Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related
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Finally got a chance to get some photos in. First photo is March, next two are today after nearly a month with no significant rain then weeks of very heavy rain. Everything is a little sparse. The tomatoes are Better Boy I believe, German Queen, & San Marzano. We ate all the cabbages, carrots, asparagus & harvested most of the Elephant Garlic. Still getting a few green beans, tomatoes, peppers, chard, basil, onions, eggplants, mints, cucumbers, etc.calldoctoday Thats a nice garden
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knee high by the fourth of July is a saying that was used in the north east do to the climate in that area
craigrice it works here in Ohio for corn, which I did not plant this year.
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Surg Looks like good fruit set, you should get fruit. Enjoy them, they are delicious. I should pictures of my coffee tree in bloom. I may get a few Kona beans this year. Coffee trees are hard to grow out of the tropics and especially indoors.
johnsbrewhouse
You should definitely post pics. Interested to see what they look like. Haven’t tried the roasting yet but I saw a method using a popcorn popper that looked interesting. -
calldoctoday Thats a nice garden
lkrfletcher Thank you, I really appreciate that.
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johnsbrewhouse
You should definitely post pics. Interested to see what they look like. Haven’t tried the roasting yet but I saw a method using a popcorn popper that looked interesting.Surg was going to get some pictures but my trees are getting top heavy and falling over now and I am loosing blossoms. I should get some more shortly. I was forced to stake the trees with heavier stakes and since they are indoors and eight feet tall, I need longer stakes than at hand. It’s way to hot to run the table saw and rip some new one. It’s 7 PM right now and 105 degrees here in Washington State. As soon as the fruit comes off, it will be time to prune them down to a more manageable size.
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Surg was going to get some pictures but my trees are getting top heavy and falling over now and I am loosing blossoms. I should get some more shortly. I was forced to stake the trees with heavier stakes and since they are indoors and eight feet tall, I need longer stakes than at hand. It’s way to hot to run the table saw and rip some new one. It’s 7 PM right now and 105 degrees here in Washington State. As soon as the fruit comes off, it will be time to prune them down to a more manageable size.
Habanero Dill Pickles
Canned these up yesterday.
Life is a Garden - Dig it.
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Habanero Dill Pickles
Canned these up yesterday.
lkrfletcher They look great.
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Habanero Dill Pickles
Canned these up yesterday.
lkrfletcher Looks good. Do you have trouble with your cut pickles getting soft?
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Habanero Dill Pickles
Canned these up yesterday.
lkrfletcher
Made me crave some pickles now. Do you have a recipe you don’t mind sharing? Do you make one large brine for all the jars or do you do each jar individually? -
Habanero Dill Pickles
Canned these up yesterday.
lkrfletcher looks great. My cucumbers have been hit hard this year between deer and some type of disease or small insect. Im replanting late in hopes of getting a late crop.
“You never really die until you end up on the wall at a Cracker Barrel”
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Rabbits defied our electric netting and chowed down on our cukes. Should have used a poultry net instead of our moveable goat netting as they can just jump trough the squares.
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lkrfletcher looks great. My cucumbers have been hit hard this year between deer and some type of disease or small insect. Im replanting late in hopes of getting a late crop.
GWG8541 It seems to be a tough year this year. First about a month with no significant rain, then a month or more with nothing but heavy rain. Too much heat & humidity is taking its toll on everything this year. Even the Okra are having a hard time now that we are getting so much rain.
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lkrfletcher Looks good. Do you have trouble with your cut pickles getting soft?
wdaly Not at all - I use the pickle crisp granules.
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lkrfletcher
Made me crave some pickles now. Do you have a recipe you don’t mind sharing? Do you make one large brine for all the jars or do you do each jar individually?Surg
Pretty easy
1 brine - 1/2 white vinegar to water. Add appropriate amount of pickling salt.In each jar -
Add 1 clove of garlic
I also add 1/2 tsp dried garlic granules
1/4 tsp pickle crisp granules
10 peppercorns
1/4 tsp mustard seed
1 Habanero - slit down the slides
2-3 sprigs of dill - including bud
1/2 tsp dill seed
Pickling cucumbersWater bath for 10 minutes.
Wait 4 weeks to open -
lkrfletcher looks great. My cucumbers have been hit hard this year between deer and some type of disease or small insect. Im replanting late in hopes of getting a late crop.
GWG8541 - Got mine from the farmers market.
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Rabbits defied our electric netting and chowed down on our cukes. Should have used a poultry net instead of our moveable goat netting as they can just jump trough the squares.
Ridley Acres I have 2 solutions, plus a third back up at my house for those pests. If the dogs don’t get them, the .22 caliber pellet pistol does and they will become a meal or fertilizer.
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Surg
Pretty easy
1 brine - 1/2 white vinegar to water. Add appropriate amount of pickling salt.In each jar -
Add 1 clove of garlic
I also add 1/2 tsp dried garlic granules
1/4 tsp pickle crisp granules
10 peppercorns
1/4 tsp mustard seed
1 Habanero - slit down the slides
2-3 sprigs of dill - including bud
1/2 tsp dill seed
Pickling cucumbersWater bath for 10 minutes.
Wait 4 weeks to openlkrfletcher Have you ever used grape leaves to keep the pickles crisp?
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lkrfletcher Have you ever used grape leaves to keep the pickles crisp?
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Do you all find one strain of cukes better to use for dills than an other?
I love the chrisp snap of a spicy dill. I make bread and butters.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! -
Do you all find one strain of cukes better to use for dills than an other?
I love the chrisp snap of a spicy dill. I make bread and butters.@dennyo I’m a fan of straight 8. They grow straight and I pick them when they are jar length. What I like is they are not to fat, so I dont have to cut them. I use them for dill, bread n butter, and sweet chunk. ( made in a crock with a brine and pin cherry leaves and branches)
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