What did you do in the garden today?

[Smokerbill]

Harvest egg plant and a few ripe dragon fruit before the birds get them. Eggplant tofu panda express style or eggplant Parmesan.View attachment 4182182

Nice!

 

[OnlySympathy]

I am very happy I was too lazy to pull this weed I just realized it was a pepper. I’m not sure how it took so long for me to realize given that it is right in front of around 15 peppers

 

[TJAnonymous]

Apparently lambs ear can be used as a natural bandage? I guess it’s good that I got some. I’m talented at getting injuries

Yes... I've been trying to get it to grow around here but haven't been successful yet. I want to grow it for the same reason

 

[Sally PB]

I was shooting for a 6 to 6.5 primarily to accommodate beets and potatoes and found 7 actually a tad too neutral and realized that for what I normally plant I could handle an even slightly lower Ph than 6-6.5.

Just about everything will do well with a pH of 6-6.5. This was a good reference.
https://soiltesting.cahnr.uconn.edu/plant-ph-preferences/

I don't get too worried about pH unless I see problems, or know that something is an outlier, like blueberries, that like really acidic soil.

I was forced to stop at Starbucks and they didn’t even have free used coffee grounds

I've stopped stopping at the local Starbucks. They said that they aren't collecting coffee grounds because "they are short staffed." That was a couple months ago, but I haven't bothered to go back.

 

[Rick589]

I FINALLY got my first tomato View attachment 4182147

Hooray for you!

 

[cj2024]

I started getting into olive oil. I placed an order with amazon for a tin can of Partana brand/Asaro extra virgin olive oil from Sicily and a 3L tin of Atlas extra virgin olive oil from Morocco.

I found that soaking my salted/vinegar eggplant in plain boiling water off the stove until the water cooled made my salted/vinegar Sicilian eggplant more palatable. I also have been skipping the squeezing part and just use a colander. In addition, I put the olive oil on right before I eat them and store the semi cooked eggplant in the ice box. Furthermore, I have been adding a quarter cup of vinegar during the salting phase instead of the boiling stage.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I started getting into olive oil. I placed an order with amazon for a tin can of Partana brand/Asaro extra virgin olive oil from Sicily and a 3L tin of Atlas extra virgin olive oil from Morocco.

I found that soaking my salted/vinegar eggplant in plain boiling water off the stove until the water cooled made my salted/vinegar Sicilian eggplant more palatable. I also have been skipping the squeezing part and just use a colander. In addition, I put the olive oil on right before I eat them and store the brined and semi cooked eggplant in the ice box. Furthermore, I have been adding a quarter cup of vinegar during the salting phase instead of the boiling stage.

I bought 2 of these from Amazon... One for olive oil and the other for avocado oil. You can use them as a sprayer or to pour your oil... They work awesome....

 

[TJAnonymous]

Made some sun tea today with pineapple rind, lemon verbena, and some holy basil.

Also dug up a bunch of golf ball sized potatoes for a roast we cooked for dinner. Haven't really spent any time in the garden. It's terribly overgrown with weeds again.

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

Mowed some. It is tough out there. Very humid early or hotter and humid later. Heat advisory and 94 predicted. Planted some purchased yellow hollyhock seed single and I have some yellow double sprouted. I like yellow but you seldom see them growing.

I don't think I've ever seen a yellow hollyhock. I have the typical colors and started a black one this year.

 

[OnlySympathy]

I planted a beefsteak that was propagated from a destroyed plant