2019 Garden

[Meerkat]

Nice harvest Meer

Thank you BacP.

 

[Bacpacker]

My bell peppers just never did anything this year. Jalapenos, bannanas, and serranos are all producing some. Tomatos are finally producing decently. Sure gonna do them different next year

 

[Meerkat]

Sooooooo many.

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This is only one plant out of three.

I always went ahead and gave the plants a dose of 14-14-14. Hoping that helps with the yellow leaves.

SupportG, nice size cuke and pretty peppers too . Looks like your doing good this year.

 

[Meerkat]

My bell peppers just never did anything this year. Jalapenos, bannanas, and serranos are all producing some. Tomatos are finally producing decently. Sure gonna do them different next year

I think you do great considering you also work.

 

[Bacpacker]

Thanks Meer. Seems like I'm wasting my time sometimes. But what turns out makes it worth it. I just get greedy sometimes and want everything to come in. Doubt we'd have time to put it all up if it did.

 

[Peanut]

Last watermelon from the garden this year, going to cut it later tonight. Hope it's a good one.

This was a bad year for melons and loupes...

 

[Support Gunner]

Last watermelon from the garden this year, going to cut it later tonight. Hope it's a good one.

This was a bad year for melons and loupes...

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So far we have 2 watermelons going.

 

[Bacpacker]

Everyone of mine have had holes stomped in them by deer. No melons for me this year I'm afraid.

 

[Peanut]

A man I used to lease a hayfield from on his first try had a great crop of watermelons (Mr. W). The week they needed to be pulled he got called away on business.

I was selling at 3 different farmers markets that year. A couple of brothers who were neighbors of Mr. W had a load of watermelons at the market one Saturday. They are known thieves and lowlifes. I knew they didn’t grow those melons and I asked about them. They told me a man in another town gave them a small patch.

A few days later I was over checking to see if the hay was ready to cut. Mr. W was there and asked for my help. He wanted to know if coyotes drag melons into the woods…

See, all his melons were missing. I told him what I suspected happened to his melons! Those two brothers and their daddy are scum. They have been thieves, liars and cheats their whole lives…

Mr. W is a very kind and generous man, if they had asked he would have given them the melons… but thieves do what thieves do!

@Bacpacker electric fence is the only thing that will keep them out of melon patch. mount it about 6 inches high, hidden among the leaves...

 

[Rich1028]

Here is ours from today

 

[Meerkat]

Thanks Meer. Seems like I'm wasting my time sometimes. But what turns out makes it worth it. I just get greedy sometimes and want everything to come in. Doubt we'd have time to put it all up if it did.

BacP it has to be hard to work a job and do as well as you do.:green man:

 

[Meerkat]

Here is ours from today

Rich those tomatoes and peppers look good. We lost most of our squash too.

 

[Support Gunner]

Last watermelon from the garden this year, going to cut it later tonight. Hope it's a good one.

This was a bad year for melons and loupes...

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I have 8 growing and about to pick one of them.

 

[Support Gunner]

Any body have any good Salsa recipes?

I am swimming in tomatoes and jalapenos.

 

[backlash]

I have the same problem. More tomatoes than we could possible ever use.
My salsa came out thin but it taste good. I should have cooked it down more and I should have added some tomatoes after it cooked so it would have been chunky.
Next time I will.
I bought 2 packages of Mrs. Wages salsa mix, 1 mild and 1 spicy and combined them into 1 batch. It's too spicy for my wife but I like it.
We added onions and green peppers to the mix.
I need a good hot shot salsa recipe.

 

[Patchouli]

Here on the forum, @Support Gunner all I found for salsa recipe was on page 3 of the recipes section, started by @Peanut ...
My NH made a really good salsa last fall. I dont know where he got the recipe but it had tomatillas in it. I'll have to see if I can find it.

 

[snappy1]

Still cutting okra and picking figs. Otherwise, all done. I dug up sweet potatoes about 3 weeks ago. The okra is so tall I need to bring a ladder to cut it. Step stool isn't tall enough.

 

[Patchouli]

I didn't find my NH's recipe yet, but I did find this on a thread by Captain Belly:
https://www.homesteadingforum.org/threads/chile-de-arbol-salsa.1237/
This is a pretty old video, but it shows how to make my favorite salsa. I found that most Mexican restaurants will have a version of this that is not on the menu. However, this salsa is starting to become more common. I put this on EVERYTHING. My friends can't get enough of it. The base is Tomatillos. I have had to triple my crop due to the requests for this.

 

[Meerkat]

We decided to plant garden ,it is a little late but not too late,I hope.
Past 2 weeks been getting beds ready for collards, turnips ,cabbage ,carrots ,etc.

Next will be to cover G-House and start seeds in there.

 

[Terri9630]

I tossed a few sprouting potatoes in a cold frame. I don't know if they will do much this late at this elevation but it was that or the trash.