Garden Doings
21 Jul 2025 05:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ursulas_alcoveThe grow bags up the hill, the ones that were doubtful to produce anything, remember those? I grabbed one bag to harvest or rather sift through the soil. Almost one whole pound of Yukon Golds. Although in this iteration, they are whiter. Yay! There are six more bags of those early potatoes to go through.
A demo I did at the grocery store was for baby salt potatoes. The potatoes are organic. I forgot there were uncooked ones leftover. They all have eyes. I'll be planting them as I finish up the other grow bags. They are small "new" potatoes. They need 60 days to mature. So cool - free seed potatoes!
I got the peas planted for fall. I had them soaking overnight. Do I know what kind they are? No. I am now soaking beans - a burgundy variety ie purple bush beans. I'll get those planted tomorrow.
Little Miss Skunk, the runt of the litter, has decided that at 9 am, she should come down and mark her territory like a cat. Most annoying.
I grabbed gloves, a clipper and a knife to attack the jungle in middle earth. The lower path is clear and a section along Bed #3 is clear. I also have located where I want to do my first burn section. I'll weed and setup the wash tub/fire pit. I need to move a few concrete blocks first. It won't sit directly on the ground. This will give me a good foot print as to how far the heat destroys weeds away from the original wash tub footprint.
Today's highlight was finding cucumbers hiding under the bindweed as I pulled the weeds out. I need one more cucumber to make pickles. One was too far gone to use. It's being saved for seed. Since I couldn't start on pickles like I wanted, I made the base for strawberry ice cream and I made coleslaw. I also pulled out seed for other fall garden things. While poking through seed, I decided to start a tray of lettuce. I found one variety that tolerates heat pretty good. Problem is that the seed is old and may not germinate. We'll see.
We'll be wanting ready-to-eat things as the weather changes back to hot and stupid. Tonight is our last cold night before the heat dome descends.
The current produce count is 35 pounds. Zucchini pizza is for supper and zucchini bread will get made in the solar oven tomorrow.
A demo I did at the grocery store was for baby salt potatoes. The potatoes are organic. I forgot there were uncooked ones leftover. They all have eyes. I'll be planting them as I finish up the other grow bags. They are small "new" potatoes. They need 60 days to mature. So cool - free seed potatoes!
I got the peas planted for fall. I had them soaking overnight. Do I know what kind they are? No. I am now soaking beans - a burgundy variety ie purple bush beans. I'll get those planted tomorrow.
Little Miss Skunk, the runt of the litter, has decided that at 9 am, she should come down and mark her territory like a cat. Most annoying.
I grabbed gloves, a clipper and a knife to attack the jungle in middle earth. The lower path is clear and a section along Bed #3 is clear. I also have located where I want to do my first burn section. I'll weed and setup the wash tub/fire pit. I need to move a few concrete blocks first. It won't sit directly on the ground. This will give me a good foot print as to how far the heat destroys weeds away from the original wash tub footprint.
Today's highlight was finding cucumbers hiding under the bindweed as I pulled the weeds out. I need one more cucumber to make pickles. One was too far gone to use. It's being saved for seed. Since I couldn't start on pickles like I wanted, I made the base for strawberry ice cream and I made coleslaw. I also pulled out seed for other fall garden things. While poking through seed, I decided to start a tray of lettuce. I found one variety that tolerates heat pretty good. Problem is that the seed is old and may not germinate. We'll see.
We'll be wanting ready-to-eat things as the weather changes back to hot and stupid. Tonight is our last cold night before the heat dome descends.
The current produce count is 35 pounds. Zucchini pizza is for supper and zucchini bread will get made in the solar oven tomorrow.
