What did you do in the garden today?

[Acre4Me]

the beetles here are out of control.

I really have come to hate these things. I'm buying Neem Oil next year, and will likely spray Sevin on occasion (in the evening - no bees and it can dry before anything beneficial is out) if it needs it. I will also look for the eggs - they squish really easy. The only good thing, is that they squish really easy in the egg through first 2 or 3 development stages, but have to spend the time looking for them, but they congregate in the first 2 phases on the back of leaves, so once found they can be squished en masse. I like my butternut squash and my summer squash, so I'll battle it out as best as I can.

105 at the moment and no wind

 

[pennyJo1960]

Have shredder for KA and food sealer love both

 

[WthrLady]

Have shredder for KA and food sealer love both

The puree attachment ROCKS for tomatoes.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I also have the meat grinder have exra tri tip splitting them I will make burder out of it .. thinking of griding my ham extra that way Ham burgers

 

[WthrLady]

The puree fits on the meat grinder. I agree...... I love grinding my own meats.

 

[NewBoots]

Hope to get around to another blog entry today.

Just got done reading the most recent updates myself.

OOOOO what'd ya get?

The vac sealer is a Geryon, not too expensive and pretty uncomplicated functionality. The grinder/strainer is:

• KitchenAid FVSFGA Fruit & Vegetable Strainer Set with Food Grinder Attachment

So I hope it does the job. Is this what you mean by a puree attachment?

 

[WthrLady]

Thanks for visiting the blog.

Re; the mill
It is now sold as a full set. You did fine.
When it first came out you had to already OWN the meat grinder and the puree mill was in addition to that.

YOU WILL LOVE IT. BUT...
The picture is deceptive. The catch bowl is half on and half off the place the bowl base on the machine, depending on your model. SO you MAY have to roll up a dishtowel to make up the gap. To be honest. I don't use my 6 qt bowl to catch the puree, I put my cooking pot there and stop squishing tomatoes when it is full. ALSO, the poop chute at the end tends to curl the unwanted bits backwards, towards the good stuff, as it extrudes, like a play-doh machine. My son designed and printed me a 3 inch extension for the extrusion end, which I LOVE.

So I simply tip a flexible cutting board between the two to keep the seeds, core, and skins from pooping out and falling into your clean puree.

If you can cram it in the top, it will extrude the juice and meat puree, and poop out the bits of core, seeds, and skin. YOU WILL LOVE IT and the chickens LOVE the goop bucket.

 

[karenerwin]

Today’s garden harvest.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good job Karen look great .. How is you Mom Please @karenerwin

 

[Compost King]

Finally picked the Thai Peppers. 2 Thai peppers went into a stir fry I made, I loved the heat level (similar to Cayenne Peppers) but they have a very bitter flavor behind that heat and I started picking around the hot peppers in the stir fry. With most hot peppers I tend to eat the hot peppers first and wash it down with Bok Choy or Onion or what ever else I have in the stir fry.

I pulled up some cantaloupe vines, going to prep that bed for an Oct/Nov planting of Garlic. I might grow onions over the winter too but I have a lot of studying and research on that before I get to doing that.

Planted some Green onion bottoms, Bok Choy Bottoms and a Pine Apple Top... The Pine Apple Top will be going the green house if it roots.

Sprayed BT on all plants that have issues with Caterpillars, they are really bad this year. a Horn worm took out 3 pepper plants and I was furious this morning when I found out how many they got and how fast they took out a plant.