What did you do in the garden today?

[Liz Birdlover]

I've seen big green areas of precipitation on radar part like the Red Sea when they are about to drench us. I understand!

Exactly!

 

[Liz Birdlover]

going to transplant more lettuce and broccoli I bought yesterday. made green tomato relish and mixed veggie pickles.

Sounds delicious

Never tried green tomato relish & I've got many green tomatoes. Share your recipe?

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

I just picked what I think is the last of the tomatoes. All green but showing signs of ripening. The temperatures will be in the high 60’s tomorrow and hopefully we’ll get some rain. Up on the hill I picked all the volunteer SM tomatoes and another nice serving of green beans. I heard some noises like a large animal close by so I didn’t bother the check on the grape vines. I still have about two dozen or more black bean pods hanging on the vines. I’m waiting for them to start turning a little light brown before picking. I turned the sprinkler on the fall garden for now. I’ve never successfully grown Brussel sprouts before and I am wondering if they need supports when they are still about 12 inches tall. I know @pennyJo1960 has success with them. Thoughts? Apple picking this Sunday. Looking forward to it.

 

[Smokerbill]

Picked another box of tomatoes this morning, around 20 pounds or so.

 

[WthrLady]

Plan here is to pick any remaining whiting tomatoes on Saturday and then pull the vines Monday when we cool down with highs in the 70s. I love watching the garden thrive, but there is something relaxing about having a clean slate again in the Fall.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Brussle sprouts stand tall all by them selves.

 

[Smokerbill]

I love watching the garden thrive, but there is something relaxing about having a clean slate again in the Fall.

I agree 100%.

ETA: This inspired me to remove a few garden plants.

This is a 2nd year curly leaf parsley plant that I purposely let overwinter so it would bloom and produce seeds. Pollinators love it. And it's already shed enough seeds to make enough volunteer plants for next year's parsley crop.


This is several flatleaf parsley plants that came up volunteer from last year's pollinator parsley. One chicken found a fat katydid hiding in the branches. They don't eat much parsley if any, but it makes for a good distraction.


Some of my seed stock rattlesnake beans have gotten huge! These are the seeds I'll be planting next year.


Got my last batch of carrot seedlings thinned out for the last time and hilled up on the sides to cover the root tops.

 

[akroberts1085]

Gotta go pick my cushaw pumpkin and weigh it because it looks bigger than the 1st one I got.

 

[akroberts1085]

Well according to my scale it says it weighs only 8 lbs. Even though it's much bigger.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Well, I had laundry on my to do list. The dryer has been acting up & finally died. I wanted to repair it but there was an awesome deal at work, a new dryer discontinued, for less than the repair part would be. So today we were dealing with that mostly, as the old duct was nasty & I had major cleaning to do, in laundry room & in crawlspace before installing the new. They sure do not make it convenient to get to this stuff. I think there should a way to get in, at each side of the house. Inevitably, it always is the furthest spot you must crawl to, in order to fix anything down there. Not my favorite place to be.


My poor Petunias have had it, so I did get a nice bag full of their tiny seeds before pulling up the plants. We've gotten another hot spell it seems, weather-wise.
Back to watering again.
Tomorrow I hope to be more productive, as I will Not be in a crawlspace.

All day long, I heard birds, in addition to my own flock. Maybe just about 100 Geese, but I tell ya, my photos do not do justice to the zillion seagulls! They were scarfing down flying insects.

Geese in the back...



Seagulls in the front.

Alfred Hitchcock would be pleased.