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WEEKLY GARDEN THREAD VOLUME 9 FEBRUARY 28, 2014
Free Republic | Feb 28, 2014 | greeneyes

Posted on 02/28/2014 12:35:18 PM PST by greeneyes

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To: Marcella

I have made pickled onions using the same recipe as for Refrigerator pickles. They go so fast that I have never had enough to actually can them.

I like to slice the big red onions and pickle them for use on salads.


61 posted on 02/28/2014 2:59:50 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: hearthwench

By all means post your recipe. I am using the lil noses saline solution and breathing in tea until it cools enough to drink.LOL

I have a portable mister, that I bought last year, and packed away. I can’t remember where I packed it, and so far have not been able to find it.

This is the time of year I like to can stuff also. This week we had a very good special on chicken and pork, but I was too tired to try it. I hope we have a good deal this up coming week. Maybe I’ll feel up to it then.


62 posted on 02/28/2014 3:04:44 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Jed Eckert

No I didn’t, but then I water daily the same amount, unless we get rain. Cracking is largely due to watering fluctuations.


63 posted on 02/28/2014 3:08:37 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: rightly_dividing

Hubby continues to be amazed with my lemon tree. I think it is a Meyer, but don’t know for sure, as the catalog I ordered it from didn’t give the specific name.

As it was to be a two for one lemon and lime, we also were not certain what we were getting the first time. The lime had lots of thorns, so we wound up cutting it off entirely.

The skin is thin and the lemon is much juicier than the lemons sold at the grocery. It made great lemonade, and juice for seafood.


64 posted on 02/28/2014 3:12:02 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Marcella; JRandomFreeper

Can you maybe dehydrate onions? Alton Brown on the Food Channel does that but JRFr says that dried foods don’t keep really well (I assume that that is in TX. I’m in TN and it’s really wet here but we’ve done well with dried foods here this year.)


65 posted on 02/28/2014 3:15:13 PM PST by Silentgypsy (Make sure she doesnÂ’t get ahold of the gom jabbar)
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To: Silentgypsy; Marcella
Actually, it depends on how you package them and where you are. For Marcella, near the coast, with high average humidity, they won't keep for years. They will keep fine for 6 months to get you through to the next season though.

I use most of what I dehydrate within about 3-4 months, as a matter of normal life.

/johnny

66 posted on 02/28/2014 3:26:22 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Silentgypsy

We have dehydrated onions succesfully, and made onion powder out of them. The rest of our onions we just put in one layer in a card board box in the basement.


67 posted on 02/28/2014 3:26:42 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Jed Eckert

I tried Cherokee Purple last year. The plant grew great but didn’t flower or give me a single tomato. But then none of the slicers produced, only a nibbling of the Black Cherry and less than the norm of Yellow Pear.

It’s sunny and 83 today but freezing temps will be back tomorrow night. The 6 week seedlings are pitiful little nothings what with the house being so cold after the heating system decided to go into death throes. With all the wacky temps, I’m afraid to buy the berries and lemon I’ve been wanting.


68 posted on 02/28/2014 3:39:47 PM PST by bgill
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To: JRandomFreeper

Except when it’s about the sun.


69 posted on 02/28/2014 3:40:48 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Mohammed was a pedophile and Islam is a Totalitarian Death Cult.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

How long have those been planted?


70 posted on 02/28/2014 3:42:29 PM PST by bgill
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Ack, should have read down to find when they were planted. I planted about then too but we won’t talk about how they’re doing.


71 posted on 02/28/2014 3:44:26 PM PST by bgill
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To: JRandomFreeper

“But Sunday night is supposed to get down to 19F.”

Sunday night it will be 41 here. On what planet do you live?


72 posted on 02/28/2014 3:47:44 PM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Marcella
High on Sunday will be right at 60F. Low of 19F. They are predicting ice pellets on Tuesday.

It's the Metroplex. It's always screwy.

/johnny

73 posted on 02/28/2014 4:06:03 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: bgill
I tried Cherokee Purple last year. The plant grew great but didn’t flower or give me a single tomato. But then none of the slicers produced, only a nibbling of the Black Cherry and less than the norm of Yellow Pear.

Strange. At times I've had tomatoes flower like crazy and not set a single fruit till the nights warmed up to the mid 60s. Never had any that didn't flower. Maybe too much nitrogen and not enough phosphorus and potassium in the soil?

Well if my Cherokees and Green Zebras flop I'm hoping Charger will save the day. Supposedly was bred for growing in our Florida climate.

74 posted on 02/28/2014 4:19:52 PM PST by Jed Eckert (Wolverines!!)
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To: greeneyes

Been too cold to plant here in Texas this week, but onions and other bulb plants are doing OK. Hope to get something into the dirt this week.


75 posted on 02/28/2014 4:31:41 PM PST by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

You probably already knew, but when you are ready to transplant your tobacco into its permanent garden soil, if it is eighty feet tall, you can bury it deep (or sideways), up to the bottom leaves, like you would a tomato.
I can hardly wait till photos of the tobacco forest.


76 posted on 02/28/2014 4:33:51 PM PST by SisterK (behold a pale horse)
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To: greeneyes

Hope you get well soon.


77 posted on 02/28/2014 4:34:58 PM PST by SisterK (behold a pale horse)
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To: SisterK
I've never had leggy tobacco seedlings, so I can just pop them in the prepared hole. But that's good to know if I ever do wind up with leggy seedlings.

I transplant them to the big garden when the leaves are about as big as a dime.

/johnny

78 posted on 02/28/2014 4:38:59 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper; Eric in the Ozarks

Wow. Good looking pepper plants. Mine are still primary leaves, but I cannot set out til April 15th.


79 posted on 02/28/2014 4:58:10 PM PST by SisterK (behold a pale horse)
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To: Silentgypsy; Marcella; JRandomFreeper

I dry onions. I just found some that I dehydrated in 2006 and they are just as divine as the day I packed them.
Plus dehydrating them, you can fit a bushel of onions into a quart jar. Just don’t start nibbling a jar of dried onion rings when you are drinking beer or you may end up in the hospital.


80 posted on 02/28/2014 5:08:24 PM PST by SisterK (behold a pale horse)
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