#1 Cucumbers (lots!)
#2 Blooming (Cardinal Climbing Vine Flowers)
Posted on 06/26/2021 6:58:40 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Jalapeños were picked for cleaning and stuffing with cream cheese mix this morning from our garden.
Local Mennonites at the Farmers Market had none.
They usually have em by the bucketload...
I have one of that size and a smaller one for my herbs! Mine are a clay orange red color. I found them at Meijer a few weeks ago, and thought they might help my planting situation here. Even though we have almost 2 acres of land, it is heavily wooded for most of that. I have a tiny sliver of a full sun exposure, so it makes planting a large garden impossible if one wants to have any lawn at all. We consider ourselves to be semi-rural.
Its almost July, my grass should be dormant, but we had 3 1/2” last night. brought in Garlic several days ago and and multiplier onions before the rains came along with a double arm full of Catmint. Drying on the back porch now.
Mostly good for the garden and my water bill. Scary growth on the cucumbers; Need to fertilize the tomatoes with some more Calcium Nitrate to prevent blossom end rot. Have been pulling up 2ft tall bolting lettuce to recycle in the composte heap.
Hope not, but expect the breba figs to start splitting soon.
#1 Cucumbers (lots!)
#2 Blooming (Cardinal Climbing Vine Flowers)
We’re on acreage, as well, and used them last year.
LOVED the convenience of location choice, watering system, etc.
When we travelled, the person watching our place could easily water for us.
We had AMAZING cherry tomatoes - enough to feed the masses :-)
Only thing different we’d do, next time, is to only put 2 - 4 plants, per container. We had 5 - 6....way too many. They all produced, though!
After harvesting, they clean up easily, too. The weed cover/fabric has to be replaced....it’s a one season use item :)
When do you plant your Garlic?
Attended that Cherry Festival a few times through the years. My Mom LOVES Door County and we did the ‘Tourist Thang’ there a number of summers while I was growing up.
She loves nothing better than an authentic Fish Boil! ;)
https://doorcountyfishboil.com/
Looks like it’s Zone 3-7. It might need more of a dormant period than your Zone 8 can give it?
https://www.thespruce.com/japanese-lilac-tree-care-and-growing-guide-4589076
Hey Eric; Jalapenos already? Good job!
We had about a 5 days of really cold weather at the beginning of May that set everything back. I did protect them but the peppers have just begun to flower. The tomatoes on the other hand have a good amount of large fruit set. Okra is about 12” tall.
A few Carrots and onions and it sounds like you have what you need to make escabeche!
https://www.thenourishinggourmet.com/lacto-fermented-escabeche/
Tubender; IIRC I try to get it in sometime in or early November. I want it to grow a bit but I also want it to go dormant and stay there all winter.
Picture from last week! Whenever you plant your potatoes they are are doing great!
My Grandmother went a few times when she was young.
When I was young her son, my Father would take us to Sister Bay. No running water in the resort rooms. Pitcher with water and a bowl and a mirror! Old time, not like that now I am sure. Served pancakes and stewed prunes for breakfast in the lodge “mess”. Never did hit fish boil though.
Honeymooned in Door County. Caught the Cherry blossoms and the fogs along with 5 days of Winnebago flies! (Crunch crunch!)
I miss that place some days, but only because it was so familiar and established, having lived there for 20+ years. Miss my 40' asparagus patch the most, LOL! Beau built all of the raised beds for me when we was Courtin'. He knew the way to my heart, for sure! The 'kids' that bought my little farm are doing an awesome job keeping it up and improving it, so she fell into the right hands when I sold her.
Greetings from west Michigan where we have had about 3” of rain in 2 days and it is still coming down like crazy, guessing 4” by the time this storm passes through. Fortunately our house and garden are on a high hill, flooding never an issue, although our creek at the bottom of the hill most likely is a river by now. If it stops raining today I may take the atv down tomorrow to check it out. Garden is doing great, lots os small green tomatoes broccoli doing well, no heads yet, some lettuce ready to pick and I would love to have a salad this weekend but probably won’t be able to pick til tomorrow morning. I’ve been making rose water from a certain rose bush from our old house in Chicage. Dad swiped it from their old rental shack (yes shack) when they bought that house. It’s a damask rose called Amelia and he cut off a chunk (the root ball was like a block of wood) in the late 80’s. They bought that house in 1946 so the bush is at least that old. The damask rose was heavily used for it’s strong perfume. Registered in the 1800’s. Truly the most wonderful smelling rose ever.
Very pretty picture!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmKQeF775Kw&t=15s
and scrounged for small glass bottles with goof fitting tight lids. I use a half pint canning jar then strain it into something smaller. This bottle is a weird one, found it at the thrift store for a quarter and can't find a single similar image on the internet.
I LOVED Crouching Tiger! Haven’t seen that Bamboo Forest scene in years. Thanks for posting the link.
Thanks for the Rose Water link. I’ve always wanted to try that. I’ve added ‘Blanc Double D’Colbert and ‘Cuthbert Grant’ roses grown for fragrance and rose hips for jelly when they’re more mature; they’ve only been in a year. I need to add ‘Hansa’ as well. :)
We took a trip to Florida one winter and Sis and I were OBSESSED with the Orange Blossom perfume you could buy down there. Of course, it was just a cheap ‘tourist thing’ probably made in 55-gallon barrels, but we loved it!
Drove Dad crazy with us ‘stinking up the car’ with the stuff, LOL!
Like I said I’ve had that rose bush here since the 80’s and it never has had more than 4 or 5 flowers. Not sure why, planted well in a good spot, got bloom booster fertilizer and sprayed for black spot which it sometimes got. It also had a big at sucker every couple of years, this year I have cut 3 so far. This year I gave it a good dose of Chicken Soup for the Soil like the rest of the flowers and veggies. Clemantis are way fuller than normal and this rose bush - 25 flowers and counting. Dad’s other half in Chicago was always loaded. So since I have so many I really wanted to preserve the smell for those cold winter times. I will probably try the oil too as I only use extra light olive oil.
Greetings from southern New Hampshire, where I am about to complete filling raised bed number 5! This will be the last “new” raised bed until next month, when we harvest our garlic and I can combine the two smaller beds and expand the formerly larger bed to make two 12’ by 4’ beds.
After the harvest, I will be doing the same to the pair of beds on the opposite side of the pergola. Then, there will be the last original bed on the west side of the pergola which I will convert to a 10’ by 4’ bed.
Our village transfer station is short-staffed, so I can only get trailer loads of compost on Saturdays. Today’s is my fourth load of the spring.
Household Six is busily transplanting her seedlings. We are working together on the drip irrigation. Our new controller is working great, and having the ability to program and monitor it from our iPhones and iPads is a real bonus. Plus, it tracks local weather to modify the irrigation as needed.
Well, I bet get on my John Deere and move some compost! H-6 says we almost have lettuce ready to harvest. I noticed a few blossoms on one of the tomatos.
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