Gardening ..again

[Piquant]

Made some bread and butter pickles. First time I tried making pickles and is very happy with the results. Very satisfying when you grow, harvest and process what you grow.

 

[pilot]

This year I grew daikon radishes and purple top beets here at the farm. I had 5 beds, each one 5 feet wide and 75 feet long. I planted 2 each and one mixed bed. The daikons were for soil improvement and the beets for the deer. Turns out the deer like both. I harvested a couple bushels of daikons. Some I blanched and froze, some I took home for the wife, and I started 2 half gallon jars fermenting. One jar I added some ground up dried jalapeños. They should be done in another week, but I forgot my pH gage. I like testing ferments to make sure they're safe. They need a pH under 4. 3.5 is better.

 

[Miketheblacksmith]

Today we processed 9 bags of cauliflower for the freezer. Also found some shiitake mushrooms on our mushroom logs. We had a few days of heavy rain last week and got a little production out of it. Enough for a few morning omelettes.

 

[pilot]

When I posted that I planted purple top beets, that was an error. They're turnips, not beets. I know the difference, just had a brain fart. I'm old, it happens.