What did you do in the garden today?

[Justagalwithchicks]

Just picking my veggies , like "The Little Red Hen" in my time of plenty plucking away at what I want to preserve for the winter. Watered some of my garden since it's dry here and we are going to get hot this weekend. Cut all the new growth off my Long Island Cheese pumpkins, so it will focus it's energy on the ones already growing. I didn't think I would get any pumpkins because we had 9" of rain in a short period of time this summer and all the baby pumpkins dropped off the vine. Checked them and I have some nice ones. If you haven't grown these and want pumpkins for baking, they are basically pest resistant and disease resistant. I highly recommend them.

 

[jxp]

All of my eggplants this year have ended up looking like this. I’m not sure why View attachment 4213280

Also I’m not sure what happened but i just had the hottest jalapeño I have ever ate. I can eat cayennes without an issue but that thing was BAD

Maybe it's a variety like prospera?

 

[OnlySympathy]

Maybe it's a variety like prospera?

It’s supposed to be black beauty

 

[OnlySympathy]

It seems my phone has decided to die on me again so until it figures out how to fix itself (it took I think 4 days last time this happened) I’m stuck on my not so great old phone

 

[Minanora]

It's absolutely beautiful outside today! High of 78 and sunny... Sadly, I will not get to enjoy it. Was cleaning the chicken coop yesterday and fell off a step stool. Landed on the chicken roost (landscaping timber) and severely injured my ribs, back, and hip. Thought I broke my back at first. Thankfully nothing is broken but badly bruised. Hard to move around right now and bending down is not happening.

I hope you recover quickly. That sounds like quite a scare.

 

[Minanora]

Both of my peaches were planted 2 years ago. The Belle of Georgia gave me 2 sweet juicy delicious peaches last year and around a dozen this.

The Bonfire - which is meant to be decorative and not bred for consumable fruit - has been overloaded both years. The peaches are small and not tasty but not disgusting. They ripen super late also. When I do research to choose what to plant, I really should stick to my list and not let the greenhouse salesperson talk me into something else. I'd tear it out and plant something else if it weren't so darn pretty and the ducks and pullets didn't like it so much.View attachment 4213249View attachment 4213248View attachment 4213255View attachment 4213256

I'm thinking of collecting the bonfire peaches as they ripen and perhaps make either purée for bellinis or mixing them with other fruit and concocting a vino.

That is the cleanest peach tree I've ever seen. It's beautiful!!

 

[chickengr]

Both of my peaches were planted 2 years ago. The Belle of Georgia gave me 2 sweet juicy delicious peaches last year and around a dozen this.

The Bonfire - which is meant to be decorative and not bred for consumable fruit - has been overloaded both years. The peaches are small and not tasty but not disgusting. They ripen super late also. When I do research to choose what to plant, I really should stick to my list and not let the greenhouse salesperson talk me into something else. I'd tear it out and plant something else if it weren't so darn pretty and the ducks and pullets didn't like it so much.View attachment 4213249View attachment 4213248View attachment 4213255View attachment 4213256

I'm thinking of collecting the bonfire peaches as they ripen and perhaps make either purée for bellinis or mixing them with other fruit and concocting a vino.

bonfire peaches look like peaches my grandparents had. they were not tasty to eat fresh but people used to make jam and syrup of them.

 

[Minanora]

This. And traps.

 

[Minanora]

I don’t think I could bring myself to shoot squirrels. Chipmunks I have no problem with killing but there is just something about squirrels that I love

It'll come with time.

 

[Minanora]

I roasted my first kubocha squash of the season. The seal is broken, vegetable roasting season is here early in this house. I love... I mean, LOVE, roasted vegetables and an excuse to eat nearly every winter squash available to ingest. Yummmm!!!

I'll be sad when we have our upcoming heat wave