What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

Your weather is soooo opposite. where do y'all live and garden at? May I guess NJ and Missouri?

Smack in the middle of the US, NEbraska.

 

[Jenbirdee]

Smack in the middle of the US, NEbraska.

Oh OK so I’m not that far off with Missouri now let’s see if the person with 4 inches of rain replies I’d like to find out if that’s New Jersey maybe it’s New York or Connecticut

 

[Sally PB]

How are they looking so far? Are you seeing any popping up under the plants? Last year we saw some like that, but this year I’m not seeing any popped up, but I can’t easily access the whole area like I could last year. One variety has been looking like it’s done for a couple of weeks (leaves look like they are old, turning color), but the rest look great. We plan to harvest ours next week bc it works out for us to do that. Probably next Wed-Sat is the likely timeframe for harvest. Hopefully we find lots of great looking SP- and I hope you do too!

I hadn't thought to see if any are sweet potatoes popping out of the ground. Good idea! I did pull the smallest plant (I hadn't thought it would grow, it looked so sad) and there were tubers! This was 3(?) weeks ago...?

Still to do in the garden:
Dig the potatoes
Dig the sweet potatoes
Pull the bean plants that I hope have ripe pods to save for seed
Plant the garlic and potato onions.

Oh, then spread compost and any other good things I have that can sit and RIP (rot in place).

 

[Smokerbill]

I went ahead and tossed a few hundred parsley seeds and about 1/4 cup of dill seeds along the side of the ditch in front of the house this evening. Maybe some will grow next year. Or not. LOL. It'll be interesting to see what happens.

 

[Eagle343]

Its that time of the year again, black walnut season is here again, so harvesting them, hauling them, and letting them cure. Got the apples picked and made this coming years apple butter. Garden did well this year, still waiting for the first frost to claim all that's left.

 

[fuzzi]

Fire ants have been extremely prolific this year, even to the point of coming inside the house. I finally (reluctantly) purchased pellet bait after I was stung while getting dressed. I've sprinkled the pellets on the ground outside my bedroom window and the fire ants are no longer coming inside and invading my bureau.

Yesterday I went around the backyard, about a sixth of an acre, and sprinkled the pellets around every ant mound/hill I could find, even small ones. Most years I notice about 4-6 mounds.
Yesterday I treated 56!!

 

[Devyn Nagy]

Fire ants have been extremely prolific this year, even to the point of coming inside the house. I finally (reluctantly) purchased pellet bait after I was stung while getting dressed. I've sprinkled the pellets on the ground outside my bedroom window and the fire ants are no longer coming inside and invading my bureau.

Yesterday I went around the backyard, about a sixth of an acre, and sprinkled the pellets around every ant mound/hill I could find, even small ones. Most years I notice about 4-6 mounds.
Yesterday I treated 56!!

Used to live in Arizona, where mowing the lawn was torture. Oh how I know.

 

[NevadaEmma]

Its that time of the year again, black walnut season is here again, so harvesting them, hauling them, and letting them cure. Got the apples picked and made this coming years apple butter. Garden did well this year, still waiting for the first frost to claim all that's left.

My mother and her family used to gather black walnuts this time of the year in northern California. She rememberd both the bad (stained hands) and the good, luscious black walnut meat.

They also would go up to Paradise for apple picking.

 

[Dadanga]

Didn't do a whole lot today except partially top off the pumpkin bed. Tomorrow if weather permitting should be better and I'll have it filled/mulched. Getting closer and closer to planting out. Instead of onions and garlic (which is terrible for my GERD) I might try garlic chives for the simplicity of it. Even capsicums is terrible for my GERD but hopefully in all the capsicum mixes I bought I might find a type that doesn't trigger it.

Think there's a whole host of pill bugs hiding under my whoflungdung that seem to be snacking on the beans coming up. Makes me sad but the whole idea was to actually test the mulch to see how hot it is as reviews on the site were saying it could burn seedlings. Whatever it does, the insects seem to like it. I'm sure I'll have nightmares about my precious seedlings being gobbled up by bugs.

If there's one root crop I want to try it's probably the long scarlet radish that gets done in 4-6 weeks. I wish I had the room for garlic/onions/more root crops like sweet potatoes (my friend from USA always said it was supposed to be a sweet dish yet I always had it as savoury) Part of me wants to try the old chook coop grounds for normal in the ground planting. Has anyone ever tried planting over old chook areas and had good results?

 

[Tstraub]

I watered the new strawberry patch that I started last week from lose daughter plants spilling out of my first patch. Green beans need picked but my job is 3 12 hours shifts a week with a 45 minute commute each way. So they will have to wait until Tuesday or Wednesday while I’m off.