What did you do in the garden today?

[Bsmac]

This was my first real year trying tomatoes. It wasn’t bad. I am in Canada and the season is short. I have a lot of green tomatoes that I picked today as frost is likely coming.

Any hints on how to ripen them?

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I have 4 plants that I have hanging in my garage.

We just leave them set out in a shady spot. Works well for us!

 

[Bsmac]

Guys..... This is Peaches. She's molting, but so photogenic.

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Poor girl! We have several molting too! I always feel sorry for them! I like to give them a little extra protein. I think it speeds up feather growth. Usually meal worms.

 

[Bsmac]

Or is it fried green tomatoes?

Fried green tomatoes are great if fixed properly!

 

[jerryse]

This was my first real year trying tomatoes. It wasn’t bad. I am in Canada and the season is short. I have a lot of green tomatoes that I picked today as frost is likely coming.

Any hints on how to ripen them?

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I have 4 plants that I have hanging in my garage.

Ethylene gas from fruit. Put in a bag with some fruit. I worked in a produce house as a teenager. We would put pallets of tomatoes in the Banna room to ripen.

 

[Bsmac]

Ethylene gas from fruit. Put in a bag with some fruit. I worked in a produce house as a teenager. We would put pallets of tomatoes in the Banna room to ripen.

That does work. I had forgotten about that. We have good luck laying them out in a shady spot most of the time.

 

[Sally PB]

This was my first real year trying tomatoes. It wasn’t bad. I am in Canada and the season is short. I have a lot of green tomatoes that I picked today as frost is likely coming.

Any hints on how to ripen them?

Really good hints on how to ripen them so far! I've never had fried green tomatoes, but I use my green tomatoes to make a mild salsa. Bonus: They aren't juicy, so you don't have to cook it down much.

Also over planted the garlic in the hopes of repelling voles. I've been plagued by them the last couple years.

I'm going to try this in my cherry tomato row. The voles come in from the east end. That part of the row did not produce nearly as many tomatoes as the west end.

I pulled up all the worn out tomato plants in the lower garden, picked off the green tomatoes and threw the vines into the woods.

I used to toss them out into the field. Now I burn them to try to minimize the risk of spreading any diseases they dead/dying plants might carry.

I do this with dead asparagus stalks too. I've heard that asparagus beetles can overwinter in the stalks. I have been known to hiss, "Die, you little buggers, DIE!" as the stalks burn.

 

[Sally PB]

Yeah this will be the year I sanitize my garlic in booze. After the bulb mites, I'm not taking any chances. I need all the garlic.

I treated my garlic last fall for the first time. So far, I have not seen any garlic mites on the cloves I harvested this year.

 

[OnlySympathy]

Guys..... This is Peaches. She's molting, but so photogenic.

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My one bird Prudy was the complete opposite of photogenic until yesterday when she was feeling slightly more like herself and didn’t sprint away from me. Her new feathers that are coming in so pretty must be making her happy

(Ignore McWeirdo at the bottom)

 

[Molpet]

I was out doing chores tonight and my husband walked up to me and said I've got some bad news. My boar (pig) Buddy died. He was such a good boy, he was just laying there in his favorite spot. So sad...

Sorry for your loss

 

[Smokerbill]

I treated my garlic last fall for the first time. So far, I have not seen any garlic mites on the cloves I harvested this year.

Did you also do the fertilizer soak?

I didn't see any sign of mites on the garlic cloves but saw a couple with some weirdness out of the 150 or so I looked at. One had some strange bumps on it, another had a brown spot near the root end.