What did you do in the garden today?

[sourland]

Still picking tomatoes. Plants stopped setting fruit when it was so very hot, but then started producing again and are loaded with green tomatoes that have just started ripening.

Question for someone. The ornamental lime green sweet potato plants that I used in the porch railing planters are producing tubers. Are they good to eat?

 

[TJAnonymous]

We aren't far behind you on those figures... Everything with shallow roots is dead unless it's being artificially watered. Even ancient, giant trees with deep roots are stressed for water. I dug down 9" in the garden and it's nothing but loose dust like Sahara sand. I don't think I've ever seen it like that during this time of the year.

 

[Molpet]

Still picking tomatoes. Plants stopped setting fruit when it was so very hot, but then started producing again and are loaded with green tomatoes that have just started ripening.

Question for someone. The ornamental lime green sweet potato plants that I used in the porch railing planters are producing tubers. Are they good to eat?

Technically the ornamental sweet potato is edible, but usually doesn't taste like SP

 

[pennyJo1960]

Took years to get this bad going to take years to correct if ever what has done to this world.

 

[cj2024]

I made a big pot of pork with long squash and put the left over in the ice box. The next day when I heated it up, I didn't have an appetite or craving to eat it, indicating that it was missing something. Then I thought about foods that leave me craving and I remembered the taste of my favorite small Indian restaurant downtown.

Yes, I had another Epiphany. All I had to do was add turmeric, cummin, coriander powder, red pepper flakes, paprika, 2tbs Centro Tomato Paste in a tube, butter and Garla Masada. I nailed it.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

We’re very dry here as well. We have only been getting measurable rain every 4 to 5 weeks apart. Today the high was 77F and very sunny. I will likely have to water the fall plants tomorrow. More seasonal temperatures will be returning soon so I think I may put hoops in the beds with the fall crops so I can cover them if it goes below 30F.

 

[Jenbirdee]

well i checked it says my area is in moderate drought. I thought it would be more than moderate since it hasn’t rained in I don’t know 8 to 10 weeks? But apparently from January to August was the wettest year in a long time.

 

[Sally PB]

Today I prepped the two beds for garlic and multiplier onions. I put compost on, raked it level, and then hoed furrows in. I watered the furrows well. We might get a few hundredths of an inch of rain tomorrow, maybe more on Friday. I plan to plant on Thursday. That would be another garden thing marked off the list.

 

[Acre4Me]

All 3 varieties of garlic are planted!!

Peas are flowering and just beginning to produce done pods.

Last section of carrots are still in the bed. Husband want to keep them there to pull up over winter. We shall see…

Mustard looking good.

Very dry, so I am watering, but just with a hose since each section of growth is small, and they are all spaced apart.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

Indoors:
The garlic cloves I put in the pot have sprouted. Pot carrots were looking leggy so I put another light on them. Only two of the seven scorzonera seeds have sprouted but the package says it can take up to 21 days so I’ll give them another week before putting in more seeds. I’m not hopeful seeing as they’re being outdone by two year old carrot seeds right now, but I’m also not in a rush.

Outdoors:
A couple pea pods that ventured beyond the safety of the deer netting got chewed on and I think the intermittent cold spells have damaged the bean plants, but they aren’t actually dead yet. Only one or two more pods look like they might make it to seed harvesting stage, and a tiny handful more might be harvestable for eating green.