Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related
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Surg Well now the gears are turning in the food brain. My local grocer has Fresh Beef Chuck Shoulder Flanken Style Ribs Bone-In on sale this week. So I am going to marinate the meat in with the vinegar and peppers. Then I will bbq them and turn it into some stellar enchiladas…
HerbcoFood sounds good man lemme know how they turn out.
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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.

Updated picture of my garden here in the Western Washington. We are just starting to produce. Had green beans, yellow squash, zucchini, and cucumber and a few sweet 100 tomatoes this week. We tend to have a later harvest here due to the cooler weather usually except this year.

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great looking garden
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Picked beans today, this is the second picking. I got another 2 lbs. from my small 4’ x 12’ raised bed. Looks like beans with the rockfish tonight.

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Picked beans today, this is the second picking. I got another 2 lbs. from my small 4’ x 12’ raised bed. Looks like beans with the rockfish tonight.

johnsbrewhouse Looking good, I started drying some of my sweet onions today. Tomatoes are starting to come in and peppers are doing great. The long bell peppers in the pic are Big Berthas and living up to their name. They are averaging 7 to 8 inches long.

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johnsbrewhouse Looking good, I started drying some of my sweet onions today. Tomatoes are starting to come in and peppers are doing great. The long bell peppers in the pic are Big Berthas and living up to their name. They are averaging 7 to 8 inches long.

GWG8541 Bell peppers still have a couple of weeks to go, The green bells were having trouble setting blossoms, but now has peppers. Pouring the water to them and we have warm weather as well. The beans seem to grow daily, I just picked this morning and went to water tonight and swear I missed a bunch but I know I picked everything that was ready. The heat brings them on.
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GWG8541 Bell peppers still have a couple of weeks to go, The green bells were having trouble setting blossoms, but now has peppers. Pouring the water to them and we have warm weather as well. The beans seem to grow daily, I just picked this morning and went to water tonight and swear I missed a bunch but I know I picked everything that was ready. The heat brings them on.
johnsbrewhouse it’s hard to read about all the fresh garden stuff and to look at the pictures. Here in northern Wisconsin, I’m barely past the blossom stage.
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johnsbrewhouse it’s hard to read about all the fresh garden stuff and to look at the pictures. Here in northern Wisconsin, I’m barely past the blossom stage.
kyle Well, at least you still have hope. Here in SE Alabama most of it is in the rot stage.
Peppers & Okra doing so/so, but they have been bothered by too much rain this year.
Hope is the Fall garden.
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kyle Well, at least you still have hope. Here in SE Alabama most of it is in the rot stage.
Peppers & Okra doing so/so, but they have been bothered by too much rain this year.
Hope is the Fall garden.
calldoctoday we have had no rain up here. Seems like all me and the wife do is water to try and save what we have. I put a 300 gallon tank on a trailer and go to the river and fill it with a one inch gas pump, then use the pump to suck it out of the tank to water. Works good, just getting old
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calldoctoday we have had no rain up here. Seems like all me and the wife do is water to try and save what we have. I put a 300 gallon tank on a trailer and go to the river and fill it with a one inch gas pump, then use the pump to suck it out of the tank to water. Works good, just getting old
kyle Wow, that is a lot of work to get it watered, but sounds great & I would do that if I had to. Wish I could ship some your way.
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johnsbrewhouse it’s hard to read about all the fresh garden stuff and to look at the pictures. Here in northern Wisconsin, I’m barely past the blossom stage.
kyle I can feel your pain Kyle. Western Washington is strange too. We had a late frost mid May, then 100 degree weather in late June and July. We usually don’t get much of anything until August with the mid temperatures. We usually sit at 80 degrees or less until mid August and have some rain. We have had no rain in 45 days.
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kyle I can feel your pain Kyle. Western Washington is strange too. We had a late frost mid May, then 100 degree weather in late June and July. We usually don’t get much of anything until August with the mid temperatures. We usually sit at 80 degrees or less until mid August and have some rain. We have had no rain in 45 days.
johnsbrewhouse Yes, that is strange. We were in Colorado a few years ago for a meeting & it was snowing or at least snow on the ground in late June. We absolutely loved that weather there then & it was the devil getting off the plane again in SE Alabama.
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Picked beans today, this is the second picking. I got another 2 lbs. from my small 4’ x 12’ raised bed. Looks like beans with the rockfish tonight.

johnsbrewhouse
Those green beans are one true thing I miss about not having a garden anymore. Nice. -
johnsbrewhouse
Those green beans are one true thing I miss about not having a garden anymore. Nice.PapaSop beans and tomatoes seem to be most different for me comparing garden fresh vs the grocery store
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PapaSop beans and tomatoes seem to be most different for me comparing garden fresh vs the grocery store
Ridley Acres
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PapaSop beans and tomatoes seem to be most different for me comparing garden fresh vs the grocery store
Ridley Acres
One more thought to this. Potatoes, missing those white Kennebec’s as well. -
lkrfletcher NOOOO I am sorry man! THat stinks that that happened!
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johnsbrewhouse it’s hard to read about all the fresh garden stuff and to look at the pictures. Here in northern Wisconsin, I’m barely past the blossom stage.
kyle I am with you on that, the season up north is definitely short. Chipmunks have chewed off a few of the peppers that are starting, they have since been retired. Tomatoes and winter squash are just starting to show fruit. On the good side wild berries are going gang busters and and my mushroom bed just had a flush.
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kyle I am with you on that, the season up north is definitely short. Chipmunks have chewed off a few of the peppers that are starting, they have since been retired. Tomatoes and winter squash are just starting to show fruit. On the good side wild berries are going gang busters and and my mushroom bed just had a flush.
YooperDog I put out a mushroom bed about 7 months ago.I had a small flush last week to get a little taste.I had always wanted to do it so gave it a shot. Hopefully i does ok.
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Had to pick green beans again. I just picked them four days ago, actually three days because I picked a small batch on Monday. I got 3 3/4 lbs. this morning, needed to get them picked before the heat hits this afternoon. Going to have to harvest some cucumbers and yellow squash in the next couple of days before they get to big.

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