Your 2024 Garden

[Sally PB]

I am going to can my first batch of tomatoes today! 4 quarts.

 

[Nomadicus]

We have just got the second patch of tomatoes for canning planted. If they can just hang on until this heat starts to dissipate we will get enough to really stock the pantry. Ma says we don't have near enough canned from the early tomatoes. Bugs and disease got more of them than we did. Ma pulled and piled the plants and I put a match to them and burned them with some downed tree limbs.

 

[Sally PB]

When I pull the potato and tomato plants, they're all going in the burn barrel. Ditto with the asparagus and black raspberry canes.

 

[Nomadicus]

When I pull the potato and tomato plants, they're all going in the burn barrel. Ditto with the asparagus and black raspberry canes.

That is smart to get all the disease burned and away from the garden. I have pleasant memories of a son pulling all the tomato vines every year and burning them. He was a real fire bug as a teen way back then. I don't have asparagus or the black raspberry canes here but now that you mention the potatoes I don't remember what I did with them and wonder if eggplant out to be burned too? I believe they might be a member of the nightshade family of vegetables? This early in the morning my thinker is not thinking strait yet.

 

[fuzzi]

Nothing yesterday, it's been raining.

But I came across photos of my mom's garden, from about 1970. Wanna see?

My dad installed the fence, built a gate, and added a cold frame. It had an old glass window for the top, not showing in the photos.

 

[NanaK]

I've only grown fall/winter squash once, and yes you want the skin to toughen up as much as possible and then you'll be able to store it for a few months. I think I resorted to storing the squash in the garage on top of rolls of bird netting, to keep air circulation on all sides.

I have several flat plastic crates that have openings on sides and bottom. I use a couple to store the pie pumpkins. I will use a couple for the butternut.
I do not have a garage or basement. I do have a room in the house that tends to stay cooler than the rest. This is where I keep my home canned stuff. Before we have a freeze, the pumpkins and butternut will be put there as this is all I got.

 

[NanaK]

Nothing yesterday, it's been raining.

But I came across photos of my mom's garden, from about 1970. Wanna see?

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My dad installed the fence, built a gate, and added a cold frame. It had an old glass window for the top, not showing in the photos.

Love these photos!

 

[Nomadicus]

We finally finished planting all of the sweet potatoes, pepper, and eggplant. Still a lot of things to plant from seed including the sweet corn patch for canning and freezing. Thanks to a couple of hens that were out getting some free time to roam around they uncovered the state of the Yukon Gold Irish potatoes. Golf ball size now. I had to cover them back up after the girls where through bathing in the loose soil. Water is running now on the sweet corn. Onions and blackberries got a good drink earlier. I finally got a good cold glass of iced tea and something to eat after chickens and plants got fed and watered.

And now they most like are going to need digging the hottest week of the summer. If only there was a way to time it right.

 

[tripletfeb]

Welp, the storms yesterday uprooted my sunflowers and broke some stalks in half. I probably won't be able to save any seeds that I wanted to

 

[Nomadicus]

We need a thunderstorm to visit us at night. I need the sleep they bring and all the new seed in the ground need a drink.