ethin's doings

[ethin]

I'm not as sure it was cats anymore, the damage looks like cats but I found what looks like a coon print in the mud this morning.

[ethin]

Nope, just a cat print, the foot must of slid elongating the toe marks and causing the animal to extend it's claws.

[ethin]

Tulip seed harvest for this year. I figured if the landrace method works so well on veggies why not try it on flowers too.

Picked and froze the majority of the fresh eating corn yesterday. Had red corn for dinner, at least it was red before it was cooked.

I think I over did it on the flowers!

I think this ones about done.

[Joseph Lofthouse]

Aug 21, 2014 13:29:48 GMT -5 ethin said:

Picked and froze the majority of the fresh eating corn yesterday. Had red corn for dinner, at least it was red before it was cooked.

Nice harvest. A couple tablespoons of vinegar added to the cooking water will help to retain the colors of the corn. To my taste-buds it doesn't affect the flavor.

[flowerweaver]

Everything looks awesome! Love the flowers and veggies together (I'm sure the pollinators do too!) I sort of do the same, only I don't plant most of the flowers because all my weeds are wildflowers.

[philagardener]

Total riot of color! Looks fabulous!

[ethin]

Harvested a watermelon earlier this week, the tendril had been dry for about a week but it was still a week or so from being ripe, still tasted good though and half the seeds look viable.

Had to trim back the cosmos some so I could get to the cumbers.

Picked the pear tree today, got a bushel and a half.

[flowerweaver]

Ethin, this year my Four o'Clocks are well over six feet tall! (For scale I am 5'9")

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[ethin]

Picked some of the sweet corn that was left for seed so it could finish drying indoors.
Threshed some lentils.
Mowed down the weeds that had taken over the paths in the raspberry patch.
Ate a watermelon (beast method of seed collection ever!), 4 down a dozen and a half to go.  

[ethin]

Harvested what looks to be my garden's largest watermelon for 2014, an 8 lb Yellow Doll. I would have let it be for a few more days but it started raining.

[ethin]

It would seem that I have a heat tolerant chickpea, most of them died out a month or two ago but this one is still going.

[ethin]

Got down to 39 F(3 C) here last night, no noticeable damage to the garden, temps look good for the next week or so.

Harvested a 8.5 oz sweet bell pepper that I had been saving for seed.

[Joseph Lofthouse]

Great looking pepper.

Sept 12, 2014 14:18:16 GMT -5 ethin said:

Got down to 39 F(3 C) here last night, no noticeable damage to the garden, temps look good for the next week or so.

Three of my fields are about 4 to 6 miles away at slightly higher elevation. The squash, cucumbers, melons, and okra were damaged. Some plants more than others. A few of the tomatoes were nipped. Some of the uppermost fruits were damaged, but fruits deeper in the foliage are fine.

I thought this little patch of mixta squash was interesting... Every leaf on one vine froze while the surrounding vines survived. I have not actively selected for frost tolerance in squash, but it looks like there is sufficient variability that some selection for frost tolerance could be made.

[ethin]

Harvested the second seed Tomato for this year, a 12 oz canning/slicer, the first ripe fruit from a direct sown plant. The plant has a few good traits, healthy, vigorous, good sized fruit, and split anther cones.

[kazedwards]

Good looking tomato! I have only had a few that size.