Posted on 08/12/2011 5:28:22 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. There is not much garden news to report from East Central Mississippi this morning. I am just trying to keep everything watered and alive and picking a couple of peppers and a zucchini every once in awhile.
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I hope all your gardens are flourishing.
I have had eggplants with 5 or more on the plant at the same time with differing stages of development. I have never heard of a determinate variety.
Update From South FL
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Getting ready for our Sept 15th planting date for South Florida.
Weather is HOT, It’s FL and it’s Aug... It’s also the normal rainy season so it rains almost everyday. Welcome to FL!
Looks great!
Electric fence. The fence does not kill them but shocks them away. They are the most destructive little beasts when it comes to sweet corn. Two years ago they destroyed 2/3rds of my corn. There was mass destruction up and down every row as they were not consuming the corn. Your pumpkins look awesome. I have cantaloupe, 'moon&stars' watermelons, cucumbers, and the dying remains of zucchinis the squash bugs have destroyed. Squash bugs remind me of the destructive nature of raccoons.
I feel so sorry for you, having to eat fresh salmon instead of vegetables.
Send me some sockeye and silvers, and I’ll send you a bunch of tomatoes, peppers, corn, onions, cucumbers, melons.
I use my beets fresh, and prepare them as “Harvard beets”. They taste like pickled beets. I usually use about a dozen medium-large beets, roast them, slice them and make “Harvard beets” with them. They will keep quite a long time in the refrigerator.
Supposedly you can store fresh beets for quite a while before cooking them. I tried it once, but unfortunately they froze and were spoiled in my garage, so now I try to keep up and use them near the time I harvest them.
That looks great! What kind of materials are you using for the frame?
Anyone out there using pelleted carrot seed?
“I don’t understand why you would want to pickle beets, unless you had enough to warrant canning them.”
I am a junior “prepper”, and so I wanted to learn about gardening (heirloom varieties), and canning the things we grow.
The plan I had was to expand my canning experience. I like harvard beets, and “pickled beets” are actually what you use to make harvard beets - just thicken the liquid with corn starch.
Since beets are very nutritious, more so than many more popular vegetables, and very easy to grow, they are a good “prepper” choice for me. It just so happened that the rabbits got most of my beets, so I didn’t have enough to do what I had hoped. Being stubborn, I did go ahead and can what was ready because I am determined to actually put up more than pickles and jelly this year. :)
Your pics are great, thanks for sharing...
Your pics are great, thanks for sharing...
I have the same problem with carrots. Last year I had some small success by planting them in the fall, covering them for the winter, then uncovered in the spring, and had carrots to eat at the end of March.
This year I am going to plant some in a big pot in the fall, and bring it inside for the winter. I will also grow tomatoes, peppers, and spinach indoors this year. I love fresh salads from my own garden.
Next year, I am going to plant beets to make pickled beets, and also try to make some beet sugar. At least that is what I am thinking about now.
It’s the standard 1-3/8 chain link fencing toprail from Lowe’s. The tubing bender was purchased through Johnnyseeds. With that little gadget, they are real easy to bend.
Which tube bender did you get? There are several sizes.
Another question, how high is the center line of the hoops in your pictures?
At the local Garlic festival today.
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