What did you do in your garden today?

[ovenbird]

Originally Posted by SpaceAge

You don't want to see pix of me in my kitty cat print shorty pajamas! I promise you that! LOL

[jokenmar]

Oh, I don't have any pictures today. I have been so busy that I have not even thought of taking pictures. lol I picked the last of my snap beans yesterday. Got them canned in jars. A beautiful sight. I am picking my crowder peas now, and the black eye cow peas. Also still picking cucumbers, squash and peppers. I am putting the peppers in the freezer. I am getting a few tomatoes every other day now, and hopefully, will get enough soon to start canning them.

[SpaceAge]

meow ...?

[lalbers]

Space, I don't recall giving permission to use that picture of me on the internet. I need a commission

[AnnClaire]

Well, it was horrible. Almost a nightmare. Along with the mature locust I saw last week, I had a 4" tomato hornworn completely denude TWO AND A HALF branches on one tomato plant! Oh, it was terrible! That means that I will have to be out there at 7am until they run out! If I could just make arrangements with the local wasps to meet me out there, I would gladly let them take care of the issue. As it is, they get thrown into the middle of the street for anything that wants them

I also saw a very small potato beetle crawling around on one of my cucumbers, so he just got pinched.

I set a trellis for my navy beans ... they had flowered before putting out vines, so I thought they were bush, but I guess not ... oh, well, plenty of room.

Broke off one of my largest banana peppers today accidently

I also finished mulching the okra with solarized grass clippings and found 3 bags of leaf mold that I forgot about.

I also snagged 6 bags of grass clippings a couple of blocks over from my place and they are solarizing on the back sidewalk with my clippings from this week.

I also put pots under three more strawberry runners today ... they will be for the new stawberry bed that is on it's second week of solarizing.

Yesterday I thinned my Nantes carrots and this is what I got ... the longest one was about 6" and most were 4-5"

[SpaceAge]

Originally Posted by AnnClaire

Well, it was horrible. Almost a nightmare. Along with the mature locust I saw last week, I had a 4" tomato hornworn completely denude TWO AND A HALF branches on one tomato plant! Oh, it was terrible! That means that I will have to be out there at 7am until they run out! If I could just make arrangements with the local wasps to meet me out there, I would gladly let them take care of the issue. As it is, they get thrown into the middle of the street for anything that wants them

I also saw a very small potato beetle crawling around on one of my cucumbers, so he just got pinched.

I set a trellis for my navy beans ... they had flowered before putting out vines, so I thought they were bush, but I guess not ... oh, well, plenty of room.

Broke off one of my largest banana peppers today accidently

I also finished mulching the okra with solarized grass clippings and found 3 bags of leaf mold that I forgot about.

I also snagged 6 bags of grass clippings a couple of blocks over from my place and they are solarizing on the back sidewalk with my clippings from this week.

I also put pots under three more strawberry runners today ... they will be for the new stawberry bed that is on it's second week of solarizing.

Yesterday I thinned my Nantes carrots and this is what I got ... the longest one was about 6" and most were 4-5"

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Spectacular carrots ! Yum !

[T'Gardenator]

counted mellons. . . 9 nice size cantaloups on one vine! and the kicker is. . .it's a volunteer from seed in my compost that got spread into the garden

[KellyGardens]

Was out in my front garden today tying my tomato plants higher on their stakes when a man with two kids walked by. I said "hi," he turned around and it was my district manager from work!

Guess he's a neighbor. Wow. Barely recognized him outside of the work setting! Tried to give him a couple tomato plants for his kids, but he said they had more than they needed. So he gardens a bit too!

It was rather awkward, really. I work in the next city over from where I live, yet everyone seems to live near me. Our loss prevention guy always seems to be at the grocery store when I'm there.

So I eventually re-arranged my tomatoes so I had a good path to get through the jungle of pots. Tomarrow I will have to do a plant count. Since I gave a bunch away to coworkers, I'm not sure how many I have left.

[weedy]

Picked Lemon Squash(AGAIN) ,picked cukes , picked 100 ft row of corn (for freezer),tilled where taters were dug, wiped sweat, planted 3 short rows of corn (80 ft total),planted 40 ft row of taters,mopped sweat planted about 20 hills of cukes, tilled & hoed out 20 hills of young squash,worked mater tops back into cages.

[JanR]

Not much as I was at work, but I did check for potato bugs when I came home, but didn't find any. Then I picked some Sugar Snap Peas, Green onions and spinach to have with my supper.