What have you done today in the Garden?

Sjoerd, I see the Borage in the corner on my left. I love Borage and pulled some to be used as Green manure today. I took out a few more tomato plants and chopped them along with the Borage. Then I moved on to another flower area to pull invasive flowers, such as Morning Glories and a weed/flower I cannot identify. It has sharp, pointed leaves and tiny blue flowers. I had previously moved some Iris tubers to that area and naturally the blue flower plant had to cling. If I don't keep after it, the entire area will be infested.
I cut down the Peonies. They had either mold or Powdery mildew.

 

Wow! everyone is still going like gang busters. Not so much me. I am beginning to pull plants that are past their prime.
I headed out to the community plot today to pick some bok choi & radish seedlings. I had planted them a few weeks back, and as I was sowing the bok choi I tripped & spilled a slew all over! I now have an army of bok choi coming up in the peas, the radishes, and on the paths.

So today I took the scissors and snipped and snipped. We had a salad of microgreens (bok choi and radish greens) with home grown sun gold tomatoes, home grown grated carrots, chopped granny smith apples, avocado and a dressing of lime juice, lime zest, cilantro, olive oil and water. Delicious!! I recommend it.

 

Say Cayuga, what a great idea for growing salad greens.
I choose to sprinkle the seeds instead of "Tripping". LOL
I most likely would break my neck.
We only have peppers, 9 tomato plants, kale, arugula, and
a few beans left to take out. I even planted 12 garlic cloves,
but I will plant more.
The Tulips, Daffodils , and Crocus bulbs are buried and ready
to sleep until Spring. I'm ready forthe Winter rest.

 

GP: Chuckle!

 

Today was the last of my farmers markets. sigh! now a few Fridays of not baking bread, picking as much as possible for Saturday and Saturdays of not getting up before daylight... picking, packing loading, unloading, setting up tent, tables, signs.. packing up heading home unloading, stocking the tables and going back to work in the garden for the rest of the day. sweating sweating sweating. It has finally cooled off this past week. Rain, clouds and cool. ahhh! what a relief from the relentless dry hot sweltering oppressive humidity we had all Summer long.
Yesterday was a bit of an adventure we weren't planning on nor do I want a repeat. My dear handy son had a "run in" with the radial arm saw... it won. He had a gash 4 cm long and 2 cm wide and as deep as the surgeons middle knuckle of his index finger. Across the inside of his knee. All I can think is God was watching over him as it went to the joint but not into it. It hit nothing major, needed nothing more than 9 or 10 stitches to put it back together. At first they said he needed to go to the Cleveland Clinic in downtown Cleveland. EEEKKK! I have no idea how to get there. Have never been there and don't really want to go there, but we will do what is best. The surgeon came to him in the ER where we were. big sigh of relief. I think I need to take him some apples on Monday when we go see him again. enough for one week but I am thankful it wasn't worse. night everyone.

 

Wow Carolyn, thank God it was not more serious. I send your son my best wishes and healing thoughts.

 

Yeah, you are right --that is borage. I am letting the bees work the flowers a bit more, then it will be lifted and laid flat on the soil for the winter.

You have been a busy beaver. I wonder what that blue flower plant was/is. Good luck with that.

Carolyn--I breathed a sigh of relief to hear that it turned out oké for your son.

 

thanks Mary..
S.. me too. He is a tough cookie. He went out to the shop yesterday to sweep. We chased him back in to rest. On a scale of 1-10 he kept saying the pain was a 7... huh? he was writhing on the bed in the ER . he was in so much pain. he was wimpering almost had dry heaves. yeah, I think it was more than 7.

 

Oh, that poor young man! I do hope the doctor gave him something for pain, and that he will take it (there is a time for machismo, but this isn't it). Thank heavens it wasn't worse, and that both you and he survived--mothers are notorious worriers.

 

Oh Carolyn, I'm so thankful that saw stopped where it did.
Oh my, is your son doing ok now? Did he lose much blood?
I'm a mother of five, so there have been those times when
I knew just what you experienced. (Prayers)

 

Today:
I worked hard in the garden. I want to plant garlic, but I need to get rid of as much Bindweed as possible. It creeps all over everything and comes right back when we pull it out. I dug down to the end of the roots, tossed all away in the creek. I placed two of those leaf bags across the trench. Then returned the dirt. I also tore a ton of it off the garden fence. I didn't get the garlic in yet, but maybe later today.

 

Grudgingly cleaning up and moving houseplants back indoors. Emptying some annual containers to clean and store for winter. Autumn is knockin at the door. Still harvesting tomatoes, but they are waning. Leaves are starting to fall. Time to get out the rakes.

 

Another afternoon of digging. Finally, garlic is in the ground.

 

Growingpains: Congrats on the garlic! You will be very peased with yourself next summer.

I went to the community garden plot on a whim, and of course got sucked in! I wound up weeding, thinning the bok choi seedlings, picking tomatoes, harvesting carrots and beets and swiss chard. : ) At home, I made a dinner of swiss chard & lentil soup (delicious), something I call 'tomato junk' (roasted cherry tomatoes, onions, garlic, basil & olive oil) (delicious) on slices of rosemary bread and roasted beets, onions & carrots. We are all stuffed!!

My exploits with spilling bok choi seeds everywhere have turned out well: we seem to have an endless supply of micro greens for salads. Our neighbors have been pleased with the bok choi greens too. I shall have to have the same tripping incident next year. Remind me please in case I forget.

 

GP... all is well now. the initial excitement was pretty stressful but to hear he didn't need to be transported to a major hospital and it was stitched up right in the ER...that was such a relief. He didn't even miss a day of work.. he kept toiling and trudging through each day. What a trooper. He has such a high threshold for pain and he heals extremely well... we are Blessed! I could see the bursa sac that is how close he was to doing major damage. it cut nothing but muscles and skin, missed all tendons and ligaments and the knee cap. The surgeon did a fabulous job putting it back together.. this was 2c wide and 4c long and very deep. this is the day after the accident.
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