Posted on 11/11/2011 5:06:00 AM PST by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. Remembering Veterans Day. Here is a big Thank You to all who have served our Country. Just wondering how many of you gardeners are Veterans?
It is a Chilly 29 F here in East Central Mississippi. I have been trying to keep up with the leaves falling off the trees and I am hating the pine needles more and more everyday. I don’t use them in my compost pile because they take to long to break down. I pile them by the roadside and the county comes by once a week and vacuums them up.
I hope all your Fall gardens are prospering.
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If we were neighbors, I would be dumping them over the back fence while you weren’t looking. Knew that there were a lot of tomatoes out there, but when I actually started parting the lifting the vegetation, I was blown away. That load is only the tip of the iceberg.
For some reason, the frosts haven't touched the tomatoes or peppers. Both are still flowering and setting fruit. It is crazy!
I'm going to can the green tomatoes in various recipes for relish, jam, etc., and freeze some for making green tomato cake. I may sell whatever I can't manage to preserve in some manner.
We bag our leaves in the ginormous outdoor hefty bags and stash them under a shed. We use those over the newspaper in the garden the next spring. Running over them with a lawnmower helps break them down faster, too.
just hate to see good organic matter ‘given’ away.
The freeze got all my tomatoes and peppers that weren’t covered last night. We got a giant stash of green toamtoes but not *nearly* as many as you! My oldest has been begging for fried green tomatoes today and ‘green sauce for my omelette’, ie, green salsa.
Your garden is just continually gorgeous. I have garden envy.
Lady Bender makes me a bowl of sliced cucumbers, salt, pepper, vinegar and oil then sets in the fridge for a couple of days to marinade before we eat them. I wonder if you could do that with sliced green tomatoes?
Some smaller round tomatoes and cherries produced a few. With the small round tomatoes, I had enough for BLT’s, but not enough to supply the neighborhood as I usually do.
Had a nasty hail storm in the middle of August that destroyed almost all the tomato and pepper fruit, and cucumber, pumpkin, and melon vines. Left a lot of muskmelons out there that rotted in the sun in late August without any shade from the leaves.
Peppers set on more fruit that eventually ripened and made a good harvest, and I got a few more cucumbers, but melons did not produce. Pumpkins are iffy. Vines froze and died. Took them inside my shop, and they are turning orange. Not sure they are going to make my pie pumpkin. Will have to bake and puree them next week.
Worst year yet.
Green salsa sounds great! Thank you for your kind words.
Nothing new here except garlic & onions.
Green tomatoes, peppers and cukes hanging by a thread and straggling in from hothouse.
Lettuce and spinach almost gone.
Need to plant more.
I can’t imagine why it wouldn’t work just fine with green maters. Another good idea from Benderville!
The Thursday night freeze zapped the eggplant, most of the beans, a pumpkin plant, and part of the watermelon, and nipped the peppers, even though they were all covered. The plants in the greenhouse are still good to go unless we get a heavy freeze.
Cabbage, broccoli, and collards looked bad yesterday, but the leaves have sprung back up today and they look healthy.
That’s a heck of a lot of ‘maters you got there!
got three amaryllis bulbs hopefully trying to regenerate upstairs....got one new one but won't start that up until Thanksgiving...
my Thanksgiving cactus does well and looks like its about to bloom too....with my indoor plants, especially my cactus, its best if I almost completely ignore them...lol.....
Hot damn! 2012 seed offerings are starting to pop up in on-line catalogs...got my orders ready to go!
What are the sites you are looking at to order your seeds?
Oooooo Tomatoes! Tomatoes! Tomatoes! So many to chose from.
Happy hunting!
WoW... wold and crazy tomatoes!
If you like a big slicing tomato for your BLT’s or your jalapeno and cheese stuffed bacon burgers; allow me to recommend ‘Stump of the World’, ‘Marianna’s Peace’, or ‘Cuostralee’...all provided us with a steady supply of TASTY 1.5 to 2-pound tomatoes...
I was just looking for others’ experience with these plants/trees. Like “plant it here, but not there”. “Make sure you do XYZ every season”. “I use X to do A, and it worked really well”.
I was most concerned with planting something that would “take over” and cause problems with other parts of my gardens & pasture, etc.
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