Posted on 07/09/2022 4:54:22 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
“It just seems wrong to buy zucchini in the store during summer.”
I’m that way about buying tomatoes in the winter months up here! I usually give, ‘Last Call For BLTs’ in October and tell everyone that there will be NO fresh tomatoes until next August. I refuse to pay good money for seasonal produce I can grow myself.
My friend Chip (Wisconsin Boy) calls me every February to tell me he’s eating fresh tomatoes from his Arizona Garden. ;)
Tomatoes aren’t doing real well at the moment either. We get enough frost here to kill them in the winter, but I’m hoping they’ll recover in the fall. One year those green worms ate the tomato vines back to bare stems, but the plants came back enough to bear again before winter.
For originally being a TROPICAL PLANT, tomatoes can be pretty wimpy, LOL!
Back to mowing! I'm about half done. Slow and careful going in the back where we took out those trees - three really BIG holes that need filling in!
Good little article on BER, https://extension.usu.edu/pests/ipm/notes_ag/veg-blossom-end-rot
Thanks for this link. I love zucchini and it would be good if I made noodles from them more often.
Thank you !
Love it! Spent a good chunk of my day today being a REBEL! :)
I’ll post plenty more recipes this week! Stay tuned!
I’m going to make the Garlic & Parmesan Sauteed Zucchini for supper tonight, as I have everything on hand and harvested two nice zukes, today!
‘Tis the Season, for sure! :)
Did a few small batches last year and they were nice during the winter.
You do need to slice them as wide noodles rather then using the spiralizer. Dried spiralize noodles tended to crumble. So you have dust rather then noodles.
Going to try it with eggplant as well.
We shall see what happens.
A few weeks back, I told you about those Proven Winners hanging baskets I got for $10. Those were $40 baskets! They are looking lovely, but need another deadheading soon, just because I'm fussy about hanging baskets looking as good as they can.
Anyhow, I was at my Walmart Garden Center earlier this week, and they had 9-packs of 4" Chrysanthemum for $10.97. That's $1.22 each! I bought the rusty orange, but they also had white - I'll probably go back. So, I potted them up individually into (recycled) 8" pots now to grow on for late Summer/Fall decor. Spring and Fall are my favorite seasons. Summer is nothing but WORK around here!
So, I'll have NINE Mums to tuck in here and there (and to share) where other potted things are failing and it will be Mum-O-Ramma at my house this fall. NINE Mums for about $11.00! Try buying ONE Mum for that price when they're in season later this year! SCORE! I saw a similar pack at Lowe's too, so look for bargains on those smaller Mums when you see them!
My pleasure. Sure looks delicious. We LIVE for, ‘BLT Season’ around here! :)
Adventures in growing six types of tomatoes.
I neglected to label all the seeds as I sowed and with the two slicers, it’s easy to tell because one’s a potato leafed variety, Brandywine. For the four cherry types, I’m starting to figure them out. Had one marked in the garden as Rosella which are global shaped purplish kind of like mini Cherokee purple.
Nope. One tomato started ripening, yellow and they’re oblong shaped. I have two types of yellow but one is yellow pear tomatoes which of course take the shape of a pear so those are easy to ID. These other yellow ones are Barry’s Crazy Cherry. I just counted about 30 maters on on cluster, hence the name Crazy.
Still got Chadwick and Rosella which are both globe shaped but Rosella are 1/2 inch around and Chadwick are 1 inch when ripe so I can sort of tell already.
Something strange.
My slicers were the biggest seedlings, especially the Tappy’s Heritage. All the cherries except for Rosella(I think), are towering over the slicers now and those were tiny seedlings. Tappy’s were a foot tall when planted and the cherries were 3-6 inches. All were planted at the same time.
Slicers are about 4 1/2 foot tall. Both yellow cherries and Chadwick(I think) are 6 foot tall. Others that I think are Rosella are almost 4 foot.
I’ve been shoving those 1/2 inch diameter by 4 foot long fiberglass fence posts in the ground around them to hold them up so far but I can tell I’m going to have to do the tall posts on each end with wire stretched across the top and twine dropping down to suspend the tall ones and do the lean and lower technique because if I can keep them alive for another 2-3 months, they’re going to be 10 foot easily. I planted them too close together to do anything else.
Now that I’m close to eating tomatoes and can pretty much tell what’s what, I’m re-reading the reviews for them. Going to try and get my autist son to try some but I have my doubts. There’s going to be way too many for me to eat or for both of us really. I’ll be giving a lot away. Already gave some plants to one neighbor but I don’t know how well they bounced back from his turkey munching on them when they were still little plants.
Pepper plants just haven’t been growing much but I’m pretty sure it’s the acidic soil here which I’ve never done anything about. They did perk up after I mixed wood ashes with water and watered them with it a couple of weeks ago. One shisito is about a foot tall and has some tiny peppers that just appeared. Gonna have to break down and get a soil test and some lime I guess if I ever want to grow certain things.
100F high today; back to 96.
The garden was very happy that I was able to thoroughly irritate it: the system works...except I need to get a new nozzle for one of the hoses.
Next step is to plant stakes, and string twine for the pole beans
CHOOSE A SIDE AND CLICK ON IT!
We use those as stuffers.
Slice in half length wise, and scoop out the seeds, then stuff with a par-cooked meatloaf or sausage loaf. Add either catsup or marinara over it, and bake. When nearly done, it gets topped with cheese of choice.
Slice crosswise to serve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQQ7D2p4wbA
Thanks, Pete!
Septic company dug test holes with the backhoe yesterday.
Going to need an aerobic septic system.....hit solid rock 2 feet down where the tank was going to be.
Dug a few test holes further down the land near where my garden is going to be....2.5 feet down hit solid rock. Extremly dry red dirt above it.
The further we got from the tank the less caliche we had which is what I thought from. The little bit of probing I did.
I think trenching 1 foot of soil on either side of the raised bed, onto the raised bed area to make the raised bed 4 feet deep will be enough to start with.
I have a metric ton of dead of dead oak branches which I will be chipping up for mulch and of course creating compost.
I am hoping to have solid soil in 5 years and about 2000 Sqft of raised beds and of course potted veggies too.
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