2023 Gardens

[glenn57]

with the lack of rain today i pulled my Jalepeno peppers. i got more than i need vacum packed and frozw what i had, i'll give  them to one of the secretaries at the union hall. she uses them up no problem.......less to water!!!!!!!

[LPS]

Just got done pulling those 6 wild parsnips.  Put them in two plastic bags and then in a box.  I told the wife it is safe to eat the parsnip root but she said no way.  LOL 

[Bobberineyes]

Our garden got raided while we were gone, good. The bil took another pile of beans, cukes, zookini and whatever tomatoes looked ready along with some bell peppers. The banana peppers turned red but I just canned 2 qts anyhow,  should still be the same.

[Dotch]

Picked beans Saturday morning ahead of the rain. Sucks when they get muddy. Got them cleaned up & froze some of the picking from the week before. Giving away quite a few too. Always seems to be friends & neighbors whose patch came up poorly, got eaten off or isn't ready yet. Beans should really come on now with the rain. Should've been about ideal for the fall radishes & peas I planted Thursday nite. The rain should help in the watering dept. too. Cukes were struggling in the small bed close to the house. Flowering like mad but too many trees pulling on the moisture supply there so they were requiring almost daily watering. 

[Dotch]

Seeing a few of the radishes I planted last Thursday nite poking through. Picked a couple gallon bags of beans nite before last and last nite picked another one. Since it rained and the heat let up they're very nice. Been able to give enough away so I can freeze a larger batch this weekend & get caught up. Some 'maters I should pick too. Have some Berkshire bacon I got from my Studebaker mechanic calling my name. Sweet corn continues to pollinate. Be ready when I'm back from Crop Tour. There's a 2nd planting too so the raccoons should eat well most of September. Sheep bored a hole in a pumpkin on their side of the pasture fence last nite. Hard to say because they're under the vine canopy but thinking there are a bunch of pumpkins on our side of the fence too.   

[glenn57]

Man I'm sure glad that my pal  Roony talked me off the cliff last week!!! I'm actually seeing decent results with my cukes now!!

So no garden plants will be harmed in the near future.

[roony]

GREAT!

[Dotch]

Picked string beans, zucchini, tomatoes and sweet corn last nite. Might be the last picking on the Tendergreen beans so will have glenn come and pull them out. Actually I may pull them out, toss them over to the sheep & and plant some greens there. My fall radish planting has been a disappointment & none of the peas came up. Oh well, saves time harvesting them. Think we'll have plenty of vine crops to harvest as it is. There's one big honkin' pumpkin I can see and more I can't. Gourds are all crawling over the place including some places I'd just as soon they hadn't. Sweet corn I picked was awesome. Pretty young but tasty. Hadn't planted Jackpot for a few years. 1st planting was a little erratic emerging but filled in so there will be corn in that patch for a while. The 2nd planting came up more uniformly and that's just starting to tassel. Have eaten mostly Jet Star tomatoes so far. Excellent with coleslaw or cottage cheese. Still need to find enough time to manufacture BLT's.   

[glenn57]

  how soon you forget Dotch..........roony saved me!!!!!!

[mike89]

you swwn to forget Dotch..........roony saved me!!!!!!

more boaranse!!! 

[Dotch]

I know! I think they could be brothers...

[glenn57]

Yea he's like a bad hemorrhoid that keeps coming back 

  better!??

[tangle tooth]

      OK. I read that a chipotle pepper is just a jalapeno pepper that has turned red and been smoked. Wish I could remember where I read it that.
      Anybody else hear this?

[glenn57]

      OK. I read that a chipotle pepper is just a jalapeno pepper that has turned red and been smoked. Wish I could remember where I read it that.
      Anybody else hear this?

nope.

[glenn57]

Just some of the many lucky tiger maters I got. So sweet and oh so good.

Not to be confused with a lucky cougar!!

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[Dotch]

      OK. I read that a chipotle pepper is just a jalapeno pepper that has turned red and been smoked. Wish I could remember where I read it that.
      Anybody else hear this?

After exhausting, extensive research (a Google search), that appears to be the case. 

[glenn57]

      OK. I read that a chipotle pepper is just a jalapeno pepper that has turned red and been smoked. Wish I could remember where I read it that.
      Anybody else hear this?

After exhausting, extensive research (a Google search), that appears to be the case. 

such a wise man. 

Post office is closed.

[deadeye]

I'm about to get run over by excess tomatoes. I didn't pick them for two day and last night I picked some of the ripe ones.

[glenn57]

asparagus question.........i know when your done picking it for the year, your supposed to let it grow as its supposed to get it ready for winter and upcoming season. i have 1 cluster here at home. it never produced the little berries it usually does.

i want to cut them off as there getting to be a pain..........anyone know if its ok?????? that stuff grows like i weed so i really dont think it will affect it much????

[mike89]

you are supposed to leave them until they dry out, then ya can cut them as they are dormant then...   that was the way we were taught...    here ya are:

 https://www.google.com/search?q=when+can+asparagus+be+cut+down&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS920US920&oq=when+can+aspa&aqs=chrome.3.69i57j0i512l5j0i22i30l4.572060433j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[glenn57]

thanks Mike!!!!! i thought so. think i'll stake them up and tied them up so there not all over the place!!!!!!

[mike89]

thanks Mike!!!!! i thought so. think i'll stake them up and tied them up so there not all over the place!!!!!!

 

[KEN W]

Correct....let them dry out first. Need foliage for roots to make spears next year.
I leave mine in over winter to collect snow to prevent winter kill.

Mine sprawl also. I put stakes on the ends then electric wire between stakes to keep the roped in and upright.

[LPS]

We really like our own cukes out of the garden.  Our plants look good but our yield is low.  Here is a pic of our plants. 

[glenn57]

what plant is that big whitish thing????


anyone else see that peace on the #4 about a week ago regarding garden plants and seeds????

seems there is alot of mislabeled plants and seed packets this year. i did not run into this but reading and hearing about it. they dont know if it is mislabeling plants at the greenhouse or seed packets. and apparently there are only 4 major seed outfits around????

[LPS]

Ours were all good.  Whilst I mowed the wife pulled the cukes, beans and lettuce.  Cooper was eating all of the cukes anyhow.  His breath smelled like cukes too.  That was a plus but we didn't get to eat as many. 

[roony]

Ours were all good.  Whilst I mowed the wife pulled the cukes, beans and lettuce.  Cooper was eating all of the cukes anyhow.  His breath smelled like cukes too.  That was a plus but we didn't get to eat as many.

Glenn led you down the wrong path.

[LPS]

  Yes he did.

[Bobberineyes]

I might just take a page otta his book also, getting tired of making pickles, besides the trellis has really slowed down,  might as well clip em . I do have a over grown bush plant that's still kicking them out if need be. While Glenn I mean me is at it might as well grab the remaining 4 zookini and kick those plants curbside also.  See what you created Glenn!! 

[roony]

Soon there will be people all over the state drinking Glenn's kool-aid and destroying their gardens.