Garden Bounty IV

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First let me say I have really been fortunate this year with my garden. In spite of all the rain and what appeared to be a typhoon that centered over my garden it has done well.


Bread & butter pickles getting ready to freeze. I sampled these after 24 hours in the fridge and holy cow were they good.



My personal vat of Salsa. I froze 2 pints.



Here are the Bread and butter pickles and the Salsa stored and hopefully freezing. There are 3 more containers of the pickles elsewhere in the freezer.



From right to left you can see the tomatoes, then the corn and then the greenbeans. Only 5 ears of corn frozen so far. I had 17 ears. Gave mom 7, my neighbor 4, froze those 5 and ate 1. There may be another 2 dozen in the garden. Definitely more beans and corn.



I canned 8 pints of cucumbers as well. That is work and hot work when the temp is 97 degrees.

Also I made a vat of Tomato and cumber salad for next week. I still have tomatoes to freeze or do something with. My mom and my neighbors are bulking at taking any more. Ingrates!  

[Meatwad]

MMMM


So.....hungry...........


 

[eagl]

Too hot here for tomatos...  We planted some grape and cherry tomato varieties that are supposed to have decent yields and be reasonably heat tolerant, but they are doing very poorly.  I might have been able to "save" them by watering twice a day, but I haven't been able to get out to the garden reliably more than once a day.  I suppose I could have done more with better soil treatments but I really didn't expect 2 solid months of 105+ deg days so I didn't spend that much time making sure the soil was superduper heat resistant.

If I had more time I'd build some adjustable sunshades over the garden area but I just don't have time.  Maybe at my next house I'll get it done right after moving in so it will be worth the effort.

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Too hot here for tomatos...  We planted some grape and cherry tomato varieties that are supposed to have decent yields and be reasonably heat tolerant, but they are doing very poorly.  I might have been able to "save" them by watering twice a day, but I haven't been able to get out to the garden reliably more than once a day.  I suppose I could have done more with better soil treatments but I really didn't expect 2 solid months of 105+ deg days so I didn't spend that much time making sure the soil was superduper heat resistant.

If I had more time I'd build some adjustable sunshades over the garden area but I just don't have time.  Maybe at my next house I'll get it done right after moving in so it will be worth the effort.

Almost everyone I know had trouble with tomatoes this year. Mine are not as big as normal but bountiful.

Sheesh 105, man they are cooking on the vine.

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Our "Resistant" tomatoes are dying, by both sun scald, dehydration, and fusarium. Evidently, our "resistant" variety is wilting and the stem above the soil line is brown as ever. Hell, they aren't even in the same spot as they were last year! This new spot hasn't ever had fusarium, I don't get it. ORTHO book, begone!

[cattb]

tomatoes and peppers can suffer from blossom drop in the heat. my tomatoes are not doing all that great this year and we planted 18. Triple sweet corn is not as sweet this year either, rains every two or three days and the extreme heat I think is the cause.

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Our "Resistant" tomatoes are dying, by both sun scald, dehydration, and fusarium. Evidently, our "resistant" variety is wilting and the stem above the soil line is brown as ever. Hell, they aren't even in the same spot as they were last year! This new spot hasn't ever had fusarium, I don't get it. ORTHO book, begone!

If it was a leaf I would say remove it. Of course with the stem that can't be so. Now I'm no expert but next year make sure you have better draining soil. My mom's plants were such heavy clay you could practically see yourself in the soil. I told her all she needed to do to make pottery was just dig it up and start forming.

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If it was a leaf I would say remove it. Of course with the stem that can't be so. Now I'm no expert but next year make sure you have better draining soil. My mom's plants were such heavy clay you could practically see yourself in the soil. I told her all she needed to do to make pottery was just dig it up and start forming.

It is earthy loam, high nitrogen, potassium, phosphorous, calcium. Only one of our plants had the characteristic brown soil-level stem. A couple others are starting to get it as well, no brown inside stem yet but plenty of wilting. Really weird thing is... We have peppers in the exact same spot mingling with the crowd.... Those are susceptible to the fungus, are they not?

Wow... Might've just disproved my own notion, I'm not sure.

[bj229r]

First let me say I have really been fortunate this year with my garden. In spite of all the rain and what appeared to be a typhoon that centered over my garden it has done well.

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Bread & butter pickles getting ready to freeze. I sampled these after 24 hours in the fridge and holy cow were they good.

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My personal vat of Salsa. I froze 2 pints.

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Here are the Bread and butter pickles and the Salsa stored and hopefully freezing. There are 3 more containers of the pickles elsewhere in the freezer.

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From right to left you can see the tomatoes, then the corn and then the greenbeans. Only 5 ears of corn frozen so far. I had 17 ears. Gave mom 7, my neighbor 4, froze those 5 and ate 1. There may be another 2 dozen in the garden. Definitely more beans and corn.

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I canned 8 pints of cucumbers as well. That is work and hot work when the temp is 97 degrees.

Also I made a vat of Tomato and cumber salad for next week. I still have tomatoes to freeze or do something with. My mom and my neighbors are bulking at taking any more. Ingrates!  

I had a bunch of stuff like that, until I got a few of THESE

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I had a bunch of stuff like that, until I got a few of THESE
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  Oh yeah, the fauna. I had pole beans growing in my corn but then Rabbits.

[bj229r]

Was sitting drinking my coffee one morning, one of the lil bastids was 2 feet away, on my frikkin PORCH, staring in the window

[eagl]

My cousin has a pit terrier sort of mix dog rescued from a shelter, that is one of the "dangerous" types...  She keeps the dog out of what I think is a misguided sense of responsibility since the dog was sort of dumped on her, but the dog is a tragedy waiting to happen.  A sample of what might happen occurred a couple of years ago.  The dog got out while a small herd of deer was walking through the yard and the dog took one.

I don't know if they covered it up but I know the neighbors were pretty upset since that herd has lived in that neighborhood since before it was first developed around 70 years ago, and the wildlife folks take a dim view of out of control pets killing deer.

That said, if the deer is eating your crops, that makes the deer a great candidate to be the guest of honor at a family feast...

[bj229r]

the neighbors were pretty upset...

Lol, that would NOT be the case here. Wife and the folks across the street have taken to shooting them onsite. Deer, beavers...possums, etc are CUTE, if ya live in the burbs. When deer are eating hanging plants on your porch, and the beavers are trying to turn your 2 acre back yard into a big pond, and your dog is dead from a disease brought on by a possum... ya get like us, leaving 2-3 rifles spread around the house for easy access

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[Jenks]

I'm trying tomatos in large (5 gal?) pots this year. Only four plants, two varieties of roma's, one cherry type and a "canning" variety. One of the roma's began to have blossum end rot, prolly because it dried out a little too much between waterings. I sprayed it with a calcium supplement and started keeping a closer eye on moisture consistency. The yield has been ok so far. The romas are a little small so far but still budding and some fruit is bulking up. The cherries are doing pretty good and the canners are all starting to ripen at good sizes, 2" to 3" .

I planted Italian sweet basil in the pots with them because I read it improved the flavor. I swear so far from what I have tasted, it works. Of course I've been eating supermarket stuff for way too long now, so anything I grow myself has got to taste better.