#gyo — Public Fediverse posts

I have effected an emergency repair… it’s not pretty. But the important thing is functional and hopefully not losing tomatoes at such an important point in the season, they are now secure and can hopefully ripen in situ ok. #polytunnel #GYO

Drama in the polytunnel! The end of the bed collapsed. The exposed soil showed the culprits were ants - eating away at the wood and causing voids.
#ants #GYO #gardening

A new day brings us.... more rain! This garden is done for the season, can we please send this water to where it is needed?
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#GYO
#GrowYourOwn
#ClimateChange

How wet was August this year? Well I just got my water bill and we used 4x less water this August compared to last August, measured in CCF (hundred cubic feet). This Aug: 1 CCF, last Aug. 4 CCF. Sole difference being water for the vegetables. Yes we have always collected rainwater and used that for the garden, but last year we could not collect enough.
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#GYO
#GrowYourOwn

Kind of damp and dreary day around here today, not at all like a typical mid-August day. More like autumn. Things are winding down in the veg. patch and looking mighty shabby all around, but still producing nonetheless. Here's today's surplus for the neighborhood. Took the day off from cornfest and just had pizza.
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#GYO
#GrowYourOwn

Another overcast and damp morning, but we got a fine harvest of Clemson spineless okra today. I must say that the okra has one of the prettiest flowers in the garden right now.
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#GYO
#GrowYourOwn

Yesterday, while I was setting out some surplus veg. by the road. One of the regular visitors dropped by and gave me this knife set as a gift because they had been enjoying the harvest. Am I right in thinking that this is quite an extravagant item in return for cucumbers and tomatoes? It's a Wüsthof set; 20cm, 16cm, & 9cm. 200th anniversary edition.
#Gardening
#allotment
#NewEngland
#GYO
#GrowYourOwn
#Cooking

Decided to follow up the allotment plot tour with a similarly quick & rough home garden tour: https://youtu.be/zKrDix-K2H0

#GYO #gardening

Simmered down the sauce until it was about reduced by half and then into pint jars. Set up the canning pot on my outdoor burner and gave them a 20 minute bath in boiling water, a little cool down to make sure tops all "popped" and then in to the kitchen for BeetBear to inspect. Just a little over 5 pints. Not done a taste-test yet.
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#GYO
#GrowYourOwn
#Onions
#BeetBear

Surprised to see a Ruby-throated Hummingbird probe a wilted, male Cucuzza flower.
The Cucuzza, a gourd, flowers at night, each flower lasting only one night. The flowers look beautiful in the twilight hours.
We've been giving away a lot of Cucuzzas, or we would have had to eat them every few days until next summer 😂.

#birds #gardening #GYO #food

I made a very simple courgette sauce for pasta - just the sliced courgettes cooked in olive oil until soft, onions, salt pepper and fresh basil from the greenhouse. Absolutely perfect after a day’s hard labour outside.
#food #gyo

This year we grew three varieties of courgettes. All three are now fruiting well. I absolutely love them. #GYO #Courgette #vegetables #food

Here's the recipe.
#Onions
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#GYO
#GrowYourOwn

Today's the day. Got together everything needed to make a batch of the old family "Chili Sauce" (see earlier posts). I rarely have the patience or energy to undertake this kind of thing anymore, but all the omens and portents were aligned just right this morning. The aroma of this simmering takes me back over sixty years in this very kitchen, when my father would conscript me into helping make this. Now to simmer for a few hours.
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#GYO
#GrowYourOwn

Hit me up with your favourite desserts involving blackcurrants. Looking for recipe suggestions please!! Please boost if you have none!
#Cooking #GYO #blackcurrants #Boost

Corn. It's what's for dinner. Cornfest day 14. Still on second planting. Still clean and pest-free, although I think the Downy Woodpeckers are finding some snacks among the stalks now. Keep up the good work, guys. 😀 🌽
#BeetBear
#SweetCorn
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#GYO
#GrowYourOwn

Got out and did some more picking this morning and set out some more surplus for the passers-by. Found a very lovely note in the box later. Made my whole summer. There must be smoke in the air again, my eyes are all runny again.
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#GYO
#GrowYourOwn

I picked about half the row of regular-sized tomatoes which filled a tote & filled a small basket with cherry tomatoes from one of the two plants. Put out today's surplus for the neighbors again. 😀 🍅

#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#GYO
#GrowYourOwn
#Tomatoes

We may have a tomato problem. This is one of two rows and I picked two totes-full yesterday.😀 🍅
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#GYO
#GrowYourOwn
#Tomatoes

Cornfest meal number 13 tonight. This never gets old. We love our sweetcorn. Also had some more surplus veg. to put out for the neighborhood today. And, we are up to our elbows in tomatoes right now. .😀 🌽
#BeetBear
#SweetCorn
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#GYO
#GrowYourOwn

BeetBear and I spent some time this afternoon picking more raspberries to have with dinner tonight. He's good at getting in to the ones I can't quite reach. Also had our 12th cornfest meal with another 10 nice ears of the Flagler.😀 🌽
#BeetBear
#SweetCorn
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#GYO
#GrowYourOwn
#Raspberries

Day Eleven of cornfest and the ears just keep coming. These have been particularly free of pests and well pollinated this year. It's very much appreciated.😀 🌽
#BeetBear
#SweetCorn
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#GYO
#GrowYourOwn

The second planting of sweetcorn is now ready for harvest. This makes the 10th day we have feasted on this goodness! CornFest Part 2 now underway.😀 🌽

#BeetBear
#SweetCorn
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#GYO
#GrowYourOwn

Heat index just hit 109F / ~42C again this afternoon, so it's too hot to got out and pick more tomatoes. Grabbed a big load this morning, but they're coming in faster than we can harvest. BeetBear is asking for a bigger wheelbarrow. ALSO we are now officially no longer in drought conditions.
#BeetBear
#Tomatoes
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#GYO
#GrowYourOwn

Wins and losses. While we've had a great year for corn, onions, tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, beans and others, the cucurbits have struggled & the zucchini and cucumbers have given up the struggle entirely. The 2nd planting of mini-cabbage is coming along well in spite of or because of all the rain and dampness. Picture shows the sad remains of the cucumber bed; just baking mud at this point. We move on...
#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#GYO
#GrowYourOwn

Anybody else trying to help the garden survive the extreme heat by covering the plants? Is this a good idea?
I used whatever I had, perhaps a mesh fabric might be better?
#gardening #garden #growyourown #gyo #heat

Ready to harvest some eggplants...
This year, I grew the eggplants in two 12-liter clay pots, more than enough to harvest...

#garden #gardening #vegetable #gyo

Is anyone out there really buying this crap? Let's all go get antennas for our tomatoes... This is NOT an endorsement.

https://kleone-copper.com/products/pure-copper-electro-culture-antenna?campaign_id=120243510297000495&ad_id=120248714133120495

#Gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#GYO
#GrowYourOwn

Ready to harvest:
Ailsa Craig onions

#garden #gardening #gyo #vegetables