fishin coyote
HT, 
Do you grow your garlic in raised beds? I usually get mine from a guy up the road but may try to grow my own this fall.
 
My tomatoes are going crazy this year most are 5' plus and have gotten so heavy I had to stake the cages.

Yes , everything I grow is raised beds and soil I bring into them. My heavy clay only grows weeds.
Garlic don't take up much space at all and don't go deep. I have 4 dedicated 10" deep by 5 feet wide by 12 feet long beds for garlic.
Once harvested ( now) I plant green beans in their spot for fall harvest. Green beans also add nitrogen to the soil and by Columbus weekend, the beans are pulled and back in go the garlic

I've actually never tried them. We do bread zuke flowers, theyr delish..

Way to hot for me. Is there any ice yet, lol.
Words of caution, ticks are absolutely terrible. I've had lyme and still do, it sucks believe me.
Like I said, I have the worst luck with weather. When leaving work yesterday the skies were completely black and I'm thinking, YES !! Well half way home I see the area had got drenched good and I wouldn't have to water . Well 5 miles from my house, dry as a bone and we didn't get a drop. Spent my after work hrs watering and tending animals.
Stopped at my local farm and bought a bushel of ripe tomatoes to make sauce because we can't wait any longer for homemade. These were seconds and a bushel was $20.00 . Works for me.
As for how many ears of corn in the sack, they said 5-6 dozen. Didn't have time last weekend but I'll be stopping there Friday for 3 sacks. Shared with 3 families.
All 100 garlic bulbs are sold and gone and told the wife no more sales.

I'm very worried coronavirus is going to be rearing ugly again along the northeast.
We are preparing for an even worse hunker because winter can be a long haul. I'd suggest others do as well.
My only saving grace will be, nothing can prevent us from hunting and ice fishing.
I have a feeling our plant at work will probably shutdown again if it spikes.
Peace and tuna

pensfan1
I've actually never tried them. We do bread zuke flowers, theyr delish..

Deep fried stuffed pumpkin and squash flowers are unbelievably delicious. 👍

gilz,My wife just came back from the Greensburg G. E. & paid $3 for 5 ears,but we are really looking for Denny's local corn which is in very short supply. He only had corn once this week & not a lot of it. BTW  Shop & Save was trying to get $12 a doz. also. sam

I still have a few weeks before mine is ready but it will only cost me 20 cents a dozen LOL

First chore complete. Garlic is put to rest. 6lbs seed garlic and 20 lbs leftover for yearly use. I have more than just the pictures.
We also sold 100 bulbs so we did good. My plan in fall is another goal of 300 plants.
Pickling cukes are heavy right now and tomatoes are turning.
My daughter is making 8 quarts right now.
Homemade pizza tonight 👍 peppers and onions came from my son's garden.

Round 2 coming up.. canning corn and green beans..

No rain here and water hose running.
I blanched and frozen 3 dozen ears corn. We made 8 quarts sauce will cann them tomorrow. I try to prep early for later.
Hacked a southern Mellon, yuck.
Work is tough here in the drou.

If you need anything state or federal done in person, good luck.
I wasted 6 hrs of my day to get what should be a 15 minute ordeal. And I'm not complete. Garden well. Rain once again kicked me in the gut.
Today basil, oregano, tomatoes, cukes harvested.
We froze 7 dozen ears of corn.
We fill freezers first then eat the seasonal foods.
Tonight was pork ribs and sweet corn.
2 more weeks until homestead vacation, 4 more years till retirement

We finally got some good rain yesterday. At least enough to water the garden and fill the rain barrels. Not seeing anymore in sight until next week.
Cukes are cranking and the goal tonight is to start canning pickles. I picked 2 colanders of tomatoes and should have 2 more filled today so my daughter can make another 10 quarts of sauce. We know these are slicing tomatoes but we add romas to thicken the sauce. She's got it down to a science to get the maximum return on our tomatoes and we think its delicious.
Beans all got destroyed by deer so we will fence in the area for the fall batch.

We do romane lettuce, spinach and bush beans for fall harvest

No offense Fisher, but there are plenty of other threads for that, all due respects.

What about escarole, HT? I'd be sitting in the high cotton if I could plant her wedding soup material. 😁😁

Do you guys pressure can your pickles?  Did my first batch of refrigerator bread and butter and we ate the quart so fast, it only lasted a couple days.  
Would like to try some kosher and more bread and butter and really "can" them this time.  Don't want them to get mushy though...
 
Been picking more and more tomatoes and just had crab cake sandwiches with fresh sliced brandywine tomatoes....ohhh....so.....good.....
 
I will need to can next week based on what my plants look like but it will mostly be eating maters....my san marzanos are a little slower to ripen.
 
I plant overflow maters next to my house in the rocks and this year, I have about a dozen or so volunteers coming up.  As long as we don't get frosted and I keep hitting them with miracle gro, they should keep producing well into October....

The SierraClub,National Geo.,and Trout Unlimited have all reported on Trumps disdain for protecting wild places.He just does n't care about them.He is canceling Regulations that have been in place for years to protect National wild parks,it has been reported many times.
Rich,thank you for the compliment,I hope we get together again soon.But,this Virus thing is screwing up most plans for overnight fishing trips!

Hopefully we can all someday gather our creative cooking skills together to have a real shebang.
Tonight is the last pork rib roast from last September, couple with local fresh corn and tater salad.
I'm hungry myself.