Posted on 08/29/2014 12:20:32 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Tomatoes and peppers are still going strong. We are letting many of the bell pepper turn red, then dehydrating them or freezing them for stir fry. They are so expensive in the stores in the winter.
Hubby has all his taters dug up, and I only have a few patches left. We will be planting more of these next year. Still getting an occasional squash or cuke.
Lemons are coming along. One is almost totally yellow. When they are allowed to ripen on the tree, they are just a bit sweeter than the ones in the store, which are picked green, and ripened off the vine.
Have a great Holiday weekend. God Bless.
Hi greeneyes!
Even with rain everyday, the lawns are scorched.
Just another day in Paradise! LOL!
Pinging the list.
I have some gardens planted that get shade from some trees in the afternoon. When Hubby built my garden bed in those areas he kinda poked fun, saying that most veggies need full sun.
During our hot July and August days, those areas do the best.LOL The term full sun is often misunderstood. It really doesn’t mean from sun up to sun down in the spring and summer. More like 6 to 8 hours as a minimum.
Greetings from hot ol’ Texas. And we are cooling down a bit, too..but still in the mid to high nineties most days.
Except for Romas, juliets, and cherry, my tomatoes are mostly just sitting there. Something ate my lettuce, and mecslun last night. I have volunteer swiss chard.
No sweet potatoes yet, Cucuzzi are doing pretty good, and I’ve planted zukes, Tromboncinos, and cukes. I have gotten one armenian cuke all summer.
Oh noes about the lettuce. We only get a good crop of cukes about once every 3 years. However, that may change as some of the new plots that we have added are better soil, and further away from the walnut trees.
Makes sense! :-)
Any others out there doing Boo?
Just lately I got hold of about 5 kinds of bamboo again...all for container planting...all hardy, running boo, except for for two varieties of tropical (clumping) buddha belly boo.
Dick.G: AMERICAN!
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Today, I went out to my 20 acres in the boonies, and walked the fence line..I saw a black walnut on the ground. I thought all the black walnut trees out there had died. They were kind of an oddity for here as far as I know. Since I was just watching where I was walking to avoid cactus, brush, and rocks, I didn’t look for the black walnut tree.
I have a lot of green cherry tomatoes. I’ve refrigerator pickled a couple jars, but there’s just me! What else can I do with them? I do have a nice dehydrator, but dehydrated green cherry tomatoes?
This is the summer that wasn’t here in NYS.
It’s been wet and I’ve had trouble with squash beetles taking out my zucchini and tomato blight about did in my tomatoes.
They both started out wonderfully well and so I got a decent crop, but not as good as I had hoped. Still, enough tomatoes to can up for sauce.
Have you tried drying/ dehydrating the Juliets ?
I have never had any experience with Boo. Seems like I remember someone talking about it though, I just can’t remember who.
Hubby loves the black walnuts. He collects them, cracks them and freezes the nut meats in a vaccum sealed bag.
NW here. I’m getting lots of small tomatoes, picking Swiss chard, apples, plums just ripening,eating the last of the Arctic Kiwi.
This is the first year I’ve grown Acorn Squash. Have 5 large ones growing. I’m supposed to let the leaves die down (powdery mildew will take care of that), then cut the stem a couple of inches up and store. Any other hints, recipes?
I suspect that there are recipes that call for green tomatoes, that you could use re-hydrate ones for. I tend to like the red ones.
I am thinking that dehydrated tomatoes could be ground into a powder, and used to make spaghetti sauce or added to various soups to get a little tomato flavor.
It could be worse .
I heard that frost is expected tonight in Maine.
Maybe it's time for the fall root crop to go in ? But yeah , it seems kinda early this year.
I am in the Finger Lakes area , and am already seeing some leaf drop and some color changes already .
I will be looking forward to Joe Bastardi's Saturdays forecast; last I recall he was calling for cool and dry for fall in the North East.
I have to get some tomatoes into the freezer this weekend. Want to make some sauce, but don’t have enough for another batch yet.
Did you catch the tip on using baking soda as a preventitive for blight? Can’t remember who posted it, but it was on last week’s thread, IIRC.
most folks know little about bamboo (1300, or so, kinds)so they just plant it in their lawn or backyard and it soon runs all over them...that’s usually enough to forget the whole idea for most...but now—w/the internet—there’s a wealth of knowledge out there, and bo is really a fantastic plant for mny reasons...
I had some Buudha Belly bamboo in Calif back around ‘71....just now getting around to giving it a go again...just for patio/deck...that’s all...
Thanks 4-Responding!
Dick Gaines
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Juliets: I’ve oven-dried 6 cookie sheets worth so far with more to come.
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