2024 gardens

looks like they found the gate for the fence!!!!

glenn57 wrote:

JEREMY wrote:
Wonder what the wet year did to the horseradish. Plants are super tall.

i’ll be finding out friday!!!!!!

How was the horseradish you dug up with the weird weather this year.

the leaves were huge……i mean huge. and the roots were great….had some that measured 2 inches and 2 1/2 inches across.

but then i’ve never seen that big of roots until i planted them were there at now. but i dont dig them out every year either as i rotate threw the patch!!

as of sunset tonight my garden is done. i’m pulling whats left, the carrots and kalarabi!!!!

All I have left is peppers cause they are still full of peppers and a few Brussel sprouts.

I have a good amount of peppers left but I have already canned or frozen all we will use. I am hoping for one more batch of tomatoes to get ripe at one time so we can make some sauce. I only had enough for Salsa so far this year.
I can see this being the end though. Tomatoes never do that well the last few weeks before the freeze.

Nobody wants canned hot peppers! I canned more than I need but cant give any away. What is wrong with people?! I am actually confused by it.
Who doesn’t like a good canned hot Banana? They aren’t even very hot.
I snuck in 5 pints of stewed tomatoes last night. With last years leftovers I wasn’t going to do it but I couldn’t watch those tomatoes go to waste.

Make hot sauce. Green, red, whatever color the chilis are. The stuff keeps forever in the fridge what with all the vinegar/salt in it. You can even leave the salt out.

To the worse garden in 34 years, RIP!! Got some decent sweet corn and the second planting had half-filled cobs but tasted great, 6 zucchini and 3 acorn squash (2 didn’t turn green).

I just canned the last red tomatoes last night. All that work for 1.5 quarts. Glad its over.

I ended up with 58 pints of San Marzanos.

I got a late start with my tomatillos. I used inferior potting soil. Kellogg brand raised garden soil. My tomatillos looked pathetic. After a weekly hosing of Miracle Grow they took off.

I also didn’t know they weren’t self pollinators like tomatoes. I had them in planters about 3 feet away from each other. I placed them next to each other and within a week they started producing fruit.

I ended up with 14 pints of salsa Verde plus we probably ate another 5 pints fresh. I didn’t realize how much I liked salsa Verde.

The picture is from a day before the first frost this fall. The bumble bees loved the flowers. If I only had a few more weeks…

Next year should be better.