2023 garden season

[djg james]

sweet tato. 12.5 pounds and bigger than the gallon milk jug. Had a decent crop this year.
still freeze drying onions and apples.

One sweet potato for the whole extended family at Thanksgiving dinner!

 

[sonny580]

only one way to dig sweet potatoes. --- Ya,--I cheated! lol!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

One sweet potato for the whole extended family at Thanksgiving dinner!

i had been wondering how he planned to use it?

one super roasted sweet potato with all the trimmings?

or; one super nice roasted turkey with all the trimmings?

or....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

only one way to dig sweet potatoes. --- Ya,--I cheated! lol!

a harvest like that sure looks like fun!

at least your s. potato patch is not this big!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

One sweet potato for the whole extended family at Thanksgiving dinner!

i had been wondering how he planned to use it?
one super roasted sweet potato with all the trimmings?

. just trimming the ends, pre-roast preps... and then even then... enuff still for some homemade sweet potato pie for dessert!!!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

One sweet potato for the whole extended family at Thanksgiving dinner!

for whole dinner, some have done it!

caption reads:
Maryland woman grows 10-pound sweet potato
to be used for Thanksgiving Dinner! ~

Big Spuds; a sweet gardening story:

https://www.therecordherald.com/sto...-sweet-potato-thanksgiving-dinner/5966736002/

 

[farmer steve]

Pepper patch is stihl putting out. Cutting some cabbage too. Lady just ordered these five heads.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

seems even gardens are going digital... websites and all!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Pepper patch is stihl putting out. Cutting some cabbage too. Lady just ordered these five heads.
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nice!

i picked up a small one yesterday at the grocer's. 69-cents/# ~

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

i had to reboot my brussel's seed pot. 12 no shows! now the pot is hopping! just had to dazzle with extra numbers! lol...

but, i tossed out a handful of cilantro seeds corriander... and they took off like lickity-split ~

then i took a plastic 6 pak and divvidied them up into 6 groups. delicate starts at first, they soon show how hardy they are.... that's why i split them. 6 batches. and then just cut the herb as needed...

 

[djg james]

Pepper patch is stihl putting out. Cutting some cabbage too. Lady just ordered these five heads.
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My few pepper plants are still producing, too. My green beans are going strong also. I picked 3 gallons a week ago Sunday.

And picked almost another 3 gallons today.

No pressure canner yet so everything except a few meals gets frozen. There will be another picking half as much in another week. Will a frost hurt beans?

 

[Brushpile]

More scalding hot peppers for drying and hot sauce,
put up some kraut. Need to put up more, I keep eating it before it's good and sour.

 

[farmer steve]

@djg james . Depends on how hard a frost for the beans. I've picked beans after a light frost that just touched leaves and the beans were ok.

 

[sonny580]

light frost will still go in the beans, ---- not the best. pick the day before if you can.
our beans been gone a long time, didnt do well this year due to weather being too hot/dry.
still would have tomatoes here, BUT we are kinda tomatoed out so will leave them.
a lot of peppers out there but we dont use them so the rest of them will get plowed under.
still have the carrots and beets to dig.
as soon as they frost, the cannas, calla lilies, and dahalias need dug.
just filled the big freeze drier with apple slices and waiting on a switch for the little guy so its been down for a few days. Gotta do your own fixes on these units thats why they are not for everybody.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

My few pepper plants are still producing, too. My green beans are going strong also. I picked 3 gallons a week ago Sunday.
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And picked almost another 3 gallons today.
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No pressure canner yet so everything except a few meals gets frozen. There will be another picking half as much in another week. Will a frost hurt beans?

i din't think a light frost would hurt... but then i read this:

Warm season vegetables such as your green beans are incredibly sensitive and will suffer damage from even a light frost. They will continue to ripen after picking so it is best to harvest any crop before the first light frost. The same goes for planting beans in the spring.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

More scalding hot peppers for drying and hot sauce,
put up some kraut. Need to put up more, I keep eating it before it's good and sour.
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the newest World's Hottest Pepper is the X-Pepper!

Is Pepper X the hottest pepper in the world?
Ed Currie holds up his certification that his new Pepper X variety of peppers is the hottest in the world according to the Guinness Book of World Records on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, in Fort Mill, S.C.

but urs look hot enuff (too!) for me. the red ones... lol

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

@djg james . Depends on how hard a frost for the beans. I've picked beans after a light frost that just touched leaves and the beans were ok.

experience counts!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Cold front coming in. should indicate this brutally hot summer is behind us! tied a heat record other day, for the day... prev highest hi was set in 1905! cooler weather will be welcome. but a real nasty storm will accompany the front the tv weather folks are saying heavy REDS! all over. couple hours of heavy rainfall. up to 5" or more...

i hope to get my limas sorted out... quite a few of them are now flowering. brussel and cilantro seeds to the seed pot other day. sugar snaps to go... and my okra will be in-ground prob this weekend...

limas still doing well, despite hot summer! noticed first bean other day

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

and Fall okra seems to be close to flowering....

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

light frost will still go in the beans, ---- not the best. pick the day before if you can.
our beans been gone a long time, didnt do well this year due to weather being too hot/dry.
still would have tomatoes here, BUT we are kinda tomatoed out so will leave them.
a lot of peppers out there but we dont use them so the rest of them will get plowed under.
still have the carrots and beets to dig.
as soon as they frost, the cannas, calla lilies, and dahalias need dug.
just filled the big freeze drier with apple slices and waiting on a switch for the little guy so its been down for a few days. Gotta do your own fixes on these units thats why they are not for everybody.

i still have carrots to plant, seeds. not sure if i will do beets. got plenty pickled still...
going to do another carrot circle. worked good for small home garden