What did you do in the garden today?

[jerryse]

Picked purple coneflower seeds. This plant is amazing. Bloomed from seed first year and again this year. Tall at about 3 1/2 feet. Got an afternoon Chiropractor appointment. Moving around much better. 95 today.

 

[cj2024]

My White Nile Tilapias don't look like my local river Tilapia that I grew up seeing. It kind of look like a saltwater bream.
I separated this one because unlike the rest it has some light black stripes, but it still has those pink albino eyes which is the main trait of the White Nile Tilapia. I will fatten her up for the frying pan.

 

[WthrLady]

While DH shoveled the manure I cut all the tomato plants off the cattle panels and tossed them over the garden fence to be mulched next week with the mower.
I picked about 60 pounds of whiting tomatoes first.
It's like tomato season never came this year.
Oh well.

If we have a good break in the rain this weekend, I'll let the girls go wild in the garden. Next year is new mulch year so I don't mind if they make a mess.

 

[akroberts1085]

I heavily watered the garden and then decided to dig the ground for the chickens.

 

[Smokerbill]

I barely looked at the garden today. Too much other stuff to do.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Pulled tomato that was done gave it to the main coops.
My gourds are still growing.

 

[karenerwin]

I have 1 yellow cherry tomato plant that is still going like gang busters! My 3 sweet 100 cherry tomato plants are still putting out a hateful of tomatoes every couple of days. I have 1 green pepper plant that is also going to town and giving me lots of first sized green peppers. The other green pepper plant hasn't done a whole lot this year. I have 2 egg plant plants and have gotten 6 or 8 small (first sized or smaller) egg plants from them. That;s the best I ever gotten in all my years trying to grow them. My Roma's didn't do much this year. Small tomatoes and very spotted. The yellow tomatoes (Sun gold, maybe?) are still giving me a few tomatoes but they are on the smaller side now. Earlier in the year they were very large. All of my red slicer tomatoes have stopped producing.The celery plants are still growing but the stalks tend to be hollow and therefore not good to just eat, but still provide flavor in dishes. The carrots that self seeded from 1 plant that went to seed last year, still haven't produced any carrots after growing since the end of last winter. Oh, and the Jerusalem Artichokes that came back on their own, even though I thought I dug them all out, have finally flowered. Not sure if the bees like them or not. The marjoram plant has spread out over just about half of one of my raised beds. So I will be working to get most if not all of that dug out. I used most of it to feed the rabbits this year.
We are supposed to get some rain, maybe up to 2 inches, over the next few days and we really need it!

 

[pennyJo1960]

My grape tomato is happy what ya know rest are not let me tell you.

 

[chickengr]

Sounds yummy! I think I will try Vidalia onion & no sugar, see what I get with using a sweeter onion. I'd rather not use sugar, or try Stevia if it requires some sweetness.

I bet honey would be ok as well. I might try it next time. just put it after cooking so the good things in honey will not be destroyed.

 

[Sally PB]

The carrots that self seeded from 1 plant that went to seed last year, still haven't produced any carrots after growing since the end of last winter.

Carrots will readily cross with Queen Anne's Lace. The roots become tough and fibrous.

I wanted to grow out carrots for my own seed. I am hampered by two things: My carrots don't do very well, and my neighbor has QAL growing around her yard because she loves it. I like my neighbor more than I want to try to grow out my puny, paltry carrots, so I buy seed when I want to try to grow them.