What did you do in the garden today?

[chicken opey]

I know some of yall hate this bind weed, but one year it helped me. I think it was during first of covid and I was working the 72 hour weeks. I had a box where arrow is and a cow panel where I would grow beans. I guess it was 3 week or more b4 I could get to them and it was a mess. The bind weed wrapped around the beans but I noticed the beans were ok and all growing on the trellises! So I took scissors and snipped the bind weed - natural ties for my beans!

I will eventually snip this that is growing on fence but I will always remember that one year I didn’t hate them as much

 

[chicken opey]

It took .8 hours to cut our 2 acres! 2 days went to less than an hour my bad knee is especially happy.
Found these big cucumbers mixed in middle of watermelon patch. I think these are Muncher (Boston pickling ) -saving seeds for next year. DD want me to plan more and I’m like, how many pounds do you need .
Snake bean coming along. I put this pepper plant at end of row w the butternut and it is so trying! Everything gets swallowed up by this plant!

 

[Minanora]

Pour boiling water on it.

I was so confused when I saw this. I thought you were talking about my cantaloupe for a second.

I have been able to pull the weeds by soaking the ground for a few hours and then gathering all of the branches that are thread through my clover and pulling. We have loamy sand. When it's dry, it's a rock; wet, it's super easy to work with.

I always grow corn tomatoes peppers(of every kind), I was just thinking about changing the garden and still keep some of the same stuff just kinda add to it with some things that I haven't had before. Who knows maybe I will find a new vegetable to plant all the time.

If you haven't grown broccoli, I highly recommend it. But it takes a bit of space. I do high intensity and get 20 plants in my 8x4 bed size, depending on variety. Not a summer crop though, and it does not like confined root space when it's a seedling/in a 6 pack, it will stunt the plants badly.

Garlic is another great thing to grow. Sow seed cloves in the fall, 4 weeks before the first frost. Softneck is what they grow in Gilroy, I've had good success with 'California early'. I sow in October, harvest in June. Plant 3" apart, add soil sulfur at the time of planting.

Cucumbers, carrots, tomatillos. I grow lots of things I can pickle, heat process, or freeze to use in the off seasons. I even pickle grapes. They are so so so good!!!

If you don't grow winter squash or pumpkins, you could try. Great for long storage and feeds the chickens!

I've tried a few new vegetables... Namely kohlrabi (both purple and white varieties), eggplant (Japanese and black beauty varieties), fava beans, peanuts, different colors of broccoli and cauliflower, ground cherries, yacon (ground apples), and some daikon radishes.

Just look through some garden porn that comes in the mailbox by the boatload each fall & spring and pick out something interesting that catches your eye.

I get the seed catalogs and my garden gets bigger, every, single, season. Eventually I'll be ripping out the grass or something crazy like that.

 

[Minanora]

Oh yeah, and next year I'm trying some French melons. A few new pumpkin varieties. New garlic varieties as well.

Plus a ton more potatoes and onions. Can never grow too much food.

 

[akroberts1085]

I didn't have any luck with my garlic and onions. I have planted melons but no luck with those. My pumpkins I got 9 the 1st year. Last year I didn't get any. My tomatoes, green beans, zucchini, crookneck and yellow squash, hot peppers all did really good. I sometimes think I am cursed when it comes to most of the vegetables I want to grow bc they very rarely produce anything. I'm hoping this fall instead of planting a fall garden I will make a HUGE garden area with raised hugelkulture beds and I also want to try some electro culture. I just have to get the yard rototilled to get most of the weeds out.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have a great garden started all stuff we like.
Second cup of coffee a day all to myself.

 

[WthrLady]

The tomatoes are NOT liking our weather this year, it's too wet, too often. But I can do without the tomatoes if that means we finally have hay and a stable pasture.

 

[Sammster]

I don't know what this is. I'll call it a "tumbling sedum". I've had it in this planter for several years, initially thinking it was an annual. Pleasantly surprised to learn it was a perennial. Surprised again to see that it blooms. This is the first time. I like it!

 

[akroberts1085]

Went out to the garden and found 2 crookneck squash. I brought them in the house and gotta get some food in me to be able to get anything else done.

 

[cj2024]

I have been making sour dough bread every day for about a month now and I am finally beginning to understand the process. I found that a 65% to 67% hydration dough is easier to work with than a higher one and most recipes uses a gram scale. I also figured out a way to get my dough out of my silicone banneton basket by lining it with a plastic film and brushing the plastic film with a non-stick oil spray.
This shaping video and sour dough recipe video are what has been working for me.