What did you do in the garden today?

[Minanora]

Someone was asking for this... I see it was already posted as text but here's the actual page in the book. @Sally PB

 

[fuzzi]

Nothing. Tomato plants have a few blossoms, I think the rest dropped due to the temperature. There are three watermelons not quite ready, and a couple cantaloupes.

I need to do some clean up and add compost to the beds for fall planting, but I am wiped out, exhausted from yard work.

Despite the heat I managed to mow the backyard over the weekend. It's been raining so much the grass and weeds were already thick and almost knee tall. It's raining again, too.

 

[Happy hen lover]

Bought about 50lbs of peaches (only spent about $28). Sooooo….. you can throw me any recipes for canning. Mostly interested in sliced peaches in syrup, but wondering if I can add any spice or flavoring? @WthrLady the speckle pear recipe with honey, cinnamon, vanilla was great. Wonder if I should just try that, but with peaches (or maybe cinnamon vanilla (no honey) so peach flavor shines).

I’ve already made 7 Qts of peach pie filling, and 12 pints of peach rum sauce (it’s peaches, sugar, brown sugar, and lemon peel). We’ve made the peach rum sauce before -a little goes a long way on ice cream, yogurt, pancakes.

Peach pie filling: I used white and yellow peaches for this batch. They look pretty.
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That pie filling looks yummy recipe plz.
You DID score on that price! I'm paying $50.00 for a lug!
I agree cinnamon and sugar only in peaches. My whole life my mom and I just used a thin syrup 3 Parts to h20-1, to 1 part sugar or even 4- 1 to can peaches. Much more peach flavor than grocery store. My "old" Kerr canning book (circa 1970) has some recipes for peaches in Jelly section. Peach butter, peach/ cantaloupe conserves, peach orange marmalade( that one is yummy mom made that) and preserves. And lastly pickled peaches or pears.

Can you tell I grew up with yummy Colorado peaches! .

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I watered the garden, and picked: green beans, tomatoes, green peppers, jalapenos, cucumbers, watermelon, and cantaloupe today.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Having a crappy (literally) day. Half my goats have a coccidia infection with bad diarrhea. Treating them all... But since my chickens and ducks ALSO share the same space, I'm going to have to treat EVERYONE together.

Edited to add - btw, I'm pretty sure I know how they got it. I have these stone slabs in the water trough that are meant to save chicks who've fallen into the water so they don't drown. I noticed recently that many of the hens are using them to stand in the water and cool off, I think... But it also means they are pooping in the water sometimes. I try to clean it out daily but maybe it's not enough. I think I'll remove the slabs altogether since I don't have any chicks currently... And maybe clean the water twice daily instead of every morning.... At least while it's so hot outside.

 

[Jenbirdee]

picked peppers and basil and kale. but the kale was wormy so I gave it to the geese.

 

[Smokerbill]

I added some more support to the determinate tomatoes, Romas and such. I have to quit planting them so close together!

Watered the newly seeded bed a little this morning. Set up a self watering container for the cutting from my possibly-dwarf Roma tomato plant.

 

[Sally PB]

I agree cinnamon and sugar only in peaches.

Ever thought of a pinch of clove?

I added some more support to the determinate tomatoes, Romas and such. I have to quit planting them so close together!

Yeah, when I set out the tomato seedlings, they were soooo far apart! They are falling all over now. What a mess.

Canning another 4 quarts at the moment.

Has anyone had problems with yellow shoulder on tomatoes? Different from sunscald. Someone on BYC said it's a lack of magnesium and potassium. I (mistakenly, I guess) thought that the Tomato Tone fertilizer would have everything they need.

I have had trouble with yellow shoulder for years now. Thought it was sunscald at first, but I find it on fruit in the middle of the plant. It is a BIG problem for me. It ruins 1/3-1/2 of each tomato! The four quarts I'm canning would have been seven, easily.

 

[Smokerbill]

Ever thought of a pinch of clove?

Yeah, when I set out the tomato seedlings, they were soooo far apart! They are falling all over now. What a mess.

Canning another 4 quarts at the moment.

Has anyone had problems with yellow shoulder on tomatoes? Different from sunscald. Someone on BYC said it's a lack of magnesium and potassium. I (mistakenly, I guess) thought that the Tomato Tone fertilizer would have everything they need.

I have had trouble with yellow shoulder for years now. Thought it was sunscald at first, but I find it on fruit in the middle of the plant. It is a BIG problem for me. It ruins 1/3-1/2 of each tomato! The four quarts I'm canning would have been seven, easily.

I've read yellow shoulder is because of high heat. I wonder if some kind of shading over your tomato plants would help, maybe a 50% shade cloth???

 

[TeresaW]

Transferred my cherry tomatoes and green pepper plants into a larger hydroponic tub.

The tub is too big so I ordered wicking to soak water up into the net pots as they don't sit down into the water. Only they sent me wicking that was thicker than I ordered, so I had to cut holes in the net pots to run the wicking through.

Anyway, got that one done. I need to make another tub, but don't have a water pump for it yet.