What did you do in the garden today?

[Rick589]

Oh I meant like a fire pit outdoors! Sorry about that

I guess I should have read further first.

 

[Sally PB]

BUT onions, although I do get them usually have some form of rot, you the kind that affects individual layers. I’ve tried several times to start them from seed and they’ve never gotten passed anything more than thick blades of grass which then has me buying starts. Very frustrating.

And what about this rot I always get? I pull them and dry them on an open rack for weeks…..still rotten layers. If I leave them in the ground until the leaves are all dry, pull, and rack dry….still rotten layers. I’ve actually given up.

Last year, I had a lot of the rotten layer issue. I ended up chopping and freezing them.

Starting from seed has been... mostly a miss. I don't do it consistently enough to say it works for me, or doesn't.

 

[chicken opey]

We had a casualty w our young chickens. One darted off when dh was putting them up. I took flashlight and walked around peeping but it didn’t come back. Not here this morning either. We hatched and raising these for family member. They are taking all the hens when bigger.
I found a hornworm the size of my fat thumb this morning! They are there, just can’t see them.
And we had rain again yesterday. I had a friend who once said our area is turning more tropical and I scoffed at her. She may have been on to something

 

[WthrLady]

I think I'll do this. I save seed for the next year. Most of my tomatoes are for canning, and bigger tomatoes make the job go faster.

Link to the site/study?

Link?

I would love a reason to eat more eggs. They're right on the counter, quick and easy to cook, go with a lot of stuff from the garden. Plus, I get "free" eggs because I have chickens.

Would love to, but it was on our morning national news radio show 2-3 weeks ago. Couldn't begin to tell you how to find it. I just remember hearing it and saying, ' oh, we're still on the upswing side with eggs, eh?' And going about the morning.

 

[Sueby]

I have 100% switched to superb lids too. Much better quality.

I was just out pushing the dirt away from my onions, they aren't doing all that hot this year - I think it's been too wet. I've had quite a few rot. But I had to get some fertilizer in them so now they're even more wet.

Horsenettle is my new nemesis. That and bindweed. Both relatively new here. I'm about to get out the chemicals, and I never do that.

Is it a thing that bees can be all over your coneflowers so much so that they miss pollinating your squash? I think that's whats happening here and I'm annoyed I have to hand pollinate them now too.

 

[OnlySympathy]

So far I have done absolutely nothing other than stare at some plants

 

[Sueby]

They just released an egg study. Eggs are even better for you than previous study. Recommend one egg per day.

I'm waiting for the report that 5 eggs a day is perfect, lol. We each eat 2 a day, every day. & then if I bake anything. I always hesitate to put an egg on my salad or snack on a devilied egg because I feel like we eat too many.

 

[dirkandlorie]

I caught a summer cold and have been doing the bare minimum (I thought) for the last week. Went out to tend the gardens and found 4 dead tomato plants, the few remaining with nothing but yellow and brown leaves, some tomatoes but definitely not healthy. Cut off the dead and dying leaves. Fertilized and drenched the soil around them with aspirin water. Only thing left to do for them is pray. Cucumbers are doing well though, fertilized them too. Now back to bed.

 

[Iluveggers]

Got my first zucchini & summer squash yesterday! Finally!

Still have a crap ton of weeding to do.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

I caught a summer cold and have been doing the bare minimum (I thought) for the last week. Went out to tend the gardens and found 4 dead tomato plants, the few remaining with nothing but yellow and brown leaves, some tomatoes but definitely not healthy. Cut off the dead and dying leaves. Fertilized and drenched the soil around them with aspirin water. Only thing left to do for them is pray. Cucumbers are doing well though, fertilized them too. Now back to bed.

Hope you feel better soon!