What Did You Do In Your Garden Today?

[Carol Dee]

The garden is finally producing. Today we picked several grocery bags of green beans. LOTS of tomatoes, 3 bell peppers. some purple podded beans. Then went home, snapped beans, blanched and froze 6 quarts. Saved some to eat fresh. Put up 8 more quarts of tomatoes. (
Already have 22 done.) And we are only beginning to pick! This a.m. we defrosted and cleaned the garage freezer. Room for more vegetables.

 

[meatburner]

Ain't it cool Carol!

 

[digitS']

Composting-in-place -- also known as burying plant material.

Digging potatoes, first part of that composting-in-place. Leveling bed so as to have a place to transplant Asian green seedlings, ditto c-i-p.

Then, I wandering thru a couple beds of dahlias, disbudding. Tomorrow will be a major assault on the red spider taking up residence there!

Steve

 

[meatburner]

Did several pounds of tomatoes for the freezer until we get enough to make sauce to can. Maybe 40's nice tomatoes that filled two gallon freezer bags. Grilled burgers and dogs for our annual church picnic around noon and then headed to the garden. Clean out one of the 4 x 8 beds and put in mushroom compost, cow manual compost, and our own compost to get ready for a fall planting. Life is Good!

 

[majorcatfish]

after a light breakfast the dogs took me for a walk noticed that i missed a few yellow beans so processed to pick them
while picking them saw a small fuzzy yellow bug, turned over couple leafs they were infested with Mexican bean beetles
took the dogs back in and went back out with a large trash bag and carefully pulled up everyone of them and placed them into the bag
off to the dumpster in the morning. knowing darn good well a few dropped off, mixed up a little spray and sprayed the general area.
inspected the other beans no sign of eggs or larvae.

with that crisis over looked at the thyme in the herb bed it was time for a trim.
come back in with almost 2 full boxes and immediately placed them into the drier
will be interesting to see how much or little all of this makes after drying

 

[Smart Red]

Just finished watering (YUCK, I hate doing that) and pulling out the few new starters in the weed family. Decided a couple of ears of corn will be sacrificed for supper -- our first of the season.

Studied the strawberry bed and the bed where the last of the spuds need digging. Any ideas for when the best time (soon?) to transplant strawberry plants from the grassy bed (been pulling that stuff all year) to the clean ex-potato bed?

 

[897tgigvib]

Picked a lot of montezuma red, a fair amount of senate soup navy, some tennessee green pod, and some dapple grey.

Chatting with my aussie gal, marshallsgirl, and we're making 2014 plans for her arrival!

 

[thistlebloom]

Picked a lot of montezuma red, a fair amount of senate soup navy, some tennessee green pod, and some dapple grey.

Chatting with my aussie gal, marshallsgirl, and we're making 2014 plans for her arrival!

Give her a big howdy from us!

 

[dewdropsinwv]

Today I seen the weeds are getting out of hand in the potato patch, I couldn't stand to look at it any longer so I went out and started pulling weeds. I'm glad I did because what I seen was red root pig weed about to go to seed NO NO NO we can NOT have that!!!! I will help Monty get that stuff under control or die trying!!!!
Then I started to pull the corn stalks and Monty told me I shouldn't be messing with it because of the saddle back caterpillars... I forgot about those. Don't wan to be stung by one either. I guess tomorrow I will be walking threw the rest of the garden and see what I can find to get into.

Then I remembered the netting for the grapes was still on the ground, so I rolled it up and stuck it in the barn ...... When Monty gets home, he can make me some grape vine wreathes!

 

[MontyJ]

Hey dearie, can you do me a favor and wrap the other concord with the netting? There are still some good grapes on there that I don't want the deer to get. Sorry I forgot to do it