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Post by LoveSalads on Jul 26, 2024 11:38:37 GMT -5
One of the multitude of reasons I like outdoor gardening also is size. You can't beat presentation from an indoor grow but a monster veggie or fruit is awesome too.  20240725_145207 Cherokee Purple  20240724_145539 C.P. Just shy of a pound. Not a pretty Tom but will be very tasty hopefully. More sweet peppers and Toms
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Post by scarfguy on Jul 26, 2024 13:47:07 GMT -5
When you cut it open, be sure to post a picture of the giant tomato worm that crawled inside! 
(sorry, I don't share your love of outdoor gardening)
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Post by Shawn on Jul 27, 2024 11:08:53 GMT -5
What lovely veggies!
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Post by lynnee on Jul 28, 2024 17:44:11 GMT -5
Some day I'd like to grow some of those truly giant tomatoes that Rare Seeds (or maybe Burpee?) advertises. You need two hands to hold them. Of course you can't easily grow them indoors, as you point out, LoveSalads. That's a beautiful big tomato from your outdoor garden!  |
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Post by LoveSalads on Jul 30, 2024 16:13:24 GMT -5
Some gopher decided to dig in the potato patch so I decided to pick a few potato's that were disturbed and a few extra's just because.  20240730_165512 potato  20240730_165857 Yep that is a big boy Saving the big one for another day but the others going to boil mash and eat.
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Post by scarfguy on Jul 30, 2024 19:40:58 GMT -5
Nice lookin' taters! I love a good baked potato (butter, sour cream, chives, bacon bits).
Some day I'll figure out how to grow one in an AG. 
That's another advantage of outdoor gardens. You can grow a whole bunch of stuff you just can't grow in an AG.
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Post by LoveSalads on Aug 5, 2024 16:34:43 GMT -5
Cucumber harvest. I was going to pick a few off the trellis stepped on 1 picked 19 right there. Today a friend I used to work with came over and went through the patch looking for smaller cucumbers for bread n butter pickles. She left with a basket full I am guessing 30 or so. They came in a huge wave this time. Most of the larger ones I picked yesterday went to the road for peeps driving, walking or, carting by.  20240804_104638 |
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Post by LoveSalads on Aug 13, 2024 10:17:26 GMT -5
2.5 rows of potatoes. 2 or 3 more rows to go tomorrow and tater picking is done. The sweet corn is next. We blanch it, batch it, bag it, freeze it then, vacuum seal it. This way it will last years in the freezer and be as good as the day you picked it. We just found a surprise bag from 2021 and it was delicious. Will take pictures of the process and post a few pics if anyone is interested.  20240813_104918 Taters |
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Post by lynnee on Aug 13, 2024 22:38:57 GMT -5
My Mom used to blanch and freeze sweet corn, LoveSalads! You're right--it's delicious when you bring it out and finish cooking it. I think she cooked it in boiling water. Is this how you do it? |
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Post by LoveSalads on Aug 14, 2024 6:16:03 GMT -5
My Mom used to blanch and freeze sweet corn, LoveSalads ! You're right--it's delicious when you bring it out and finish cooking it. I think she cooked it in boiling water. Is this how you do it? 6 minute hard boil then. 6 minute ice bath stripped from the cob and, into a Vacuum seal bag. Freeze it over 3 or 4 hours then seal it. I usually do 4 ears at a time with a scoop of sugar. After 16 to 20 ears change the water and the ice bath water. The neighbor and I can knock out 8 rows of corn in about 6-8 hours start to finish with clean up. |
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Post by LoveSalads on Aug 19, 2024 16:05:26 GMT -5
The Corn process .  20240819_113005 6 minute hard boil  20240819_114036 6 minute ice bath  20240819_114525 stripped from the cob  20240819_115158 into a Vacuum seal bag , freeze it for some hours then seal it.
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And Walaaaaa you have corn you can store and eat for several years and, it's awesome many years later. Pretty much what I have spent the last day and a half doing. Not done yet but getting closer. And then the garden will only be 1/3 as big as the potatoes are all dug up also. Will be cruise control for the last few months up there. Finially .......................... |
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Post by Clovis Sangrail on Aug 19, 2024 18:13:34 GMT -5
I want some of that corn. I'll make street corn with it.
Which reminds me -- I've got to get some cilantro started.
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Post by LoveSalads on Aug 22, 2024 13:54:36 GMT -5
The pepper party. Lots of peppers to consume and give away. The colors are great and each plant has many on them. I took a picture of a few.  20240821_171629 lunch box sweet peppers  20240821_171622 Ajvarski Sweet Pepper Waiting for more Bell peppers to turn red or some other tasty color. Watching the Pepperoncini Pepper grow to check the taste, at least I think that's what grew there.
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Post by scarfguy on Aug 22, 2024 13:57:47 GMT -5
Let me know if you like that AJVARSKI. So far in my farming adventures, it's my favorite pepper.
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Post by LoveSalads on Aug 22, 2024 14:08:03 GMT -5
Let me know if you like that AJVARSKI. So far in my farming adventures, it's my favorite pepper. Yes I like the flavor of the Ajvarski better that the lunch box sweet pepper and those are pretty good. The Jimmy Nardello sweet peppers are not bad either but I think they will be better to add flavor to a dish as mine were alittle chewy. |
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Post by scarfguy on Aug 22, 2024 14:50:48 GMT -5
Let me know if you like that AJVARSKI. So far in my farming adventures, it's my favorite pepper. Yes I like the flavor of the Ajvarski better that the lunch box sweet pepper and those are pretty good. The Jimmy Nardello sweet peppers are not bad either but I think they will be better to add flavor to a dish as mine were alittle chewy.
Jummy Nardello didn't seem to have much meat. The Ajvarski have pretty thick walls.
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Post by swimmom500 on Aug 23, 2024 8:39:22 GMT -5
Let me know how your Greek Pepperoncini turn out. My plants didn’t do much. I think I had 2 peppers total from 2 plants!
Also I was disappointed by my lunchbox peppers. Mine were only an inch long and had tons of seeds. Yours look much longer.
On a positive note I had tons of Habaneros! Getting ready to plant that again and see if I can get another crop before our first frost in December.
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Post by LoveSalads on Aug 29, 2024 17:36:28 GMT -5
The Pepperoncini grew up into small Bell peppers swimmom500 . I guess I had a seed switch as none of my Bells germinated this year. I had to buy 4 Bell pepper plants. All 9 of my Bell peppers failed to germinate. I have lots of seeds to toss out this winter. Last year my lunchbox peppers were the same as yours very small mostly seeds. This year they did great. I have picked ,eaten and, given away many. Large size just like you buy from the store even bigger. I am guessing the different spot in the garden was the reason i had a bumper crop this year. The right side of the garden gets the most hours of light and peppers love that. Last year they were in the middle section at the front which gets the least amount of light. Lesson learned for me. Next year I will have more variety of peppers than this year. Besides the Bells my jalapenos and, chili peppers didn't germinate. I will have to go through my seed boxes this winter and order newer stock. |
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Post by swimmom500 on Aug 30, 2024 4:47:47 GMT -5
I need to go through my seed packets too. I also had a banana pepper that produced poorly. What I got was great but usually 1 banana pepper overruns me with peppers. Not so this year. Recently planted again with seeds from a different company. Hopefully I will have better luck. I also had some petite mini belles from Park Seed which were tiny as well. I hate discarding seed packets as I tend to go through the catalogs and think “these sound great” and end up reordering something that I didn’t think was worth the space. If it’s not a basic pepper I usually just write on the packet what I didn’t like as I usually go through what I have before I order.
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Post by LoveSalads on Sept 6, 2024 13:34:20 GMT -5
The last plant to go in the outdoor garden. A fall crop of broccoli. It can handle a light frost and keep going. Hopefully I get broccoli till there is snow on the ground.  20240906_142412a Early next week it goes in the ground.
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