What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

For the onion quality alone, I'm thrilled with this freeze dryer.

 

[Smokerbill]

Thanks!

I did this procedure last year, and had more squash for a longer season than in the prior 35 years!

I had to take out leaves because they were interfering with the staking. I often take off extra tomato branches, too. It opens them up for air circulation, and I have less fungal issues.

The pollen is so bad here, I walked outside yesterday to collect eggs & started choking, my throat felt like it was closing up. It was super windy yesterday, better today so not as bad.

I went to get some flowers to fill in for the bolted spinach & they gave me a couple jalapenos for free.


I have no clue, lol. They were here when we bought the house. I probably should have checked to make sure I didn't kill my chickens, but eh, they're fine.

I could never bury anything here in the garden, they'd tear the whole place apart. Fox, bobcats, coyote, raccoons - any one of them would have a field day.

I have that stuff all over!

I always grow my squash on a trellis of some sort & trim them up to the lowest fruit/flowers, it helps with the bugs (I get squash bugs & SVB) but it also helps with the powdery mildew. Also saves space, I need to grow vertically here as I don't have room for sprawling plants. I had one a couple years ago on a cattle panel trellis that had to be 8 feet tall with no leaves except the top few feet. Trimming the leaves doesn't hinder them in my experience.

Well, it sounds like a good thing to do so I'm going to drive in some t-posts for my 3 zucchini plants and give it a try.

 

[fuzzi]

I always grow my squash on a trellis of some sort & trim them up to the lowest fruit/flowers, it helps with the bugs (I get squash bugs & SVB) but it also helps with the powdery mildew. Also saves space, I need to grow vertically here as I don't have room for sprawling plants. I had one a couple years ago on a cattle panel trellis that had to be 8 feet tall with no leaves except the top few feet. Trimming the leaves doesn't hinder them in my experience.

Mine are straightening up. You're right how more air circulation can help prevent powdery mildew.

Well, it sounds like a good thing to do so I'm going to drive in some t-posts for my 3 zucchini plants and give it a try.

Someone mention zucchini?

One thing to keep in mind, do not prune the main vine. If you're not sure, wait to see which stem continues to grow before pruning. I made that mistake with one of my plants last year.

 

[jillybeansisme]

I looked at my weeds and decided they could stay another day.

 

[Sally PB]

For the onion quality alone, I'm thrilled with this freeze dryer.

Wow, those look good! I would love to dehydrate some onion/garlic, but oh, the SMELL!!! I assume you didn't smell onion when you FD'd it, right?

How would you FD potatoes? Would you need to blanch the at all first? Do you need to blanch veg before FD?

 

[TreeChicken]

One of my chickens almost got into my garden today (secured with some flimsy chicken wire), that would have been a disaster haha. I'm thinking about digging a little trench around it and putting the wire a few inches the ground.

They sure dig fast.

 

[StinkyAcres]

Hey, does anyone know if there is a thread dedicated to flower gardens?

 

[fuzzi]

Hey, does anyone know if there is a thread dedicated to flower gardens?

Make one, and link it here.

 

[Henora]

Morning berry bowl breakfast from the garden

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berries haven't yet started here in Ontario... those look wonderful!

 

[Henora]

I just buried a nasty looking whole egg under a tomato plant today. I buried an egg underneath a different tomato last week and nothing's dug it up... yet. LOL

I picked a big handful of Russian red kale leaves this morning. For me, not the chickens.

does burying whole eggs help plants grow? is it the yolk etc or mainly the egg shell?