What did you do in the garden today?

[Smokerbill]

Going to harvest peanuts from the garden this weekend! We are also carving pumpkins with the kids so it looks like roasted peanuts and pumpkin seeds are in my immediate future!

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I grew peanuts for a Boy Scout gardening merit badge when I was a kid. I layed them out on the picnic table to dry and the blue jays started eating them, whole, shells and all. I wouldn't have thought a blue jay would be able to swallow something that big.

 

[CNJ]

Online Walmart sent me an email saying they shipped my red wiggler worms and then the next day they sent another email saying they refunded my money because they can't send it to where I live. I kind of knew this was going to happen since I tried ordering from Amazon before. My state must be concerned about snakes. I'll just play with my local worms.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I grew peanuts for a Boy Scout gardening merit badge when I was a kid. I layed them out on the picnic table to dry and the blue jays started eating them, whole, shells and all. I wouldn't have thought a blue jay would be able to swallow something that big.

This was my first time growing them... I decided to try them out as a cover crop in a section of the garden. I wasn't prepared for how much they spread out. They are kinda like blackberry canes in that they root wherever the stem touches the ground... Next year I'll plant some inside the hoop house where I've been growing corn and tomatoes for the past few years. I'm also going to plant them between the corn rows unless someone tells me I shouldn't...

 

[CNJ]

This is the easiest way to cook green banana on YouTube.

 

[Sueby]

Going to harvest peanuts from the garden this weekend! We are also carving pumpkins with the kids so it looks like roasted peanuts and pumpkin seeds are in my immediate future!

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Thanks for the pic! I was interested in how'd they'd do for you. I really wanted to grow them but I think my season is just too short from what I've read.

 

[Jenbirdee]

picked kale and shared with ducks and chickens and geese picked bell peppers too but didn’t give them any of those lol

 

[WthrLady]

This was my first time growing them... I decided to try them out as a cover crop in a section of the garden. I wasn't prepared for how much they spread out. They are kinda like blackberry canes in that they root wherever the stem touches the ground... Next year I'll plant some inside the hoop house where I've been growing corn and tomatoes for the past few years. I'm also going to plant them between the corn rows unless someone tells me I shouldn't...

Don't rotate tomatoes with peanuts.

 

[Tstraub]

We have had two nights of light frost. The green beans are dead. We did harvest and can 14 quarts total so not a total loss there. I guess next year we’ll plant fall beans a couple weeks earlier.

I pulled up all the tomatoes and threw them on the compost pile. Then I removed the cages and mowed off all the weeds. I cleaned out the chicken coop and spread the litter over that part of the garden. I still have a dozen or so kohlrabi growing but other than that the garden is done for the year.

 

[fuzzi]

Off and on heavy rain for the next two days, so I'm staying inside.

I still need to finish the garlic and multiplier onion beds. I'll do that next week, and then plant garlic and multiplier onions.

Then, I think the garden is done, except for cleanup and any prep I can do in advance of next spring. Like spread compost and old wood chips.

There is a LOT of clean up I could do. I'll be kicking myself next spring if I don't do it now. I can peck away at it until the ground freezes. It's just nicer to do when the temps are closer to 60 than 30, so I'm hoping for some nice fall days to come yet.

Same weather forecast here. So since it was a perfect autumn day today I made myself go outside and DO something!

Here's an overgrown spot in our backyard, next to my raised beds. (ignore my neighbor's fire).

Each of those growths is hiding a stump!

After cutting the green growth with my hedge clippers I pulled out my new Milwaukee Sawzall and took it for a spin, on its maiden voyage!

Several of the stumps were rotten underneath.

One stump was incredibly dense, and at first I could only cut little slices.

I eventually chopped it low enough so the mower can pass over it safely.

What a difference!

I am very pleased with the Sawzall, though I went through 4 batteries in four hours!

 

[member 655102]

I haven’t even finished clearing and tilling up my gardens yet before winter but I will get to that soon. I still have quite a few cantaloupe, pepper and tomato plants out there.