2 spots , just a guess about 20yds by 100yds each . Thanks ! My dad puts a lot of time in it . I usually just help with all the grunt labor . But I get plenty of good food off of it .
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B. White
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I pulled all my pumpkins and some spaghetti squash the other day and couldn't resist picking the first watermelon of the year.
It was one of the medium ones. It won't take me long to get rid of it.
It was one of the medium ones. It won't take me long to get rid of it.
fishfryer
frying fish driveler
Real nice,what’s the black spots in it?
B. White
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The things that go in the dirt next year.
fishfryer
frying fish driveler
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B. White
Senior Member
Our kitchen is a mess of paper towels with varieties of seeds drying. I'll seal some up today and make room for more.
sportsman94
Senior Member
Made some salsa and some cowboy candy today. Think we’re about to call it quits on the tomatoes. Okra and peas are just now starting so hopefully we’ll have some more groceries to put up soon
cjones
Senior Member
If your salsa recipe isn't 'protected', would you mind sharing? We keep looking for a good salsa recipe for canning. I understand if you've got enough proprietary research built into it to not want to share, though.
sportsman94
Senior Member
If your salsa recipe isn't 'protected', would you mind sharing? We keep looking for a good salsa recipe for canning. I understand if you've got enough proprietary research built into it to not want to share, though.
I don’t have anything special. I mix in fresh garlic, onion, bell pepper, jalapeños, tomatoes, salt, pepper, and either citric acid or lemon juice at the appropriate amounts. I just keep tasting until the salt seems right and then can it up. I wish I had something better and would love to take any recommendations for improvements. We’re just simple folk around here!
livinoutdoors
Goatherding Non-socialist Bohemian Luddite
I would like to report that after all these rains my gardens look like gardens again. I dont know how people in dry climates do it. ?
ngamtns
Senior Member
Ms Wages brand has a decent salsa mix for canning.If your salsa recipe isn't 'protected', would you mind sharing? We keep looking for a good salsa recipe for canning. I understand if you've got enough proprietary research built into it to not want to share, though.
ngamtns
Senior Member
The brandy wine tomatoes are starting to produce.
cjones
Senior Member
Tomatoes are coming in strong here. The cup table runeth over.
This is where the canned stuff goes temporarily before it gets moved to long-term storage in the cupboard (or anywhere else we can find room!).
This is where the canned stuff goes temporarily before it gets moved to long-term storage in the cupboard (or anywhere else we can find room!).
fishfryer
frying fish driveler
Beauties for sure
B. White
Senior Member
I'm still amazed by how iron and clay peas are doing as a cover crop to keep weeds down. I've grown them many times, but never with an electric fence around them, so they would always be mowed down. I would have expected some blooms and peas by now, but nothing. They are about waist high and growing into some truckers favorite. Killing a 4 footer a couple of months ago in this spot makes me nervous picking that last row of corn.
Froze about 60 ears this week and will pick some more and do the same in a day or two.
I spent 1:45 today pulling weeds out of sweet taters. My old back ain't happy. The ground is cracking, so something is growing under there.
The rain is all around us today, but none here. If no more tonight, I think it will be dry enough to plow a couple of spots and replant some blue lake and fordhooks. I thought they would recover from the drought with some rain, but the ones that lived still look rough.
I've got some pears falling early on one side and muscadines on the other, so we'll see how long electric wire keeps deers under control. I had a doe drunk on pears watch me drive up and get out and go in the house today at 50 yds without running. I've seen a couple on the other side of the house in the last hour.
Froze about 60 ears this week and will pick some more and do the same in a day or two.
I spent 1:45 today pulling weeds out of sweet taters. My old back ain't happy. The ground is cracking, so something is growing under there.
The rain is all around us today, but none here. If no more tonight, I think it will be dry enough to plow a couple of spots and replant some blue lake and fordhooks. I thought they would recover from the drought with some rain, but the ones that lived still look rough.
I've got some pears falling early on one side and muscadines on the other, so we'll see how long electric wire keeps deers under control. I had a doe drunk on pears watch me drive up and get out and go in the house today at 50 yds without running. I've seen a couple on the other side of the house in the last hour.
B. White
Senior Member
Ya'll have been quite last month. Has it all played out, is it too hot to go check or did you plow it under and waiting for September?
I have a patch of overgrown chaos left from the spring. I have winter squash, watermelon, cantaloupe, peas, okra and yellow squash growing all over each other. I'm picking peas running up the okra and the kabocha squash has started climbing it. Spaghetti squash is all in the okra on the other end. We are keeping up with what okra is froze and I will let most of it go to seed once we hit that mark. I like it, but I'm tired of picking it.
I've just now been getting some purple hull and zipper pea production after they recovered from the drought. I had no tomatoes for a while, but they kicked back in with enough to freeze some today.
I'm still getting some crookneck. I think the winter squash really helped keep the bugs drawn off of them. I picked the first from them on May 2nd and I think this is my record for still picking, at least in recent years. Cucumbers are about the same. I get enough for us to eat, but they have looked terrible for weeks and I don't know how they keep producing.
Zucchini had a lot of fuzzy yellow critters on a couple of plants. Not sure if squash beetle or bean beetle larvae, since I had squashed some of both. They wore those plants out and I pulled them and dumped 100 yds away and haven't seen any sign on what remains.
My 2nd planting of beans looks like it will be a failure. We had some rain, so it had to be a seed problem. Very little germination.
I'm just starting to get a 2nd picking off of cantaloupe and watermelon vines. I picked a watermelon over the weekend that was the first that was past its prime and not as sweet, but still pretty good with some eggs for breakfast. The small ones have doubled in the past week. Picked a big cantaloupe this morning with a couple more close to ready.
Sweet taters are still going. Haven't planted any in a long time, so I'm not sure when they will be ready.
I have a patch of overgrown chaos left from the spring. I have winter squash, watermelon, cantaloupe, peas, okra and yellow squash growing all over each other. I'm picking peas running up the okra and the kabocha squash has started climbing it. Spaghetti squash is all in the okra on the other end. We are keeping up with what okra is froze and I will let most of it go to seed once we hit that mark. I like it, but I'm tired of picking it.
I've just now been getting some purple hull and zipper pea production after they recovered from the drought. I had no tomatoes for a while, but they kicked back in with enough to freeze some today.
I'm still getting some crookneck. I think the winter squash really helped keep the bugs drawn off of them. I picked the first from them on May 2nd and I think this is my record for still picking, at least in recent years. Cucumbers are about the same. I get enough for us to eat, but they have looked terrible for weeks and I don't know how they keep producing.
Zucchini had a lot of fuzzy yellow critters on a couple of plants. Not sure if squash beetle or bean beetle larvae, since I had squashed some of both. They wore those plants out and I pulled them and dumped 100 yds away and haven't seen any sign on what remains.
My 2nd planting of beans looks like it will be a failure. We had some rain, so it had to be a seed problem. Very little germination.
I'm just starting to get a 2nd picking off of cantaloupe and watermelon vines. I picked a watermelon over the weekend that was the first that was past its prime and not as sweet, but still pretty good with some eggs for breakfast. The small ones have doubled in the past week. Picked a big cantaloupe this morning with a couple more close to ready.
Sweet taters are still going. Haven't planted any in a long time, so I'm not sure when they will be ready.
sportsman94
Senior Member
We’re pretty slim in the garden. Still have peppers producing, okra, and have peas that just aren’t putting on peas. Still have a couple watermelons hanging on as wel as some cantaloupe. Also have our two rows of sweet potatoes up and going strong. Started three rows of pumpkins and am trying to push them pretty hard so we can have some good Halloween decorations. Running the chickens through a cover crop in the herb garden now and will put them in the peas as soon as they are done with that. Planted some buckwheat for them to graze, but if we don’t get rain they are gonna be hungry when they go through that
My raised beds are doing fantastic. We’ve gotten rain every few days and I haven’t had to water in over a month. Squash and zucchini are going much longer than normal. I was actually hoping they would play out to add an extra bed of zippers, but no way I can tear them up now. Okra has come into its prime and is needing daily pickings. Have put up a couple messes of both zippers and limas. Tomatoes were late coming on and just now really getting a measurable amount off them and the peppers about the same. Cucumbers are done for and I’ve seeded cabbage and brussels in their spots.
BriarPatch99
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My little garden still produces... this morning pick..
Baroque Brass
Senior Member
After a really good mater crop, I think the plants are running out of gas. They started turning brown at the bottom and it’s working it’s way up. Some plants are still blooming but they don’t look healthy. They appear to have leaf spot but I’m not sure. I read that leaf spot is caused by thrips, that’s possible since I’ve backed off on spraying the plants. Still getting a few maters but sadly season is about over.
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