What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

Picked 7 gallons worth of tarragon stems and stripped those down to a gallon of leaves, now washed and in the freeze dryer.
Picked tomatoes and some grapes and tossed some to the hens.
Tied up plants.
That's about it.

 

[Cynthia12]

My rattlesnake pole beans did right by me today. I picked roughly five pounds of them, most will be going into the freezer. A handful of bush green beans and a zucchini went in the basket too.

It took me a while to pick them. I try to be gentle and cut each bean off the stem with scissors so I don't damage the smaller beans that remain.

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Ohhh..I miss my brown eggs.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

I had to go searching for them but a few of the bean pods are about full sized, either not changing colors yet or just starting. Also staked the new pea plants over the weekend.

Bugs are still terrible and with the beans and peppers still blossoming I don’t dare spray them.

 

[Sally PB]

Canning another batch of tomatoes. I have a lot of weeding I could do, but I'd rather get some of the ripe tomatoes off the table. I figure I'll be doing a load every other day until we have enough. Then it'll be salsa. Probably have to buy the hot peppers.

 

[cj2024]

I had pickled some green Brad's Crazy cherry tomatoes early in the year and decided to start using them. I think I used 1tbs salt, 1tbs sugar, garlic and hot Hawaiian chili peppers to 1 cup water and 3tbs vinegar as a starting point until the green cherry tomatoes were covered with the brine. It has a balanced garlic flavor with some heat from the chili peppers.

Anyway, I chopped some up and stir fried it with some quartered pieces of Hawaiian Portugues sausage and made an omelet. I served it with Mexican rice mixed with olives.
I gave it a thumbs up and came away with some ideas.

I will put some chopped pickled green cherry tomatoes in my Mexican rice the next time I make it and serve it with over easy eggs and sausage for breakfast.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Did a little watering... The awful high humidity and heat is back so I didn't stay outside very long...

I still need to finish weeding inside the hoop house.

My potatoes are finally sending up new sprouts after I inadvertently killed them off earlier this spring.

 

[jerryse]

Spent the morning at Menards buying for another project. Took some garden pics. Afternoon resting.

 

[Sueby]

I need a good stick blender. I've been shopping for one for a while now but can't decide. What one do you have and what do you dislike and like about it?

I have the Braun MQ505 & I absolutely HATE it. It has no power & get so hot. I use the thing all the time, one of these days I'm going to just get another. I hate to be wasteful but my arthritic hand can't hold onto it long enough to make soup!

Oster is the best IMO. My kid got mine at Target I think.

Thanks for the tip, I will look at Oster. Probably tonight, lol. I was literally looking 2 days ago & didn't know where to start.

I have had hardneck garlic in the fridge for a few weeks, cold stratifying. It will come out when I plant the rest of the garlic in October. I've read a ton about leaving garlic in the fridge for this and leaving it in longer is better apparently. This is my first time forcing a hardneck type. I've always grown softneck and silverskin types. I will be planting out plenty more of those but I want to experience scapes!

I stratified mine for 3 weeks in the friddge this spring & planted. Normally I plant in the fall & winter is cold enough to do what it needs, but with my surgeries it didn't get planted till spring. Super happy how it came out tho! It's small but extremely well formed bulbs, good, tough paper. The fridge did a good job. Mine is softneck tho.

It took me a while to pick them. I try to be gentle and cut each bean off the stem with scissors so I don't damage the smaller beans that remain.

I just get under the trellis & yank whatever beans I see. I am so not gentle. But in my defense, I'm not going to hurt these bean plants:

The garden is a jungle at this point.

I pulled the rest of the onions. Harvested lots of beans, squash, cukes, tomatoes, hot peppers & strawberries. Cored & froze a bunch of maters for cooking later on.

I've discovered I'm not a fan of ever bearing strawberries. I don't have it in me to pick 5 berries every.single.day. I'd rather pick 30 every day for a week & be done. I'll have to start propagating my june bearings & get rid of the ever bearings.

 

[Acre4Me]

12 pages behind. Back in town now. Catching up on garden chores.

Ripped out the field peas/cow peas. Mostly done producing. Green beans were not picked while I was out of town, so I’ll be doing that. Many ripe tomatoes out there too.

 

[jerryse]

I have not seen cucumber beetles or SVB here. Garden fenced to keep deer out.