Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related
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@DennyO Here’s my garden, it just getting started here in Washington State. Green beans are just up, tomato’s and peppers are flowering. Won’t see anything for a least a month, except maybe some cilantro.
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Tried my hand at some frog b@lls, aka pickled brussels sprouts (not from my garden). Also my first attempt at canning.
“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”
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Tried my hand at some frog b@lls, aka pickled brussels sprouts (not from my garden). Also my first attempt at canning.
Surg What an interesting choice for the first go round.
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Tried my hand at some frog b@lls, aka pickled brussels sprouts (not from my garden). Also my first attempt at canning.
Surg canning is a great way to have food in the cupboard that you grew and know what is in it , and also after the beginning investment the jars and bands can be reused with just new seals with no worries about shortages in any future
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kyle just picked 1/4 of my carrots
. I used to hate planting them because the seeds are so small but now it’s a breeze. 
cdavis Those are some awfully good looking carrots & lots of them. Mine did not turn out very big this year, but lots of them & very sweet, but smallish. So, we used a lot of them in salads & they are pretty well et up now. Margaret & Andrew used the greens too, several times, to make a really tasty pesto with carrot greens, purple basil from the garden, olive oil, elephant garlic from the garden, etc. It was really, really good & I was surprised. Anyways, they really look good, lots of them, & great packaging to boot.
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Hey all, if you plant maders got any pics of them now and when did you plant and what state do you live in?
@dennyo Will try to see if I can get some photos of the garden in. It is on the down hill slide now & thinking about Fall. Too hot to fish, too hot for golf, & just about too hot for the garden too. We have found that our German Queen & Cherokee Purple maters have been producing the nicest & tastiest for the past few years for a big one. Then of course we have some of those little sweet poppers & a few San Marzanos for salsa & sauce.
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cdavis Man do I love carrots, and those look awesome! Do you do anything with the greens from the carrot? People make a pesto with it sometimes I guess and I have heard it was good. I got a little obsessed with regenerative farming for a while and that was one of the things I saw that people were saying you could do with carrot greens
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cdavis Those are some awfully good looking carrots & lots of them. Mine did not turn out very big this year, but lots of them & very sweet, but smallish. So, we used a lot of them in salads & they are pretty well et up now. Margaret & Andrew used the greens too, several times, to make a really tasty pesto with carrot greens, purple basil from the garden, olive oil, elephant garlic from the garden, etc. It was really, really good & I was surprised. Anyways, they really look good, lots of them, & great packaging to boot.
calldoctoday thank you sir and I didn’t know carrot tops were usable. I’ll have to check into that.
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cdavis Man do I love carrots, and those look awesome! Do you do anything with the greens from the carrot? People make a pesto with it sometimes I guess and I have heard it was good. I got a little obsessed with regenerative farming for a while and that was one of the things I saw that people were saying you could do with carrot greens
Jonathon I didn’t know you could use them for anything. I don’t even know what pesto is. But I’m going to look it up. I hate wasting anything usable. At least these went back to the garden for fertilizer.
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Hey all, if you plant maders got any pics of them now and when did you plant and what state do you live in?
@dennyo I have two small plots tilled. The first has my maders, about 30 plants of different varieties. Peppers various tpyes, onions, okra, green beans, cabbage, celery, and a variety of herbs, garlic, parsley, dill, basil, cilantro, horse radish, and mint.
The second plot is anything that vines. Cucumber, zucchini, yellow crookneck squash, watermelon, cantaloupe, and a variety of pumpkins and gourds my lovely wife wants for decorating each year.
I try to start most of mine from seed and save seed every year. Our weather in Ohio was a challenge this year we went from frost to hot in one week. I planted onion sets in early May and spread things out as I think they can tolerate a late frost. The tomatoes and peppers went in about the third week of May. I just planted pumpkin and gourds this week from seed. Now it gets busy.“You never really die until you end up on the wall at a Cracker Barrel”
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@dennyo I have two small plots tilled. The first has my maders, about 30 plants of different varieties. Peppers various tpyes, onions, okra, green beans, cabbage, celery, and a variety of herbs, garlic, parsley, dill, basil, cilantro, horse radish, and mint.
The second plot is anything that vines. Cucumber, zucchini, yellow crookneck squash, watermelon, cantaloupe, and a variety of pumpkins and gourds my lovely wife wants for decorating each year.
I try to start most of mine from seed and save seed every year. Our weather in Ohio was a challenge this year we went from frost to hot in one week. I planted onion sets in early May and spread things out as I think they can tolerate a late frost. The tomatoes and peppers went in about the third week of May. I just planted pumpkin and gourds this week from seed. Now it gets busy. -
@DennyO Here’s my garden, it just getting started here in Washington State. Green beans are just up, tomato’s and peppers are flowering. Won’t see anything for a least a month, except maybe some cilantro.
johnsbrewhouse Does the raised beds help or just keep the baby rabbits off?
GWG8541 2 small plots eh?
Even Johns is probably larger than mine!Denny O’s-Smokey Bones
I’d rather be sit’in in a boat and thinking about God,
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johnsbrewhouse Does the raised beds help or just keep the baby rabbits off?
GWG8541 2 small plots eh?
Even Johns is probably larger than mine!@dennyo the seperate plots was because the wife wants her pumpkins and gourds for decorating every fall. I got tired of the vines taking over the rest of my garden, so all vines were evicted to the second plot. Happy wife and now happy husband. No more fighting vines.
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RON PARRISH yes you can start from seed, but I do not on that particular plant. In Ohio you would really need to start them pretty early. There is an Amish/Mennonite community with a great greenhouse on a farm not to far away from me. If I buy plants its ussualy from them. I got onions, cabbage and the celery from him this year. It is not hard, just needs to be watered well. They get tough if left to long before cutting.
“You never really die until you end up on the wall at a Cracker Barrel”
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RON PARRISH yes you can start from seed, but I do not on that particular plant. In Ohio you would really need to start them pretty early. There is an Amish/Mennonite community with a great greenhouse on a farm not to far away from me. If I buy plants its ussualy from them. I got onions, cabbage and the celery from him this year. It is not hard, just needs to be watered well. They get tough if left to long before cutting.
GWG8541 I also buy all of my plants and seeds from an Amish greenhouse here in Oklahoma. They have the best seeds and plants at a great price
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In the past, I start mine from last years seeds that I saved after a harvest of maders.
This was from a few years ago.I would end up with vines like these.
And produce maders like these.
Denny O’s-Smokey Bones
I’d rather be sit’in in a boat and thinking about God,
Than sit’n in church and thinking about fish’in! -
In the past, I start mine from last years seeds that I saved after a harvest of maders.
This was from a few years ago.I would end up with vines like these.
And produce maders like these.
@dennyo nice, I have about 8 different seed types for my tomatoes. Gotta love variety.
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I will start up to 6 varieties.
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I can’t get the pic of vines to load and now I can’t find it in my phone.
Anyway they will grow over the top of my cage which is over 6 feet tall and then hang all the way back down to the ground. one even crawled over to the next cage one year.In the pic above with the 3 maders the three of them weighed a tad over 5.3 pounds together. The 2 pics were from last years crop.
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johnsbrewhouse Does the raised beds help or just keep the baby rabbits off?
GWG8541 2 small plots eh?
Even Johns is probably larger than mine!@dennyo The raised beds help to keep the temperature warmer here in the NW, the rabbits seem to find their way into anything. Thought the wire would stop them, they are just like rats, if their heads fit through, they can get in. The netting keeps them out and the new pellet pistol will bring them to the table if I find them in the garden. My biggest problem right now are the moles (yard rats) I’ll get them too with the Max bug be gone and get rid of the grubs, their main feed and with the trap s as well. The horse troughs are going to be my replacements for the raised beds in the coming years. Gets rid of the mole and rabbit problems, warms the soil quicker and I don’t have to bend over to work.
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