Gardening 2024

[snapping turtle]

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Canned a small portion of our tomatoes yesterday. Happy to have some of them stored, so much more to go.

Nice look maters.
My San Marzino’s are plenty but they are a pain to process. The Amish paste all thou a bit more water in them produce 4 to five times the amount of meat per fruit. I spent both Sunday football games processing at the kitchen sink. The Amish paste were like butchering the San marzinos were like filets.

I have pulled all tomatoes (paste) plants this weekend also. They were done (I was done) for the year still have the Cherokee purple (nasty looking things) and the little Fourth of July going strong and cherries.

 

[miguel]

Fellas...when do I start pulling up the sweet potatoes? A couple are surfacing above the dirt in the past week!

I'm north of Indy, south of Kokomo.

 

[bwframe]

Fellas...when do I start pulling up the sweet potatoes? A couple are surfacing above the dirt in the past week!

I'm north of Indy, south of Kokomo.

I'm not doing sweet potatoes these days, but have been following these folks from Ohio for a while. They just harvested theirs, early due to the draught...

 

[bwframe]

I ran into a volunteer kale plant and decided it could go into the Greenstalk. Bottom few layers of the Greenstalk planter have been empty all year, after I killed off all the strawberries in it.

While doing that, I decided to sprinkle Giant Nobel spinach seeds, some ChicPoo and composted manure to top off the cells. We will see...

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

Fellas...when do I start pulling up the sweet potatoes? A couple are surfacing above the dirt in the past week!

I'm north of Indy, south of Kokomo.

I don't grow sweet potatoes every year, but I've always left mine in the ground until the vines were totally dead. If I saw some peaking out, I'd put some leaf mulch or soil over them.

 

[2in1evtime]

Fellas...when do I start pulling up the sweet potatoes? A couple are surfacing above the dirt in the past week!

I'm north of Indy, south of Kokomo.

We harvested ours 2 weeks ago they did really good this year, had some close to the size of a football too.

 

[Expat]

I usually dig mine the day before a frost warning.

 

[Expat]

I thought my pole beans were done, picked half a bag this week. Ground hogs ate my fall kale. I have caught 3 of them since then.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

I planted a wild persimmon start in our yard almost twenty years ago. It's been bearing fruit every year for awhile now, but we've never really done anything with them, although our little dog ate them as fast as they fell each fall.

We decided to learn how to process them this year and when the high winds caused a bunch to fall today, my wife gathered the ripe ones, processed the pulp, and made a couple of loaves of fresh persimmon bread. I know it's early yet, and there's a bunch of fruit left on the tree. She was already making plans for tweeking the recipe for the next batch of bread. It was my first taste of persimmon bread, and I loved it.