What did you do in the garden today?

[ChicksnMore]

I forgot to drill out a couple of the half wine barrels we bought and so had to drill them on the sides instead of the bottoms. One of them has a big, very happy san marzano tomato in it and is do really well. I'm going to do the same thing from now on, having a reservoir in the bottom is a great idea.

That all looks delicious! I'll have to try the spicy dilly beans myself.

If you throw some wood chunks in the bottom to just barely higher then the holes you get air flow and avoid root rot problems in the plants that don't like wet feet.
Though in a wine barrel that's really not a problem! Wonder if I can find some of those

 

[tripletfeb]

Picked a 5 gallon bucket of roma tomatoes the other day and the last of that bucket is being canned as stew tomatoes as I type this. Earlier this week I picked the same amount of carrots and canned them, until I ran out of pint jars. Then I froze the rest. My pantry has never been so full!

 

[Acre4Me]

Those oranges look and sound sooo good! Well, it all looks good...but those oranges!

Oh -absolutely! Never made them before, but there was some syrup left with some small orange bits, which I saved. After lunch, spouse and I put this on our dessert- he had honey vanilla yogurt and I had a little vanilla ice cream….and this orange syrup/bits on top of both was amazingly delicious!!! So, I’m pretty sure we will make them again!

 

[Acre4Me]

I forgot to drill out a couple of the half wine barrels we bought and so had to drill them on the sides instead of the bottoms. One of them has a big, very happy san marzano tomato in it and is do really well. I'm going to do the same thing from now on, having a reservoir in the bottom is a great idea.

That all looks delicious! I'll have to try the spicy dilly beans myself.

Recipe says wait a week or two before eating. We’ve made them last year and they are really good! This year I cut the beans into 1” pieces, instead of longer pieces.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Welp compost cantaloupe for the WIN!
Tasted much sweeter than the ones we intentionally grew from seed!!!
Got several more and they r huge! So looking forward to them fallin off the vine...
Not as many sunflowers as we planted seeds for...but atleast the chickens got shade from cantaloupe growing everywhere!

 

[Ascholten]

Oh yah! anytime you compost any kind of plantlike that, canteloupe, squash, they go crazy and get all the flavors too from variety of what's feeding tthem. Dump some of them seeds in there let them stew over winter, wait till you see whats waiting or you NEXT season ! I did that with sweet potato's. Have no idea how many I havea just a 'corner' of the yard is buried under them

Aaron

 

[NewBoots]

Are you one of the people that shred and freeze cucumbers ? Does the bitterness stay in them? Do you peel them first? What do you do with them later?

Not me, though now I'm curious about that too!

Picked a 5 gallon bucket of roma tomatoes the other day and the last of that bucket is being canned as stew tomatoes as I type this. Earlier this week I picked the same amount of carrots and canned them, until I ran out of pint jars. Then I froze the rest. My pantry has never been so full!

Great job! You know some of us post pics of our canned goods too so feel free to post pics.

Oh -absolutely! Never made them before, but there was some syrup left with some small orange bits, which I saved. After lunch, spouse and I put this on our dessert- he had honey vanilla yogurt and I had a little vanilla ice cream….and this orange syrup/bits on top of both was amazingly delicious!!! So, I’m pretty sure we will make them again!

Recipe please? It sounds lovely.

Recipe says wait a week or two before eating. We’ve made them last year and they are really good! This year I cut the beans into 1” pieces, instead of longer pieces.

I looked at a couple recipes but I like the look of your cut beans better. Could we get your recipe for these as well? Pretty please?

Oh yah! anytime you compost any kind of plantlike that, canteloupe, squash, they go crazy and get all the flavors too from variety of what's feeding tthem. Dump some of them seeds in there let them stew over winter, wait till you see whats waiting or you NEXT season ! I did that with sweet potato's. Have no idea how many I havea just a 'corner' of the yard is buried under them

Aaron

Sweet potatoes are one of the only things that could get me to go south. Well, that and the giant crappy and bass.

It sprinkled a tiny bit last night but only enough to make the grass damp. I have a few pickling cucs that are too big for pickling so I'm going to try making Japanese cucumber salad with them. There's a couple racks of pork ribs in the oven and the smell is making me insane.

 

[TJAnonymous]

but, these are “oranges in Cointreau” - contains Cointreau liquor and dry white wine, and a lot of sugar too.
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That sounds so delicious....

 

[TJAnonymous]

Those oranges look and sound sooo good! Well, it all looks good...but those oranges!

Right? I would totally buy a jar....

 

[jerryse]

Supposedly we have rain moving in. I stopped digging potatoes so I could get everything up to the house and stuff put away before it rained. Well, I could have dug for another hour. But now I'm all rinsed off and clean, so I'll just deal with what I did get dug.

I bought a bag of winter rye to plant where the potatoes and squash are. I want to cover it with something that won't be a pain to deal with come spring. Alfalfa can be rather... tenacious.

Winter rye the grain is tenacious also . You must deal with it early or it gets tall fast . Farmers spray with roundup on fields that have rye as a cover crop .