What did you do in the garden today?

[Minanora]

Everyone complaining about their squash harvests makes me feel slightly better mine didn’t do anything all summer.

Hey! Not complaining, but factual. Got a pretty poor harvest from most
Cucurbitaceae family plants this year.

But we got lots of green beans! And lots of stone fruit!

 

[Smokerbill]

I finally got around to mixing up some BT and spraying all the brassicas... cabbage, kale, collards, bok choi and daikon. Some of the leaves were looking like lace. Lots of holes.

And I treated the garlic patch with elemental sulfur, 9 grams mixed with water. After it soaked in I raked it into the soil.

 

[Smokerbill]

Everyone complaining about their squash harvests makes me feel slightly better mine didn’t do anything all summer.

My butternut squash did ok, four vines and 11 or 12 small to medium size squash. But my four zucchini plants were a total bust.

They started out strong, and when I began tying them to the poles they quit setting on fruit. I think I got less than 10 zucchini squash total for the season. I'll never try growing them vertically again.

 

[Minanora]

My butternut squash did ok, four vines and 11 or 12 small to medium size squash. But my four zucchini plants were a total bust.

They started out strong, and when I began tying them to the poles they quit setting on fruit. I think I got less than 10 zucchini squash total for the season. I'll never try growing them vertically again.

This was my experience as well. I got 10 butternut and maybe 10 zucchini. But I think my zucchini suffered from RKN. When I pulled them out there were no roots left. Totally rotted. Or maybe they were getting too much water, I have no idea.

 

[cj2024]

My Red star egg layer chicks that I got on Sept. 15 will be 3 weeks old by end of week. They are already feathered out and were off the heat lamp at around two and a half weeks old. I have their pen in a spare room, and I started leaving the windows open at night. I'll move them outside when they are 4 weeks old.

I'll be checking if my old hen eggs are fertile tonight in my attempt to preserve my Cornish X/Breese F3 line. Their father is my 3 Isa Brown roosters I got off Ebay hatching eggs. I am not sure how the offsprings will turn out, but I am hoping for them to weigh at least 5lbs at 3 months old. They got a shot, since they will have some Cornish X blood in them.

Since only one of my hens is laying, I have been putting her eggs in the same incubator every 3 days. I only checked the first three eggs that I put in, and they were fertilized. All three eggs had a black dot with movement inside the egg. I have a total of 8 eggs. I plan on moving four of them to another incubator on lock down.

 

[dirkandlorie]

I planted my garlic 6 days ago(?), and the grocery store cloves are up already. That was fast! The expensive Italian garlic I ordered is not breaking ground yet, but I'm sure I planted early enough for them to have a good root system before winter sets in.

 

[akroberts1085]

My pumpkins have been producing well this year but for my other squash, I got 2 or 3 zucchini and 3 or 4 spaghetti squash and that's it.

 

[akroberts1085]

I'm envious. Over the last three years I've never had weeks of no eggs, until now. I've had to cut off my family from eggs. I have none to give, not even a stash for the winter. I guess I should have started hoarding earlier this year.

I wasn't hoarding the eggs I just couldn't get anyone that wanted them. I was gone for a couple of days and that's why I got 18. I have 2 sets of pullets that are a month or so apart in ages and that's probably the only reason I am getting eggs with the exception of my white leghorn. She's still laying daily.

 

[Bsmac]

Hey! Not complaining, but factual. Got a pretty poor harvest from most
Cucurbitaceae family plants this year.

But we got lots of green beans! And lots of stone fruit!

Yeah it was a tough year for that family of plants this year we got a lot of cucumbers but plants did not live long! I waited too long to spray for cucumber beetles. I heard from several folks that they had the same problem.

 

[Smokerbill]

This was my experience as well. I got 10 butternut and maybe 10 zucchini. But I think my zucchini suffered from RKN. When I pulled them out there were no roots left. Totally rotted. Or maybe they were getting too much water, I have no idea.

I'm guessing that the zucchini vines were damaged or stressed when I repositioned them as I was tying them to the stakes. The effect was immediate. The roots were great on the three I pulled up and fed to the chickies.

There's one vine left with a huge zucchini that I'm hoping matures enough to produce viable seeds for next year.