What did you do in the garden today?

[pennyJo1960]

We will not do as much this year I am sure.
I have gotten seeds like sweet potato do not like myself DH does make home fries with them also.
My horseradish is is happy where I placed it.

 

[chickengr]

I wonder if substituting small green tomatoes for the cucamelons would work? I have about 20 pounds of green tomatoes (tiny to big) I need to do something with.

I have plenty of horseradish leaves...

I cut green tomatoes and onions and pickled them just like anything else. pickle brine: 3 l water, 1 l 9% vinegar, 60 g of salt, 40 g sugar, some black pepper corns. dill, garlic and bay leaves improve flavour.

 

[Sally PB]

Well, the clouds held up, so we did not get a hard freeze. Frost, probably, freeze, no. This was the coldest of the few cold days before a warm up, so maybe my bean plants will be ok!

I hope so; these plants did very well, so I'd like to save their seed for next year.

 

[jerryse]

best tool if you only have a couple trees. I gave up when I was spending 4 hrs a day, every day, for a couple months. The squirrels must get the good ones in my yard. The ones I checked floated and nothing good inside. But the ones I find buried in the garden are good ones. I have over 3 dz mature trees.



The only times I have been successful moving a broody was to move the whole nest. I have put the eggs in a dog crate over the nest and then move her a couple days later.

Float testing works on hulled walnuts but a nut with the hull on floats in my experience.

 

[jerryse]

34 when I got up. Turned the furnace on to take the chill off. 29 predicted for tomorrow morning. Going out and start the smokeless firepit. Sit around the fire and hull walnuts for an hour or so. Then do other things.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Awwwww, I think my tomatoes days may be done. Sad to see Temps in the 30s.

 

[Smokerbill]

Well, the clouds held up, so we did not get a hard freeze. Frost, probably, freeze, no. This was the coldest of the few cold days before a warm up, so maybe my bean plants will be ok!

I hope so; these plants did very well, so I'd like to save their seed for next year.

I decided to plant only vining rattlesnake beans next year. They did really well for me this year, and they're good eating beans. I have an idea to make a 2-section hinged trellis for next year's beans.

The lower section will be solid and fixed at around 5 feet tall. The upper section, another 5 or 6 feet in height, will be attached in a way that it can tipped downward for picking the beans, then tipped back up out of reach of the deer.

It will be in a spot outside of the main garden area, with a 4' tall chicken wire fence, 2 or 3 feet away from the trellis, to keep the deer out. There won't be enough space for them to jump inside the fence, and they won't be able to reach over the fence to eat the bean vines.

It's a work in progress. LOL

 

[Sally PB]

The lower section will be solid and fixed at around 5 feet tall. The upper section, another 5 or 6 feet in height

Will it withstand any wind gusts you might get?

 

[Smokerbill]

Will it withstand any wind gusts you might get?

That shouldn't be a problem. It'll be in a low, open area, tall trees to the north, trees and a gentle rise to the south. And I'll support it with trusses on each side.

I searched my garden junk pile and found 2 sections of cattle panel, each 8' long, 5' tall. Those will be sturdy enough for the upper hinged sections. I have a bunch of hog-wire type fencing, 4' tall, for the lower section.

A pair of T-posts for each 8' section should be sturdy enough. Might wobble a little but I think they'll hold.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Checked on eggs this morning. She was off them again and they were ice cold. Brought them inside to candle them and don't see any movement. I put them in the incubator to warm them up. I'll candle them again this evening. If there's still no movement, I'll be forced to concede...