to be eating them as they come up.

Meanwhile the honeylocust bubbas remain unmolested. The pomegranate out in the chook pen is flowering; everything is gnawed off below a certain height thanks to the chooks. Trying desperately to get like cheap mulch delivered 10 cubes for 200 bucks opposed to 4 cubes for 420. Mind you. I have seen the more expensive mulch with my own eyes and it's quite nice. I might just bite the bullet if the other guy doesn't get back to me because my beds need a top up badly.

 

[Bronx girls]

Can't do anything, too cold & rainy. Been raining for the last 3 days!

 

[Acre4Me]

Last night I found the meat chickens (huge at 2.5 weeks) enjoying the heat lamp. Laughed bc their butts were all in the middle getting warmed. In the words of Sir Mix-a-lot:

We like warm butts
We cannot lie
You other brothers can’t deny…

FWIW, they are all males.