What have you done today in the Garden?

I planted yet another roma tomato plant which once it sprouts will be a total of 10 plants not including four other kinda of tomato plants. I also watered my garden lol. Fun stuff.

 

Picked greenbeans, cucumbers, zucchini's, a few tomaotes, pulled some beets went to a market and sold it and everything I baked yesterday and a few things from my neighbor who grows hydroponically. Kevin sprayed all the tomatoes and raspberries with a fungicide.

 

95 degrees F. Today was a little early morning watering as I work my way around the yard during the week. Laziness the rest of the day. Really need to get some harvesting done but too lazy

 

Potted up my son's Chilli plant.

K

 

Getting ready for a farmers market again. baked sourdough bread I started last night. Attended a funeral for a dear friend early enough to get back to the garden by 2:00. Worked on bees, picked greenbeans, zucchini, cucumbers, beets, and yellow squash. and baked more bread in the evening. Ready to crash. goodnight all.

 

Started the hedging ... Another scorcher

 

I had a chance to walk through my veggie garden yesterday and was very happy with how things are doing. I picked a basket full of peas and blackberries, the black currents will be ready to pick by the weekend, and the zucchini are starting to produce. My carrots, onions, tomatoes and lettuces are doing amazing too. The only thing that isn't happy is my peppers, but I will work on those. Flower gardens are filled in too. I just LOVE this time of year!

 

I spent a good part of the day in the gardens today. Started off in the rear flower beds and weeded, deadheaded and thinned the poppies. Then I went out to the veggie garden and tied up the peas that had fallen over. I picked a big bowl of black berries, a few small heads of Romaine, a basket full of peas and then harvested almost 7 pounds of Black Currents! Weeded a bit and then made dinner. Tomorrow the beans should be ready to pick. I have some flowers on my pickling cucumbers too ... good thing as I just opened the last jar of dill pickles from last year! Lots of green tomatoes on the plants, I can't wait!

 

We cleaned house today and then I made a batch of tomato-basil butter to put in the freezer. We set up the kitchen for extracting honey tomorrow (plastic on the floor, moving the kitchen table, and getting all the utensils ready). Tomorrow will be "sweet"!

 

I picked a lot of tomato's that are now cooking down for sauce. Also picked about 4 qt. of cherry tom's that are in the dehydrater. Smells like Italy in my house.

 

Smelling like Italy is a good thing (throw in some garlic and basil and you've got a party!).
Our house smells of honey, which isn't bad, either. We don't have as much honey as last spring, but that was a bumper year. We're satisfied with the honey we have. I'll post a picture when it's bottled.

 

Weeding and picking berries. Eating sugar pod peas in the garden, they seldom make it into the house. Had pancakes for breakfast cooked on the griddle outside where we ate and enjoyed the cooler temps.

 

Today I pulled out 2 squash plants. They had vines so far they no longer shadowed the mound. With the heat index here hovering between 95-100 degrees F (36 C.). I just couldn't keep them watered enough.

 

Kate--those Acers look great. Thank you so much for posting foto's. It appears that plants do well at your place.

Harvested spuds today. Yukon Gold and Kipflers. Very good harvest. Too many. Planted some green manure. Harvested some cues, beetroot's the last of the broad beans. Made more comfrey tea--the toms are doing VERY well this year.

I have been very busy in the bees with acquiring a new colony and replacing two other queens. The honey from the spring harvest is scrummy. A real honey flavour. The bride says that it is better than the summer honey. Hmmmmmm.

We are germinating parsnip seeds at home. The ones that we seeded in the ground only came up in a gappy pattern.

Of course I have been weeding like mad in the flower garden. Goodness gracious me!