[greeneyes]

Pinging the list.

[Black Agnes]

I’ve dehydrated 6 gallons of blueberries, frozen 7 gallons of blueberries and made 7 pints of blueberry pie filling. I’ve got a batch of blueberry syrup draining through the jelly strainer thingie right now.

Neighbor gave us close to 3 bushels of apples earlier in the week (Anna, they make very early here). I’ve made 4 batches of ‘caramel apple pie jam’, dehydrated a 9 tray dehydrator load, eaten a bunch and have about 2 more batches of pie filling left to put up from them. Probably dehydrate the rest, we love dried fruit as a topping to oatmeal when it’s cold in the winter.

Probably 15 more gallons of blueberries left on the bushes at this point that need to be picked sometime.

Fall garden transplants sizing up nicely on the driveway.

It’s good for now.

[MomwithHope]

Turning into rabbits here. Eating so much romaine lettuce, radishes, still getting asparagus. Everything else is exploding. We are going to have tons of Bush pickles. Have so many radishes I have cold pickled 2 jars in the fridge. Also eating and blanching and freezing baby bok choy. Chopped and vacuumed sealed after blanching it is great in soup or rice dishes. I have put up 6 bags already. Waiting on lots of stuff including tomatoes.

[SkyDancer]

Here

[American in Israel]

Hello again. I did another dummy move. I really wanted a teabush so I let my desire speak before I researched it. After I ordered it I talked to the local nursery about getting another and was told, oh, those don’t grow here...

Deep sigh.

Then I researched... the zone is ok, it’s the humidity. Seems the tea bush will go dormant at 90 degree days and low humidity then sheds it’s leaves.

So I built an automatic fogger that activates at 80 degrees and using mister nozzles fogs the plant for 10 seconds every 15 minutes. So far so good, hit 105 last week and it seems to be hanging in there. Anyone else have experience with this?

[daniel1212]

Here in MA we have a month to go to see any squash or many ripe tomatoes, but what are missing are the bees. I saw only the 2nd one this month, after a below average cool May.

Meanwhile,

Farming robots get to grips with weeding at Harper Adams

6/23/2017, 11:05:53 AM · by Rebelbase · 17 replies

BBC ^ | 6/23/17 | David Gregory-Kumar

Researchers at Harper Adams University in Shropshire are trying to sow, look after and then harvest a field of barley using only robots and autonomous vehicles. No humans are allowed into the pilot-plot at all. We covered the project when it started and again here. They call it "Hands Free Hectare" and in the office we call it "Robocrop". Long story short the team are actually doing pretty well with a field of barley shoots that looks healthy if a bit patchy here and there. In fact, they're doing so well with their combination of off-the-shelf tech and nifty engineering...

[Redleg Duke]

I finally got most of my garden planted this past week. Spuds, winter squash and bush beans. Also a packet of scallions. Will add some more winter squah around pole beans and a raised bed of cabbages.

We put in a small pond under our garden pergola. First foxhole I have dug in a long, long time!

Barb has done a magnificent job on her side of the garden!

[Ellendra]

Heads-up to those in the midwest: The vegetation on my land is sending up “hard winter” warnings! The last time I saw them do this, it was right before that winter when we had windchills in the -50s.

[bobo1]

Well, have all my tomatoes and peppers planted in buckets. They soil in Az suks on the Mogollon rim. Made a raised garden with turnips, squash and some beans. Planted a row of beans, and the hot sun is drying them out even after watering twice a day.
Zucchini, squash, and cucumbers doing fine despite the cats using most of my garden as a litter box.
Planted some beets in boxes and are doing well.
The weather has been horendous. Way too hot, in the upper 90s. Waiting for the monsoons to start.
It’s supposed to cool off tomorrow.

[SLB]

Between early morning of June 22 and evening of the 23rd. We received 6.74 inches of rain. Our main vegetable garden is on a creek bank, so needless to say it flooded. I will post some pictures here later today. The garden is actually about 5 feet above the normal water level, so when you consider we had around 16 inches of water flowing over the garden you can imagine the actual amount in the creek, it was really roaring for a few hours. I took some video with my IPhone and tagged WLKY TV in Louisville and they aired my two Golden Retrievers swimming thru the yard. There is a chain link fence between the yard and the creek so they were no in any danger.

The real damage was to yellow and zucchini squash and pole beans. Winter squash, tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, beets, carrots, cantaloupe, watermelon and cukes all survived. I did have to wash the silt and mud off them yesterday after church.