2021 GARDENS

[snagfinder]

Sweetcorn did excellent givien the hot/dry weather. Pumpkin plants look awesome but dont see much for pumpkins. Dont really wanna get in and look so hopefully i just dont see them. Zucchini ran wild i cant even give them away anymore. Had a few good looking watermelons but i left the garden door open and judging by the looks of the teeth marks bunnies like watermelon rind. Dont think they ruined them but aint looking so pretty anymore.

[smurfy]

in the past few days i pulled out my green beans and 5 of my 20 tomato plants. for what they where producing it didnt pay to waste water on them. 

 

i noticed the trees in my yard looking a little stressed so decided to give them a drink. took the hose and set it at a slow trickle by the truck and let it set for a 12 hour shift.

[smurfy]

Had a bunch of small tomatoes, perfect to make juice. 6 pints.

[going4it]

Been very impressed with my rugged boy tomatoes. Great size (softball) and no marks or splitting. They will be my tomato of choice from now on. Also blight resistant, my celebrities look like dump and very little blight on the RB. 

[smurfy]

i quit getting the celebrity, wasnt happy with them either. have had good luck with big boy and better beef varietries........well till this year.

[smurfy]

My project is done for the day. And a couple types of frig cukes not showing.

[going4it]

Picked second round of sweet corn, then pulled all my corn, beans, cucumbers, zucchini, and a few of my crappy tomato plants. Gardens looking very empty. 
 

Next year I will be adding 2 yards of compost to the garden and got a lot of brush to burn, going to add the ash before tilling next spring. 
 

I need to add to my soil each year, tried to skip it this year and it showed in a lot of my plants. Produced but not like in years past when I have added compost to it. Live and learn. 
 

tomatoes were the only thing that really did well. Close to 40 qts of salsa last week. 

[smurfy]

wow thats alot of salsa!!!!!!! i put mine in pint jars. we seem to use salsa in spirts.........in time it gets moldy since there are no preservatives!!!!!!!!! 

[smurfy]

Did this yesterday and today.  1 more project, doing a bunch of pickled green tomatoes.

[Duffman]

Pepper Sauce time.

[smurfy]

i got a 5 lb potato bag full of jalepenos i could send ya!!!!!!!!!!!!

[smurfy]

my garden is pretty thin right now. only thing left are tomatoes and kalarabi!!!!!! yesterday ieven cut down a bunch of my wifes flowers that are done blooming.

 

but them honey bees are sure working over the sedums!!!!!!1

[going4it]

I have about a dozen sedum around the yard. Tons of bees. With Those and bee balm I feel like I did my part with the bee population. 
 

tomatoes, second round of peas and habanero are the only thing left. Collected my 4 o’clock seeds and need to clip 5-6 zinnias to plant next spring. Yards down to 3 inches, wind has helped when dropping the mower down a quarter inch. 
 

Duffman care to share what you use pepper sauce for? I googled it but seeing if you do something different with it. 
Thanks 

[smurfy]

i got room for maybe 1 more sedum................................... maybe 2!!!!!!!!

[Duffman]

1 hour ago, going4it said:

Duffman care to share what you use pepper sauce for? I googled it but seeing if you do something different with it. 
Thanks 

 

Pretty much just peppers and vinegar. With some lime juice, salt, half dozen garlic cloves and I threw a shot of tequila in it and let it simmer for and hour and a half.

This was after smoking the cut up and deseeded peppers.

Food process before and after the simmer.

Strain it, and I have a dozen 5 oz hot sauce bottles showing up in the next day or so.

Will be able to fill 6 of them with this year's batch.

Tested it on some wings today, exact same color and texture as the Frank's Red Hot Buffalo sauce I also had.

I'll throw it on tacos, burritos, add it to chili. 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 20, 2021 by Duffman

[bobberineyes]

Thanks for sharing Duff, I've given around 200 serranos away at work with lots more on the vine yet among other peppers so I think that's what I'll do with the rest. Last year's dehydrating didn't pan out..

[Duffman]

I've got a tiny garden, but will try and produce more bounty next year.

Would like to get enough peppers to fill a dozen bottles. 

It was a nice ratio with hot and sweet peppers. Hot peppers this year included serrano, thai, salsa, cayenne, habanero. And what I call MN jalapenos, they seem to be very mild for us northern folk.

But along with the sweet peppers, they made up most of the bulk of this batch.

Now I need to come up with a name and label for next year.

 

 

[smurfy]

Last of my tomatoes, and done canning for the year. 23 qts pickled green tomatoes.

[leech~~]

On 9/25/2021 at 1:20 PM, Duffman said:

I've got a tiny garden, but will try and produce more bounty next year.

Would like to get enough peppers to fill a dozen bottles. 

It was a nice ratio with hot and sweet peppers. Hot peppers this year included serrano, thai, salsa, cayenne, habanero. And what I call MN jalapenos, they seem to be very mild for us northern folk.

But along with the sweet peppers, they made up most of the bulk of this batch.

Now I need to come up with a name and label for next year.

 

 

 

Duff, don't stop with the fancy shrink wrap. Break out the printer and make some labels! Here's mine.

[Duffman]

1 hour ago, leech~~ said:

 

Duff, don't stop with the fancy shrink wrap. Break out the printer and make some labels! Here's mine.

 

 

That's the plan for next year's batch.

Whatcha think?

 

 

 

 

[smurfy]

as of yesterday, my garden is totally done!!!!!!!!! maybe it was the hot dry summer, but i'm kinda glad its done. usually i try to hang on for as long as i can!!!!!!!