Posted on 08/05/2011 5:38:05 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
I finally make a couple jars of dill pickles.........with fresh GARLIC. You claimed you never had ill effects, so I’m hoping for the same outcome. :)
I only had about enough to make three pint jars, but it’s just the start of the pickin’ season here. We’ve eaten about a half dozen good sized cucumbers, pickled these (I have no idea how my recipe will work out) and I hope and expect to pickle a half dozen more jars along with three or four jars of sweet relish. I only planted ten plants.
Our tomatoes are finally starting to color up. Gotta can as much as the husband doesn’t use fresh for his sauces. He may leave me enough for three or four quarts if I am lucky. But he does make some serious sauce !!!!
I am wondering how our Amish paste will work out. He’s not impressed because they are rather small, but I think they are very dense and should yield more sauce/less liquid and seed. It’ll be good to find out anyway. Heirloom, so if we like them, we’ll save seed.
Well a viking battle ax is not the best thing for tilling the ground.........Just suggesting :^)
Does anyone know what types of squash can cross-pollinate acorn squash?
I have a couple plants that have tons of fruit/flowers but none of the male flowers.
But other types of squash I have have lots of male flowers so I could try to cross them...
Now that sounds like a good plan, particularly right now.
Hard to beat the high ground :^)
Switched to Burpee’s “Sweeter Yet” in 2006. Have grown it every year since then. Have never had a bitter cucumber from it. You could have a different result, I suppose, due to different inputs, but I recommend trying it.
If it does not work for you, try several different varieties every year until you find one that does.
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Any C. Pepo squash will pollinate it, but I wouldn’t suggest saving the seeds afterward.
Thanks!
I tried it with zuccinni but didn’t seem to have much luck. I have a bunch of pupmkins that have the opposite problem, tons of male flowers but no fruit yet, so I can try them.
Now that’s even funnier! You are a wicked woman - I like that!
Thanks, tdscps. I’ll give Sweeter Yet a try. If not for the Fall, then certainly will plant ‘em in the Spring.
One other thought: If Sweeter Yet does not work for you, but you have three other varieties that do work, don’t worry, be happy!
Why do you need four different varieties of cucumbers?
I’m pretty sure I do not eat over 12 cucumbers/year. (Do not make pickles). I can think of no reason to grow more than one variety.
Please forgive me if you have a reason to grow multiple varieties of cucumbers!
I must admit, I am growing 50 different varieties of tomatoes this year! But I still feel one kind of cucumber is plenty.
I have two reasons for growing four (or more) cucumber varieties.
First, I simply like to try different varieties, especially if they’re somewhat unusual for the San Antonio area. Thus, the Asian varieties.
Second, a really odd thing seems to happen. A variety which did well one season will flop the next season for no apparent reason. Last Spring I transplanted six Spacemaster plants into three gallon pots. They each produced a fair number of cucumbers. But in the Fall and this Spring, in new soil, they grew and flowered but produced almost no cukes. But, my Soyu Long (in garden) and Baby Cucinos (in Earth Boxes) produced abundantly. Go figure.
Though we do eat a lot of cucumbers (and tomatoes and peppers), even with the failures I grow far more than we can eat or use in relishes or salsas. So, every so often, the neighbors get a goodie bag picked from Racehorse’s little garden.
The bitterness in the White Wonder cukes was a surprise. None of the varieties I’d previously grown were bitter. Some were less sweet than others but never bitter. At least I didn’t pay for the seeds. Burpee reintroduced the variety and sent them free as part of an order.
50 tomato varieties! I can’t imagine it. You must have a good sized garden.
I have six varieties in various stages of growth waiting for the heat to break. Fall planting date here is around 15 August but the drought and heat does not appear to have an end in sight.
Two Tycoons have flowers. I think I’ll take a chance and put those in 15 gallon pots tomorrow morning. I can move the pots around to keep them burning up.
I’ve read that transplants with flowers produce less well than those yet to flower. If they survive the heat, guess I’ll find out.
Take care,
R.
Yes, I have over 2,000 sq. ft. of garden. It is the entire back yard of a neighboring house I bought to convert to a garage and shop.
I decided I wanted to minimize the additional lawn to mow every year, so my “nurse” and I decided to farm it.
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