What have you done today in the Garden?

More weeding, harvesting and planning. We will soon acquire the new strawb plants for next year. We are making te bed ready and in a week or so we’ll plop 20 plants in.
There is green manure in that bed at the moment. I may try and re-locate them.
Today it will be a processing day of yesterday evenings’ harvest.

 

The beans were ready for another picking.

my cone flowers are small and dwarfed this year by the Cosmea, but none - the- less lovely.

 

Those are all perfect. The coneflowers are brilliant.

 

Not much outside but put up tomato sauce and pickles inside.

 

For anyone concerned about pruning wisterias this hard in January.





These are ours today.

I've been pruning more unwanted new growth all summer.

 

Too bad we do not eat Wisteria.They grow like mad here as well.

 

Wonderful. Mine are also growing vigorously…even after losing about 1/3 of them to that heavy storm a few weeks ago. I could prune it every week if I wanted to….hang on. I AM pruning them every week !

Well Riley yours are all looking smartly pruned. I imagine that you harbour a little bit of pride in your chest. Wot.
Well done.

 

I didn't do anything in my garden, but I did turn my compost and got two (2) five gallon buckets of compost. It'll help level up the new strawberry bed. My granddaughter will help me take it out this evening when it's a little cooler.

 

It's not supposed to rain today, so i might be able to get out in the garden to pick some fruit.

 

I picked a lot of blueberries, red currants and white currants.

 

How big are your currant bushes? I want to get a pink champagne currant but I have limited space.

 

They're not too big, about 4 ft tall by 3ft. Every few years have to cut the older stems out because they don't produce so much on the old ones.

 

Weeding, harvesting, planting green manure, lifted onions and made new bed ready for strawberry plants which we will order tomorrow. The first tomato harvested and eaten up in a salad tonight.

 

Still waiting to get a ripe tomato. I put some dirt down so the blackberries have a place to expand to. Watered everything. I think I might be able to harvest a couple bags of potatoes by late next week.I think the green tops will be pretty dead by this weekend so I'll move them away from the others and stop watering them. I checked out the basil and will cut some tomorrow morning to make pesto and freeze it. Not much else to do until stuff ripens. The October beans have changed colors, but they aren't ready to pick and dry. Now it's just a waiting game.

 

Willow—Good to hear your description of how things are going there. Don’t forget to show some pics when you get some good harvests. That way we can enjoy along with you.