2021 gardens

Made 6ts and a pint and a half jar of habanero dill pickles out of the garden this morning. Also 4 pint and a half jars and one pint of tomatoes.

Made 4qts of ghost pepper pickles for the FW and 2qts of regular dills for normal people today.

My afternoon. 11 qts stewed tomatoes and 4 qts of pickled green tomatoes.

pickled green tomatoes sounds interesting what do they taste like?

Not sure what Glenn has in store for pickled green tomatoes but you can make salsa verde with green tomatoes. Got a crock pot full of skinned Amish paste tomatoes going now. Tomorrow I’ll have about 50 slicing tomatoes to deal with.

fishingstar wrote:

pickled green tomatoes sounds interesting what do they taste like?

your either going to really like them or absolutely not. Hard to explain the taste other then it’s pickled.

Brine is vinegar water and pickling salt. Add dill garlic onion and a bayleaf.

If anyone is serious on trying it I can post the recipe.

I got the recipe last year, made 20 qts and they were gone a month ago. A good way to burn up green tomatoes at the end of the year.

14pts of diced tomatoes, 2.5pts of tomato sauce and 2pts of tomato juice for today.

Had about 17 large Amish paste tomatoes in the crock pot all night. Ladled out the liquid here and there to get the tomato juice. Surprised it all cooked down to just 2.5pts of sauce. Smelled great.

Garden is at peak production. The squash are crazy this year. Took over the garden. I’m gonna have squash to give and ofcourse great sweet corn

Harvested 12 bags of carrots from my veggie garden last night!! 🥕🥕 That’s more than double than what I got last year, so I think I did a better job at thinning the carrots this year. 👍

I have tried for years to grow carrots and they never turn out or the gophers get them from underneath. Jealous

Sharon wrote:

Harvested 12 bags of carrots from my veggie garden last night!! 🥕🥕 That’s more than double than what I got last year, so I think I did a better job at thinning the carrots this year. 👍

Wow nice job Sharon. Looks like a nice size to them. The one time I tried to grow carrots I think the biggest was about 3″ long. I know loose soil is important. Any tips?

Here’s what we’ve got canned for the WI winter so far. Bottom shelf is two quarts deep and I think about 28qts of pickles, mostly with jalapeno, garlic, onion and dill, but some without jalapeno and a few with ghost peppers for my crazy wife. I think four bush pickle plants was overkill for two people. I might hate pickles by the time we get through them.

After almost 4″ of rain Fri night we had a ton of split tomatoes to pull. Made sauce and juice from about three dozen very large Amish paste tomatoes and diced up about 150 Wisconsin 55 and a variety called Jung’s Wayahead slicing tomatoes.

Going to make bloody Mary’s with the juice. Anyone have a good spicy recipe to share?

That’s badass, picklerick! Doing work!

I’m really curious how those habanero pickles turn out. I’m a fan of spicy, but those ghost pepper ones got me spooked… I’d still try one though.

picklerick wrote:

Wow nice job Sharon. Looks like a nice size to them. The one time I tried to grow carrots I think the biggest was about 3″ long. I know loose soil is important. Any tips?

Thanks! I’m a bit of a minimalist when it comes to gardening, so I basically just place the carrot seeds into two rows and hope for the best! I suppose my soil is a bit loose, but I’ve not gone out of the way to churn it up in excess for the carrots. Biggest thing with carrots is thinning them once they start to grow. This leaves room for them to grow and not get tangled in one another. Thinning carrots seems wasteful and it’s hard to tell which ones will be the best growers, so it’s a shot in the dark of sorts. Thin and hope for the best!

How do you know when its time to pull the carrots?

Ive got some with the green part around 8 inches tall.

I’m a gardening newbie. I have no clue what I’m doing.

koldfront kraig wrote:

How do you know when its time to pull the carrots?

Most carrot varieties are usually ready in 70-80 days from planting. Once I see the tops of the actual carrot starting to emerge from the ground is usually when I start pulling them up. I might yoink one out of the ground first just to check them, and if it’s the size/taste I like, then I have at them! As with many veggies the longer they grow the bigger they can get, and if carrots get too big they can get a woodier taste.

Jalapeno peppers fresh from the garden

Fresh roasted corn
Fresh corn salad yesterday

20 quarts of fresh sauce with garden garlic and garden peppers. Bet you can taste my wifes spaghetti sauce. It’ll cost you a bottle of red. Some for the sauce some for the boss

When is it time to harvest potatoes?

koldfront kraig wrote:

When is it time to harvest potatoes?

When your hungry.

koldfront kraig wrote:

When is it time to harvest potatoes?

Anytime after the flowers are gone but once the plant dies they will be fully mature. When picking them leave the dirt on them until they dry. Once they are dry put in potato sack in cool basement away from light.

what super at said. If you plant red potatoes, you can dig them as soon as the flowers are there, you get them little baby reds.

My garden is getting pretty empty. Only thing left are tomatoes, some green peppers and kalarbi.

Glen, I had to Google your veggie “kalarbi” and could not find it.

However I did find a kohlrabi.
Those are yummy very cold from the fridge with a sprinkling of salt over them.

Denny O wrote:

Glen, I had to Google your veggie “kalarbi” and could not find it.

However I did find a kohlrabi.
Those are yummy very cold from the fridge with a sprinkling of salt over them.

darn spell check failed again. Yea I really like them.

So these aren’t ready?

koldfront kraig wrote:

So these aren’t ready?

Well I suspose they could be ready,

ah,,,

what are they?

koldfront kraig wrote:

So these aren’t ready?

Ok, sorry, but seriously are they a fruit tree? or what? I recognize the leaf but can’t think of it.

Denny O wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>koldfront kraig wrote:</div>
So these aren’t ready?

Ok, sorry, but seriously are they a fruit tree? or what? I recognize the leaf but can’t think of it.

They are potatoes.
Some sort of purple variety.