What have you done today in the Garden?

@Northerner about those perennials in pots...are they doing well in the pots? Do you want to have them like that next summer? If so, I suggest you knock them out of the pots in late fall & plunge them in your compost pile for the winter. Of course, it has to be a pile that you are not adding to all winter!

The compost makes them very easy to dig up come spring. Be sure to label them all.

Alternatively, just heal them in somewhere. I usually take them out of the pots for drainage reasons. They seem to survive better.

 

Well I harvested potatoes and I planted cabbage and cauliflower and tomatoes and lettuces in place. I work from first light till about 1 pm then it gets too hot. I come back out in the evening after about 6 pm when it has cooled down.

 

work... and then some more work.
picked raspberries, zucchinis, cucumbers, lots of cucumbers...
watered plants again, weeded the flower bed, picked a few tomatoes and a few flowers that needed cut.

 

I'm pooped. We are going away for a week & I had a bunch of perennials & seedlings to get in the ground. Of course that entailed moving a bunch of existing plants. I have been digging & carting all all day. That's the thing about perennial gardens, ypu are always thinking of better combinations.

 

I started work for the local council yesterday. 7 and half hours strimmiing yesterday. So in the morning before work I got some watering done. In my lunch break I harvested and in the evening more watering. I will try to pull some potatoes today

 

With all the rain that we are getting..it's good and bad. The humidity is ridiculous here in Coastal Ga. Good thing my fan is still going!! The herbs are struggling even with the fan. The tomatoes are still setting fruit and the electric toothbrush is working away. I'm so please with what I have gotten so far...more than any other time, especially for a covered patio!!! Maybe the Galinas will be the sweet ones. Have 2 Early Girls that I believe are starting to blush. The Borghese is just showing out. Truthfully, I'm just amazed at the tomato jungle that I'm keeping it all straight in a messy sort of way...lol. Will be snipping suckers for a second round for fall. I have Orange Russians and Beauty seedlings that are past ready to go out into a pot. Also growing Sugar Baby Watermelons indoors. We will see how that goes!!

Principe Borghese this morn..


Galinas taken this morn

 

Your tom accomplishments are so good.
How many weeks will you be able to eat from your tom plants?

 

I've been eating at least one a week Sjoerd....but I hit the mother load last week...i picked 6 at one time

 

Picked 2 bushels of elderberries between this saturday and this morning...shucked enough for 5 pies and the rest I have made juice out of. I have 14 quarts of juice bottled on the stove.

 

It's what I didn't do in the garden today. It all started in March when a woman whose husband had recently been killed by their dog asked me to do her garden for her. We agreed to go half half on the harvest. I planted a large field of potatoes and loads of various vegetables. All was fine on Sunday. I harvested a bunch of potatoes and I made two piles and told her to choose one. She chose the pile with the biggest potatoes and she greedily grabbed the biggest potato from my pile and added it to hers. I said nothing and bagged up my potatoes. She asked what I would do with my potatoes, would I sell them. I said "maybe, or I might give some to a friend" All seemed fine and then yesterday, she phones me up and calls me a thief and an opportunist and then slams the phone down on me. She told lots of people that I stole her potatoes (no one believed her).
Anyway today I went round to hers to get my wheelbarrow and compost sieve. She told me that I can come back in an hour so I said no give me them now, so she did and I asked her why she was badmouthing me everywhere. She said it was because I sold her potatoes. (I took them home actually). I told her that it was none of her business what I did with my potatoes that were the fruit of my labour and accusing me of being a thief and an opportunist was really her speaking about herself and that she is a very bad person.

 

Odif, some people you can't help.

 

Hoo boy. She sounds crazy.

 

It has been raining here for days and days! I harvested some of my potatoes (in the rain!). They are drying out on our living room floor. I only tackled 6 plants....got too wet & muddy to continue. I'll get the rest after we return from vacation.

Banana fingerings

French fingerlings View attachment 13874

Magic Molly ( purple fingerlings)
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Here are some other shots of the community garden:

 

Not exactly in the garden, more in the orchard. We picked the last of the almonds and spent a happy hour at the kitchen table stripping off the outer shells. Now the almonds are drying in back of the barn, and we'll be shelling them next week. The outer covering comes off easily, but the inner shell that protects the nutmeat is really hard to break open.