Garden Geeks thread

[FreshFish]

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Never do a second planting [of beans] as the first one produces all the way thru.

Depends on how big your plot is, I guess.

[leswp1]

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Depends on how big your plot is, I guess.

Not big at all. The whole thing is less than 12 X 16 with raised beds so the actual footage of beans is 2 raised beds 2ft X 10 ft

[walrus]

Been gardening since I was a teen, and you're correct FreshFish... there is absolutely nothing in the store that tastes like fresh veggies, whether home grown or at the local farm stand.
However, call me crazy, BUT... I absolutely LOVE canned green beans over fresh green beans. No idea why, just the way it is.

Good friend of mine is the same, loves canned beans, they can many jars. I freeze mine
I started another row of beans, they are about 6 inches high now

[leswp1]

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Good friend of mine is the same, loves canned beans, they can many jars. I freeze mine
I started another row of beans, they are about 6 inches high now

wally- how do you freeze yours?

[walrus]

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wally- how do you freeze yours?

Blanche 3 minutes, drop in sink full of ice and water, place in freezer bags, freeze. I did 22 bags a few weeks ago, taste some good in the middle of winter compared to stuff you can buy in a store. Plus the fact they are organically grown so not worried about what poison is on them.

Going to fermented pickles today, garlic dill, wicked easy to do and taste like a real deli pickle

[leswp1]

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Blanche 3 minutes, drop in sink full of ice and water, place in freezer bags, freeze. I did 22 bags a few weeks ago, taste some good in the middle of winter compared to stuff you can buy in a store. Plus the fact they are organically grown so not worried about what poison is on them.

Going to fermented pickles today, garlic dill, wicked easy to do and taste like a real deli pickle

Thanks. We have a 'few'

[walrus]

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Just picked my first pepper, lots of green tomatoes but no red ones. Cukes up the wazoo, chickens got many large ones.
Picked 2 qts of blueberries, Japanese beetles are getting many of the berries, I wish we would get some frost in the winter and decimate those little ********. I'll bet 10 or 15% of the berries are ruined by them. Squash is finally taking off.

Garden is so soft from the 3 inches of rain yesterday that I can't walk in it. I doubt we've had this wet a summer in years, my pond is higher now than it was in the middle of May

[Gurtholfin]

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Japanese beetles are getting many of the berries, I wish we would get some frost in the winter and decimate those little ********. I'll bet 10 or 15% of the berries are ruined by them.

It could be much worse. We eventually just ripped out our raspberries as they were destroying 80-90% of them. They also killed a river birch in our old yard.

We hates them, yesssss precious...

[bigblue_dl]

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We got a bunch of stuff from the garden when we visited my parents yesterday. A whole pile of beans, some red skinned potatoes, a cabage, peppers, sweet corn. My dad planted 6 rows of sweet corn (he just plants it with the corn planter, the outside 6 rows right behind the house), about 200 yards long. My parents have a ton of sweet corn. My mom has been canning corn for a week now.

[FreshFish]

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shopping bag full of beans..... Lottsa beans. Never do a second planting as the first one produces all the way thru.

ah, that's the biggest difference then. We only plant enough beans to produce a week's meals; I'm not into all the work that comes with preserving them. Harvest twice a week, feed three people each time. For many weeks. Sounds like we pick a lot less at any one time and extend the season quite a bit longer instead to keep the fresh supply coming.


The cucumbers are now taller than me. For the first time in many years, we are not losing them all to cucumber beetles.

[leswp1]

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ah, that's the biggest difference then. We only plant enough beans to produce a week's meals; I'm not into all the work that comes with preserving them. Harvest twice a week, feed three people each time. For many weeks. Sounds like we pick a lot less at any one time and extend the season quite a bit longer instead to keep the fresh supply coming.


The cucumbers are now taller than me. For the first time in many years, we are not losing them all to cucumber beetles.

We pick and have enough to feed an army a few times a week for months.

[Gurtholfin]

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Carrots today. Had them with grilled chicken and smashed potatoes...

Yum!

[jen]

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I have lots of flowers on cucumbers, tomatillos and peppers, but nothing is producing.

[FreshFish]

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We pick and have enough to feed an army a few times a week for months.

Too much work for me. I'm content to pick enough to feed a family a few times a week.

[Gurtholfin]

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Canned my first 6 quarts of tomatoes yesterday. Nothing better than making chili or spaghetti sauce in January and simply going down to the basement and grabbing a quart that I grew the summer before.




Just starting to get beans.

Peppers are having a terrible year.

Planted a fall crop of carrots and snap peas yesterday.

Also cut the tops off the Brussels.