What did you do in the garden today?

[WthrLady]

They were GOOD.
All 4 kids liked them.... that's almost unheard of in my house!

Oh I'm so glad. We love them too. The grape nuts ones are my favorite.

 

[BlueShadow]

Oh I'm so glad. We love them too. The grape nuts ones are my favorite.

I don't have a dehydrator, but my FIL does and he would let me borrow it. I should get some recipes from you. He only uses it for dried apples and fruit leather.

 

[WthrLady]

I don't have a dehydrator, but my FIL does and he would let me borrow it. I should get some recipes from you. He only uses it for dried apples and fruit leather.

This is a freeze dryer.

 

[chickengr]

Pick them at a size you like to eat and the plant will make more. If they get overly ripe they are not as tasty and the seeds will be larger.

If the plants start making lots of seed they generally stop flowering as much and sometimes die. If you keep picking they keep flowering to make fruit. Then you have lots of eggplant.

eggplants are perennial here. in case of heavy snow they do need some protection.

 

[Supercow]

What did we do in the garden today? Well it's an orchard, but... we picked ripe sweet cherries and even mulberries. WHAT. That's about a month early.

It's a really unusual year. Had +30 C (85 F) in mid-April (probably earliest ever) followed by frost. Frost events are normal for that time but +30 C is not. Nevertheless most of fruit that had already been set seems to have survived.

Ripe fruit is welcome but at this pace we'll use up the entire year by September.

 

[chickengr]

I have heard of people breading and frying squash blossoms

 

[chickengr]

Waaaait.... I thought you were immune to getting goats?

till the first serious opportunity, lol.

 

[chicken opey]

eggplants are perennial here. in case of heavy snow they do need some protection.

Really? Something really loves the leaves and I have to keep Neem oil on them. I kept a pepper plant alive for almost 2 years.
I would love eggplant year round
(I’m in 8a/b)

 

[chickengr]

Really? Something really loves the leaves and I have to keep Neem oil on them. I kept a pepper plant alive for almost 2 years.
I would love eggplant year round
(I’m in 8a/b)

they don't fruit in winter. I had tomatoes for 2 years and peppers for 3. they don't have many fruits if kept so long, so not really worth it. also tomatoes don't taste good in cool weather.

 

[fuzzi]

Baby girl (7 weeks) next to her mom. She already weighs just over 14 lbs!! (Birth weight was 1lb, 11ounces).
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I.DO.NOT.NEED.A.GOAT...