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[R2elk]

Wow, a 50-pound pumpkin!?! It's the great pumpkin Charlie Brown

Do you do some canning with your garden produce?

Sure did and still lots to do. So far only tomato juice, green tomato stew and green tomato relish. I still need to can some tomatoes, pickle beets and make hot sweet pickle slices and hot dill pickles from the cucumbers.

Its now down to 47° and still dropping. Guess I better go pick tomatoes.

 

[Blooie]

And I need to get the apples (what few the doggone squirrels have left me) off the tree. Kids and grands love their applesauce, apple pie mix, and apple butter, and Ken wants some more of that amazing apple/sausage stuffing put in to the freezer. Then I have to pick the grapes - Evan eats my grape jelly by the spoonful if his mom isn't watching.

 

[N F C]

Sure did and still lots to do. So far only tomato juice, green tomato stew and green tomato relish. I still need to can some tomatoes, pickle beets and make hot sweet pickle slices and hot dill pickles from the cucumbers.

Its now down to 47° and still dropping. Guess I better go pick tomatoes.

Your hot dills sound good!

And I need to get the apples (what few the doggone squirrels have left me) off the tree. Kids and grands love their applesauce, apple pie mix, and apple butter, and Ken wants some more of that amazing apple/sausage stuffing put in to the freezer. Then I have to pick the grapes - Evan eats my grape jelly by the spoonful if his mom isn't watching.

What kind of apples do you have Blooie?

 

[Blooie]

I think they are Cortlands and Harleson (or something like that). We were given the trees many years ago. Some friends of ours had planted them in their backyard some six years prior, but gave up on them because not only did they never really produce apples, but they never even seemed to grow either. I mean, they were big enough - not tiny saplings - but they just stayed the size they were when first planted. So Jim decided to chop them down, but then he asked Ken if he thought he would have better luck with them in our yard. So one Saturday about Ken and 3 or 4 guys dug them out, loaded them on a flatbed, and brought them over. Ken was cleaning off the root ball in preparation for planting them here when he noticed something odd. So he and the other guys started cleaning and hosing off the dirt, and discovered that the root balls were still in the burlap wrap that they originally came in. Well, that explained a lot! So, nicely cleaned up and replanted, they just took off! The first year we didn't get much - they were too busy pushing out roots. But they've produced well and faithfully for over 10 years now, and we are very happy with them. Never did tell Jim and Rita about the burlap - more fun to let them think Ken is a Jolly Green Giant or something!

Edited to add: Nobody around here had ever tried to grow pears, either...said this is totally the wrong area for them. Really? Somebody forgot to tell our pear tree that!

 

[N F C]

Good story about the apples Blooie! Wow, look at your pears.

 

[Blooie]

Good story about the apples Blooie! Wow, look at your pears.

Yeah, you'll have to excuse how they look. They don't grow well here, you know.

 

[R2elk]

Your hot dills sound good!

They really are but the hot sweet pickles are also really good to the point that they are almost addictive. They are not at all like what you would think of sweet pickles that you could buy in a store.

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[N F C]

Yeah, you'll have to excuse how they look. They don't grow well here, you know.

It sure is too bad you can't grow decent pears here Blooie...guess you'll just have to muddle through with yours.

 

[N F C]

They really are but the hot sweet pickles are also really good to the point that they are almost addictive. They are not at all like what you would think of sweet pickles that you could buy in a store.

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Got the PM, thanks!

 

[N F C]

Got some new pictures from our trip to Centennial Sunday...









The observation place on Libby Flats was interesting...you can see for miles and miles. At over 10,000 feet I guess I should be able to, right?