2020 gardens......

[LPS]

SO with it getting cold tonight I am going to pick tomatoes today.  Not sure if I will pick the green ones or not.  I suppose they will turn red in the garage???  Not sure if I will freeze the red ones or make sauce or something with them.  Never done that before.  Will have to research it. 

[deadeye]

Dug the last of the potatoes and picked a bunch of peppers.  I really neglected my gardens this year and it really showed.  Just too much other stuff going on. 

[KEN W]

Frost on the rooftops and vehicles here this morning. Good thing I covered melons. tomatoes and peppers last night. Going to get it again tomorrow morning. 

[glenn57]

no frost down this way. when i got home yesterday i picked garden stuff..........another mater plant got pulled. been wierd, some of those mater plants the roots didnt take much??????????like they never grew????

also picked and pulled all my jalepeno peppers. my cukes appear to about be toast to.

[glenn57]

wedder terrorists have a frost warning out for around home tonite/tomorrow morning.

meh.........i'm not covering nuttin.

one of my coworkers gave me a jar of green tomatoes he pickled/canned!!!! cant wait to get home and try them. if i like it i be getting the reciepe, thinking there will be more then normal green maters this year!!!!!!!

[Bobberineyes]

I was wondering what you guys were gonna do, talking 38 here in the morning.  Gonna grab a few things now that are ready but probably let the rest ride.

[roony]

Pretty wet here, doubt if it will freeze the garden.

[LPS]

Pickled green tomatoes.  I would like to know more about them.  Never had them.  Need more things to do with the greenies.  Let me know how they are Glenn.

[Bobberineyes]

Besides the green salsa you did earlier lps, there's always fried green tomatoes,  which I thought we're tasty.

[LPS]

Yes we did them and they had a nice tangy taste to them.  Kinda liked them.  I could see how they may make good pickles. 

[KEN W]

Heavy frost here this morning.....entire lawn was white. Heavy frost on the pickup windows. Had everything covered for the second night. At least this should have taken care of some of the bugs.

[Leech~~]

Heavy frost here this morning.....entire lawn was white. Heavy frost on the pickup windows. Had everything covered for the second night. At least this should have taken care of some of the bugs.

Wow, where's here?

[LPS]

I checked it out and it is about the same as refrigerator pickles.  Here it is:  https://www.acouplecooks.com/quick-pickled-green-tomatoes/   Mayhaps I will do it tomorrow or the next day.  Not sure what day that is...    LOL

[Dotch]

Pretty wet here, doubt if it will freeze the garden.

Probably won't. I see a 38 degree forecast low with patchy fog. Might freeze in the peat tho! Could see some sunshine after lunch. 

[KEN W]

Heavy frost here this morning.....entire lawn was white. Heavy frost on the pickup windows. Had everything covered for the second night. At least this should have taken care of some of the bugs.

Wow, where's here?

Hawley......just east of Moorhead. I see there is a frost advisory out all the way down  to the cities.

[glenn57]

Picked stuff tonight. Pulled all the kalarabi to.

[glenn57]

Pickled green tomatoes.  I would like to know more about them.  Never had them.  Need more things to do with the greenies.  Let me know how they are Glenn.

they were good. I'm asking for the recipe. It had a spice in it I can't put my finger on though!!

They were way more gooder then the green fried mater!!!

[glenn57]

That jar of green pickled tomatoes will be toast by tomorrow nite.

[LPS]

Was it a quick refrigerator pickle type of thing Glenn? 

[glenn57]

No, brine, seasoning and it was hit bath for 5 minutes to seal it. I see a bay leaf and garlic. Not sure of the other seasoning yet. I'm gonna add onions to it.

[roony]

Picked some apples today, honeycrisp, cortland, and sweet 16. Picked a basket or so that were ripe, most of them will take a bit of time yet. Also picked pears, the ground was littered but picked about two and a half pails of good ones. Once they hit the ground they are toast in a short time. Seems like you need to pick pears before they're quite ripe, I keep them in a cool place for storing and put a few in a paper bag to get ripe. When the get a little soft they are ready to eat. My 3 pear trees are Luscious, Gourmet, and Parker. I don't spray my fruit trees for anything but am tempted to start next year, at my age what could a few chemicals do to me?

[mike89]

stopped spraying the apple trees a few years back,  no change   so why at least here..

[HD]

Picked some apples today, honeycrisp, cortland, and sweet 16. Picked a basket or so that were ripe, most of them will take a bit of time yet. Also picked pears, the ground was littered but picked about two and a half pails of good ones. Once they hit the ground they are toast in a short time. Seems like you need to pick pears before they're quite ripe, I keep them in a cool place for storing and put a few in a paper bag to get ripe. When the get a little soft they are ready to eat. My 3 pear trees are Luscious, Gourmet, and Parker. I don't spray my fruit trees for anything but am tempted to start next year, at my age what could a few chemicals do to me?

I got 2 Bartlett pear trees, fruit is small every year...and they always have the black stuff on them... what is that?

[Dotch]

Going to pick the Parker pears over the next couple days. On one variety description it recommends they be picked green and allowed to ripen inside. The Patten pears are a little later but will probably pick them too. Getting a lot of help from the GD squirrels that are wrecking 3 or 4 a day right now. Find chewed up pears strewed around the yard & see they've been helping themselves up in the tree too. Enough of that crap. This new crop of squirrels has really been a bunch of little a-holes chewing up nectar feeders, getting into "squirrel proof" feeders and now this. Bet they'll taste pretty good tho. Will pick some of the Honeycrisp apples too. Have never sprayed the fruit trees here either. About the only thing I notice are occasional apple maggots but they're pretty rare. I pick up the ground falls religiously and the sheep gobble them down.

Black stuff on the fruit HD? Got any pics?     

[glenn57]

Picked some apples today, honeycrisp, cortland, and sweet 16. Picked a basket or so that were ripe, most of them will take a bit of time yet. Also picked pears, the ground was littered but picked about two and a half pails of good ones. Once they hit the ground they are toast in a short time. Seems like you need to pick pears before they're quite ripe, I keep them in a cool place for storing and put a few in a paper bag to get ripe. When the get a little soft they are ready to eat. My 3 pear trees are Luscious, Gourmet, and Parker. I don't spray my fruit trees for anything but am tempted to start next year, at my age what could a few chemicals do to me?

I got 2 Bartlett pear trees, fruit is small every year...and they always have the black stuff on them... what is that?

BLM's.

[KEN W]

I have never sprayed any of my fruit trees either. Only problem I have seen is some russeting once in a while. Kind of a scabby peel.

[roony]

I get some of the apple maggots, not so many this year. I noticed the black on the parker pears, this is the first year I had pears on that tree. I'm assuming its some kind of fungus. Another fungus, and the one I might possibly spray for, is cedar scab. For it to thrive you need to have apple trees and cedar trees nearby. I got cedars growing all over heck around here. It puts a scabby surface on my fireside and harolred apple trees and the apples are both unsightly and they don't keep near as well.

[glenn57]

made an executive decision last nite. my cukes are getting pulled, think i'll wait till tomorrow so the ground isnt so wet. by next weekend i'm pulling my tomatoes too now that i got a use for any green tomatoes. they just dont seem to want to ripen. maybe with this warmer weather coming.

[Dotch]

Cukes and maters here were just hitting full stride before it cooled off. Betting with the warmer weather this next week we ain't seen nothin' yet. Lots of small cukes on the vines yet and tomatoes just starting to blush. Everything has been at a standstill. Did some yield checks yesterday before it rained and the corn hadn't progressed since last week in maturity.   

[glenn57]

i figured the cool weather slowed things  down. my cukes sucked all year so..........its just time to cut my losses with that. i'm kinda waiting till wed when my mom gets back home to gather her green maters and just do one batch. i do have enough of the small maters to make up another 4-5 pints of juice. i just need to get a few more to ripen up a bit more. they juice better when there good and ripe. i especially like when i dont  have enough left over juice to fill a jar. let it cool down add a little salt and pepper, some lemon juice and down the hatch!!!!!!!