TOO Garden Thread
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Wife and daughter harvested a bunch of tomatoes today. Buckets full. Them she made peach cobbler with the peaches off our trees. Good stuff. She's a good one.
Today's lunch and test run of the wife's first batch from our tiny garden harvest.
Needs a tad bit more peppers, but man it oh-so-good still!
That's what it's all about Denny!
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Plucked these 3 blackberries from my patch tonight along with smaller ones. The one on the left is by far largest I’ve ever seen.
Sgt Fury
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My hands are the size of everyone here with the exception of Dave….
Well, and maybe Cotty’s, he’s got big hands to fill.
Well, and maybe Cotty’s, he’s got big hands to fill.
Joe says it's cool how I do so much with my toes.
My wife made several dozen jars of pizza/pasta sauce and salsa over the weekend. Most of it was cherry tomatoes according to her. All from the garden and plenty more to go. She also made some peach cobbler with our peaches. It didn't make it to the next day and it was a brownie sized serving platter.
Sgt Fury
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Still getting plenty of blackberries and raspberries. Peach tree is loaded! Some are falling on the ground so I picked them up and rinsed them off in the sink. The ones that fell and the ones still in the tree are hard to the touch..does anyone know if you’re supposed to pick them hard and let them soften up or do they soften on the tree? And before Rich, Nick or Dave chime in…I meant the peaches being hard when you pick them, not me!
JARHEAD
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It's been my experience that if they ripen on the tree they go very fast. They'll rot in the matter of a day.
Been a bit and things are growing, dying, being infested and finally drying out lol.
The good:
- Cucumbers are still producing, but last 2 plants only have another week or so left in them.
- Both regular & cherry tomatoes are taking off and finally producing small harvests.
- February peppers are producing nice sets for round 2.
- G90 corn is only a few days away from harvest, with Peaches & Cream a few weeks out.
- Firecracker sunflowers are beautiful!
The bad:
- Just hit all tomatoes and peppers again with neem oil...tons of aphids/white flies. I'm crossing my fingers it's just prime real estate given the amount of rain, not an annual thing. Never experienced in any of my prior gardens, adult or kid.
- Pumpkins and watermelons are very disappointing due to the flooding. Its stayed wet enough that I couldn't keep up with the weeds and no way to get them to higher ground there in the middle. Was shooting for them to take over the whole center section and block the weeds.
- Out of 6 sunflowers plant for Myles for school, only 3 have survived the floods and only 2 are open right now.
The good:
- Cucumbers are still producing, but last 2 plants only have another week or so left in them.
- Both regular & cherry tomatoes are taking off and finally producing small harvests.
- February peppers are producing nice sets for round 2.
- G90 corn is only a few days away from harvest, with Peaches & Cream a few weeks out.
- Firecracker sunflowers are beautiful!
The bad:
- Just hit all tomatoes and peppers again with neem oil...tons of aphids/white flies. I'm crossing my fingers it's just prime real estate given the amount of rain, not an annual thing. Never experienced in any of my prior gardens, adult or kid.
- Pumpkins and watermelons are very disappointing due to the flooding. Its stayed wet enough that I couldn't keep up with the weeds and no way to get them to higher ground there in the middle. Was shooting for them to take over the whole center section and block the weeds.
- Out of 6 sunflowers plant for Myles for school, only 3 have survived the floods and only 2 are open right now.
I was told by an old timer years ago to put hard close to being ripe peaches in a paper bag to help soften them up. The grocery paper bags worked great for me and did seem to work.
Sgt Fury
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Took the peaches out of the paper bag yesterday and they were softer/ripe. Also picked some from the tree that were ripe. We cut them up last night and had some with whipped cream. They were great! Planted the tree 3 years ago and this is the first time we’ve had peaches to harvest…and we got a lot of them.
Big_Holla
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Gonna be doing maple jalapeños in mason jars. Get ready for fall/winter for pizza and burgersAll ya need is bacon and cream cheese!!
Sgt Fury
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So far I’ve harvested around 25 peaches….15 a few days ago and I was able to get another 10 today. The rest are gone! Something came in and ate the rest over the last two days. There had to be around 70 peaches on that tree! A lot of the pits are scattered around the base of the tree. I’m not sure if it was deer or coons…or both. Couldn’t determine from the half eaten peach left at the bottom of the tree as there appeared to be large and small bite marks. Next year I’m going to have to fence it in. It’ll keep out the deer but won’t do shit for the coons. If it turns out to be coons, imma gonna take a page from Joes efforts and kill every one I can catch. You don’t mess with a mans peaches.