What did you do in the garden today?

[TJAnonymous]

https://www.homefortheharvest.com/green-apples/
Try finding it here.

I've been reading about Lodi apples since @WthrLady mentioned it. They are supposedly grown a lot in the South and it does look very similar to my apple and even matches the "late summer, early fall" harvest time. So I'm going to say it's probably a Lodi apple tree that was mismarked by the vendor.

 

[Acre4Me]

Planted 4 varieties of peas. Picked the sunniest spots available. Very hot and dry today. In for a cool break- iced coffee for the win at the moment.

CARROTS: any suggestions for canning or freezing? I don’t mind cooked carrots, but my family aren’t fans of just cooked carrots. So, I’ve already canned “dilled carrots” per the Ball canning book - since they aren’t soft cooked, but instead pickled, they are accepted. I can shred for carrot cake (my recipe uses 7C shredded) which will work for some. But, not kidding -I have ALOT of carrots in the garden -a good problem to have. My husband eats them all the time at work, so that’s good too. But, any suggestions beyond what I’ve mentioned, or amazing canning or baking recipes? I’m not in a rush to use them all, bc they can stay in the ground, but the earliest planted should probably get picked soon so they don’t all split.


Cowpeas/field peas (black eyed peas are one kind of field peas): we planted 3 varieties. It was a learning curve to learn when to pick to easily shell fresh. One variety was difficult no matter what, the other two were decently easy to figure out. About 32 Cups of shelled and washed field peas are frozen now, plus another 6-8 C we already cooked and ate. I ripped out the plants bc we didn’t need anymore. We did find that the classic southern recipe was what we liked: simmer a smoked ham hock in water for 1.5-2 hours. Sauté onion and garlic in pan -we used bacon grease. Add fresh shelled field peas (can also add chopped up immature pods too), then the cooked ham hock and enough of the ham hock cooking water to cover the peas. Cook for about 45 min-1 hour. Pretty tasty. I’m glad bc I never ever like black eyed peas growing up …always canned. Maybe the canned variety starts with dried peas, maybe the drying changes the texture and flavor. We will see if freezing changes them to be less tasty.

 

[WthrLady]

I just picked three of the cutest, chubby ears of sweet corn from the garden corn patch. It was a little patch of 'why not' after finding an old package in my seed safe- only 12 stalks and I plated them really late.
They aren't supermarket gorgeous, but darned if I'm not having them for lunch with butter!

 

[Smokerbill]

I think I'll have enough zucchini now to make my sweet spicy relish. I picked this pair a little while ago. I have a couple more in the fridge.



The recipe I'm using is a two day process- chop/grind the veggies, salt them, refrigerate 12 hours/overnight, rinse and squeeze out moisture, then cook with the vinegar/sugar/spices before canning/processing.

It's going to be hot here the next two days so I'm going to rig up a cooking area on the back deck, using my turkey fryer burner for heat.

I dug potatoes from under one nearly dead plant, about 1 square foot of area. I know I got a few from nearby plants but it was a pretty good harvest from the small organic potatoes the grocery store threw out last fall.

I'm going to have loads of taters that I hope will keep through the winter. There's still around 8 square feet of potato patch left to dig.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Glad you're feeling better

Me too
At work I had told everyone and brought in a replacement for Windex. One guy didn't like it and got some Windex from the custodial. He sprayed it when I was in the room and they ended up calling an ambulance because I passed out. I was fine later

Wow that is scary. I never even realized I had a problem with it until I sprayed it as I was cleaning the inside of a car in my early 20s using the Blue Windex. Suddenly I had a severe asthma attack. I stumbled out of the car and went into the house, did my inhaler and then I started to turn red and swell and had hives that looked like welts all over my neck, face, chest & arms & my back. It was just awful. I took some benadryl and some prednisone that I had on hand but that was really frightening. I probably should have gone to the hospital but I didn't. I looked pretty awful for a few days. Gradually the welts subsided.

Sometimes in a restaurant idiots will be cleaning with customers in the restaurant...I can smell it before I even see it, and I make a quick exit for the door to get the hell out of there. I also have reactions to that stuff they sprinkle down on the floor, I guess it's called carpet fresh, horribly allergic. Many hotels used it back in the day, it was just terrible I wouldn't even be able to go into the room.

I remember when I was little I was looking in the cabinets and saw a bottle with a picture of a lemon on the label. I always loved lemons, So I opened up the lid, held it up to my nose to smell it & promptly had a horrible reaction. Parents took me to the hospital. It was ammonia.

Thank God bleach doesn't bother me so bad because I really need to clean and disinfect flock waters with it. Inside the house, I use Simple Green often.That smell is wonderful, doesn't bother me at all.

I wonder why many people are so reactive to certain chemicals.

 

[Molpet]

Wow that is scary. I never even realized I had a problem with it until I sprayed it as I was cleaning the inside of a car in my early 20s using the Blue Windex. Suddenly I had a severe asthma attack. I stumbled out of the car and went into the house, did my inhaler and then I started to turn red and swell and had hives that looked like welts all over my neck, face, chest & arms & my back. It was just awful. I took some benadryl and some prednisone that I had on hand but that was really frightening. I probably should have gone to the hospital but I didn't. I looked pretty awful for a few days. Gradually the welts subsided.

Sometimes in a restaurant idiots will be cleaning with customers in the restaurant...I can smell it before I even see it, and I make a quick exit for the door to get the hell out of there. I also have reactions to that stuff they sprinkle down on the floor, I guess it's called carpet fresh, horribly allergic. Many hotels used it back in the day, it was just terrible I wouldn't even be able to go into the room.

I remember when I was little I was looking in the cabinets and saw a bottle with a picture of a lemon on the label. I always loved lemons, So I opened up the lid, held it up to my nose to smell it & promptly had a horrible reaction. Parents took me to the hospital. It was ammonia.

Thank God bleach doesn't bother me so bad because I really need to clean and disinfect flock waters with it. Inside the house, I use Simple Green often.That smell is wonderful, doesn't bother me at all.

I wonder why many people are so reactive to certain chemicals.

And what happens if we are passed out and some paramedic puts an ammonia capsule under our noses

 

[pennyJo1960]

I am highly allergic the liquid Febreez in the spray bottle.
Morning Gardeners.

 

[Acre4Me]

Assassin Bug: 1
Squash Bug: 0

All done. Lunch was deeeelicious!

I stayed away bc apparently bite can be bad -worse pain than a wasp sting, although not really toxic. But, they are beneficial bc the generally attack pests. Of course, I had the hebejeebeez when it must have flown away/climbed elsewhere and I couldn’t find it. Yes, I used the window reflection to make sure it wasn’t on me

 

[Smokerbill]

Assassin Bug: 1
Squash Bug: 0

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I stayed away bc apparently bite can be bad -worse pain than a wasp sting, although not really toxic. But, they are beneficial bc the generally attack pests. Of course, I had the hebejeebeez when it must have flown away/climbed elsewhere and I couldn’t find it. Yes, I used the window reflection to make sure it wasn’t on me

That's a wicked looking insect!

The tops on most of the onions I have curing on the back porch were completely dry so I trimmed them off and pulled off some of the loose, papery skin.

 

[jerryse]

Felt up to going out and getting yesterday's mail. Slowly improving. I did not feel this bad with Covid. Makes me wonder what lab created this. I hope I am wrong.