What did you do in the garden today?

[FarmerJamie]

I live in town, just threw some pepper plants in the front flower bed on a lark. A tossing of radishes are growing in a pot.

Getting anxious for my someday soon garden (again).

 

[CrealCritter]

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Bad year fir rabbits but this winter will be a good year for rabbit fir and meat

 

[Beekissed]

Tended tomatoes, picked some rhubarb, raspberries and squash, and found a few squash bugs procreating, so I unleashed the Ducks of Wrath into the garden and gave them a deep tub of water. Sat it between two squash plants to make sure they see the bugs there.

We'll see if that helps.

Haven't seen a single Jap beetle all season!!! I'm amazed by that, especially with the beans growing and raspberries hanging...usually they are all over those.

 

[Lazy Gardener]

I found my first 2 squash bugs today. More to come, no doubt! Planted a handfull of nasturtium seeds. Spinach salad for lunch. Planted a tray of beets. will tuck those somewhere after they get a tiny bit of size on them.

Sweet potatoes are looking mighty fine.

 

[Lazy Gardener]

Added some more mulch to the potatoes. Grass clippings on top of the hay. Hoping that the layer of hay between the 2 layers of grass clippings will keep the grass from turning into a slimy mat. Mixed lettuce and sugar snap salad with supper tonight.

Total of 10 bags of grass clippings distributed between garden and HK mound tonight. Set electronet in to mow the fence line around the front side. Still need to use weed wacker around the back.

 

[Britesea]

While DH and DS fabricated a wire fence cover over the strawberries to keep the birds away, I cleaned out the chicken coop and used the litter and some old cardboard to build another compost pile. Harvested our first head lettuce, a bunch of english peas, strawberries, 3 cucumbers and a good amount of broccoli. I made a keto version of Risi e Bisi using riced cauliflower with the peas for dinner along with some baked salmon with our dill and preserved lemon, a salad using the lettuce and cucumbers, and low carb ice cream with strawberries. It feels so good to be harvesting a nice variety of foods from the garden!

 

[wyoDreamer]

Your supper sounds wonderful! I love being able to cook with fresh ingredients that I pick myself.

Did you use a frame of some type to make your strawberry cover? I planted strawberries in the garden and am thinking of making a cover for them. My thoughts are to buy some electric conduit and bend it into hoops and cover with machine fabric. They will be built to the dimensions that I hope the raised beds will be ... for future strawberry transplanting into raised beds. DH said he is building raised beds this fall.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Had okra from the garden last night and some pork ribs. Nice to have the entire meal from home. We had yellow squash the night before. Yum! This is the first year that my yellow squash has out performed the zucchini. The whole world is upside down, lol!

 

[Lazy Gardener]

That is a good idea to cover the strawberries. If only I'd kept the asparagus in a separate bed. But, I put asparagus and berries in the same beds to better utilize my garden space. Asparagus is actually a good bed mate for a LOT of garden plants.

So... if you're not planting asparagus b/c you don't want to tie up the real estate for a perennial crop that produces for only a few weeks, you might want to re-think that, especially if you love asparagus like I do.

 

[wyoDreamer]

The asparagus patch near the garden has alot of beetles on it. It always has beetles on it. From what I can tell, the wild asparagus around here hardly ever has beetles on it. Any advice on controlling the beetles so they don't invade the garden.