Here we go. 8)
Friday I put in the squash, beans, cukes, beats, lettuce, dill, radish, basal. I have row cover over the beans and squash. And.......39 bells and jalapenos went in and were staked this morning. 8)
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Went to the brook with the water wagon and put 25 gallons of water on the peppers. Ground ain't dry, but good to water the sets in. :)
And a week earlier the carrots and parsnips went in. And 2 weeks ago the onions went in.
Next weekend the tomatoes will go in. :)
After a little water last night, I see the carrots breaking ground today. :) Parsnip take a while longer.
so how long are you growing the peppers indoors?
Just got my peppers into the wind tunnel and black plastic down on the ground. Those peppers grow like corn. I put the 33 inch tomato cages around my peppers. Sometimes they will grow taller than the cage. If I don't use cages the plants will fall over. We did downsize this year!! Only about 30 peppers plants and just about the same on tomatoes.
Lots of flowers this year.
Quote from: mike_belben on June 06, 2021, 10:48:44 PM
so how long are you growing the peppers indoors?
They take a while to germinate Mike, 2 to 4 weeks. Then it was about 3 months. ;D
Stakes and cotton string is cheap and easy. ;D Just some sticks I cut last year when thinning while cutting down firewood. Hardwood, mainly on the bank of the road that need cut back. Good and stiff, maple and ash.
I have no pics so it hasn't happened, but...yesterday was harvest artichokes, asparagus, lettuce and peas.
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Anyone else watering yet?
SD, I take it you don't have many white tail deer around... as they would probably forage on that nice garden!
@HemlockKing (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=55126) Maybe 3 deer in a year. :D
That being said a moose walked bye the garden, not in it, seen his tracks up through my yellow birch trees. :D
@newoodguy78 (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=30841) Yes, I put 25 gallons of water on the peppers tonight with the wagon. Might get rain first of next week, Mon-Wednesday, if you can believe the weather app. ;)
Finally got a half inch of rain yesterday. Watered for weeks now. Not really garden related but we had a praying mantis sac hatch and I caught the tail end on video
Praying Mantis Babies Hatching - YouTube (https://youtu.be/mkTbMQ03Ehw)
Hope some make it to the garden. A little shaky because there wasn't time to set up a tripod.
Quote from: HemlockKing on June 09, 2021, 03:44:16 PM
SD, I take it you don't have many white tail deer around... as they would probably forage on that nice garden!
I have a herd in my yard every year and use milorganite that kept them away till last year. We had a rogue deer that wasn't afraid of people that jumped the fence several times and I had to go higher. Hunting season fixed that problem.
@MooseHerder 25 gallons is such a good comfortable amount :D
The weather apps are the reason those sprinklers were running ;)
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Pickling Cukes,melons and squash coming along nicely
Oh yea, I'm a watering. I did do some by hand for a while. I got the sprinkler going now. When I plant I like to give the garden some water. Get the seeds going faster I feel. But saying that, my Father had a garden across the road with no running water over there. Yes, we would carry water from the hand dug well for the transplants, but most years we did not water after that. That garden always did well and kept 6 people well fed.
I was until a swampy spell hit. Been a lot of rain for a week. Looks like quite a bit more to go.
@thecfarm (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=436) I'm very new at this vegetable deal but I do feel the smaller the seed the sooner they need water after planting. Irrigation on a large scale is a lot of work but seeing the plants respond to your efforts is really nice
Quote from: mike_belben on June 09, 2021, 09:54:28 PM
I was until a swampy spell hit. Been a lot of rain for a week. Looks like quite a bit more to go.
We don't need swampy but if you sent a bit up here it would be appreciated :D Every "storm" has parted and gone around us
Nice looking plants @newoodguy78 (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=30841) .
I checked under the row covers this afternoon and the beans are up. I never looked at the squash rows, but I assume they are up to. The beets are breaking ground and so are the cukes. I will be watering the gardens Saturday from creek water. Saying showers Sunday for Houlton. :) Weather app still calling for rain first part of next week.
Usually we never water here and stuff germinates just fine, but last 4 years have been dry early. Although this year we had lots of rain in May.
And yes, water makes a huge difference in growth. :)
My green peas are currently in the lead for growth, looking good, cucumber a close second, although a couple seem to be drying out and withering away, will half to be more consistent on watering I suppose.
Watered the garden again yesterday. Looks like a good even germination on the squash. I put some water on the beans, beets, cukes, onions and carrots. That was around mid day, by evening the ground with the beets looked like it was never watered and it had 15 gallons of water on it. ::) More watering today when I put in the maters, got 30 gallons in the water wagon on standby. ;) The cukes are pretty much up I think, I have a half dozen sets to poke in that will be a little ahead. ;)
@thecfarm (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=436) I think you can prune back your peppers if they get too tall. By the old leaves, there will be advantageous buds that will come out and probably produce a lot of new flowers. Experiment with a couple and see what comes of it. ;)
Looks like a cloudy week for next week, but just showers, no real rain. ::)
swampdonkey,I grow mostly ace peppers, for the sweet ones. The taller the better. The taller they are the more fruit I get!!! I have been experimenting for almost 20 years with peppers. The wind tunnel has only gone one season. This is the second season.
I had a UPS guy come to The C Farm veggie stand. He wanted peppers. He could not understand how I got my peppers so big. His did not get that size, meaning the fruit. I brought him into the garden for a tour. :D I really thought he was going to have the big one when he saw how tall my peppers was and how many peppers I had on each plant. ;D Black plastic is the answer. I would put 4 inch wide cedar boards, about a foot square, around each plant. This way when I used my liquid fertilizer, the water would stay with the plant.
I am picking peppers until I get a frost. Some may not be much bigger than 2 inches across, but ace peppers, just keep producing peppers, if I pick off the big ones.
Well, you was saying earlier they was outgrowing the cages. So a good hair trimming could solve that and get lots of new growth/flowers where cut. :D
Here also is a lot of watering. Never seen so much watering so early in the season. But the plants respond very well. This year I've tried daïkon but I don't expect very much because they are going into flower, so I supposed too much heat combined with not enough constant watering. Eating a lot of salad, egyptian oinions and bok choy.
Tomatoes set in yesterday and staked. I've got 30 of'm. Not tall enough to worry about tying yet. ;D
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Picked my first peas today and they are the best ever. Tried a new variety that are very productive, tender, and super sweet.
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Made a video with a garden update also. Everything is really taking off.
Garden 2021 Part9 Picking Peas And June Update - YouTube (https://youtu.be/oQKSmlqJqyM)
Summer veggies coming in. Picked the first of the yellow zucchini squash yesterday. Will have Roma green beans to pick by the weekend. Its been dry enough I put the sprinkler to the beans(which I almost always get by without on the early rows).
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Ground hogs ate the carrots, parsnip and beats. The leaf hoppers or some other bug has chewed up the first leaves on the beans, and under fabric, so those are a right off mostly. Might be able to get a pale full of beans off the survivors. :D I doubt there will be lettuce the groundhogs chewed the sets, so any coming up will be goners to. :-X
Concentrating on the peppers, tomatoes, squash, cukes and onions. Won't be buying more seed this year. Will have to fence'r next year. If the rain patterns don't get normal, may not bother at all. This rain sprinkles crap is getting old quick. ::)
Drill a 25 ft well right next to the garden make it a pitch pump well
Quote from: SwampDonkey on June 17, 2021, 02:00:20 PM
Ground hogs ate the carrots, parsnip and beats. The leaf hoppers or some other bug has chewed up the first leaves on the beans, and under fabric, so those are a right off mostly. Might be able to get a pale full of beans off the survivors. :D I doubt there will be lettuce the groundhogs chewed the sets, so any coming up will be goners to. :-X
Concentrating on the peppers, tomatoes, squash, cukes and onions. Won't be buying more seed this year. Will have to fence'r next year. If the rain patterns don't get normal, may not bother at all. This rain sprinkles crap is getting old quick. ::)
Boy that stinks. I try to feed my ground hogs lead before they hit the salad bar and most of the time that's enough. I have some leaf chewing bugs hitting the cukes now. Luckily no Japanese beetles yet.
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Quote from: SwampDonkey on June 17, 2021, 02:00:20 PM
Ground hogs ate the carrots, parsnip and beats. The leaf hoppers or some other bug has chewed up the first leaves on the beans, and under fabric, so those are a right off mostly. Might be able to get a pale full of beans off the survivors. :D I doubt there will be lettuce the groundhogs chewed the sets, so any coming up will be goners to. :-X
Concentrating on the peppers, tomatoes, squash, cukes and onions. Won't be buying more seed this year. Will have to fence'r next year. If the rain patterns don't get normal, may not bother at all. This rain sprinkles crap is getting old quick. ::)
Boy that stinks. I try to feed my ground hogs lead before they hit the salad bar and most of the time that's enough. I have some leaf chewing bugs hitting the cukes now. Luckily no Japanese beetles yet.
Those Japanese lady bugs? I hate those. They get everywhere inside your house.
I don't think they are vegetarian, they eat aphids. Japanese beetle is some other critter.
Yesterday, I was eating lunch in the bush and saw one of those hummingbird moths, it was brown one. Wings a going it like a hummingbird.
:D :D Those ground hogs. Momma ground hog had the babies all out of the den yesterday afternoon to eat some fresh clover and dandelion, stretched out on the lawn. I have a bit of a brush pile for snow fence and they was climbing all through that like acrobats. I guess they own the place. :D
Garden is doing good. I put some of the squash plants under ground cover. The ones I did are booming. I also covered the cukes to help out on cucumber beetles.
@SwampDonkey (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=1009) on the peat moss, is doing well too. Thank you!! That has cut down on the weeds. I found out the 2 cubic bags are much easier to handle. The smaller bags fit into the wheel barrow. Kinda of a bother to get rid of the clumps, but once I ground those up between my hands all is good. I plan on doing this again next year.
We had rain the last few days and I know that will get things going. Meaning the weeds too!!!
My squash may not amount to much this year, something chewed them under the cloth, a lot was chewed where the first leaves would come. Never seen a bug. I uncovered them yesterday to let them do whatever they do. The beans are in the same state, what ever eats the top is out at night. May be earwigs. I never see slime trails of a slug. Holes in the leaves. And same mystery bug ate what beats the groundhog didn't. In the other garden, there was some chewing also by this mystery bug on the cukes, but not as bad. No cucumber beetles there. There will be more cukes there than 12 people could eat. I think 4 of them plants are about to bloom. Onions are doing good here, I had to thin them a bit, kinda crowded, but them go into salad and cook'n.
Going to freeze some peppers soon I think.
My radish is growing good. Rabbits got my green peas and cucumbers. The rest is fenced in thankfully. Never had enough fence for the other small plot. Oh well. Next year. Could set some snares come hunting season to get my worth's back lol
Rabbit stew. splitwood_smiley fire_smiley food6
Has anyone else ever seen a woodchuck climb over a 6 ft tall stack of firewood? This morning I saw something on top of my wood pile that blocks off one area of my garden looking out my bedroom window. Didn't have my glasses on and thought it was the neighbors cat. Had some coffee and then went down to check the garden. On the way down I hear a racket and see a woodchuck digging its way out of the garden under the fence. Luckily only got a couple leaves off the beans and tops off the carrots. It shouldn't happen again unless there at other acrobatic chucks in the woods ;D.
That little bugger!! He was scoping the area on the woodpile before hand lol coast is clear. Old man cant see anything no glasses lol
They can certainly climb. I have treed ground hogs before. ;D
Have one here that always was sunning himself on top of the woodpile. I've got 5 now. ;) :D
Shot em outa trees 10 ft up :o
That tree had to go anyway, great timing, 2 birds one stone lol cut_tree cut_tree
Quote from: SwampDonkey on July 05, 2021, 06:54:42 PM
They can certainly climb. I have treed ground hogs before. ;D
Have one here that always was sunning himself on top of the woodpile. I've got 5 now. ;) :D
I take it you have given up on veggies and are raising meat now 🐖. Haven't seen anymore lately.
Have a very small fawn eating the leaves off one of my new pear trees now. She's not very afraid of me running at her and screaming at her to quit eating my pear tree.
I'm concentrating on peppers, tomatoes, cukes, onions and berries. Should be lots of berries this year, raspberries are beginning to ripen. :)
With this good soaking the maritimes is about to get should help even more, hopefully not too much wind.
Picked the garlic today and made an update video about how everything is doing
Garden 2021 Part11 Garlic Harvest And July Update - YouTube (https://youtu.be/ZUF-0Zw9QQ0)
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Great stuff, love that garlic. I've never grown any, but we do get some grown locally. :)
Onions do need thinning, I've been thinning mine here for salads and meat dishes. ;)
Your sweet taters look like they will do well this year.
I think the earwigs are bad this year up here, I'm pretty sure that's what went to war with my beans and other stuff because no bugs on them during daylight. And of course them ground hogs love beet greens, lettuce and radish and young cuke seedlings. Farming has it's challenges. :D
These will be going in this weekend, 4 of them. Red bell, 'fat-n-sassy' variety. Blooms starting to come on, 12" tall now. ;)
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2nd planting of peppers went in yesterday. When the first planting went in the transplanter was covered in dust, not so much this time
Just like a farmer, back for more punishment. ;D
Farming and all aspects of it really is a disease, once it's in your blood it's all over but the struggle :D
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That little devil! Look closely and he's there lurking! Bugger got my green peas
I was looking for a wood chunk!!
Quote from: thecfarm on July 09, 2021, 07:36:16 PM
I was looking for a wood chunk!!
He's out back on the wood pile lol
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Applying some iron herbicide after the much needed rain
Harvested the shallots today spread them out to dry in the garage because rain is predicted for the next 10 days and started some carrots lacto fermenting with a little dill weed.
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3 3/4 inches of rain Saturday. Please send some sunshine as I can't take much more rain. My tomatoes are exploding open from the rain. At least the yellow squash like it
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I stopped counting when we went over 7" for the month, and we just had a shower pass over so that makes at least 19 days in a row with measurable rain. I am beyond depressed.
Well, we may get rain Wednesday up here. We've missed all the rain for over a week, either went out the St Lawrence or across the Fundy. ::)
Cukes are coming on now, be two weeks before I pick one though. Lots of tomatoes setting, lots of blooms to. Still eating peppers, I did can some but to eat from now, not long time storage. Looks like I may get some squash by the end of the summer, but not as many plants as last year, so no wheel barrow load. Onions are doing good, been eating lettuce and onions also.
Picked a peck of peppers. ;D Jalapeno and bell. Gotta freeze some jalapenos again. :)
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The growing conditions this year are nearly perfect for tomatoes .I've got "big boy " vines up over 8 feet high and loaded .I'm going to need to guy wire them .Cucumbers look like a jungle .The rabbits got the green beans, should have fired up the electric fence I guess .Yellow squash I have no idea as I don't normally have good luck with them or peppers for some reason .
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I growed them taters, just before i ate them. Looked ugly but sure tasted fine. Made the stock also. And the firewood i smoked it on. Next year maybe ill grow the pork in there to boot.
Mighty tasty, been having hodgepodge here: beans ,taters, carrots. smiley_thumbsup
Cousins up the hill raise hogs and chickens.
I've got Big Beef and Scotian tomatoes, both plants are 5 feet high and lots of fruit. Mine are staked as shown above. Won't know one from the other until they mature. :D
I see some squash forming this week, the good female blossoms that make squash. :)
I self pollinate those and cukes until the bees really find the plot and setup shop in the dead of hot weather. Screwy fruit is caused by incomplete pollination.
Lots of hymenoptera to pollinate around here. ;)
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The beans are in, Picked these today
that's a serious bean picker. :)
Yeah ill say!
We're gardening. That guys FARMING.
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:D You're in it to make money,,,,,, to pay the equipment dealer. :D
Reminds me of my childhood .8 to 10 rows of green beans 100 feet long to a ten year old looked like a mile .The entire garden was about a 1/2 - 3/4 acre .
Each picking of the sweet corn was nearly a bushel .We ate what we wanted and froze the rest .It takes a lot of produce to feed a family of seven . That that became too far long was shocked and fed to the Shetland ponies .
My dad plowed and disked it with an Allis Chalmers model B circa 1938 crank start and planted it with a Husky garden tractor with a one row seeder .That was the extent of what he did, us kids did the rest .I own both those machines now .I rebuilt the Allis when I was 16 years old . Semi mount 14" plow that will pull the front end off the ground in hard sod .Not bad for 14 drawbar HP .
I may be farming but I wish more people had gardens like you guys. Gives a person a much better perspective on the challenges involved in producing food
Pigs are the way to go if you can raise them. We used pigs to clear some land and I have to say.. there is nothing you cannot grow in that soil. Funny thing is... everything you fed your pigs that had a seed will grow. If you keep pigs through the winter and into the spring, then move them to a new field or bush. Stake the field they were in and you'll have a custom garden
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It won't be organized but hell.. it will grow like crazy!
Picked pole beans which will become dilly beans, carrots are good and tasty, peppers coming on, and lots of green tomatoes. Too many zucchini for only one plant. Fall peas about 6" tall, used seed saved from the first planting. And the tomatillos are starting to have lanterns hanging. 100* forecast today.
Taking a break during the afternoon in the garden eating fresh peas and carrots is rewarding. I think the zucchini is a week or 2 from being ready.
I think ill have half a wheelbarrow of volunteer butternut soon. I need to start pickling cukes but its been so darn hot i dont want to be near stove or flame. Keep giving the cukes away to the meth heads.
Cukes have been slow for me. Pumpkins too but I planted them about 10 days later.
I've pulled a few tomatoes off the vine but nothing ready to eat yet. Nights are cool here.
What date do you usually put your pumpkins in? Dang near lost ours due to all the rain , one field is still questionable the other looks really good 8)
I planted the pumpkins June 18th.
Tomatoes have buried the stakes. Lots of green ones, none ripe yet. Another 6 weeks yet before frost. ;)
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Almost neck high. :D
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You want to see pumpkins go to the pumpkin festival in Circleville Ohio .You'll see fields full of them. Where in the world would you sell that many ? pumpkins .Besides that what do you do with pumpkins ? There's only so many pies you can make and most of the commercial stuff they use a variety of squash for that .No pumpkins in a pumpkin pie .That's worse than no Easter bunny . :( :(.
red bells
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fat-n-sassy red bell (planted 3 weeks ago)
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I'm growing pumpkins for my grandkids. A teachable moment.
Lettuce to no end....
Tango
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Boston head
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Iceberg head
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I'll show you tall tomatoes .This was about a week ago .Left to right "goliath" next two big boy ,right is a jungle of cucumbers .The big boys are now even with the roof ,soon to be on the roof .This is one of two raised beds and it is south facing with a brick wall that acts like a heat sink .The early girls in the other bed are fast turning red also two more big boy plants .
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Cukes
Cukes and Iceberg
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Cuke bed (earlier planting)
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First picked this month.
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I see huge fields of pumpkins every fall left to rot. I suspect the market is saturated pretty much every year. :D We make squash pie here, from winter squash. A lot of field pumpkin is Halloween stuff, no good for pies, too wet.
Beans are a couple weeks behind because of their struggle with earwigs. Have some eventually. :)
Been enjoying corn, cukes, and tomatoes. I wish my zucchini would die now. Can't eat anymore, can't find anyone that wants them anymore, been using them for target practice :rifle: . Pulling the plants tomorrow. Peppers are turning red and sweet now, time to pick up some sausages. Looks like the rain will finally stop after raining almost every day in July.
swampdonkey, what are you doing wearing a long sleeve fannel shirt?
Besides keeping warm. ;)
Been on the cool side here too.
@thecfarm (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=436) Was only 60F here after waking up to 52F this morning. Not going to be too hot today either. Sure a world of difference compared to last summer. I think them mid west fires are blocking my heat source. :D
As a side note, you can see the soil here is full of gravel or pebble stones. :D I found an abandoned black ant hill in under the birch trees and used that to fill in the hole around a butternut tree this spring. That was some nice soil, no gravel in it. Screened by tiny ants. :D
Picked some eggplant and fried it up with my last zucchini pull_smiley.
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Fresh picked squash, corn, and potatoes with a grilled roast
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Every day another basket full
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Beautiful.
I thought you might get a kick out of a cherry cookie I engraved today. Another one on the wood pile eying up the veggies. This weeks hunt. :D
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:D :D
I can send ya some from New Brunswick, I got 5 to spare. :D :D
Nice work on the engraving. Ace smiley_thumbsup
My mouth is watering over that good food, good thing supper is in 25 minutes. How did the ground hog taste? :D
Quote from: SwampDonkey on August 02, 2021, 03:31:34 PM
I can send ya some from New Brunswick, I got 5 to spare. :D :D
Nice work on the engraving. Ace smiley_thumbsup
My mouth is watering over that good food, good thing supper is in 25 minutes. How did the ground hog taste? :D
So you're the guilty one sending in replacements :D . I thought the border was still locked down. Right about now that groundhog tastes like hawk poop :o.
Hawk poop :o----- :D
Had to freeze some more peppers. Mother made some mustard bean pickles today, she raided a friends garden for the beans the other day. :D
Gotta go down and pick a cuke. ;D
The early girl tomatoes are fast turning red and the big boys are growing taller and the fruit larger .Those are causing the stakes to bend ,I'll need to guy the off before they break .The cukes have became a jungle of vines . I've got some yellow squash some place if I can find them .
My cukes got the blight hard and fast.. I got 10lbs off it yesterday and likely thats the end of them. Have to find time to pickle them.
Im thinkin theres 50lbs of butternut almost finished.
My cukes were slow to grow and only have one pickling size now. We have a couple of warmer weeks coming and should see some growth.
I have to check my plants tomorrow morning for a small batch of pickled dill cukes. I know a week ago there were all kinds of 1" ones. There was one 5" long and by yesterday it was 14". :D
That cucumber blight thing can be under control using copper fungicide .You have to use it on a regular basis though not wait until the leaves all turn brown .I give them a spritz about once a week .Once the leaves all nearly dead that's the end of the cucumbers for that season .Then again if the ground hogs get the leaves first it ends before it begins .A low electric fence controls them if you plug it in .It could be said a 22 rifle might have the same effect if you wanted to be on guard duty 7 and 24 .
Picked my biggest pepper ever. 10 inches long and all the Ajvarskis are this big :o
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Trying to make corn syrup but it doesn't seem to be running. Guess you can't beleive everything you see on the internet :D
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Last of the zucchini 8)
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That's one heck of a pepper @21incher (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=24694)
Username checks out :D
No groundhogs.. Dog is a vermin killing missile. Snapping turtle is the only thing she let walk. Or slump or whatever.
I do have plans of investing un a fungicide one of these days, its just never happened. Glad there is hope.
My wife's garden is doing better than ever. Decided as we are getting old we need raised bed garden. So I brought some old livestock water tanks home and filled mostly full with composted manure. The neighbors tomatoes aren't doing well, so she is supplying the neighborhood. The green beans are about done, but we are tired of them anyway, and she has froze some. The squash are doing well, she didn't plant much else. Weeds were crazy at first, but when the tomatoes got big enough to shade the ground, keep the weeds from coming. Going to have to add some more compost, the stuff is settling down in the tanks.
The borg (winter squash) have overtaken the tomatoes (which are 5' tall) and advancing toward the peppers. :D I've got to go in and prune tomatoes I think and hopefully 'adjust' vine advancing direction. ::) ::)
Vine marches on!!
Cucumbers can go from little pickles to cukes in about 4 days .These grew on the back side of the trellis and were hard to see .The one on the end is too far along . "Straight eights " I think .It's going to be a bumper crop, we will never be able to eat them all .
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Who ever can?? We always do pickles and eat and eat until we can't no more and have a potato barrel full left over to rot. :D :D
I got them maters pruned this morning at first light. I've got probably 3000 tomatoes on them. :D I cut squash vines away and I probably will have at least 10 squash on 6 plants. I don't grow a lot of them, but they take over, leaves up to my neck from ground up. :D
I have not seen growing conditions this good in many years .I've only got four cucumber plants but they have became a jungle .The south facing brick wall and Miracle Grow have worked too good by the looks of things .If they were not on a trellis the vines would block my back door which they are about to any way .
I like cucumber and onions with tomatoes .I pep them up a tad with a little Cajun to give them some pizzazz .
One thing about with that many vines you don't need to worry about weeds .
I throw the too far long cukes on my slash pile I only burn about 2-3 times year .Some sprout and the ground hogs seem to like them .Come early spring you just never know what might pop up out of the ashes .
Made 4 quarts of dill pickles this morning. :)
I never have much for weeds here as I have never let them go. I also use well composted manure where the seeds of weeds are dead. The worst weeds here is a flower that can grow worst than lambs quarters and just as tall. Some type of musk.
I think I could have filled the bed of a pick up truck with tomato tops. I think there is about 40 plants. Most grow up with 6 or more big stems thumb sized.
My cukes all got too fat. Anyone got a sweet pickle relish recipe?
Them dill pickles from fresh picked cukes this morning. With jalapeno and garlic clove.
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My one eligible cuke was eaten last night. :D
Grew potatoes for the first time ever. Probably could have left them in the ground longer, but I was impatient.
Squash didn't work out at all and died weeks ago, but the cukes did alright and were delicious. Probably got about 8 or 9 this size.
Herbs did great. We ate lots of fresh basil, thyme, rosemary, mint and parsley.
Want to try tomatoes, potatoes and maybe carrots next season.
Anything else we should try that'll do well in
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our raised planter beds?
Do you like what we call string beans? They are yellow and there is green ones. We pickle some of them, mustard bean pickles are some good. :) They are bush type. Not the hard skinned ones.
That's a good idea @SwampDonkey (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=1009)
Used to call those small ones pig potatoes. Now they are baby potatoes. They even come in a special package at a store now.
That's about typical from a hill of red Pontiacs .Some big ones ,some little ones .You can grow reds or Irish cobblers about any where .Russets ,Kennebec need loose rich soil to really thrive which is why "hilling " works out well for them .
My maternal grandfather grew potatoes by the box car load in the sandy soil of Knox county Ohio .I never did that many but did grow them by 1000 pound lots a long time ago .
Up here they call the small white potatoes salt potatoes. They sell them in a 4 pound bag with a one pound bag of salt that you add to the water when boiling. Great with some butter on them.
Got out my squeezomatic and started making sauce today. It removes the core, skins, and all the seeds leaving just the puree and juice
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Really enjoying all the differ peppers and onions we grow on the grill with sausages.
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We grow strike beans and put up dilly beans from the old USDA recipe
Dilled Green Beans From The 1978 USDA Bulletin #92 - YouTube (https://youtu.be/Y6R9T0RQD5g)
Quote from: 21incher on August 10, 2021, 12:42:38 PMReally enjoying all the differ peppers and onions we grow on the grill with sausages.
Looks really good. I love sausage and peppers on the grill!
Yeah, dad used to grow about 300 acres of potatoes. I live in the potato belt here. ;D
300 hundred acres back then was a huge farm. Today's equipment would go thru it quickly but I remember the 2 row diggers well.
I've got a bunch of lags in a scrap pile and have been making fire pokers out of them.
Also have a 2 row planter available for a yard ornament if you want it. :D
Dad had the second built harvester off the line, a Thomas. They were made in town. I think he got that around '70. He rebuilt it over the years with improvements.
I've picked taters behind a 2 row digger for 3 other farmers until I was 12. I began when I was 7. ;D When I was 12 I worked in the potato house for dad. We had to fill bins from over head and use chutes that were placed inside a tire. What a joy when that thing plugged. :D :D
Used the long legs from the trash bed one time from a harvester to make hinges for a bench swing and also to hold the floor in it. That thing is still here in under the big spruce trees out behind with some European mountain ash growing up through it. :D
Been picking string beans here this week. Yesterday I picked a scrub pale of yellow ones off of 6 plants, that was what the bugs left for me. :D The greens was are just starting and I picked about 1/3 of a pale this morning, but lots of 1" 'ers and blossoms. So won't be lacking beans. ;D
Been picking bells off them later bell peppers this week. The fruit grew fast since the last photo. I've had a few ripe red ones and also red ripened jalapenos as well. Nowhere near as many that are just green. :) No ripe maters yet, but they got a good pruning last week, so they are sizing up.
My tomatoes are slow too. But I got them in late too. Cherries ones are doing good.
Green peppers are booming!!!
Green beans are just about done, onto the yellow ones.
One year I planted green beans once every 2 weeks. Had beans all summer. :)
My poor old bean crop got raided by the rabbits .Then volunteer tomatoes of unknown origin over took them causing a crop failure this year ,bean wise that is .It's just a jungle of tomatoes, some average some teeny tiny in places I never planted any .I have some cucumbers do that also .
A few years ago I was late getting my tomato plants .So only finding some at Menards that said they were Big boys instead they were grape tomatoes .About the size of a marble but impossible to be rid of .When they come back year after year they get smaller, about the size of a pea now .In a few years they might be the size of a BB .Having learned my lesson I haven't purchased any plants from that company since .
Vine ripe tomatoes are starting to kick in with this heat. smiley_sun smiley_sun smiley_thumbsup
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I also have my eyes on a sweet momma squash for next weekend. Nice and dark green now. Probably a 4 lb'er. ;)
The neighbor kids visited last evening .Those little darlins had a ball picking the volunteer tomatoes .When they come from hydride seed like Big Boys they are tiny little things no bigger than a golf ball but a zillion of them .The actual Big Boys are starting to turn those will be at least baseball size and larger .The Goliaths are gaining also .Unless we get an early frost they'll probably be good to middle of October although that late the skins get a tad tough .
Good way to use up maters is to can some sauce.
Couple years ago here. Did some last year, planning same this year, but lots more.
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Picked a couple of my red peppers and roasted them to freeze Love the flavor in salads and on sandwiches all winter. This barely put a dent in the peppers.
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spent 2 hours roasting over charcoal. The only way to get the best flavor
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Vacuum sealed and heading for the freezer. They taste like fresh roasted when thawed. Wound up with about 22 pounds after peeling and coring them.
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Swamp Donkey you are right about sauce. First batch canned and starting another tomorrow. I start with over 8 gallonsof tomatoes and usually end up with 12 to 13 quarts after cooking down. I remove all the seeds and skins with my squeezo before cooking because if left in the sauce gets the bitter taste the seeds give out if cooked.
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Busy time of the year if you have a garden.
Yep, seeds and skin definitely removed on the tomato sauce. But I cook to soften, so doesn't take long for that. No bitterness. I can use a big strainer spoon to removed the skins from the pot, then pour over cheese cloth to get seeds and any skin bits. Return to stove and boil for 2-1/2 hrs to reduce then add in herbs, salt, veggies and continue another 1/2 hr boiling. Just as good as that $8-12 bottle high end stuff in the store. I want $15 for mine. ;)
what do you fellas put in for seasoning? ive got a mess of golf ball and under volunteer tomatoes coming in.
basal and/or oregano then garlic or onion, celery seed maybe. Then bells and or jalapeno diced fine. Put that stuff in after you condensed it a bunch. Try what you like and see how you like it.
I probably ought to grow garlic at this point.
Quote from: mike_belben on August 21, 2021, 02:07:24 PM
I probably ought to grow garlic at this point.
You should. Find a variety that does good in your area, buy a couple bulbs then plant in the fall. You will have garlic the rest of your life. We plant soft neck. We use the sauce recipe in the old ball blue book. Just tomato, onion, olive oil, garlic (we double that) bay leaves, oregano, salt, pepper, red pepper seeds, and some citric acid to make sure the ph is right. We always use at least 25% black tomatoes that give it amazing flavor. It calls for 45 pounds of tomatoes buy we double it. This one is safe for water bath processing. If you do a meat sauce it will need pressure canning. Small tomatoes are a real pain to get the seeds out usually. I can't post the recipe here because of copywrite issues but can email a copy if you want to try it and don't have a blue book.
I appreciate the offer but its okay im pretty sure my wife said we have the blue book in the shed. So far what we have for maters has been getting eaten.
Heres a quick n easy. Chunk up some cukes and cherry tomatoes into a bowl then dice up a block of mozarella into about 3/4" inch chunks. Douse it in balsamic. So good.
Yes, forgot to mention the olive oil in the sauce. And sometimes bay leaves, not always. smiley_thumbsup
I've never followed a recipe for sauce. I go by taste. ;D :D Although, you should probably water bath, I've never had to, and never lost a bottle. If you soften the tomatoes you can cheese cloth them seeds out with no trouble. You can do this by freezing and thawing and not using heat. Mash'em either way when soft.
My first wife was an excellent cook .She would use some type of hot pepper in her spaghetti sauce then let the cat eat the left overs . The cat would sneak up on it and growl and eat it then two days later growl again in his kitty litter box .The sauce got him coming and going so to speak . :D
I counted 8 sweat momma squash that look like they will be able to mature for the winter. One is already ripe by the looks of it, maybe a 4 lb'er. smiley_thumbsup I didn't have a lot of plants, but what is there is huge. Bugs, plus thinned them out for more growing space. ;) Never seen a cuke beetle in weeks. Lots of bumble bees.
I can't take much more rain. Now the mosquitoes are out of control also. My tomatoes and cukes have lost out to moisture and diseases it causes.
Got the first corn ears off today and had the kids shuck them then shell some bush beans.
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Looking good Mike. I see a happy gardener relaxing after a great harvest. Love seeing children involved with gardening.
Thanks 21"r
Im not gonna lie. Theyd rather be involved in games on gadgets relatives have given them without asking us first. I make them come out to help very rarely and my daughter whines about it pretty bad. I made her shell those bean pods yesterday to understand that you can sow and hoe and grow and weed all season to reap a pocket worth of pods that takes an hour to shell and makes 2 tablespoons of food.
Im really trying to make them aware of the scope of labor it requires to feed a family so that they understand why im furious when i see food across the floor or half a plate in the trash or forgotten on the table instead of put back in the fridge. Be conservationists. Youre ancestors slaved to raise what the avg spoiled person wastes today.
Me and boy threshed and winnowed winter wheat this spring. Like an hour of labor to make a tablespoon of cereal grains. That $6 box of granola is outrageous, but what a deal!
I will not derail this thread, so I'll just say...
Well said Mike and I share in your frustrations across the board.
So i need help diagnosing this corn. I will reiterate that it was planted from germinated seed of feed corn i salvaged off a food plot.. Not sweetcorn- so my expectations were already lower. Southside mentioned "dent" corn as a variety and it did have dents in the kernels.
The silks came up clearish and turned purple then brown all the way down inti the ears. Now i picked some of it and the kernels all had a milky white liquid which i read indicated it was time. But some cobs stayed whitish yellow and tasted okay with butter and salt. The ones with the reddish cob were like eating a yellow crayon.. Just kinda chewy and plastic without much flavor. This was a very distinct quality that came with the redness on the cob underneath. No red, no problem. I feel like i cooked it plenty long.
So the question is did i wait too long? Or is it a genetic thing from unstable cross traits? Or.... ?
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If you were a horse or cow it would have tasted just right.
Dent corn is commercial corn for feed, corn oil, corn gas, etc. Probably a mixture of varieties in plot seed bags since it really doesn't matter. Dent corn is not like sweet corn and not usually found on the dinner table unless times are real, real hard and your down to eating tree bark and dirt sandwiches.
Next year get you some actual sweet corn seed and you'll be rewarded.
Good experience though with the current crop. Let it dry, then shell it and grind it coarse and feed it to your chickens. smiley_turkey_dancing smiley_bouncing
Thats actually exactly what im gonna do with it.. 30 chicks should be shipping today. Ive got a 5 gallon pail of commercial feed on hand and my soldier fly bin has a few thousand larvae chowing down every conceivable organic food thing you can throw at them in record time. Hopefully i am able to capture some fly eggs soon but only a handful of flies have emerged yet. They larvae are an exceptional free feed that recycles your own home waste. The goal is minimal expenditure on freezer birds.
I think im gonna run the corn stalks through the pto chipper into the kiddie pool and bag them up in a contractor bag like a mini marshmallow just to see if it ensiles. A what happens when you ____ experiment.
Starting to accumulate ripe tomatoes here so will be doing sauce this weekend. 8)
i squished a batch of maters through a strainer a few days ago and all it really made was a puree, like tomato soup. the bulk of it was skins and pulp. next time i will probably just stew and can them whole.
Still picking. Second bed of late beans ready to start picking. Turned some of them into dilled green beans per the 1970s USDA guide
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Here is a video about how easy it is to make them.
Dilled Green Beans From The 1978 USDA Bulletin #92 - YouTube (https://youtu.be/Y6R9T0RQD5g)
Black Panther Edamame beans are mature and will be steaming them up tomorrow. They have an amazing nutty flavor and I was lucky the rabbit ate so many he couldn't squeeze in through the fence anymore so some were left for us.
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Every day is a different cart load. Can't believe the number of plum tomatoes from 4 plants this year.
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Mike you can go to jail for reusing those patented GMO corn seeds :o. Make your time worthwhile and buy some good seeds to get started then save future seeds of plants that don't easily cross pollinate.
What can i say, im an outlaw. Growin that co-op deer corn like a boss!
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Any time ive bought sweet corn seeds in the past 4 or 5 years its failed. I guess i will try again next year.
We made some mustard bean pickles last week, we usually use yellow string beans, but we only had green this year. We threw some red ripened jalapenos in the mix.
We also made some Lady Rose relish. It's an old recipe that have been made for years around here. We had some cukes the size of zucchini so in they went. It don't take many and in fact the recipe uses big cukes to begin with. Yes, you seed them, no seeds in it. ;D
Mike you have to get rid of the skins and seeds and boil it down for 2-1/2 to 3 hrs for spaghetti sauce. Gotta thicken her up. It's like boiling down maple syrup. You put your ingredients in toward the end for 1/2 hr. ;)
Alright, that makes sense. I probably dont have near enough. All my tomatoes were volunteers and nearly all cherry or plumb. If theyre ugly or got old i boiled and smooshed.
A 3 gallon pale full of uncooked 'maters should yield 4 quart bottles when condensed/boiled down. :)
we just finished eating fried chicken with shredded cheese and backyard sauce, it was pretty good.
i boiled it down with onions, garlic, garlic powder, onion powder, salt and pepper, italian seasoning and a bit of olive oil. smelled right to me.
We're having stuffed bell peppers this evening. Been no shortage of peppers this summer. 8)
I like stuffed chilli in bell pepper. What do you stuff them with
We used this recipe. Simple stuff. ;)
Stuffed Bell Peppers - Dinner at the Zoo (https://www.dinneratthezoo.com/stuffed-bell-peppers/)
If you like stuffed peppers try planting some peperon di-cuneo peppers. They are a very thick walled sweet pepper shaped like a tomato that we love stuffed. They really freeze well for stuffed peppers year round. This is the time of the year for stuffed cabbage leaves we also love food6.
I still have about 60 pounds of peppers to figure out what to do with. Never had so many really big peppers before. They loved the hot rainy summer.
We've had peppers of various sizes here, but a lot of them as big as any in the store. Not many turned red, or when they did they were picked soon after and not let grow large. I figure once red they are matured and if not picked they will likely start to rot, maybe not. ;D
First year we had jalapeno that ripened up tomato red, usually they are just green, even in stores. :)
Never weighed mine here, but I do have a good Uline scale that has 60 lb capacity.
I can weigh 4 yards of yarn and estimate accurately how many yards in a lb. Lots of mystery yarn packages that have just the weight, no yardage marked on them. ;D
You have to watch hot peppers and sweet peppers planted close together .Danged bees will cross pollinate them for you ..
I've got to try different peppers next year or maybe non at all. I like bell peppers and Jalapeños but don't eat enough of them to warrant growing them. I give away more than we use.
We use lots in meat dishes here. As we do onions. Harvested the onions 2 weeks ago. ;D Freeze the peppers for dishes in the winter, chop suey, piece of steak, pizza, throw extra in the spaghetti sauce. ;D
I live out of cooler all summer but brought a 5 gallon bucket of green tomatoes back to Florida with me along with a few peppers last fall.
I'm going to have get on the green tomato thing before they all turn red .I've got the "Dollywood " recipe right from the cooks who make them .Which BTW anybody can right off the internet .
Years ago, we made chow chow with green tomatoes. ;D
Much the same as this Nova Scotia recipe.
Nova Scotia Green Tomato Chow Recipe - (3.5/5) (https://www.keyingredient.com/recipes/2031009/nova-scotia-green-tomato-chow)
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You have to watch hot peppers and sweet peppers planted close together .Danged bees will cross pollinate them for you ..
I found that out the hard way once smiley_alcoholic_01. Would be interesting to see if honey from hot pepper farms is hot.
Chili pepines and sweet bell pepper cross will light you up coming and going .I swear it will boil the water right out of a toilet bowl .---come on ice cream :D
:D
Boiling down the spaghetti sauce this morning. ;D
Quote from: Al_Smith on September 04, 2021, 01:02:39 AM
Chili pepines and sweet bell pepper cross will light you up coming and going .I swear it will boil the water right out of a toilet bowl .---come on ice cream :D
Now that right there is funny :D
First spaghetti sauce of the year, 3 bottles this batch from 3 gallons of juice. 3 hr boil. ;D
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Had a cup left over to pour on some beef stroganoff. Mmmmm!! :)
A $10 squash on today's market prices. 8) 'Sweet Momma', winter squash. 8.7" diameter, 5" tall.
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Got the dehydrator running now that the AC is off. Drying Principe and yellow plum tomatoes. Boy do we enjoy them in the winter
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Red Peppers keep on coming. It's crazy this is my 3rd picking and there are still many left. The Ajvarskis have provided over 2 bushels from 8 plants so far. Picked and roasted 60 pounds again yesterday.
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Going to harvest sweet potatoes tomorrow. Can't believe the size of the plants but I read in rainy years large plants can lead to small potatoes. They look like 3 ft tall hedges now.
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Pie pumpkins and butternuts are ready also. Hard to keep up this time of the year.
Chinese Python Snake Beans from Baker Creek (No affiliation). Planted four places in the bean house because the missus told me I grew too many pole beans...just wanted to see if they lived up to the hype. They did. Scared the heck out of the neighbor who came over for some jalapenos, and they don't taste too bad. ;D
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Update:
These things are getting out of hand. I may have to break out the 12 gauge!
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Do you eat those beans? What do they taste like?
Dug up the sweet potatoes today and what a surprise over 150 pounds from those 20 slips that survived. Spread out in the garage to start curing now. Some aren't pretty but are big.
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This one was the winner at over 4 pounds 10 ounces. Pretty good for my first try at growing them.
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sweet mother of potato. :o
Quote from: 21incher on September 06, 2021, 04:13:44 PM
Do you eat those beans? What do they taste like?...
Very edible. They are apparently a staple in Indian cuisine. Check for Snake Gourd recipes. I tested a couple of smaller beans with a recipe found on 'The Google'. Scraped off the waxy white coating (easy), and then sliced and sauteed on the Blackstone with garlic, onions and peppers. Eaten by themselves they tasted like a cross between cucumber and green bean....mild flavor, but tasty. The flavor got lost when everything was combined.
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Salsa time. Half of the bowl gone. ;)
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That looks pretty good MH, whats the recipe?
Quote from: Mooseherder on September 06, 2021, 07:38:34 PM
Salsa time. Half of the bowl gone. ;)
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Mooseherder knows how to make great salsa.. proved to several of us in the UP at Nailhead's (in memoriam) camp back in 2007.
Not much better than homemade salsa 👍
Quote from: mike_belben on September 06, 2021, 09:51:12 PM
That looks pretty good MH, whats the recipe?
This was a double batch yesterday because of the whack of tomatoes.
Usually 8 tomatoes diced
Half a medium size onion diced
1 jalapeño minced
About 3/4 cup chopped cilantro
2 teaspoons minced garlic
1 teaspoon salt.
Cover and let stew on counter for 3 hours then eat or refrigerate. Lasts about a week.
Optional
Olive oil
Hot sauce.
Bell pepper
The bunch of cilantro from store can make 2 or 3 batches. I try not to make it overpowering. You can add more tomatoes if it is.
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Quite a crop of sweet potatoes. thumbs-up
Awesome looking salsa MH. :)
MMM, fried snakes and sausage. :D
Picked this sweet momma tonight. 8)
9.2" diameter, 5" tall.
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Do they store well?
Picked about 250 pounds of butternuts today. Cut back and only planted 3 hills this year but they really did good. Picked another mess of pie pumpkins and gourds also. Darn bees are bad and aggressive now when you rummage through the vines.
Yes, they are good into December when stored in a cool dry spot. The coolest I have is the basement in the 60'sF. If you had a spot in the 40's they would keep even longer. You have to make sure you don't disturb the stem. After the December they get darker and wetter. I don't remember loosing any to rot though, but I only grow about a wheel barrel full. Once we cook one up we freeze what isn't eaten. They make nice pies to. I've been hankering for pie with ice cream on top. Real ice cream, not that bean gum and agar crap. ;D
For some reason I can't seem to grow squash except yellow crooked neck . ???
Quote from: Al_Smith on September 11, 2021, 07:59:57 AM
For some reason I can't seem to grow squash except yellow crooked neck . ???
Lots of composted manure tilled in, some fertilizer to and water, full sun to, Al. ;)
That's a good looking squash!!! And than some!!!
wow.. i thought i had a lot of butternut.. thats a bumper crop squared.
The woodstove is surrounded with some of the pie pumpkins and gourds
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some of the butternuts hardening off before going in the root cellar. They last till Easter
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My only Halloween pumpkin that grew
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Curing sweet potatoes in the grow tent. Have to keep them 80 to 85 deg and over 80% humidity for 10 days then around 65 deg for 10 days to sweeten them up and form a skin for long storage.
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Finally the end is in sight.
You'll eat good this winter. 8)
Leftover and aged cukes. :-\ I bet I could fill a barrel, there are 2 other patches. ;D
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#11 Sam Hubbard for scale on the bigger ones. ;)
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Making 6 more bottles of tomato sauce this morning. House smells like tomato soup. :D
That's one of the best smells ever.
Sweet potatoes are cured and time for some fries in the air fryer. I definitely will plant them from now on.
Root cellar is filling up.
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thats what "sustainable" looks like.
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Sweet potato fries is certainly good eat'n. 8)
Quote from: SwampDonkey on September 19, 2021, 04:41:09 AM
Sweet potato fries is certainly good eat'n. 8)
I haven't had sweet patio fries in at least a couple years! Use to make them all the time. Mix them up in preferred seasoning or spices and veggie oil and bake to a crisp!
We lease a field to a farmer. Last year they grew oats. This year blue potatoes they sell to Terra Blue Chips. We pick up what is left behind after harvest.
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They make excellent fries. The color is more deep purple cut open.
It's amazing the color you find in potatoes. Very diverse veggie 8) and many of us just use white or yellow flesh ones. ;D
I tried planting Adirondack blue potatoes one year but didn't get many. Yours look like my beets.
This is why I don't grow broccoli. Went to my local Amish store today and they had fresh local broccoli for 69 cents a head and they were almost as big as a dinner plate 8).
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Can't wait for them to start picking cauliflower.
I cooked a cauliflower cut into florets inside a tinfoil packet with sea salt on the grill for the first time. It was delicious.
The fries turned out good. Before fryer pic.
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Local farmer here was hauling in a load of boxed cauliflower as I was coming home. I have seen his stuff once in awhile in the local Atlantic Superstore (grocery store) in Woodstock.
Spud harvest has started here this week to. The farmer here by the house has no crew on the harvester, they are at the potato house when they unload. They dig 24 rows at a time I believe. And he has a lot of trucks. The harvester alone is a $600,000 machine, but there are smaller machines that gather other rows and pile them into the rows he digs (wind rowers). He grows 900 acres.
They haven't started harvesting potatoes by me yet. There are a couple thousand acres of muckland they use for them and onions and Its amazing to watch the old army 6 x6s fitted with 20 ton potato boxes go buy. They have a fleet and one goes by about every 15 minutes for a month. Love the sound of them coming up the hill. There used to be a bump in the road in front of my house and I would collect about 50 pounds of potatoes each year from ones that bounced out and hit the grass. To bad they redid the road 3 years ago. Nothing like the sweetness of muck grown potatoes.
Quote from: 21incher on September 22, 2021, 06:54:18 PM
There used to be a bump in the road in front of my house and I would collect about 50 pounds of potatoes each year from ones that bounced out and hit the grass. To bad they redid the road 3 years ago.
The one instance in history that someone is disappointed the DOT actually did their job :D
Quote from: VB-Milling on September 23, 2021, 11:39:26 AM
Quote from: 21incher on September 22, 2021, 06:54:18 PM
There used to be a bump in the road in front of my house and I would collect about 50 pounds of potatoes each year from ones that bounced out and hit the grass. To bad they redid the road 3 years ago.
The one instance in history that someone is disappointed the DOT actually did their job :D
Every trucker hates when DOT does his job. Unless its to some other trucker competing for a load.
;D
I took a stroll down to the garden yesterday and had a look over the squash vines. What was green and small 2 weeks ago, has yielded another 6 squash that are sizing up and ripening.
We've got lots of fresh big beef steak tomatoes to finish out the season. We've made sauce and canned all we want. Only so much you can eat. The rest can feed the worms. :D
Those bell peppers sure produced this year, still lots more coming on. Wish I was into pickled peppers, but not a big fan. We've got lots frozen for meat dishes. The plant stalks are pretty stout and look like small tree bark. :D
Aside from critters chewing on stuff earlier in the season, I'd say the garden has been very successful. Just amazing. :)
The temps dropped but most likely will rebound some .Then it dawned on me I'd best get with it and do some fried green tomatoes while I still have some .I use the method they use in Dolly Wood and got it right from the cooks there but it's on the internet also .
I harvested some beets yesterday and dehydrated most of them. Some were giants but still sweet. My first time trying this and they have 100x the flavor of a cooked beet. Too strong to enjoy so they will be ground and used for flavoring.
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It's hard to plant enough just for fresh produce for two old folks .I threw away more this year than we used in just two raised beds .We don't can or freeze and her kids are in Toledo and mine are in Columbus and the only thing left is to feed the ground hogs .What they don't eat if they germinate will become a jungle next year .Saying that the season is about over .
Got chickens? Im blending up our crummy fruits, veggies, peels and greens for them.
Lasts a long time in a fermentation and boosts their beneficial gut microbes
Had hens when I was just a little sprout on the farm near Caledonia Ohio 10 miles from nowhere .Free range and they were good bug control for the garden which was huge .I had a pet hen that followed me around like a dog .Also had a rooster that was mean as a snake .I think a chicken will eat anything that doesn't eat them first .I do know a snake doesn't stand a chance if the hens spot them .About twenty of them have their way with them .no more snake .
I toss cherry tomatoes into the pen with my little broiler chicks and watch a rugby game breakout.
The one pounder. 8)
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Was it good? The apples around here are bigger this year but so far they seem to have watered down flavor from the constant rain this summer
Been eating them as fast as I can. Yes, they are good. :D They are beefsteak so they are large tomatoes to begin with. There's probably 30 more on the ground going bad now. Plus lots of mid sized Scotians that are gone past expiry. :D Oh man, they will be like weeds next summer. :D
The local apples have been a good crop this year, sweet and juicy. I only buy local apples. 8)
😮 On my little tablet screen it looks like a big apple 🍎 Might need to get my eyes examined 🍅. I got tired of tomatoes and the yellow jackets they were attracting so pulled the plants last week. My garden is done for the year and the only thing left is planting garlic..
I dilley dallied too long this spring getting the plants and as a result no beef steak plants .
I picked some jalapenos this morning to do 4 small jars of sliced peppers for sandwiches this winter.
The garden is pretty much done up here to. I've gotten all I want or can handle for this year. ;)
The only thing left in the garden I'll try to save is one lil pumpkin. Got a couple of peas yesterday. Looks like a frost week ahead. My watermelon plants looked beautiful but didn't produce. My pumpkin patch grew beautiful flowers all season but no crop except for this. Oh yeah, still have plenty of carrots left.
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Quote from: SwampDonkey on October 01, 2021, 03:17:40 AM
The one pounder. 8)
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That's what we call a "bomber" around here . Nice one 8)
Im still planting for plastic tunnel greens.
Four half pints of jalapeno rings. ;D
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I learned the hard way you don't plant hot peppers and mild peppers in close proximity .They will cross and I think the bell peppers become the hottest . They will get you coming and going--come on ice cream . :D
I've always planted Jalapenos right along with Bell Peppers and never seemed to have any interaction!
SD; What pickling do you put in those Jalapenos?
I just cut them into rings, then poured boiling distilled vinegar in to fill the jar, then cap them tightly!
The rings are new to me Chuck. I just use 2:1 vinegar:water, a little salt, a little sugar, mustard seed and pepper corn. Stuff the sterilized jars with a garlic clove sliced into 3rds, a bay leaf and then seedless rings, pour in boiling brine. Good to go. ;D
Only thing I would worry about with cross pollination is the seeds. The fruit the first year won't change none. But them new seeds, who knows what they will be. :D
We dice all jalepenos we don't stuff and freeze both, never crosscut as we want more flavor, less heat from seeds and pith. They are a great cooking pepper so we've discovered in more recent years. I have a bunch of slow motion cherry peppers that might make some color? They are also VG stuffed and frozen or diced/sauteed in onions then frozen for pimento cheese peppers instead of buying them-and they have more taste!
Maters have been blighted and dead for a long time this year.
It's about over with this season . I made just a moment ago perhaps one of the last of the cucumbers, onions and tomatoes .Spiced up just tad bit for enhancement .A little piazz .I could have easily grown up Cajun minus the grits .Georgie Girl likes them though . ???
I had a lot of jalapenos that turned red this year, so they are mixed in with the greens in them jars for color. I like them on ham sandwiches, 3 or 4 rings are just right for me. Love'm! ;D
The seeds in jalapeno peppers are where fire is that will boil the water out of a toilet bowl .You can buy the ones deseeded to french fry and they are mild .I suppose you could make them yourself though .
Any seeds you might see in them jars I made are mustard seed and you probably can't see the black pepper seed (the kind you crush to sprinkle on your baked potato). ;D
We don't can but I have a jar of sliced in the fridge with the seeds left in .I use them some times in a salad or something .
My first wife would put them in spaghetti sauce then give the left overs to the cat .George the wonder cat would sneak up on them and growl like a lion and eat them .About two days later he'd growl again when they came out and bite his butt . That cat wasn't right . :D
I make a cheesy scalloped potato dish with diced onions, jalapeño, banana peppers and minced garlic. Good stuff.
Quote from: Mooseherder on October 07, 2021, 07:47:11 PM
I make a cheesy scalloped potato dish with diced onions, jalapeño, banana peppers and minced garlic. Good stuff.
Missing bacon bits... MMMM
I've been eating peppers loaded down in most any dish or sandwich for some time now. :D Tonight's sandwich was Tuscan style ham, Hungarian salami, 4 rings of fresh red bell, 4 rings of pickled jalapeno, 2 slabs of beefsteak tomato, 2 slices of Swiss, sour dough bread, mustard and mayo. My goodness. ;D
I dumped my last (2) 5 gallon buckets full of peppers in the compost yesterday. We just couldn't eat anymore and my maillady refused to take anymore. Freezers are full, canning shelves full, and it was the biggest harvest we ever had. Cutting back on the number of plants this year didn't make a difference. Last thing left is get the garlic in once nighttime temps fall into the 40s and below. What a heatwave we have now and total infestation of stink bugs.
Those bugs seem to be every where this year .I had one a few says ago get in my beer can and cause me a surprise .I spit it out and gave it the good old "kiwi stomp " .Perhaps I need a "sippy cup " top ?
We don't get those in a fall warm up here. What we get is USDA released Asian lady beetles, not the native ones. They want to get into any place warm. :D :D
We had our first frost up here this morning. And got two loads of firewood hauled this morning.
Squash pie for dessert with hamburgers. It's actually pumpkin, but we have made 2 squash pies earlier and devoured them. Dollop of ice cream on top of course. The real stuff, not that fake stuff. :D :D
I think squash is used more for pies than actual pumpkin from what I've heard .
Thing for us is we grow squash for a vegetable, and it can be used as pies and you wouldn't know the difference. Pumpkin is either pie or halloween pumpkins. My grand mother would boil the water off them wet halloween pumpkin for as long as it took. Seed was likely cheaper. Depression years done that to the old folks up here, some never came out of them. :D Mom's uncle was like that, but never experienced hard times because he was a rail road man with a steady cheque. But if he had to paint a building, it was 'dobber' style, a can would last 20 years, dobbing on over the peeled spots. Asbestos siding was on in the 40's, still on. Asphalt shingles, a good 60 years ago now, and never curled neither. Millionaire when he died. :D
We use butternuts for pies when the pumpkins are gone. Pumpkins only last in the root cellar till about Feb where butternuts will last till Easter. Can't tell the difference. Recently we received a warning from our county to watch for another invasive bug called the Spotted Lanternfly. Supposed to notify them if you see even one. They attack grapes, hops, and hardwoods that our area relies on.
My lil pumpkin is doomed. The plant is history.
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I made cheesy chicken tonight cooked with a garden pepper and onions. Ceasar on the side.
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Try as I might the only squash I can grow is zucchini and yellow crooked neck and that is only to fry like green tomatoes .Some like zucchini bread I'm just not one of them .
The garden here actually dodged the frost, but it was lots white near by as I went to the woodlot that morning and whole fields were white up the road.
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weve got the stinkbugs and asian lady beetle. plus a ton of monster carpenter bees, sometimes terrible flies, and the occasional lizard or copperhead who like to come in for a nap.
I'm on a ridge here, and we don't get the first frosts up here. Down in the low places always has frost first around here, yet I see Bernstein saying just the opposite. Cold pours like water and flows to the low ground, can't change that. ;)
Left some grapes for the birds and they ain't touched them yet. ::) Lots of robins beginning to flock up. Blue jays here by the dozens.
I tore out a raised bed and half of another .Only left 6 tomato plants with green tomatoes .Probably fry them because if the frost holds off and they do get red they'll have hide on them like air dried buffalo bull back skin . The jungle of cucumbers had about a dozen that didn't get too far long, saved them .The ones that hid were the size of small water melons .I'll toss them on a pile of top soil .What the critters don't eat might turn into another jungle .
Warm again here this week, in the 70's. Was 54F this morning before I headed to work. Got one green squash left in the garden that is probably a 5 lb'er maybe it will ripen this week. :D
I still have my eye on the squash vines, been watching one cure and now there is a second one looking good to. No frost at the garden yet and suppose to warm up this weekend. :D And now the trees are about as bare as winter time around here. :)
The only thing left in my little garden spot is tomatoes, and some of the leaves are looking like they've been hit with frost!
We haven't had a frost here yet, but I'm sure it won't be long!
Over the next few days, I'll be pulling the tomatoes and throwing them in the compost barrel.
A few red oak leaves, but most everything else is bare behind them. Yellow birch, cherry, red maple, elm.
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The ash is in front of the garden, so you see old dried up male flowers in those black masses. They persist for years on black ash. ;D
I've still got a few green tomatoes ,they might get red or if a frost is forth coming I'll snatch them before .Ripened on a window sill is just nearly as good as on the vine .
The last handful I tried here did not have the taste I expect of a garden tomato. So fresh tomato is over for me this year. :D There is probably a good sized potato barrel full rotten on the ground.
Garden is done. Planted the garlic and still have a massive cleanup to catch up on.
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I went to pull maters maybe a week ago and the stems were all brown inside from fusarium so i put em in the burn pile. Today i planted kale, kohlrabi, bok choi, several cabbages, rutabega, turnip, brocolli, etc
I've been waiting for a good frost here and pull off the vines and pull stakes. Then top with the sheep manure. 8)
Grape vines have never been hit with frost yet either. I left some grape bunches on them for the birds. :)
Peppers are still growing. :) Well not really, but they are still good. I plant mostly ace for sweet ones. I have black plastic on the ground and a cover up with greenhouse poly over them.
Yeah, we still pick peppers here to. I slice a bunch of rings for on my sandwich. Any left over I toss because I can grab another one next time. :D
Since the mention of grapes left for the birds I might mention I have plenty of wild ones .The birds are very good grape planters and raspberrys .About like squirrels and nuts .
I do have a wild vine on the back of the lot, probably 30 feet up into the trees. About 2" where it comes out of the ground. I know birds brought that one here because there wasn't any on the place years ago. But they always grew in the river valley so no surprise. :D
Glaciated carrots headed across state lines next week to the southland. :)
Yesir yesir one bag full.
And a bag of purple potatoes.
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Let us know how your rutabagas do Mike. I have never had luck with them. Mine always come out woody texture or full of worm holes so I gave up growing them.
Feeding blended up fermented veggies to chickens makes every garden adventure a success. I feel completely different about the whole 'wasted time' concept now that anything i dont eat still gets eaten by something im gonna eat.
One thing I've found that chickens won't eat is those giant no good okras. The chickens will eat the seeds but pass on the tough outer shells- like makes sense?
I have cherry peppers not red yet and still no frost in sight this month, maybe they'll get red?
We always have left turnip or rutabagas until frost to sweeten them up. Also a borate insecticide in under the seed depth for the worms. Not borox, borox will kill anything including the garden. :D You could also try diatomaceous earth below the seeds and later under the leaves.
Cold north wind today, nothing going to grow in that. :D No frost, but cold.
What is a glaciated carrot? No glaciers in ME? Not many anywhere now really... :D
Is my neighbor growing squash for a giant!?!?!?
What is with these flowers? They are huge! Coming a foot over my 6ft fence.
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Turns out the frost a couple days back never touched the peppers or squash vines. Apparently a record frost free days up here this year, breaking like an 88 year old record. 8)
Quote from: VB-Milling on October 27, 2021, 08:25:33 AM
Is my neighbor growing squash for a giant!?!?!?
What is with these flowers? They are huge! Coming a foot over my 6ft fence.
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Remember anything over the property line is yours. Hopefully they are a variety you like 😉.
Looks like angel trumpet
Cleaned up the gardens today. The frost last night surprisingly never killed the peppers. But that's enough for this year. A couple clumps of green dill still there. ;D
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Quote from: Texas Ranger on October 27, 2021, 05:52:05 PM
Looks like angel trumpet
It looks like it to me. Which it's highly poisonous for any part of the plant.
Back on the farm when I was just a little guy they'd leave the carrots in the ground until after a frost .My word they were huge but they didn't turn "woody ".They would store them in the cellar under dry sand .
I think frost is forecast soon so the few green tomatoes need to be plucked off the vines .
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Quote from: Texas Ranger on October 27, 2021, 05:52:05 PM
Looks like angel trumpet
It looks like it to me. Which it's highly poisonous for any part of the plant.
That's the part that worries me. We have a dog.
Final chapter of Veggie Garden 2021 for me today. Hard freeze tonight. Just picked the last of the green beans, new potatoes, and sweet bell peppers. Time to tend the woodstove>
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