What did you do in the garden today?

[Molpet]

No photos from last night?! Here's just a couple of mine. It was very visible with the naked eye. You could see without a light on bright! And while they pulsed high and low all night, they exploded again about 530am!View attachment 4250239View attachment 4250240View attachment 4250241

I was sleeping and when I let the dog out the north door at 2 I didn't notice anything, but I wasn't looking for it either.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

No photos from last night?! Here's just a couple of mine. It was very visible with the naked eye. You could see without a light on bright! And while they pulsed high and low all night, they exploded again about 530am!View attachment 4250239View attachment 4250240View attachment 4250241

Clouds as far as the eye can see for me. The outlook for tonight’s light show isn’t looking any better.

 

[akroberts1085]

I'm going to be working on getting the rest of the pumpkins cooked and canned today because I have to drive back to Oregon to get my husband.

 

[Sally PB]

I spent about 2 hours cleaning in the green house. A little more to do, but most of the icky part is done.

 

[chickengr]

My mom asked me if I had ever seen or heard of a pregnant onion and I said no. I told her that I saw a really cool looking plant in her yard and it looked like it had really cool looking flowers on it and she said yes baby that's the pregnant onion. I asked if I could get one from her and she dug it out for me. It's a really beautiful looking plant I am so excited to see the flowers it produces. I have it in the house right now but I will get it planted eventually. I'm working on making a flower bed and I want to have so many flowers growing it's going to be amazing and beautiful. If anyone wants 1 I will see if I can get a bulb from it.

I didn't know the name but they grow wild here.

 

[chickengr]

I think the Burpee brand Marconi isn't the 12-inch giant ones I see on YouTube. I get 4-inch ones from my Burpee seeds, so I am trying another company with a picture of bigger peppers as seen below.
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they need cooler temperature and probably different soil to grow that big. I got some seeds from my mother (zone 7b, acidic soil) and peppers are much smaller (zone 9a, alkaline soil).

 

[cj2024]

they need cooler temperature and probably different soil to grow that big. I got some seeds from my mother (zone 7b, acidic soil) and peppers are much smaller (zone 9a, alkaline soil).

This time around with my Poblano pepper plants, I mixed 3tbs of Garden Tone organic fertilizer, 3tbs of super sweet granular lime and 1tbs of granular iron to one gallon of a 50/50 peat and perlite mix. I put this mix in a 5 gallon grow bag and my Poblano peppers are growing taller in this mix. In addition, I just gave them a top dose of Southern Ag Sulfate of Potash 0-0-50. The label says it strengthens plant making it less susceptible to disease and adverse conditions. I think I may be on to something.

 

[Eagle343]

I'm going to be working on getting the rest of the pumpkins cooked and canned today because I have to drive back to Oregon to get my husband.

do you cook then puree them before canning them or do you cube them/cook, then can?

 

[jerryse]

Warming trend here. I found a good deal on squash/pumpkin. Walmart has their decorative squash marked 75% off. I bought a nice large pink one to eat. I can tell it is in the maxima group. I will save seed. Might be mixed but could be interesting.

 

[Smokerbill]

My chicks got a new home. I taped two $4 moving boxes from Homedepot together, covered it with part of a rabbit cage. Suckers have room to run now!

No gardening done other than growing out some fertilizer factories...