What did you do in the garden today?

[Sueby]

I think you are right, it must be sour cream and not miracle whip. But like I said, Dear Wife makes that cucumber salad. All I do is show my appreciation by eating it up. It is a good way to use up excess cucumbers. Hope you enjoy the salad if you make it.

I have the cukes draining as we speak!

Too hot for snacking. Great in egg salad. They need to get very peachy colored to be sweet.

You haven't met DH! He'll eat any pepper you give him, a habanero is nothing to him & I can't even touch it to my tongue. He's working on a bottle of Mad Dog 357 which is 1 million scoville. Good tip on the peachy color=sweet. I'm going to try & find these peppers for next season.

 

[vall]

a habanero is nothing to him

In that case I recommend manzano peppers. Thick walls like a bell but so, so hot.

 

[Sueby]

In that case I recommend manzano peppers. Thick walls like a bell but so, so hot.

I had to google it. They say fruity taste - I would probably beg to differ.

 

[Ascholten]

I have some Guamanian Boonie Peppers. They looked like Tobasco's if you eat the very tip, they are so sweet like bell peppers but GOD HELP YOU, when you go any further. The gates of hell open up, and you will be lamenting the 'Ring of Fire' the next day as you realize they burn Twice, twice as hard, twice as bad, and twice. Badly too.... twice.

Ill take this ice cream cone, go stand in the shower and whimper....

Aaron

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

I had to google it. They say fruity taste - I would probably beg to differ.

I would have to agree @Sueby. They’re just a bit hotter than a jalapeño. Perhaps equal to an Anaheim which to me is quite hot enough.

 

[Acre4Me]

We love garden predators of the insect type!

Found a few more parasitic wasps taking advantage of the huge tomato hornworms. These girls sure are prolific egg layers!

And a praying mantis! You Go Girl! Eat them all!

 

[Ascholten]

Personally when I find those kind of caterpillars on my stuff. Trying to pull them off, they go squish and you get some evil green goop on your fingers and everything else. I grab a chicken, pick them up and bring them to the bug in question. I point and the girls gobble them right up. Problem solved, nice and neat like, no uck or muck on your fingers either!

Aaron

 

[Sally PB]

I've been getting a pretty good batch of Japanese Beetles every day for my chickens. I come up to the run with the jar and say, "Bugs! Bugs!" and they race right to the door to meet me.

JBs seem to LOVE grapevines. That's where I get most of them, on the wild grapevines that grow just about everywhere. They like my asparagus, the comfrey, the sassafras tree leaves, and a few other things too.

They're mating on the grape leaves. I catch them and say, "Die, ya little *&$#ers!" But not if anyone is around to hear me.

 

[WthrLady]

I just purchased a second pressure canner so I can do two batches at a time if needed.
Amazon Prime. Delivery in LATE september! OH COME ON! and it doesn't tell you that until after you pay. Sneaky B@s1kds!

 

[Sueby]

The smoke from the wild fires out west is killing me today. Inhaler, sore throat, etc. Can't imagine being in the middle of it.