Gardening Thread - Show me your gardens!

It’s Peter rabbit

 

It wasnt too happy i caught it, glad it didnt bite me...i had caught another but it wiggled around and got free

 

Scapes!

 

So i had a tag from one black berry plants. Its an Apache...seems to be smaller fruits but more of them.

The Ouchita is less fruit but bigger...

Dunno if this trend will stay or not

 

What kind of fence is your 5 footer?
In my experience, if you make it like it will be difficult for them, they are lazy and will generally not hop a fence.

a) if they can’t see to the other side they won’t hop
b) if they can’t find a safe landing zone, they won’t hop
c) if it looks like too much work, they won’t hop

I would extend the fence up a few feet, if only as a visual block. Attach some wood to extend the posts up a few feet and run bright strings or ropes across them so it looks like a barrier to them. Arrange some things on the inside of the fence so they don’t see a safe landing zone.

 

Glad you mentioned that as I noticed the berries on my Apache are smaller and almost roundish, the Ouchita bush had to go in the trash cause of orange rust.

 

It's a cross-buck fence with a 2"x4" metal mesh across it. 450 linear feet, so I really do not want to spend much more $$$ on it.
Wife just nixed the idea of a second electrical fence. And she is afraid of adding an electrical line to the wooden fence (fire hazard). I know they make stand off insulators for woden fences. No go.
I think I will add one strand of barbed wire on top of the new fence. It seemed to have worked with the old 5ft, sagging to 4ft farm fence. And I already have 3 rolls of barbed wire (has planned to fence one side of the property, but no time yet).

 

Sheew. Heat! Another picking.



Now for blueberries.

 

9 pints of blueberry jam cooking.

16 cups of berries
4 cups of sugar (usually it is 3 cups, but we pick some that were still partially pink, not all dark, due to birds), we add sugar to taste
1/4+ cup of lemon juice
3 packs of no-sugar pectin

Makes a lower sugar jam, where you can taste actual berries and not only sugar.
It goes very fast in our family. We can in 1.5 pint jars. Just enough for 2, 3 breakfasts.

 

That’s awesome

One of these days I can actually pick more than a handful of blueberries before the birds do, lol!

 

My tomatoes are growing antennas

 

Yesterday's batch all cooled down


Second batch of blueberries cooking this morning.

 

Garden doing great! Stuff starting to come in. In this heat water every day. Beans ready to pick off first row in a couple days.

 

We have 25 blueberry bushes, but only 6 that are 8+ years old. They are the biggest producers.

 

Not sure I would eat that one. Organic or not.

 

I’m with Tom.
Put that in a jar, with the cap on, and see if it moves…

 

Have canned 28 quarts beans. Tomatoes finally coming in that don’t have end rot. And blue berries. Watered till 945 this eve. Either that or forget the corn. Only a couple days with 25-30% chance of rain in next 10 days.

 

Doing better than us I think we have zero chance of rain

 

I built a big cage out of PVC pipe and covered it in bird netting, it was nice not losing any blueberries to the birds this year.

 

It’ll rain eventually but we ain’t seen any in going on three weeks. Usually a late July or August thing here.