What did you do in the garden today?

[baymule]

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My husband pulled the two 32' rows of English peas on the right. I appreciated his help. He gets dizzy bending over, so I let him pull the tallest plants. LOL I make him stop and sit down, but he finished the peas and went to the house. I took a brief break for 3 fried eggs and ice water, then back to the garden until 4 this afternoon. I will finish up tomorrow. My husband can pull the other row of beets, sit down in the shade, cut tops and wash them with the water hose nozzle. This patch is where I'm going to plant purple hull peas.

 

[baymule]

I pulled more weeds today. About the time I get them all pulled, it will be time to start over. This is the row of Asian long beans and the Kentucky Wonder beans.

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This is the row between the Asian long beans and the tomato trellis. See the Black Eyed Susan wild flowers? They come up and I leave as many as I can. I love their bright cheery flowers.

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[ByFaithFarm]

Trimmed and sharpened sticks to use as stakes to make a basketweave style protective surrounding for my fruit trees/bushes. I began the weaving with a few muscadine vines pulled out of the woods recently. Soon, I’ll pull more vines out and finish. Hoping for a end result something like this to keep the weed eater from destroying them.

 

[Mini Horses]

Since no one has EVER SEEN --- --- squash growing, here's mine! Just happy to have anything producing right now.

potatoes sprouting, too.....I'm on a roll!! LOL

At least my efforts are beginning to produce.

The hard rains over night have beaten up on the little pepper plants but, rest is doing ok. No worse for the wear, so to speak. Found one hornworm on a tomato plant this am....RIP! Now, gotta watch for those things. Not even done planting....already they come!

 

[Chic Rustler]

not much to do. picked some things and watered as much as I could. it's a hot day in Texas!

 

[Beekissed]

Currently doing garden clean up/out with the help of three sheep and they are doing a fantastic job! Easiest clean out ever. Usually put all that stuff in the coop, so will miss that this year, but I'm glad it's being utilized and put back onto the garden all the same....just a quicker turn around this time.

Yesterday I had a trellis that was wall to wall green vines of tomato and beans and today that trellis is completely stripped of all greenery. A whole bed of overgrown asparagus is currently getting a huge trimming, flowers are being eaten, squash and potato vines consumed and even weeds are being consumed.

If they could get their teeth into those hard pumpkins and squash, they would eat those too. I'll leave those in place for the chickens and to rot down so they are easier for all concerned to eat.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Yep, I'm about over chickens in the garden too...grrrr. It's always something.

BUT - drum roll please.... had my very first harvest from the garden yesterday! A radish!!! I like radishes, but DH loves 'em. So, I pulled this one in front of him, gave it a rinse in the garden hose and chomped it down, lol. I only regretted it a little bit... it was spicy!

 

[Beekissed]

Chickens found my birdseed and oats and were scratching it up. Free range chickens are so annoying! "This is why we can't have anything nice"

The way we have to do it here is fence out the larger garden and lay deer netting on top of the flower beds around the house and let the flowers grow up through it....pin it down with landscaping pins. Chickens HATE trying to scratch through that netting and leave it alone.

 

[CrealCritter]

Picked and put up the last of the sweet corn.

But when you see nothing but butts in the garden that's a good thing.

Yeah more green beans, there must have 30 gallons picked out of the three rows already this year... I'm so sick of green beans already. Sigh...

 

[treerooted]

Nothing yesterday, we had a flood of rain on Monday so everything is still pretty soaked through. Which is alright, I had planted a bunch of neglected sunflowers about the property on Saturday so hopefully they'll make it
I actually have fruit growing! Little green tomatoes and peppers, and pie pumpkins.
And it's been a salad every night lately