What did you do in the garden today?

[Molpet]

Always wondered why direct seeding was not recommended.

I transplant tomatoes between middle of May and the end.

The volunteers come up the end of May to Middle of June.
About the time some transplants are dieing the volunteers are producing.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I pinched off the flowers on my tomatoes. They are barely a foot tall... I'd like them to grow a lot more before expending energy on fruiting.

With all this rain (another inch last night), I need to go weed again... And the mosquitoes are just horrendous!

 

[jerryse]

I pinched off the flowers on my tomatoes. They are barely a foot tall... I'd like them to grow a lot more before expending energy on fruiting.

With all this rain (another inch last night), I need to go weed again... And the mosquitoes are just horrendous!

I use buckets of doom for mosquito control. Buckets of water with a piece of mosquito dunk. They lay eggs in there. At the cabin I also fog the area. The real help is the July dragonfly hatch. They eat a lot of mosquitoes.

 

[jerryse]

I planted German chamomile starts and potted tiger lillies. The lillies have been in those pots 1 year. Started from bubils off the stems.

 

[Molpet]

I pinched off the flowers on my tomatoes. They are barely a foot tall... I'd like them to grow a lot more before expending energy on fruiting.

With all this rain (another inch last night), I need to go weed again... And the mosquitoes are just horrendous!

I used to, but nowadays I let a couple bloom so I have early tomatoes. I plant way more than I need.
One for the rock
One for the Crow
One to die
And one to grow
A good year the chickens are happy. A bad year I have just enough.

 

[Molpet]

Had to get an EKG today. Good news not in AFIB. Looked at plants and seed racks. To my surprise in the Ferry Morse rack I found golden delicious squash (pumpkin). Used for canned pumpkin by a company in MN. Out of business now. Had a huge following. Everyone uses Dickinson pumpkin in my area for commercial canning.

Glad no AFib and finding the canning squash

 

[Smokerbill]

I picked up a box of produce throwaways at the grocery store for the chickens, lots of greens, tomatoes, grapes, cukes, zukes. There were also big onions going bad. One was sprouting so I planted it in the self watering bucket that's been sitting on the front porch all winter. Good spot for an onion!

And I bought more seeds. Blue Lake pole beans, Provider bush beans and SMR-58 pickling cucumbers. I never heard of the SMR-58s but I needed a pickling cuke and it was the only one they had.

 

[WthrLady]

I'm finishing up the cleaning of the canning/preserving area. The last load of jars comes out of the dishwasher in 55 minutes. SO MANY JARS....ready and waiting. To be fair, I'm switching over to a LOT of freeze drying. But, there's still jellies and applesauce and fruit butters to me made
One of the new chicks didn't make it through yesterday. She was fine all day, and in the evening she was struggling and then gone. So sad.
I found her with one of the other chicks snuggling her. Breaks my heart. She's buried in the herb garden, under the chamomile.
I picked up two more at the farm store today, 2 sale minimum. 2 Dark Brahmas. I like my big butts.

 

[cj2024]

I am really enjoying my white eggplants. The texture is tender, and the skin doesn't have a bite to them like round black eggplants. I have been picking them at around 3 inches and have been quartering and roasting them at 430F for 10 minutes. I can see why the label say it taste like mushrooms.

 

[Bockbockbaboq]

Past few days: put out lavender, thyme, onions, garlic, citronella geraniums. All 6 of my comfrey have sprouted.