What did you do in the garden today?

[Smokerbill]

I want to try this recipe. Thanks for posting it.

You bet. I had it years ago and liked it. I really like the taste of eggplant but I might be allergic to it or something. If I eat much of it it makes my mouth kind of sting or tingle a little bit. But it's worth the pain. LOL

 

[Sally PB]

I weeded 4 raised beds. They needed it!

I also squished a bunch of asparagus beetle grubs. Dang, they're ugly!

 

[Rick589]

Man, this cold front coming through is torturous. Only hit 93 today…..brrrrrr!

 

[ShrekDawg]

63° right now. Apparently it got to 68° today LOL

 

[cj2024]

We planted three eggplants last year, black beauty, for the first time.Although we liked the eggplant I think we ended up overeating them to the point of them falling out of favor, at least for the time being. Currently placed right next to kale in our sphere.

I followed the marinated Sicilian Eggplant video that I posted earlier and have them hanging in a multilayered herb drying rack in the house. It has a perfect mild vinegar and salt taste.

I cut 5 round black beauty eggplants into 1/2-inch slices and maybe they can all fit in one or two pint mason jars after shrinking. I also infused two tsp of minced garlic into 3/4 cups of olive oil with two oregano twigs and will pour it on the air-dried eggplant slices.

This is one of the best tasting recipes I found to preserve eggplants.

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

WOW - we have gotten 3" of rain in 4 days. I live in the Midwest. We don't get that this time of year..we don't usually get that ever! That makes 5" for the month! We have been in a drought for quite a few years and this has really made a difference . Made weeding the garden and flower beds so much easier. I'm sure I will be having some disease problems because of it. On the downside my secondary chicken run is a soupy, stinky mess. I'm grateful for my main covered run. The chickens could care less. Haha

 

[chickengr]

I tried sprouting okra seeds from Hoss Tools in a seed tray with a humidity cover, but nothing came up and I gave up. I saw this video and decided to try again with the same packet of seeds. The only thing I did different was, I used a microwave to heat up the water and filled and emptied the water about 4 times after a minute. I let it sit in the warm water for around 5 hours and placed them in a tray with wet paper towel and covered the tray like the video. I checked the seeds the next day and all the seeds sprouted. A small step for mankind.

water from the microwave oven is dead water.

 

[chickengr]

You bet. I had it years ago and liked it. I really like the taste of eggplant but I might be allergic to it or something. If I eat much of it it makes my mouth kind of sting or tingle a little bit. But it's worth the pain. LOL

might be sesame (tahini). try to make it with mayonnaise (or 1/2 mayo 1/2 yogurt) instead of tahini.

 

[Acre4Me]

Far behind again! I try to keep up with you all, but other things take up time too.

Yesterday we had an intense storm for about 30 min. Even the tiny carrot plants were flattened to the ground, pepper plants were tipped over -not broken though.

Sweet potato slips arrived … right as this heat dome started. Took me two days to plant them- about 115 slips, some of which may not survive (USPS did them no favors prior to receiving). But plenty look happily hot (nestled under black plastic), and wet/moist - both things they love to be.

Garlic looks great! But still in the ground. Will harvest in a week perhaps. The onions are looking good too. Will have to harvest one variety as many are now tipped over (began a few days before the storm yesterday) so I need to get them on a rack to cure.

Potatoes are beginning to look “done”, so I’ve been harvesting some from the dirt as needed for meals. Yum!

Japanese beetles -1st one spotted yesterday. I’ll need to spray a few of the fruit trees, bc one in particular is an absolute magnet for them -they stunted its growth for 2years before I finally broke down and began to spray that tree with an actual pesticide for the duration of the JB season.

Chickens- still having issues with this Feb batch. Another death a couple days ago - they are about 16 weeks old now. We decided we will get more chicks this year, but will drive to Meyer hatchery and pick up some chicks. The problem batch came from a different hatchery (which we also picked up in person, and have used that other hatchery for years without any oroblems). But this is the last year needing to care about 4H rules for fancy and egglayer chickens bc last year kid shows in 4H. Love 4H, great program, but glad to move onto non-kid activities after 27 years of parenting. I’ll just submit my own things to the fair as I feel like it.

 

[Molpet]

water from the microwave oven is dead water.

Definitely if making tea