What did you do in the garden today?

[CrealCritter]

Picked peaches - bugs got most of them but is a small price to pay for not eating chemical sprayed peaches.

Got stunk by red wasp. I hate wasps Grrrr... Now my whole hand is itching. I'll take some later... Got to much to do to be tired from benadryl right now.

 

[CrealCritter]

DD and I ripped up the pea plants so we can plant some kale there. Never planted kale this spring so it'll be a fall crop. Not that we can do much for fall crops here! I'll plant more carrots and beets too. That'll likely be it, I'm afraid. No energy to order more seeds or try much new. We have a barn to build instead!

Next year I'm going to try for a smaller, more easily managed garden.

We did our carrots and beets this spring. I directly sowed seeds at the end of February. Havested beets twice and carrots once.

I wanted to let carrots grow a little bit more but tropical storm Cindy dropped a ton of rain on Southern IL and a few of the carrots started to split - so I just went ahead and pulled them all out of the mud hole that my spring/fall garden became - Thanks Cindy.

Beets we're really good this year. I pulled them several weeks before Cindy rolled through though.

Wife canned both... Raw pack for carrots and she made candied beets. She did not like to can carrots this year - "all that scrubbing". I helped scrub some - again thanks Cindy, carrots were a muddy mess...

I hope your carrots and beets do very well.

 

[Hope Hughes]

we cleared the trees we pulled down & marked & squared the area out now need to till, fence make thr raised beds and we will be ready lol

 

[sumi]

I got a little surprise when I went to look at what's left of my garden I gave up on the cauliflowers as the bugs ate them down to almost nothing when they were small. Three of them hung in there regardless and one grew and grew and…

 

[sumi]

I never pulled the rest of last year's carrots...

 

[sumi]

What I did all week in my garden is envy the neighbour and wondering why I spent week breaking my back cleaning up my mess of a backyard when they went from as big a mess to this in about 4 days? Note, the brambles are gone!

And here is the magic wand, parked for the weekend in what used to be a flower bed in my somewhat messy backyard. I'm minding it for the weekend and no, I don't have the key to it!

If I owned this place I would've hired this guy and his machine in a heartbeat... As it is I'm tempted to ask him how much he'd charge me to clear that last 1/3 of the back that I want to put more lawn on...

 

[CrealCritter]

Today, I pulled up most of my tomato plants and the last of my squash. It was just to dry for them. But, I also picked our first watermelon of the season. I don't know how they grew so big with as little rain as we have had but this watermelon was massive! I have 5 more in the garden, but not as big. Not bad from just one plant!!! I'm definitely saving seeds for next year.
This watermelon was shared with 4 more families, and we still have plenty. I love how God provides for all of us here in this little valley!
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Nice melon . By mistake my son found that watermelon do best when they have to find their own water. I know it sounds like a oxymoron (watermelon) but they turn out sweeter and bigger if you leave them be, than if you regularly water then.

 

[Hinotori]

I was getting worried about the Pacific crabapples ripening this year. It isn't a big crop this year. Those are every other year usually. Thankfully the ones that came up out in some of the marginal areas after we bought this place are now starting to get old enough to fruit. Some actually had a few apple clusters this year. It takes so long for full size native trees to mature. Not that they are big trees.

I picked all the lower apple clusters and will be making jelly tomorrow.

 

[CrealCritter]

Picked a couple of tomatoes.

 

[Mini Horses]

Had a thought to share.

As I look through the seed porn mail, I keep a list of those things that jump at me as I excitedly think I "WANT" that. Within a day or two I look at my seed stash and cross off those which I have (shamefully, often a few pacs of). Gnerally by a weekend, 98% are crossed off

I liken it to a "word find" puzzle. Saves $$.