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Post by saltydog on Jul 25, 2024 21:06:39 GMT -5
Well the cucumbers are going crazy, and its pickle time. The wife spent the day pickling, Bread n Butters were on the menu, Dills are next. The tomatoes are coming on slow.
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Post by deadeer on Jul 25, 2024 22:19:10 GMT -5
Looking good. I always had a good time when gardening, harvesting, and putting up (canning).
We quit doing it, since we dont eat much of that now, and a sore back takes all the fun out of it.😡
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Post by esshup on Jul 26, 2024 7:32:49 GMT -5
I had a good crop of Sweet Million cherry 'maters from 2 volunteer plants. That is until the youngest dog found them........ Maybe it was a mistake feeding one to her last year............. Green or red, it doesn't matter to her.
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Post by duff on Jul 26, 2024 11:05:19 GMT -5
Looking good. I always had a good time when gardening, harvesting, and putting up (canning). We quit doing it, since we dont eat much of that now, and a sore back takes all the fun out of it.😡 Same here. Had a garden until probably 4 or 5 yrs ago. Bad back, a few massively failed crop years...said buying or getting fresh veggies from a stand or friends is more sensible.
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Post by duff on Jul 26, 2024 11:08:31 GMT -5
My old man at 79 still gardens quite a bit. That is his hobby now, used to be a way to feed us and make a few extra $ at farm markets. He downsized a few times and changed from selling veggies to flowers.
When he retired, he would use the funds to take him and a few buddies down to Stick Marsh to bass fish each year.
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Post by duff on Jul 26, 2024 17:24:03 GMT -5
Well the cucumbers are going crazy, and its pickle time. The wife spent the day pickling, Bread n Butters were on the menu, Dills are next. The tomatoes are coming on slow. Always like the end result of putting up produce. Canned pickles, beets, and greenbeans were my favorite. I still miss playing in fresh worked dirt.
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Post by steiny on Jul 26, 2024 18:29:24 GMT -5
We put up sweet corn and beans this week. Been eating cucumbers, tomatoes, beans and fresh melon nearly every meal. Can't beat garden eats this time of year !
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Post by genesis273 on Aug 3, 2024 12:37:10 GMT -5
I picked 2 five gallon buckets full of green beans this morning 👍
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Post by schall53 on Aug 3, 2024 16:25:04 GMT -5
I picked 2 five gallon buckets full of green beans this morning 👍 Wow, that sounds like a lot of work!
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Post by Woody Williams on Aug 3, 2024 18:08:16 GMT -5
I picked 2 five gallon buckets full of green beans this morning 👍 Wow, that sounds like a lot of work! I'd say the "picking" is the easy art. The canning is the hard part! Have fun! .
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Post by welder on Aug 3, 2024 20:16:18 GMT -5
Picked a 5 gallon bucket of green beans last night, canned them this morning. Picked another bucket this evening, canning tomorrow.
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Post by duff on Aug 4, 2024 9:13:04 GMT -5
We were lifted a grocery sack of elderberries. I froze them, removed from seed head and ended up with 12 cups.
We made 1st batch of syrup last night with 4 cups. It is pretty watery but tastes great. Dug out the juicer for the kitchen aid mixer so next run we will do remaining 8 cups and get more of the juice. Probably cut down on water volume too.
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Post by welder on Aug 4, 2024 14:27:27 GMT -5
14 quarts of canned green beans so far. Still another picking at least and 1 row of pole beans I tried for the first time this year. Fresh green beans/w new red potatoes and fresh sweet corn tonight. Garden is doing well so far.
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Post by astronankin on Aug 5, 2024 8:07:38 GMT -5
60 quarts of green beans canned as of the last big picking about 2 1/2 weeks ago. Our purple long beans have started too. The peas had a decent crop but only about 2 pickings from them. They have some mold so some peas got left due to that. I also think my dad wants to shell some for next year. The sweet corn survived the nasty storm a month ago and has recently begun to produce a good crop. Cabbage began growing a few weeks ago and is yet to be ready for picking. We started picking zucchini a few weeks back, just a couple of those. The tomatoes near the house are ripening, the others all have a ways to go yet. Peppers are growing. The arugula has been productive but we have hardly touched it. Basil is in some pots. Our spinach crop was terrible, there is only a few sprouts and we have hardly used it (spotted spinach from Washington's Mt. Vernon; they do sell seeds from the garden there). The spotted spinach has a very good taste. The mustard and mizuna has been happy this year and also has a decent crop, but we also don't use it that much. There's also some mint plants that produced this year as well. Unfortunately our peach tree dies for good last year, and one of our dwarf peaches met it's demise last year too. The last one only has half the tree that still produces and those peaches haven't ripened yet although they look like they need to be picked. The blueberries produced but the birds got them before we did. Same with a wild blackberry plant growing along our property line in the woods. This is the first year we have had a blackberry plant with decent berry production in a little more than 10 years. Used to have a bunch of them and they produced bowls of berries. The apple trees are producing nicely again, but won't be ready for picking until September. The persimmon trees have an excellent crop again, but also won't be ready until September despite already being weighed down and losing persimmons. We have some volunteer trees that will produce this year, and another one that's actually in the garden that still needs time.
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Post by astronankin on Aug 5, 2024 8:09:28 GMT -5
The Concord grapes are also producing but we will lose many to birds. They are the small, juicing type. My dad planted some small sunflowers next to some of the grapes, and they aren't thriving but they did grow. One is a Chocolate sunflower, a rare variety.
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Post by scrub-buster on Aug 5, 2024 10:40:43 GMT -5
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Post by oldhoyt on Aug 5, 2024 11:15:41 GMT -5
My Roma tomatoes turned out to be something else - a slicer of some sort but can't tell more than that. Plenty of them coming along, only a couple ripe so far. The Big Beef tomato isn't doing great. I removed all suckers on those this year and definitely reduced yield. I won't be so aggressive next year.
I took the cukes out this past weekend. Made about 10 gallons of pickles - sunshine (5), dutch spears (1) and an open-kettle dill type (4).
The peppers are doing OK, but still time for them to come around. Habanero, jalapeno, cayenne and hot potugal, alog with one green bell.
Planted zucchini and bush beans on saturday in place of the cukes. These should mature in 50 days, so a couple weeks of picking beginning late September if it works out.
I plan to can some beans. Are you folks pressure canning them? I want to do that, as well as pickle some.
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Aug 9, 2024 15:04:25 GMT -5
Got our first big batch of tomatoes and there’s plenty more to pick in the next few days. Still waiting on the habaneros and jalapeños to get ready.
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Post by marshallco on Aug 9, 2024 22:14:08 GMT -5
Sounds like time for salsa.
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Post by welder on Aug 10, 2024 9:27:42 GMT -5
Bumper crop of sweet corn this year!
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