What did you do in the garden today?

[Smokerbill]

A deer was able to jump into my garden a couple days ago and munched on a pepper plant and some carrots. There wasn't much damage at all, which was surprising.

So I wired some t-posts onto the existing corner posts and strung up about 350 feet of rope. Now the fence is 9 to 10 feet tall. I hope it's enough to stop Bambi and her kin.

 

[Smokerbill]

There are losses and there are wins in the gardening hobby. Today I experienced one of those losses. A deer ate the last canteloupe to ripen on my canteloupe plant.

Don't you just love deer?

 

[chickengr]

Apparently I have some confused chickens...

I have a Silkie who is being broody on top of an old paintbrush.... (I refuse to give the girls any actual eggs because my flock is already too big.)

I have a Cream Legbar - Marans cross who is being broody over some old horse apples...

And I have a rooster confined to a bachelor pen who is so desperate that he's now trying to breed a leaf.

my bourbon red hen was sitting on a broken plastic waterer (cup)

I'd love to have chicken ninjas take out my grasshopper population, but sadly my girls are rather lazy. Why chase a grasshopper when all your luscious fruits and vegetables are just laying around for the taking... . This is exactly why my garden is over 500 ft away from the chicken coop area.

get some egyptian fayoumis. they will help you with insects, snails, slugs, etc.

 

[muddy75]

We had squash, okra, and poblano peppers out of the garden for dinner tonight

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

It’s been a long day with the grandkids. We checked the potatoes with withering greens but nothing ready to dig for. I took them to the big garden and they picked a handful each of carrot greens and came up with 3 nice sized carrots. I sliced them up as a side for their hotdog lunch and made pesto out of the carrot greens with a little basil with almonds and cheese for a dipping sauce. They had a great day with music lessons and getting accustomed to their new microscope. They also got to help baby sit the little chickens while I cleaned their coop. They got excited when I showed them all the black turtle beans that were developing on the bushes. Tomorrow it’s back to work getting some outdoor stuff done. I’m hoping to make some more progress on the littles new expanded run. And who was it that mentioned all their garden pathways are overwhelmed with weeds. I’m there with you. I need to weed whack the pathways. Bugs and overgrown weeds, the bane of sultry hot summers everywhere. Lol!

 

[Smokerbill]

I've been seeing cabbage moths flying around my brassicas lately so I decided to spray them with BT this evening. But before that I picked as much as I dared so there would be less to spray.

I didn't get a picture before I harvested the leaves, but there were a lot of big ones to cut. My kale and collards are looking more and more like trees.

Here's what I picked. Stems for the chickens in one sink, and the leaves in the other. I'll wash them, chop them and lightly cook them in my stock pot before freezing.


Here are the nekked kale and collards. The leafy plants are cauliflower, and I think they need all their leaves left on.

 

[akroberts1085]

Went out and watered the garden. Picked my cherry tomatoes, got 04.61 oz so not much but better than nothing. Corn is going ballistic, and Wally now weighs 57.6 lbs. He's getting so stinking big.

 

[WthrLady]

12pm-7 on the tractor today
then 8-930 moving bales. I still have 48 more to get in the hay shed.
My field alone had 100 bales.
The gifted field had 29. I had 5 more to bale over there when I blew a belt, almost had a fire, and compacted the baler. UGH.
I had to turn off the tractor, unclog the baler, and then sit there for an hour in the sun waiting for the machine to cool to kick it back on. I couldn't leave in case it caught fire. Good thing DH was home to bring me pretzels and water as I was so tired I was ready to cry.
I only had 5 bales left and I could have been in the SHOWER, but instead I had to sit and then clean the machine before I parked it for the night. I swear.
I can store 100 bales, so I gifted the other field to a neighbor with horses. we did stack those by the road.
We'll load 8 bales in the shed tomorrow, load 8 in the utv trailer, and then park it and take a AC break for an hour.
Then we'll load those parked ones in the shed and put 8 more in the trailer, park it, cool off and rinse and repeat all day until we get those 48 in.
I LOATHE doing the hay.
If it wasn't the heat, or the humidity, or the stable flies or the dust, it was the mosquitoes! IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY!!!!

 

[Midnight Maran Momma]

i managed to pick a beefsteak Frankenmato before it split, this time! Super happy with our tomatoes, cucumbers and crookneck squash. I Love our zucchini, but the plant only put two big ones out before dying back, considerably. I first thought it was the lack of shade, until I caught our big dog peeing through the fence on it. Luckily, I was able to resurrect my hydrangea plant from his 'watering assistance', last year. It's now blooming nicely, but it's kept up on top of an inverted planter so he can't 'help' me anymore with that one.

 

[WthrLady]

picked enough blackberries for a pie