What did you do in the garden today?

[OnlySympathy]

A mouse just ran past me when I was in the shed and holy crap that thing was huge I’ve never seen a mouse that big

 

[OnlySympathy]

A mouse just ran past me when I was in the shed and holy crap that thing was huge I’ve never seen a mouse that big

It’s name shall be Bertha and it is the newest addition to the garden

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

I got tomatoes earlier this year than ever before. I canned 5 quarts last week, and 2 more yesterday.

I'm at the point where I have too many to eat fresh, but not enough to do a full canner load (7 quarts). I have to can them a few jars at a time to keep them from spoiling.

You are lucky! I core mine and put them in the freezer in gallon ziplock bags ..take out all of them the night before I want to can and let them dethaw. The skins slip right off and the all the water separates from the tomato. Then I can a big roaster full at a time.Some people don't like this method, but it works for me!

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

The Canadian wildfire smoke has made it’s way this far east. The air is so bad today and unfortunately all week. I picked peas earlier this morning and I had planned on skipping the pole beans but there were quite a few begging to be picked so I did and got another half pound. I went up the hill and picked another half pound of berries. Five of the ten SM tomato plants are doing much better and three have buds on them. It won’t be a big harvest but not a total loss. I checked the grapevines and the smaller vine with the smaller grapes is definitely not a Concord grape. Now to figure out what it is. So I only have one Concord vine producing this year. Frustrating. The other gardening frustration I’ve got going are the Vates Curly Kale seeds I purchased from a vendor on Amazon. I’ve been patient but I’m 95% sure these are not young kale plants.View attachment 4189777
The stems are purple so I’m not sure if they’re even an edible plant. Has anyone seen kale like this before? This is the seed packet.

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Red Russian kale looks like that

 

[Justagalwithchicks]

Picked the beets right before the rain began..canned pickle beets and the carrots I pulled night before. It's once again a cool day here which is still crazy strange. This week d we are supposed to be in the mid 90's.. it's been awesome airing the house out!

 

[OnlySympathy]

Not sure why but I got the urge to randomly list out all the seeds I got today

Spoiler: Proceed with caution

Yellow pear tomato
Floradade tomato
Igleheart tomato
Black prince tomato
Beit alpha cucumber
White wonder cucumber
Lemon cucumber
Spacemaster 80 cucumber
Bennings green tint squash
Yellow scallop squash
Pimiento de Padron pepper
Hungarian hot wax pepper
Thai pepper
Large red cherry pepper
Fresno chili pepper
Dwarf French marigold mix
Rosa Bianca eggplant
Casper white eggplant
Prizehead leaf lettuce
Giant noble spinach

 

[OnlySympathy]

I’m attempting to make pickles using a totally original recipe that I didn’t steal from @Rick589

 

[Minanora]

It’s name shall be Bertha and it is the newest addition to the garden

I add mice and rats to the orchard. Great fertilizer. No living vermin is welcome here.

 

[Minanora]

Sunday I processed things.

There are diced tomatoes in the freeze dryer right now, and more blackberries. Once those are done I'm doing pineapple (I bought a big bag of frozen because freeze dried pineapple is my sister's favorite and I get to see her this weekend), more tomatoes and tomatillos will go in as well.

 

[OnlySympathy]

Sunday I processed things.

There are diced tomatoes in the freeze dryer right now, and more blackberries. Once those are done I'm doing pineapple (I bought a big bag of frozen because freeze dried pineapple is my sister's favorite and I get to see her this weekend), more tomatoes and tomatillos will go in as well.

What i wouldn’t give for a freeze drier…