Gardening Gardening

your cheating! Those have the wasp eggs as beacons.

what I find interesting about them is when they do show up, if you can find two to four of them, that takes care of them for the season. Not like it’s a battle I have to fight all season.

 

I found one of those a couple days ago. It hasn't moved in 24 hours so maybe the eggs have hatched ? The only one I've found so far though.

 

We got about 4 1/2 inches of rain over last few days and may have been the cause of this split.
Quick patch to keep it tidy.

 

Yeah. I'm hearing how tomatoes are splitting due to heavy rains.

 

Both of my gardens got away from us this year with me traveling for work and wife laid up after surgery so I spent more time with her inside.
Lambsquarters/pigweed is what I’m told it is.

Funny. We never have had this before like this. I’m cutting it and taking it to the back 40 a little at a time to get as much seeds away as I can.





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Mine too Lenny. I'm going to cut my brussel sprouts this evening then try to get all the seedy weeds out. I won't garden again without some type of weed control laid down.

 

Here I store tempero made with whatever herb I have plenty of. I also store migaine de thezou made with whatever is ready at the time but always includes tomatoes, onion, garlic, carrot and parsley (or other herbs floating around, often rosemary). Celery never enters my house....

Stuttgarter onions used to be my mainstay but then along came potato onions. They're a perennial onion that doesn't get very big and store from one harvest to the next without sprouting and often into the early winter. Keep some sets from them and replant for the next crop.

 

I had really good luck with leaf mulch and straw around the tomatoes and peppers. Very little weeds, and feeds the soil (lasagna gardening), but the best thing i found with leaf mulch was when the tomatoes laid on the ground there was no damage or bugs/holes on the tomatoes.


I just got back from my buddy's farm where he planted about 1000 tomato plants in plastic mulch. there where so many tomatoes laying rotted in puddles of water or just on the plastic.
(These plants were not staked. The greenhouse gave him the plants that were left over after planting season and he just sticks them in the ground to give away later.)

This veg garden is about 80x500
there was cabbage, peppers, Brussels, and tomatoes, and a patch of sweet corn on the right edge

 

Freebies from my buddy's farm this morning.
(And we picked a few hundred pounds last night for the pastors wife to juice or make sauce.)

 

I have some roma tomato plants just laying on the ground. I planted them late and never got around to sticking cages over them. It was so hot for so long they didn't bloom until a couple weeks ago. Now it's a race to first freeze unless I put a cover over them to see if I get tomatoes worth picking.

 

Picked up a Kitchen Aide mixer and borrowed a Kitchtree tomato juicer attachment to make Spaghetti sauce yesterday.
Did 4 gallons spag sauce and 33 lbs of sauerkraut yesterday and today.

This is our first try at sauerkraut.

 

What do you think of these tillers? Price looks pretty dang good.

Earthquake® Victory™ 16" 212cc Rear Tine Gas Tiller with Reverse at Menards®

 

I've tilled for the first and last time this year. If i break any new ground, it will be no-till/no-dig.
Look up Charles Douding, Ruth Stout, Lasagna gardening, no-dig, no-till, Back to Eden, Gardener Scott, Self Sufficient Me, No Till Growers,

 

Got a few more goodies from my gardens up north. I was busy hooking up my sauna stove so didn’t have time to do much related to gardening.


Had a few yardbirds around. So I went and got the 20ga to add a brace of grouse to the mix.

 

I'm on my 4th pick of green beans, every pick yielded about 10 gallons and they are loaded with blossoms again so maybe another is in order before the frost gets them. Amazing what a little 46 Urea does. Amy and I put up 30 bags of them in the deep freeze already and I'm giving them away now. Getting time to dig potatoes.

 

Been fermenting Kraut for years. I ferment it in stoneware crocks for at least 4-6 weeks, process the cabbage with a food processor and pack it in the crocks tightly using my grandmothers wooden tamper. I add cooking salt to the processed cabbage (that liberates the juice) as I pack it in the crocks and when about 2/3rds full, I top it with cabbage leaves and place a clean dinner plate on top, weighted down with clean paving bricks and let it sit in a warm spot. After 406 weeks, I remove the bricks and the plate, skim off the 'Kalm' which is the mold that grows on the top that is exposed to air, remove the leaves that covered the kraut underneath and fill Mason Jars with it and water bath them for the cellar. We usually add apple slices to the Kraut too.

 

Big guy measured out at 333lbs
The other two are probably 80ish

 

Looks great!

They do a giant pumpkin regatta in Goffstown NH. It’s a hoot!