What have you done today in the Garden?

The cucumbers are Marketmore 76, a slicing cucumber that the peeling is not bitter.

 

DeepWoods you have convinced me. Lasagne gardening here I come.

 

My other late sister’s rose. Flowered on 1st June which is her birthday. This rose is Sceptered Isle.
Weeded.. and moved this rose about.



Just begining to flower, my late sister’s standard rose. It just misses her birthday. This rose is Happy Retirement. I bought her the same rose when she retired.
K

 

Oh, they look so good Sjoerd !! I tried to like but the then it went unlike for other members.
K

 

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Beautiful roses Kate!

I have netting in my car to cover our strawberries in the garden. They are jusy about to ripen.

 

I waged a war of biblical proportions on the terrorists of the garden. Every Rabbit and squirrel will fear me. Hahahahahahahaha

 

thanks Deepwoods. I think I even have seeds somewhere.

watered of course. I can't wait for all the flats and baskets to be gone. I have so many other things to get done.

Planted up a few onions I started from seed. raked rocks out of the garden, mowed the strip between the high tunnel and garden. planted a few more peppers. raked some rocks out of the hightunnel... these rocks are neverending around here. I filled a bucket in minutes.... and dumped them down a groundhog hole. (twice so far this Spring). planted up a few cucumber seeds once I found out I could plant two different seedless varieties in the same tunnel. I had to call crop king to ask that. and I worked on thinning an apple tree. it has five apples or more to cut off for every one I keep. it is amazing how many were pollinated and set this year seeing how few bees we saw.

 

So Northerner, pray tell, just how did you wage this biblical war?

 

Lol.. I built a fence.....

 

Watering well. I think I've fertilized enough and the rest will be a battle against sun and wind.

My lettuces are still going despite the heat.

 

Yes Cayuga, it was abnormally hot and humid here---records were set. The most hot May since they began recording. Hah!---with weather like that who needs a sauna.

 

I'm tiring of this heat already....uuugh......The photos are from the past weekend...Cucumbers, zucchini, patty pan squash, swiss chard picked. Made some bread and butter pickles, chopped sweet pickle relish, and some zucchini and squash relish.

 

More weeding and a bit of harvesting.


The strawbs are petering-out...but the broadies are just beginning. Here are two different types this year for a little test. One gave more than the other--you can see that. What you can't see is the flavour. The flavour was so good as identical. We had some with spekkies (bacon fat) last night during the tasting.

Today we skimmed the honey and began the creaming process for some of it, and we will fill jars with the left-over in the coming days.

BTW---the miniscule brown thing in the middle of the left bag is a spudette. We checked under all the types to see what the progress was. This is the largest we saw. It is a Harlequin.
--call us "crazy", but we cooked this lonesome midget and ate it with a lash of butter.---Oh, my word! It was beyond delicious.

 

S, I just had a customer looking for harvested vegetables... we haven't had frost free weather for 6 weeks yet. but that doesn't matter... its warm now and it should be ready... right?

 

Oh Carolyn, I sympathize with you! You have gardens, and they ought to produce vegetables out of season, and perhaps year-round!
I was taking early season veggies into the food pantry, and a woman asked me for tomatoes. I told her they wouldn't be ripe until about a month from now, and she replied that if the grocery store had tomatoes, I should have them. There are some folks that it just doesn't pay to talk to.