What did you do in your garden today?

[flowerbug]

Crikey! she's got more tomatoes. What's a tomatillo? Some kind of funky tomato?

an ingredient in salsa verde. pretty yummy, but i don't recommend planting a lot of them until you know you have some certain use for them.

 

[Hinotori]

an ingredient in salsa verde. pretty yummy, but i don't recommend planting a lot of them until you know you have some certain use for them.

I like to eat them off the plants when they are super ripe and color a bit

 

[LaurenRitz]

Down to 4 seedling almonds and 3 apricots from this year.

A friend gave me more tomatoes!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Tomatoes! So I have 38 plants! A few cherry, grape, pear, purple Cherokee...rest paste & canner types. 😁. Fill the jars year and I share fresh with friends. 30 various pepper plants...mostly sweet bells -- green, red, yellow, orange & purple, just a couple jalapenos. 4 type potatoes. Two more for late types in couple months, plus sweets making slips. Beans? Yeah, snaps & dry type, plus big & small limas. 3 type corn, squash, zucs, plus animal type squash/ pumpkins later.

I'm on a "work yourself to death" roll here 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Wow! Just wow! Jealous (!) and not jealous (of all the work in your future) at the same time, lol!

 

[Dreamz]

@flowerbug yes, it was too many. I made sauce for me and half of Florida, lol I took so many jars and gave to family and friends, shipped to my sister in PR still have in the pantry,lol. I am just learning about canning and I had to show off my Michgander skill,lol

This year I picked Rima because they say it's best for tomato sauce. Wonder how to make paste 🤔 Probably more work for sure.
It was hot last night. Up here the ac's they don't cool below 62 but dang, this house never made 65 last night. In Florida the ac's can go lower than 62.

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

Cut back strawberries and covered with straw

 

[tortoise]

Cut back strawberries and covered with straw

That reminds me I need to clear out a little garden near my house. It had strawberries but they arent productive anymore.

 

[tortoise]

Bindweed sounds awful!

Crabgrass isnt too bad, IMO. Just gotta hoe the green tips off until the roots run out of energy and die.

If only I had a way to keep it from creeping in from the edges... my garden is surrounded by crabgrass.

 

[flowerbug]

smothering crab grass and controlling the edges as much as possible. IMO it is more work to take care of a bunch of small isolated gardens with a lot of edges vs. a larger garden where you can plant your patches of things within it.

cardboard layers and barriers along edges will help keep things from creeping in. lawn-mower-spray is often one way that a garden edge can get messed up and made worse. figuring out how to reduce that can help a lot.

 

[flowerbug]

yesterday i got part of a garden ready for winter. it will take a few more rounds to get that whole garden finished before i can move on to the next areas (inside the fence). i spent a lot of time the past few weeks making sure the North Garden was reshaped and terraced and transplanted a lot of Creeping Thyme, but i didn't know that we were going to have so much rainy weather so thems the breaks... it will all get done one way or another before next spring planting season. if i have to wait until spring to get some things done that's just how it can go.

rain again today and last night. appts tomorrow and Wed so i won't get back outside until Thursday and hope by then it is dry enough to make more progress. will be using mud shoes anyways as usual.

inside work, shelling beans, i have two box flats to finish up and some odds and ends and that will be it for this season unless i find more outside to pick that hasn't rotted, but i think my chances of that are slim to none about now.