BilletHead Posted July 7, 2013 Author Posted July 7, 2013 oh yea Ness I am liking the produce porn. Getting peppers out the wazoo right now and a few more cherry tomatoes. Squash too of course. Like the gooseberries too. We had a rather large pixwell bush that was like 20 years old. Pat would get up to four gallons of berries when it was in it's prime. We pick them before they start to turn purple. We lost that bush a couple of years back. I planted five to take it's place. They were all supposed to be pixwell but this year all five produced and only one was pixwell. Not sure what the others were but not extra big berries like pixwell. Pat got a gallon this season. We mainly do jam (grandmas recipe) It is good and makes a lot of people happy in the neighborhood. BilletHead "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
ness Posted July 7, 2013 Posted July 7, 2013 That's about half of all the gooseberries I'll get this year. This is the 3rd summer on that bush -- two others didn't make it their first year. I rooted another Pixwell off this one -- it's gonna be a few years for that one. How's the fruit on your mystery bushes? John
BilletHead Posted July 7, 2013 Author Posted July 7, 2013 On the mystery berries they stay a dark green, do not get as large as the pixwell also. You know how the pixwell kind of gets a translucent light green/almost a yellow green? The mystery ones stay a dark opaque green like a wild berry but larger. Make sense? BilletHead "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
BilletHead Posted July 8, 2013 Author Posted July 8, 2013 So what do I have? I know, smaller greener gooseberries............ I need to find or start some more pixwell. They are hard to beat. BilletHead "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
tippet7 Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 Well we have stuck a giant middle finger to the groundhogs that tried to wipe out our garden. It has come back strong.the melons are growing a little each day, cuccumbers are starting to sprout again(i forgot to get a picture of them) still havent found the groundhog that i stuck the other day, but also havent seen ANY groundhogs for 3 or 4 days now You are so stupid you threw a rock at the ground and missed.
ness Posted July 11, 2013 Posted July 11, 2013 Well we have stuck a giant middle finger to the groundhogs that tried to wipe out our garden. It has come back strong.the melons are growing a little each day, cuccumbers are starting to sprout again(i forgot to get a picture of them) still havent found the groundhog that i stuck the other day, but also havent seen ANY groundhogs for 3 or 4 days now Nice! I brought in a few tomatoes last night that just started to turn. My biggest few are taking their sweet time though. We're gonna be away for a week so I gotta bring in some green ones. Never had groundhogs, but rabbits and squirrels have always pestered me. I even had a mother rabbit dig a hole in the middle of the yard this year and drop a litter of 4-5 in there. But they all disappeared one day. Here's the prime suspect: We've got a family of these in the hood -- I've seen two together, but my son has seen a bunch of pups too. John
Quillback Posted July 13, 2013 Posted July 13, 2013 Foxes make good rodent controllers. I've had a squirrel picking a tomato or two every day, little bugger pulls one off the vine, takes a bite out of it and leaves it. Can't discharge a firearm within the city limits where I live unfortunately. But I did pop him with the pellet gun, he scampered off and hasn't come back.
ness Posted July 26, 2013 Posted July 26, 2013 Garden's looking bare, like it always does this time of year. Bush beans are out now, pole beans are shriveling up. The Brandywine mater I posted on page 2 just got picked the other day. Pretty dog gone big -- I need to weigh it. Having a spell of cool weather and rain right now. Low of 69 last night, high in the high 70s today. Should set some fruit with those temps. Time to amend the soil and get the fall garden going. John
BilletHead Posted July 26, 2013 Author Posted July 26, 2013 Nice reports everyone and Ness, Cherry type tomatoes out the wazoo Pat has hauled more than a gallon to her work place, Bigger ones pretty good crop in spite of the fungus. Need to change dirt in some containers. Should I be spray for the fungus when plants are young to keep ahead? Some photos of maters, Black Krim and Brandywine. So many peppers too. Jalapenos, cubanells , bananas, yummy snacking, yum-yum bells and for the first time tobasco peppers. I thought what the heck a novelty if nothing else. Some pepper pictures, I have canned peppers before but to do it right to store on the shelf they have to be processed. I hate mushy peppers, they are good but mushy. This year I pickled them for refrigerator storage. Good for six months or more in the ice box plus they should stay crispy. A mix of jalapenos, bananas and tobascos. A half gallon jar. Still have another week to pickle. I am a bit excited, I find myself going out to the garden to graze more than once everyday. Some of the sweet peppers don't even get to the house. Eaten on the spot! BilletHead PS Thank you lord for todays rain "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
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