2022 gardens

duh queen wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>glenn57 wrote:</div>
that is awesome sharon.!!!!

i picked enough maters to have BLT’s tonight!!!!! YES with Miricale whip!!!!! last week i picked enough green peppers for a batch of salsa.

green beans are slowly coming, so are the cukes. today my cabbage is getting yanked, the heads just are getting bigger!!! gonna clean out the worthless kalarabi too!!!!

You lost me at “Miricale whip”. It’s funny how one is either a mayo guy or a MW guy, with little gray area in between. Power on, MW guy!

…wait a second?

Miracle Whip is still around? I thought that was specifically for prison food only.

Our gardens have pretty much been a bust this year. Not sure why, in the past 7 years we’ve been here there has been an abundance of harvest. Between the lack of rain and heat, and deer everything is stunted or gotten eaten. Funny thing though, last years’ drought we came out pretty good.

Planted 19 pumpkin hills and deer have eaten all of them, from the time they first bud out to when they’re softball sized. Again, year’s past we’d have a hundred pumpkins.

I think we’ve got less than 10 cucumbers. Years past we’d get well over 500.

Virtually no tomatoes. A few melons. Potatoes and onions are doing well, that’s about it.

Shouldn’t need to water the garden for a bit, dumped an inch and a half out

stout93 wrote:

Planted 19 pumpkin hills and deer have eaten all of them, from the time they first bud out to when they’re softball sized.

I feel your pain. I’ve got a lot of deer moving through while we’re asleep and have planted and subsequently lost almost a dozen young pine trees the past two summers. I could’ve probably watered more but I think the primary reason can be traced to antlers beating them up.

Starting a garden in our new-to-us place last year I put a fence around it, and this year I made a second garden and we’ve planted 3 pines, 2 apple trees, and a willow, and put fences around everything. I’ve spent well over $300 in fencing but I don’t regret it, planting stuff is an investment and I’m sick of losing it.

What kind of fencing are you using?

Our gardens are pretty large so we’ve always hesitated about spending that much money on fencing. We’ve used just a snow fence in one of them just to keep our chickens out, but the deer basically just walk over it.

Has anyone tried fishing line to keep deer out?

I didnt do a garden this year, but I have noticed that my raspberries are WAY behind normal! Very little on there and normally they are thicker than snot by now. They are in essentially full sun, but I think the lack of real heat in our area has really slowed them.

I’m not sure what it’s made out of, coated wire or steel, maybe 2×3 inch dimensions, about 4-5 feet high?

We have chickens too, lots of rabbits around this year as others have mentioned, PLENTY of coons (until a few weeks ago when I think I shot the last ones), and lots of deer. Personally I view my garden as a hobby and something the kids like. Financially I just don’t want to lose money on it. The trees, however, I want growing where I put them for the long haul in our yard, so that’s the investment I want protected. I couldn’t believe how much I was spending but it was something I had to be done.

We did run out of our steel fencing and after noticing some buds off the willow tree getting bit off we used what was left of some bird netting, about as durable as mosquito netting, and so far that’s kept deer out.

Green beans are coming in finally. These are pickled. Takes an ice cream pail full to fill 3 jars .
The rest I’ll blanch and for supper.

71 ears of corn later. 20 pint bags and 3 qts bags.
The other day I took care of the celery and pulled it.

Pretty impressed with the quantity of tomatoes and cukes coming out of 2 3×6 raised gardens. Been sharing the wealth around the neighborhood, but think we will need to start canning here soon too. Cukes went up the arborvitae too, so they’re literally falling from the heavens😂

Salsa round 1. And some kick butt bloody Mary mix to boot

Turned a 5 gallon pail 3/4 full of cherry tomatoes into 16 pints of tomato juice!

You’re kicking my but. I have about 6 pints of salsa and 6 pints of canned tomatoes along with 4 quarts of banana peppers. I’ve lost a few tomatoes by not picking them in time and one of my 6 tomato plants is not bearing fruit. Its the biggest plant. I have never seen that before. I just picked today and hope to put up a few more jars of each tonight. I have so many hot peppers just going to waste but I only need a few for my salsa.

Those peppers will keep for a long time if you just rinse them off and put them in a freezer bag. I have habaneros, ghosts, and jalapenos in my kitchen freezer for almost a year now and they’re still good.

picklerick wrote:

Those peppers will keep for a long time if you just rinse them off and put them in a freezer bag. I have habaneros, ghosts, and jalapenos in my kitchen freezer for almost a year now and they’re still good.

Good to know. I’ll do it.

A little depressed tonight. My daughter came by & cut some of the veggies from my raised garden, mostly peppers. I was hoping to have some spice to the peppers but apparently the variety she planted have zero heat to them…. I love spicy stuff, up to the point where your lips are starting to smoke, any hotter is simply pain..

If I were into pain, I’d have my ex tie my lower unit to a tree stump & push me over backwards

Good morning to all-
Well, it has dried out a bit here on the Gulf Coast, so I’ve pulled weeds and tilled and have some space ready for fall potatoes. My broccoli plants are looking very good, so they’ll be going out in a week or so.
It’s a different gardening world down here compared to you fellers. We won’t get frost until some time after Christmas, and we’ll be past frost around Feb first or so. We don’t get much cold weather here- and I like it!
Our Satsuma trees- a kind of mandarin orange and our blood orange trees look good and the fruit is hanging heavy and getting bigger- about the size of baseballs now.
I’m cutting okra every day and we are getting all the sweet peppers we can eat. I don’t grow hot peppers- why grow something that we don’t use- ever.
We’ll pull and dig peanuts in just a little while.
And i do envy you Midwest fellers who can grow tomatoes. Maters just will not grow here- and that’s a terrible loss, in my opinion.

you all be safe and keep well- Ed

picklerick wrote:

Those peppers will keep for a long time if you just rinse them off and put them in a freezer bag. I have habaneros, ghosts, and jalapenos in my kitchen freezer for almost a year now and they’re still good.

Sounds like torture.
I like hot stuff, but it don’t like me. Even jalapenos are getting too hot me.
How exactly to do consume a Ghost pepper?
I love the flavor of Habaneros but watered down in the Tabasco brand.

I made 6 pints of salsa last night using every type of pepper in my garden. Ended up with 3 ghost peppers in the mix. The 4th ripe one was rotten inside. That seems pretty common with these and habs in my garden. Probably too wet.
I have a hard time getting too much heat in my salsa. No matter how many peppers I put in the acid and vinegar seems to tame it but the flavor is always great.

Sounds like torture.
I like hot stuff, but it don’t like me. Even jalapenos are getting too hot me.
How exactly to do consume a Ghost pepper?
I love the flavor of Habaneros but watered down in the Tabasco brand.
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To be honest, most of my ghosts were halved and dehydrated and I’ll put one or two dried halves in a pot of chili, along with 4-5 other kinds of chilis. I made 8qts of pickles last year and a half ghost pepper in the jar makes them spicy but not too bad. Same thing with habaneros, but I’ll usually put two per jar. I’ll probably round up all my frozen peppers and cold smoke them for a bit, then blend them with fire roasted tomato, onion, garlic, vinegar and possibly some mango or cane sugar to tame the heat a bit. I have one 1/4pt jar of my last batch of hot sauce left. The wife said it was the best hot sauce she ever had. She’ll eat a ghost or a reaper right off the plant because she’s frickin’ nuts.

Y Thursday afternoon project. 15 pints of salsa. That is done for the year.

Next up gotta do some stewed or canned mater’s and green pickled mater’s!!

Nice work Glenn! My little gardens are quickly coming to an end, and I think should have enough maters for one good salsa canning spree.

Hope there is a good market for pumpkins this year. Now that my plants are dying back holy crap is there a lot of big pumpkins in the patch.

Sounds like you’re gonna have a nice deer bait pile…

JEREMY wrote:

Hope there is a good market for pumpkins this year. Now that my plants are dying back holy crap is there a lot of big pumpkins in the patch.

You can drop some off at my house, or I can grab them if you need help with those nuisance doe’s?

I actually sprayed them with deer repellant last night cause they have been eating them already.

This was my Saturday. 11 qts green pickled mater’s and 23 qts stewed tomatoes.

21 qts pickled green mater’s. I’m officially done canning for the year. besides I’m about out of jars!

Holy crap. You are set for winter!

suzuki wrote:

Holy crap. You are set for winter!

just need to give all those goodies time to meld!!