Gardening Thread - Show me your gardens!

Tomatoes coming in now. Wife’s made some salsa and canned some.

 

our tomatos are just starting to turn on. Hopefully get some sauce

 

Muscadines Still got tore up by japanese beetles but not as bad as last year. 3 of 6 flowered... they will get to bout nickel size by time they are ripe, And a dark purple.

 

Saw deer on cameras near our figs last couple of days. They know when figs are ripe.

Picked today.

 

They got a sweet tooth eh

 

Yes, they do. We had put fence around one of the figs. Moving another baby fig inside the fence this fall. Our largest Brown Turkey is 15-18 ft tall and is staying where it is, so deer is helps themselves at night. We cannot reach the top half to pick it, so birds and wasps help themselves too.

 

Kept forgetting to take a picture when the topic came up a week or so ago

 

Damn, makes mine look soo puny.

Guess I gotta wait several years for them to get bigger

 

This thing grows like crazy. I prune it back to 1/3 that size or less and it just takes off every spring

 

@six5crèéd so looking up how to kill sap beetle on corn silk ( my new problem) i found diatomaceous earth is a good organic method to get rid of many pests including squash bugs...

https://www.earthworkshealth.com/post/diatomaceous-earth-for-squash-bugs

 

i use DE a lot, only downside is you have to reapply alot especially if its raining often

 

This little outfit was wandering by itself this morning . It paused long enough for some pictures and munch on the sweet potato vines.

 

That's a nice haul. Last year there were a few I was going to pick tomorrow lol. I waited a day to late.

 

Here in Oklahoma zone 7 ours die back each year, unless its mild or I blanket them.

 

Ours have been kicking, I gambled and put them in early and it paid off. Wife has a butt load of goodies put up, with the help of Miss Wages packages. Today she put up more chicken and 5 pints of sweet relish.

 

Due to my neglect, no grapes for us this year.
Peaches weak, apples and pears looking good.

 

Feathers for the raised beds, nice collection of blood too.

 

I am in zone 7b, and Brown Turkey grows well.
Olympian fig is for zones 6 thru 9, so it will do great in OK.
We picked another gallon of figs today. Should be picking about a gallon every 2 day for the next 2 weeks. Need to bring the Little Giant out and pick the top of the tree.

 

Thats crazy how much they produce

 

13 year old tree, we will miss it when it is gone, it has been good to us.
We are not making any jams this year. Still have 2, 3 dozen pints of fig jam from years past. We just do not eat it fast enough. I need to start cooking with it. Chicken and figs good. Need to try porkchops and fig jam.