What did you do in the garden today?

[Meller]

Harvested Corn Yesterday. Probably 50 ears, still have at least that many ripening.

 

[Bleenie]

Meller, is that a Food Saver packaging system you use? does it keep the veggies good for a long time in the freezer?

 

[MumsyII]

My beans are coming on. I put up food by canning, freezing, and dehydration. Just enough for my husband and I for one serving each. I don't like to waste food that took so long to grow, nuture, harvest and put up. Every bite must count. This is how I did a bowl of heirloom Gold of Bacau snap beans today In three easy steps.

Step 1. Put beans in rolling boiling water to blanch them to stop enzeme growth. ( they taste better and freeze longer) Beans take three minutes in the boiling water. I stir.


Dip the beans out and immediately plunge into ice water. I keep the bowl next to the stove.



Step 2.


Chill until there is no warmth at all in the bean and they are cold to the touch. Drain and pack.

Step 3. Pack your desired meals worth. Try to get as much air out as possible. Lable and put into coldest part of the freezer.

Rather than spend all day in the hottest part of summer doing non stop one vegetable, I do a few a day.

Last week I froze Cauliflower and Broccoli. This week, I've froze peas, beans, Green Patio peppers.


Using the Food Saver vacummn sealer, these vegetables will taste as fresh in a year as they do today.

 

[Peaches Lee]

WOW! The corn and beans are amazing Meller and MumsyII!

I picked some peas, harvested a Lungo Bianco zucchini and told my chickens they were bad for eating the green tomatoes LOL!

 

[HenFriend]

Rain at last! Heavy downpours and thunder this morning after month long heatwave. Picked first tomatoes this week and more broccoli and fava beans. If rain stops I will check garlic, must be nearly ready to lift, also need to check runner beans. Flowers on cucumbers but zucchini not so good this year. First of my chillis Gusto Purple looking good, jalapenos and ones from mixed packet starting to form buds.

 

[LoveChickens123]

I let my chickens out in the garden

 

[MEMama3]

Fellow gardeners - I use sand in my coop and run. I have a whole bucket of sifted chicken poo. I wanted to use it in the perennial beds. Is it safe to put "hot" manure in the beds in the late fall when everything is dormant?

 

[Angelicisi]

I do. Only in my flower beds and empty til spring veggie gardens. I mix it with broken oak tree and magnolia leaves then spread it right over and water in.

(that's what I have an over abundance of)

Fellow gardeners - I use sand in my coop and run. I have a whole bucket of sifted chicken poo. I wanted to use it in the perennial beds. Is it safe to put "hot" manure in the beds in the late fall when everything is dormant?

 

[Linnren]

Seems like all you guys must be further south than us! We have had some delectable salads with fresh garden greens, radishes, green onions and nasturium leaves or petals, but our cucumbers and tomatoes are only beginning to flower! Have a good day folks!

 

[Linnren]

Seems like all you guys must be further south than us! We have had some delectable salads with fresh garden greens, radishes, green onions and nasturium leaves or petals, but our cucumbers and tomatoes are only beginning to flower! Have a good day folks!

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