Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related
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Picked about two bushels of apples off my Granny Smith tree Tuesday, getting chilly at night here now.
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johnsbrewhouse We’re right at that point with our garden. We had flurries & cold rain in the afternoon & evening and a hard frost last night, 28*. Luckily I tilled last Friday & Saturday and we got our garlic in for over the winter. We still have a few covered tomato & pepper plants but not really expecting to glean much more off them. Kind of sad to see the garden go for the year but now it’s time to think about & plan next years garden!
Bob Stehlik My tomato’s and peppers were both covered and are in raised beds, but it stayed to cold overnight for them to survive. The tomato’s really know when the cold is coming. You are at a bit higher elevation than us being in CO. I’m only at 410 ft., we have had snow down to 2500- 3000 ft. on Tuesday in the mountains 45 miles from me. Mt. Rainier is no longer bare.
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I haven’t gave up on the garden yet. My tomatoes and peppers are still doing good and I planted English peas for the first time ever.
cdavis beautiful piece of land you got there.
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Every year I say I’m gonna do a cold hardy fall garden and every year I miss getting the seeds in the ground. Even acquired some of the stuff to construct a small cold frame but keep slackin.
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Every year I say I’m gonna do a cold hardy fall garden and every year I miss getting the seeds in the ground. Even acquired some of the stuff to construct a small cold frame but keep slackin.
Surg I am with you. I used to get it in like clockwork, but now that I am running a business, well I say it & I am sure of it, but then we get busy. I am still saying I am going to try & get a few things in that would still squeeze in, but better not hold my breath. Sad thing is, our Fall gardens always do 1000 times better than Spring.
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I haven’t gave up on the garden yet. My tomatoes and peppers are still doing good and I planted English peas for the first time ever.
cdavis that is a great garden.
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We’ve gone nuts literally! With fall comes the walnut harvest and beating the squirrels out of them (they also destroy the tree). Of course my two dogs and pellet pistol make short work of that problem here lately. We have harvest about one third of what’s left, it will take a few more weeks for the rest to drop or a good wind storm. Lots of work to pick them up, hull the ones that are still intact, clean them then put them out to dry a bit. That’s almost 15 gallons drying on the deck. The worst part is shelling them. As you can see from the pictures, there are quite a few already, more sitting on the ground waiting to be cleaned and still more on the tree.
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We’ve gone nuts literally! With fall comes the walnut harvest and beating the squirrels out of them (they also destroy the tree). Of course my two dogs and pellet pistol make short work of that problem here lately. We have harvest about one third of what’s left, it will take a few more weeks for the rest to drop or a good wind storm. Lots of work to pick them up, hull the ones that are still intact, clean them then put them out to dry a bit. That’s almost 15 gallons drying on the deck. The worst part is shelling them. As you can see from the pictures, there are quite a few already, more sitting on the ground waiting to be cleaned and still more on the tree.
johnsbrewhouse do you cook the squirrels?
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We’ve gone nuts literally! With fall comes the walnut harvest and beating the squirrels out of them (they also destroy the tree). Of course my two dogs and pellet pistol make short work of that problem here lately. We have harvest about one third of what’s left, it will take a few more weeks for the rest to drop or a good wind storm. Lots of work to pick them up, hull the ones that are still intact, clean them then put them out to dry a bit. That’s almost 15 gallons drying on the deck. The worst part is shelling them. As you can see from the pictures, there are quite a few already, more sitting on the ground waiting to be cleaned and still more on the tree.
johnsbrewhouse & am still behind on cracking last years Pecans! I used to get them all done during the winter.
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sounds like a beer drinking project
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johnsbrewhouse do you cook the squirrels?
Tex_77 They become fertilizer, they are not worth the effort to clean and cook, not enough meat on them.
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Tex_77 They become fertilizer, they are not worth the effort to clean and cook, not enough meat on them.
johnsbrewhouse said in Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related:
Tex_77 They become fertilizer, they are not worth the effort to clean and cook, not enough meat on them.
Must be reds, the grey and fox squirrels around here will make a tasty meal. Yeah they aren’t the meatiest of the bunch, a couple per person. The reds aren’t worth it due to size or flavor.
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johnsbrewhouse said in Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related:
Tex_77 They become fertilizer, they are not worth the effort to clean and cook, not enough meat on them.
Must be reds, the grey and fox squirrels around here will make a tasty meal. Yeah they aren’t the meatiest of the bunch, a couple per person. The reds aren’t worth it due to size or flavor.
YooperDog I love squirrel and so do the grandsons. it is on the menu for this week!
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johnsbrewhouse said in Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related:
Tex_77 They become fertilizer, they are not worth the effort to clean and cook, not enough meat on them.
Must be reds, the grey and fox squirrels around here will make a tasty meal. Yeah they aren’t the meatiest of the bunch, a couple per person. The reds aren’t worth it due to size or flavor.
YooperDog Never had squirrel, just reminds me of duck commander, the mom liked squirrel brains.
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YooperDog Never had squirrel, just reminds me of duck commander, the mom liked squirrel brains.
bocephus Never had the brains but had an aunt that loved them
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johnsbrewhouse said in Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related:
Tex_77 They become fertilizer, they are not worth the effort to clean and cook, not enough meat on them.
Must be reds, the grey and fox squirrels around here will make a tasty meal. Yeah they aren’t the meatiest of the bunch, a couple per person. The reds aren’t worth it due to size or flavor.
YooperDog grey squirrels, they were pushed into our area when they clear cut a training area on the military base just down the road. They told everyone they were restoring the oak prairies when they did it. They drove all the animals off their natural habitat so now the scrounge for food and aren’t that fat.
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Thanks everyone.I love my garden it’s my place to get away from everything that’s going on.
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YooperDog I love squirrel and so do the grandsons. it is on the menu for this week!
RON PARRISH love squirrel gravy.
“You never really die until you end up on the wall at a Cracker Barrel”
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RON PARRISH love squirrel gravy.
GWG8541 Okay, I’ll confess, this c oon a s s has never had squirrel. How about posting a recipe. Along with that, how to process a squirrel. I sit on my patio with my pellet riffle and get about 3 to 10 a week. Been just throwing them into the garbage can.
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GWG8541 Okay, I’ll confess, this c oon a s s has never had squirrel. How about posting a recipe. Along with that, how to process a squirrel. I sit on my patio with my pellet riffle and get about 3 to 10 a week. Been just throwing them into the garbage can.
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