What have you done today in the Garden?

Harvesting was the order of the day.
This meant processing and of course some was given-away.
These beans and toms looked very attractive in real life, the pic does not do them justice.

 

I pick another bushel of toms. Got to find a good home for them. My pantry and freeze are full. There is at least another bushel to be picked in a couple of days. Picked my first honey dew and it was yummy.

Sjoerd, My beans flopped this year. Went to some local stands and they had none either. Guess it was a bad year for them here. Your's look great. Your tom's are pretty and looking tasty.

 

Sjoerd, I am terribly jealous. There now! I have vented.

All I did today was to pick a few tomatoes.

 

Gee Sjoerd, I was drooling over the tomatoes and beans, and if the picture doesn't do them justice, I just may lick my monitor! I love your trug, by the way.
I harvested cherry tomatoes today. That doesn't seem wonderful to most of you, but with daytime temps hovering around 100, and nighttime temps in the mid to high 70's, ANY tomato is a minor miracle.

 

picked a bushel of greenbeans, 60 canteloupe, 1/2 bushel of cucumbers and turned on the water. it is dry here for us.

 

I'm very sympathetic to those of you who have such high temps.
Our nights have been coolish enough to interfere with tomato ripening,
but we have sufficient rainfall and warm days. We're getting a few
tomatoes, but not enough for canning.

 

Yesterday, I picked beans and tomatoes, some onions, and clipped some basil to dry. I double checked to make sure I got all my potatoes dug, I think I have.

 

DONNA-- so sorry to hear about your bean flop this year. You know what, everyone here has had probs with their beans this year as well. I did too. I had to plant three times to get enough. So, whilst I have good harvests, it came at a price--extra work! Thanks for the nice compliments.

GP--Hee,hee,hee You vented. Ain't you jurst the sweetest one.

Thanks so much, MG--I had a BLT yesterday evening before putting up a few pots of tomato concentrate and blanching and bagging more beans--four sorts.
This was all good and well, but the high point was the sweetcorn. Sweetcorn.
Sweetcorn in the lottie:

Sweetcorn at home (before):
During:

...and after:

The first fennels begin trickling in:

We took off and went out into the polder a couple of days ago to pick up orders for new strawberry plants for the coming two years. We phoned-in our orders as well as the orders for some folks. We just made a little day trip out of the affair. We got back home early enough to put our plants in the same day...it was getting dark and there were intermittent raindrops falling, so we had to hurry.

The plants didn't have much foliage, but did have generous root clumps. We managed to get them all in and some of the other folks came by to pick up their plants. Here they are then, the plants for the coming two years all tucked-into their new bed:

Towards the end of the day, I placed bee outlets on the hives n preparation of removing honey and Rx against varroa mites. I had checked the day before for mite fall, but none of the hives had any, so I shall treat them with a minimal amount of formic acid. I remove the honey supers so that the flavour and smell of the formic acid will not effect the quality of the honey.

Whilst doing this I still had one hive that I placed a queen cell into with a dab of sugar paste. She emerged and flew off to mate. I had looked after 30 days and saw no eggs and no brood. I looked yesterday and there was not only BRIAS but also her majesty proudly prancing around. I immediately plucked her off the frame and gave her a little blue dot so I could spot her easily. And now to introduce her majesty, the Queen of hive 27--


So that was it. I wonder what sort of fresh veggie to eat tonight.

 

Sjoerd, your energy amazes me. You do more in one day than I do in a month, or so it seems.
Queen BlueDot is a beauty and should soon be a proud mama.

Yesterday I pulled thousands of weeds and volunteer Dill plants from the Asparagus bed.
Fortunately, I managed to leave all Asparagus plants intact. We will need to replant as not
all plants survived the winter and summer. Another joy was pulling out a volunteer potato
from the oval garden and in addition to one medium sized potato, I found one huge potato.
Viva Le volunteer veggies !

Today I only did selective watering and feeding. I'm babying my tomato plants created from
suckers off original plants. They already have tiny tomatoes. I totally enjoy this part of gardening..

 

That was a good accomplishment, GP. Inexpensive also.

 

Today is a garden viewing day. I did grab a few tomatoes as I strolled past.