gardens

[sidelock]

Got anything left in your garden??? I still have lots of greens, potatoes, tomatoes, squash, beans, other stuff. Shor is good befor the snow flies .

 

[coloradoclyde]

Same here....I had a bumper crop of potatoes this year

I'm already thinking and planning for next year.

 

[Sean Gadhar]

I have yet to dig a potato. (So maybe I have a ton) corn & tomatoes are late so I'm just seeing them ripen this week . tomatillos are still producing and some pears on the tree yet, kale growing well.

 

[BullRunBear]

The garden didn't do well this year in our area. Tomatoes, squash, cukes and root crops were less than 25 percent of the usual, so no canning. The bell peppers, salad greens and herbs did fine and we will have enough dried herbs for the winter. We'll start the fall crop of greens in a couple of weeks and we are already discussing what to do for next year. Glad to hear you folks had good seasons.

I guess this is why they call it gardening, not eating. :wink:

Jeff

 

[jamesthomas]

Down here everything has died off, but I am cleaning mine out now for fall planting. I'm going to give growing some gourds for water bottles and bird houses a try, then I will put in some crooked neck squash, tomatoes, maybe some cucumbers. I Haven't really decided on what else to grow yet.

 

[zimmerstutzen]

did not have a garden per se this year.Did have some tomatoes and basil growing in a large pot. I have a few "volunteer" butternut squash ripening. And I took notice that the ground cherries will soon be ripe. May have enough for a couple pies this year. I did not get the peaches sprayed this year, but they appear to be doing ok so far. Possibly be ripe next week. And the concord grapes were ripe last week.

The wild pears are getting good and some black walnuts have started dropping. The hickory nut crop doesn't look so good though.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Wild pears?.......Never heard that before...can you elaborate?

 

[Sean Gadhar]

Pyrus pyraster? "European wild pear" or feral?

 

[coloradoclyde]

:idunno:
I planted two pear trees a few years ago but the drought took one and the other has yet to blossom.

 

[zimmerstutzen]

We have at least a dozen wild pear trees. They may not be true pears. Round like bumpy apples, yellow-green skin, smell and taste just like Bartlett pears, but crunchy like a granny smith apple. The nearly white flesh does have a gritty, Sandy texture. They are a little larger than tennis balls. We always called them wild pears.

 

[coloradoclyde]

It's my first year growing bottle gourds....they are doing really well, vines everywhere. The gourds are small enough to fit in the palm of my hand....I hope they make it before the first frost...

 

[Sean Gadhar]

I got small gourds my 1st year, and cut about 1/2 off so the energy would not be spread too thin, some plumped up nicely. :idunno: But who knows if it had anything to do with my efforts?

 

[colmoultrie]

Just got a gallon of grape juice - volunteer Concords - and a lunch bag full of hop cones; first year for both. The grape juice comes out so concentrated, just from heating and mashing the grapes and straining out the liquid, that I have to cut it 1:1 with water. I hope in future years I get enough to use the apple press I got from my parents.

 

[sidelock]

Just today had the first mess of the late season blue lake beans crop served to 4 guests for dinner. No frost yet--- lots of good stuff to be harvested before. Wish we could share with youall.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Hops can take 3 years to reach full production and grapes can take 5 or more....
I've used a steam juicer in the past....


An old recipe for wine is (1,2,3,) one gallon grapes, two gallons water, and three pounds sugar.

 

[KingofDerby]

Moving to a new flat in a month, finally will be able to grew stuff properly! Or at least, I would if not for the fact that it will all have to be in pots (no garden, just a large shared yard) and it's on the north side of a tall building...no light!

What's good for growing in that?

 

[Flint311]

Not much of anything from our garden this year. Couldn't tend it like I should, due to one ruptured disc, one deteriorating disc, and spinal stenosis. Now my MIL has brain cancer so going to assisted living with my wife and other household chores has taken over. My back doesn't hurt so bad in comparison

 

[will5a1]

This was a mixed year for my garden, with poor tomato harvest, the peppers did all right with the serranos doing the best, cukes were great producers this year, back in May/June the strawberries did well, and my wife's herbs in pots did alright. I wasn't able to can as much tomato juice as I usually do, and that will hurt, I really like popping the lid on a pint jar in the middle of the winter and enjoying it, like drinking a little bit of summer in the dead cold of January.

I have some sweetgrass growing by the creek and it did really well this year, still doing well I think because of all the rain we have had this year. We cut some and braided it last week, smells really nice, I could cut a bunch more but wouldn't know what to do with it all.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Yummmmmm! Homemade Tomato juice. My favorite garden item too.......One year I canned a 137 quarts......And had 27 quarts gone before I was done canning.... :grin:
The only thing I learned from my mother that I mastered...

 

[Swede50]

Yummmmmm! Homemade Tomato juice. My favorite garden item too.......One year I canned a 137 quarts......And had 27 quarts gone before I was done canning.... :grin:
The only thing I learned from my mother that I mastered...

Ok so what is the recipe for the tomato juice?