The Gardening Thread v.2 - Fall Edition!
Hi all! Boy - another cool spell here in northern IL. At this rate, we will have our first frost by Labor Day LOL!
Yesterday I cried some more tears over the bunny who continues to destroy my beans. It's war - I took one of my dogs out into the garden with me as a deterent. (it's fenced in to keep the dogs out but obviously needs fortification at the bottom!) I groomed the dog near the beans and let her run around with me until she started pulling peppers off the plants and then grabbed a tomato out of the pile I had picked and nearly dug up my honeydew plant trying to bury it!
Anyway...I'd sure love some hot weather.
In terms of storage for winter so far....
6 pints bread and butter pickles
9 pints dill pickes
1+ pint dehydrated beans (yellow and green)
Beets slices and pepper pieces (green & red bell) in dehydrator now
2 pints dehydrated zuke slices
6 small bags frozen beans
5 small bags frozen broccoli
The red pepper is from the farmers market - I also have a yellow and orange one I'm going to dehydrate. I should get a few more of those. We also got some dehydrated morel mushrooms from a friend - those will be nice for winter. There is a mushroom farm nearby and I should dehydrate some more locally grown ones for winter.
Today I'm going to do some pint jars of tomatoes. I will do quarts too when there are more ripe ones - if there are more ripe ones!
I've now pulled all of my yellow onions and starting to pull out the red ones. I plan to dehydrate a lot of those.
I'm loving this dehydrator! I also like this Pump-n-seal gizmo. It works with canning lids/rings too - not just used jelly/pickle jar type lids. Pump and Seal food saver vacuum sealer is better than Tilia FoodSaver
Still debating on fall planting. I guess I need to Just Do It. Mother Nature will do whatever she does. I sure would like to get bunny moved out first though. Yesterday I cleaned all the old stuff out of the garden (lettuce gone to seed, base plants for cauliflower already harvested, etc.) Baby steps.
I'm enjoying reading about what everyone is doing! The blueberry talk is making me hungry.
DG
Hi all! Boy - another cool spell here in northern IL. At this rate, we will have our first frost by Labor Day LOL!
Yesterday I cried some more tears over the bunny who continues to destroy my beans. It's war - I took one of my dogs out into the garden with me as a deterent. (it's fenced in to keep the dogs out but obviously needs fortification at the bottom!) I groomed the dog near the beans and let her run around with me until she started pulling peppers off the plants and then grabbed a tomato out of the pile I had picked and nearly dug up my honeydew plant trying to bury it!
Anyway...I'd sure love some hot weather.
In terms of storage for winter so far....
6 pints bread and butter pickles
9 pints dill pickes
1+ pint dehydrated beans (yellow and green)
Beets slices and pepper pieces (green & red bell) in dehydrator now
2 pints dehydrated zuke slices
6 small bags frozen beans
5 small bags frozen broccoli
The red pepper is from the farmers market - I also have a yellow and orange one I'm going to dehydrate. I should get a few more of those. We also got some dehydrated morel mushrooms from a friend - those will be nice for winter. There is a mushroom farm nearby and I should dehydrate some more locally grown ones for winter.
Today I'm going to do some pint jars of tomatoes. I will do quarts too when there are more ripe ones - if there are more ripe ones!
I've now pulled all of my yellow onions and starting to pull out the red ones. I plan to dehydrate a lot of those.
I'm loving this dehydrator! I also like this Pump-n-seal gizmo. It works with canning lids/rings too - not just used jelly/pickle jar type lids. Pump and Seal food saver vacuum sealer is better than Tilia FoodSaver
Still debating on fall planting. I guess I need to Just Do It. Mother Nature will do whatever she does. I sure would like to get bunny moved out first though. Yesterday I cleaned all the old stuff out of the garden (lettuce gone to seed, base plants for cauliflower already harvested, etc.) Baby steps.
I'm enjoying reading about what everyone is doing! The blueberry talk is making me hungry.
DG
I know I clown around a lot , but this really happened to me ! I have my little garden : Tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, green peppers ...even water melons. Well, I planted my cucumbers too close to my squash.....I noticed the other day a couple of veg. were hanging on my cucumber vine. They looked kind of weird....They were a light green and had a shape that resembled yellow squash...they were on my cucumber vine ! I harvested the Veg. and tasted it.....it tasted like cucumber with a bitter taste and had the insides of a squash. I'm keeping the seeds......planting them next year ! ha! IAD (Cross pollination is something.....) IAD
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