What did you do in the garden today?

[Justagalwithchicks]

I picked a bunch of green beans and canned them. The zucchini and yellow squash i planted for fall is starting to produce now.
Picked a lot of cucs for tomorrow to can pickles with my daughter. It's practically raining cherry tomatoes (left a bag on neighbors doorstep), but the regular tomatoes are definitely slowing down.. tomatillos are slowly coming in, but most have worms. The cabbage moth lays eggs on my tomatillos.. I'm not sure if this is a new phenomenon or not. It drives me bonkers. Last but not least, picked the last of my little corn patch I grew for late corn. It was really good. It did have worms on the ends of each ear, but those went to the chickens.

 

[OnlySympathy]

To hot for me.

They are flowers

(picture from google, I don’t have any on this phone)

 

[akroberts1085]

I just found the cutest little saying on Pinterest. Don't tell secrets in the garden. The potatoes have eyes, the corn has ears and the beanstalk

 

[jxp]

They are flowers
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(picture from google, I don’t have any on this phone)

Somehow the wrong post was replied to. This was meant for habenero boy.

ETA I love forget-me-nots. Such happy little flowers.

 

[Minanora]

Today I dug out more than half of the soil from one of my garden beds and spread it out on the patio so I can hit it with the weed torch to kill nematodes. Yup, that's the level of infestation I'm at.

I'll pile it up once it's done to make room for more from that bed. Once it's empty I'm scoring the inside of the bed, the hardware cloth bottom, and then using the soil drench, adding neem oil, and adding crab meal before I put the soil back in after two soil drenches.

I'll add new Earthworms, microbes, and compost. I will... Defeat the root knot nematodes... I will!

After this bed, only 5 to go.

 

[Rick589]

I add water with 2.5% salt concentration if the cabbage is too dry. I like the liquid to be an inch or so above the cabbage.

Beautiful!

This last batch I made I did at 2.5%. Previous few batches I did at 2.0% and although it was good it still nagged at me that it wasn’t quite sauerkrauty enough. So far I’ve always had enough juice from the cabbage. Of course, now that I’ve said that every batch moving forward will be bone dry.

 

[Rick589]

birds

Takers. Every one of them.

 

[Rick589]

I picked a bunch of green beans and canned them. The zucchini and yellow squash i planted for fall is starting to produce now.
Picked a lot of cucs for tomorrow to can pickles with my daughter. It's practically raining cherry tomatoes (left a bag on neighbors doorstep), but the regular tomatoes are definitely slowing down.. tomatillos are slowly coming in, but most have worms. The cabbage moth lays eggs on my tomatillos.. I'm not sure if this is a new phenomenon or not. It drives me bonkers. Last but not least, picked the last of my little corn patch I grew for late corn. It was really good. It did have worms on the ends of each ear, but those went to the chickens.

Bt will take care of the cabbage moths

 

[Rick589]

Here’s a question. When you compost your garden do you till it in or just spread it on top? I’ve done it both ways and am curious about what is considered the best way.

 

[Molpet]

Here’s a question. When you compost your garden do you till it in or just spread it on top? I’ve done it both ways and am curious about what is considered the best way.

I don't till anything anymore. IMHO tilling brings up weed seeds. I dump on top.