Your 2024 Garden

[Nomadicus]

I've got the water running again on the last small block of the fall garden. I will do some in the berry patch in the cooler temps in the late afternoon.

 

[Nomadicus]

Tonight I have water running on the sweet potatoes and the area next to them I'm getting ready to plant the likes of greens and broccoli and cauliflower. It's powder dry around them now. We haven't had near enough rainfall this year.

 

[Nomadicus]

Watering a new spot now and one more to go after it has had a good drink. Then tomorrow I start back in the bean and summer peas and squash patch. It is really bone dry here right now.

 

[Nomadicus]

I will sleep better tonight knowing all of the fall garden has been watered and is no longer wilting anywhere.

 

[fuzzi]

I bought collard seedlings today!

I also cleaned out the deep litter from the first 4-5 feet of the chicken run. It went into a couple raised beds that needed more soil. I'm going to leave them fallow over the winter.

 

[fuzzi]

I turned the soil in garden bed #2 in preparation to plant collards, but would love to work in more well-rotted compost before I transplant seedlings. I also pulled out the remaining stakes in the squash bed and turned the soil but didn't add anything else, yet. It's had beans, collards, and squash in the last two years, time to switch to carrots, chard, or turnips.

It's not hot, but the sun was bothering me so I came in to cool down.

 

[NanaK]

Yesterday I picked about a dozen pie pumpkins, a bunch of butternut squash and 2 watermelons.

This is the watermelon we had last week. Hope the next 2 are just as ripe.

 

[fuzzi]

I turned the soil in garden bed #2 in preparation to plant collards, but would love to work in more well-rotted compost before I transplant seedlings. I also pulled out the remaining stakes in the squash bed and turned the soil but didn't add anything else, yet. It's had beans, collards, and squash in the last two years, time to switch to carrots, chard, or turnips.

It's not hot, but the sun was bothering me so I came in to cool down.

Squash bed, soil turned, tomatoes in back:

Collards waiting for me to finish preparing the soil:

On impulse I cut off two tomato plant suckers and put them in this bed, right side. I have the watering can between the plants as I'm keeping the soil damp so their roots develop quickly.

I really want to work in compost before I transplant the collards, but I also don't want to wait too long, and stunt them.

The melon plants are dead, so I am going to use their trellises over the collards and spread row cover on top. It did a great job of protecting the plants from weather and insects last year, want to do it again.

 

[Nomadicus]

With the small amount of okra growing this year we still get enough for two or more good meals a week from it. Maybe more now as it has rained now for two days in a row on top of all that I put back in the ground.

 

[fuzzi]

When I got home after work today I felt it was too hot/humid to do a lot of digging, so I compromised, just loosened up the soil and dug four holes on one side of the raised bed. Then I added partially rotted leaf compost into each hole, watered them well, and transplanted four of the collards.

The leaf compost:

A helper!

Helper #2: