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So this year's peppers was pretty skimpy to date so I had about 7 pounds of tomatoes left over but got 14 pints of salsa and got to use my new pressure canner
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Do I see a scallop [patty] squash in the bowl at the top right of the photo? I really wish we could grow squash here, because I LOVE patty squash sliced thin, crumbed, and fried crisp like potato chips. Grew up on the stuff. About the only thing in the gourd family that will grow here is cucumbers. Everything else we've tried gets bloom end rot within days after the blooms fall off. The soil here SUX despite my best efforts to improve it. I've put a LOT of lime on it, and it still shows up with a very low pH which is apparently one of the contributors to bloom end rot. It ain't bugs. I've verified that. The flowers bloom, make a tiny fruit, when then just turns black and falls off an otherwise very healthy looking plant. Probably because this place used to be a garbage dump for the city pre 1975, before the county landfill was built, and someone's brother-in-law got permits to build on top of it after the state stepped in to make the counties responsible for rubbish disposal. My yard is like a box of chocolates. Ya never know what ya gonna get when you start digging. One thing is a certainty, though, there will be a plethora of broken glass/pottery.
 
Do I see a scallop [patty] squash in the bowl at the top right of the photo? I really wish we could grow squash here, because I LOVE patty squash sliced thin, crumbed, and fried crisp like potato chips. Grew up on the stuff. About the only thing in the gourd family that will grow here is cucumbers. Everything else we've tried gets bloom end rot within days after the blooms fall off. The soil here SUX despite my best efforts to improve it. I've put a LOT of lime on it, and it still shows up with a very low pH which is apparently one of the contributors to bloom end rot. It ain't bugs. I've verified that. The flowers bloom, make a tiny fruit, when then just turns black and falls off an otherwise very healthy looking plant. Probably because this place used to be a garbage dump for the city pre 1975, before the county landfill was built, and someone's brother-in-law got permits to build on top of it after the state stepped in to make the counties responsible for rubbish disposal. My yard is like a box of chocolates. Ya never know what ya gonna get when you start digging. One thing is a certainty, though, there will be a plethora of broken glass/pottery.
Might need to make some raised beds and make your own soil.

Bit of work but worth it I got two sit 1 meter high no bending down to garden at waist height.
 
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Guess I need to get pickin!
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Your photo showing the kind of support you need for the tomatoes you might expect is a good lesson for me today. Our apparently top heavy San Marzano vine twisted its 3-prong cage and took it all to the ground, hopefully without any damage (rookie mistake). The plant and its cage have been brought back to upright and supported with guy wires, but it’s still twisted. Many pounds of ripe fruit were harvested today, and we have immediate uses for some of it, while thinking of canning some, too.
 
Your photo showing the kind of support you need for the tomatoes you might expect is a good lesson for me today. Our apparently top heavy San Marzano vine twisted its 3-prong cage and took it all to the ground, hopefully without any damage (rookie mistake). The plant and its cage have been brought back to upright and supported with guy wires, but it’s still twisted. Many pounds of ripe fruit were harvested today, and we have immediate uses for some of it, while thinking of canning some, too.
I made those cages out of a heavy old fencing roll about 10 years ago.
They have served me well.
The best use is to put them next to the perimeter fence and then just tie them to that, the 2 above we're free standing and if you look closely you'll see stakes and even a piece of rebar driven in to hold them up!
This will be the last harvest for the tomatoes as leaf wilt decimated the foliage on them .
 
I made those cages out of a heavy old fencing roll about 10 years ago.
They have served me well.
The best use is to put them next to the perimeter fence and then just tie them to that, the 2 above we're free standing and if you look closely you'll see stakes and even a piece of rebar driven in to hold them up!
This will be the last harvest for the tomatoes as leaf wilt decimated the foliage on them .

I also use stakes and rebar to hold the three prong cages.
I only have two tomato plants. Growing in old tree stumps i dished out to make planters. (Tree guy wanted a fortune to grind the stumps).
I have been eating and giving tomatoes and not keeping up. Had to boil up and freeze up about a gallon and a half of juice the other day.
 
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Pot 1 for today just about finished.
Skins and seeds removed, now cook for 10 minutes, cool and off to the freezer.
Lectin free!
 
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Might need to make some raised beds and make your own soil.

Bit of work but worth it I got two sit 1 meter high no bending down to garden at waist height.
I've got three 2m and one 1m raised beds. The problem is that things in the gourd family all grow on very long vines that take a lot of room to grow. In 7 x 1 m, you'd get maybe 3-5 vines. Anything else would be choked out by them. We put them on a trellis to get the crop up off the ground thinking there were other issues at hand. Like I said, the plants are huge and healthy looking, but the veggies just won't develop. Some things just aren't meant to be.
 
I made those cages out of a heavy old fencing roll about 10 years ago.
They have served me well.

Same here for that heavy fencing. My current method is with a 4' wooden firring strip with a 2'x2' square of welded wire fencing on top of it...think square tennis racket. That way I can stake and tie the vines as they grow up the stake then spread out and fall down on the square. If you completely cage them with the typical American Wire Field Fence, turn it upside down so you can reach inside the cages through the larger squares for any fallen or low hanging fruit.
 
Busy little afternoon in the garden.
Dug up my ginger plants snapped off some of the shoots for later then composted and mulched them in
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Gunna slice this ginger up and dry it in my dehydrator for future use aka ginger biscuits and want to try dry ginger in a ginger beer...(workmate inspired) Shane.


Processed some Rosemary I had drying in my dehydrator
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That's a 40lt storage tub there yeah ALOT of Rosemary lol.

Mrs rekons I should make some pot purée :confused:err what is that oh good smelly stuff :) OK honey hmmm wonder if I could do a Rosemary saison :confused::D.


Oh on other news I froze my yeast older yeast captures in my Glycol Chamber they got a really gooooood cold crash :p.
 
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Homegrown peppers of the Holy Mole, Guajillio and Poblano varieties, with some homemade salsa and chips. The first 2 will be dried for future use, while Poblanos will be used fresh until the plant stops giving them. Our Summer squash keeps producing alongside some Winter squash (Honeynut). The imperfect apples coming from the 2 trees are sublime - just as long as you can handle organic fruit that has been infested by codling moth. I have become quite adept with cutting and peeling apples in hand. We still have plenty of apples in the trees, peppers and tomatoes on the vine, and salad greens and carrots in the beds. What a great time we have had in our first year of growing some of our own food. Now on to preservation of current harvest, planning and prepping for next year’s crops.
 
There she be
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Wowie that stuff is potent!

I licked some dust off my finger instant ginger bite!

Wow now how to work out measurement for brewing probably tomorrow I'll make some ginger beer outta this and that Amber candy syrup I made today.

I'll keep ya posted;)
 
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We just planted for winter greens (second growing season). A few radishes peeking out, and some red cabbage. Turnips are still a no-show. Having a tough time keeping English peas happy with the dry weather and freaky heat. Put them on a trellis close to the house, and the bricks seem to be cooking the plants before they get big enough to climb. Lower sun angle this time of year, so more direct sun on the bricks makes them hotter, and less friendly to the garden with dry conditions. Having to water nearly every night. The Vegepods (raised beds) are a little kinder to new plants. They stay wet for a long time. Got a few spinach plants peeking out in one of those, and still waiting patiently for the spring onions to show up. Cut back the strawberry plants which were trying to take over the county. Few other odds and ends seeded and waiting for them to sprout.
 

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