What did you do in the garden today?

[CrealCritter]

Romain

Oh the best lettuce there is - without question. We're are you located? My lettuce bolted in June. I pulled it all up and gave it to the chickens. We were burnt out on it anyways so no love lost there...

 

[CrealCritter]

I got hit by yellow jackets a couple days ago....they got me on the hand and the forearm. Swelled up all across my knuckle and had trouble typing! That's taking it a little too far interfering with my ability to communicate, lol! Never did get around to the Benadryl and it was down the next day.

Simply amazing what a little bug can do to you isn't it? I went to go turn on the water and they had made a nest under the garden hose holder. I didn't see it coming at all. Grabbed a can of wasp killer and sprayed that nest good.

 

[CrealCritter]

I HAVE to chug Benadryl immediate or my heart tries to pop.

Sounds like you may be really allergic some people are... My Mom is highly allergic to bees, so much so that she even avoids honey. Thankfully I didn't get that "gene" from my mother.

 

[CrealCritter]

DD and I ripped up the pea plants so we can plant some kale there. Never planted kale this spring so it'll be a fall crop. Not that we can do much for fall crops here! I'll plant more carrots and beets too. That'll likely be it, I'm afraid. No energy to order more seeds or try much new. We have a barn to build instead!

Next year I'm going to try for a smaller, more easily managed garden.

We did our carrots and beets this spring. I directly sowed seeds at the end of February. Havested beets twice and carrots once.

I wanted to let carrots grow a little bit more but tropical storm Cindy dropped a ton of rain on Southern IL and a few of the carrots started to split - so I just went ahead and pulled them all out of the mud hole that my spring/fall garden became - Thanks Cindy.

Beets we're really good this year. I pulled them several weeks before Cindy rolled through though.

Wife canned both... Raw pack for carrots and she made candied beets. She did not like to can carrots this year - "all that scrubbing". I helped scrub some - again thanks Cindy, carrots were a muddy mess...

I hope your carrots and beets do very well.

 

[NH Homesteader]

Wow! That all looks amazing! I did some carrots and beets in spring but might as well do some more! I am amazed by your garden, and the canning? Your wife is amazing! I do not have a green thumb and I never had a garden until 3 years ago so I'm slowly learning. I'm more of a livestock person but I'm trying!!

 

[Mini Horses]

Wow, love beets. plan to plant some more for Fall. Here it's a good time for those "types". Since this is my first year back into a veggie garden in several years, it's slow but working.

Life presented situations that made me limit many activities to allow for caring for other family members. That's why I get excited over many "previously normal" things -- like a broody hen, new chicks and simply a home grown tomato!! After 4 yrs it's like brand new again.

 

[Wannabefree]

I took a couple years off too and it is like new again and I'm loving it!! Even though it keeps me tired all the time lol!

 

[NH Homesteader]

Love and garden... Do not belong together for me, lol. My husband is the type to order a zillion types of seeds and end up with mediocre results, where I would prefer to start small and master my small garden with a few essentials, then expand. We've done it his way, next year it's my way! Plus we'll have an infant next year and it'll be my first kidding season so small will be good.

 

[Mini Horses]

If you love, & have had, the results of a large one - it is hard to cut back. But, honestly, I've enjoyed re-entry on a far smaller scale. Yeah, I'd like more. The thing you have to do is decide what you like BEST, is most used & buy the rest -- find a farmer who sells. Plus, unless you need way more, generally only a few of they plants will give you plenty for fresh use. If you need to can/freeze, then plant or find a buy source. Fewer gives you time to enjoy.

I'd love to find someone like crealbilly to come to my farm, use my land, equipment and manures, etc.....just let me share the produce! Thinking about finding someone like that. I'd help out as it's always more fun when you share.

 

[treerooted]

Oh the best lettuce there is - without question. We're are you located? My lettuce bolted in June. I pulled it all up and gave it to the chickens. We were burnt out on it anyways so no love lost there...

Southern Ontario, zone 5b. Lettuce got in late, and then lately we've had a bit of a cool down (and rain) which has really slowed the bolting...but that picture was taken I think a week ago or so. Some of the heads are reaching pretty high so we're trying to eat them up

I'd love to find someone like crealbilly to come to my farm, use my land, equipment and manures, etc.....just let me share the produce! Thinking about finding someone like that. I'd help out as it's always more fun when you share.

Depending on where you are, there are often quite a few young people looking to do just that, who don't have the capital to buy land for themselves.
There's numerous land owner to farmer connection websites out there to help put those with land and those who want to work in contact. Some agreements may be leasing, produce share, or whatever works!