Gardening

[John-W-WI]

thz for the info fellas, still learning

Anyone have any favorite recipes or things they like to can for the winter?

We just canned 28 quarts of venison (last years meat). It's our favorite. Hunting buddy has (3) boys (college age or there abouts) that have figured out its good and cheap. Can't make enough of it now!

We are making sauerkraut week after next. I make way more than I could ever eat. It's a great gift, as you can't buy homemade 'kraut.

 

[KDdid]

I'm nuts about homemade sauerkraut too. Every other year we make a large crock of it, which yields about 40 pints, give or take. Even though we canned kraut last January, and still have plenty on shelf, im fermenting a small (2-3 head) crock of fresh kraut to go into the fridge. Water bath processing the kraut kills off all probiotic goodies in it, even though preserving it for a couple of years.


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[Peeps]

Our garden was so so this year with the wet spring and summer and cooler summer. I started pulling it all today, not a chore I really enjoy but a necessary evil.

 

[KDdid]

Here’s a pic of my three deep mulch beds after topping them off for the winter. All the straw bales and a truckload of hay has the beds about 3 feet deep in organic material, which will hydrate and collapse down to a foot of mulch by spring. It’s nice having all my garden prep done for next spring.


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[swat1018]

Here’s a pic of my three deep mulch beds after topping them off for the winter. All the straw bales and a truckload of hay has the beds about 3 feet deep in organic material, which will hydrate and collapse down to a foot of mulch by spring. It’s nice having all my garden prep done for next spring.


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I would love to hear more about this method of gardening. I keep trying to use less chemical and increase soil health. My garden looks like a foodplot right now, rye and radish.....

 

[KDdid]

I would love to hear more about this method of gardening. I keep trying to use less chemical and increase soil health. My garden looks like a foodplot right now, rye and radish.....

https://wpt.org/University-Place/deep-mulch-gardening-–-ep-685
Here’s an excellent talk by Roger Reynolds from 2012, describing this type of thing. Also look into Lasagna Gardening (book), and google Ruth Stout. All great resources on this topic.


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[trampledbyturtles]

How r the gardens looking fellas.
Last week's rain is starting to make things pop.
Expanded the garden using some 20 ft pieces of tree fabric. Took them off after a month an planted seed right into the sod. Then deep mulched with grass clippings.

Trying a few new things this year.
Brussel sprouts, eggplant, an okra
Then the usuals. Can wait for some fresh salsa.

Bill - u mentioned pickled green tomatoes, wanna give them a try, any good recipes to share?

 

[ksgobbler]

Our tomatoes are waist high and covered in flowers, but only 2 tomatoes between them. Jalapeños going crazy. Green peppers are knee high but have only gotten on pepper off them and none hanging and I don’t see many blooms.
Rest of the garden is growing but slowly. Zucchini, spaghetti squash, yellow squash, cucumbers, pumpkins, and corn.

 

[Barndog56]

Added some fresh cut grass mulch to my corn.

A closeup shows 3 or 4 tillers for each corn plant. This happens when you have more nutrients available in your soil than is required. Should get 2 full ears from the main stalk, and a small ear to cut off the cob and freeze from each of the smaller stalks.

Snow peas ready to pick in a couple of days.

Bell peppers just blooming.

Cherry tomato going to produce about 1,000 of them. Lol

 

[Barndog56]

Didn't plant a small section to see what would grow. Soil test came back lambsquarter, which grows in soils low in phosphorous. So I chopped it and added as mulch. When it decomposes it will add the needed phosphorous to my soil.

 

[bueller]

We've had plenty of rain and even some flooding in the yard but the garden has been just above the water line. My tomato plants (cherry and full size) are growing well and have small green tomatoes on them. Cucumbers and bell peppers are making flowers. Raspberries are loaded this year and should be ripening in a week or two.

 

[trampledbyturtles]

Honestly thought once habitat season was about over, id start having a bit of free time.
Well tripling the garden this spring an some timely rains have me busy canning for winter.

Have put up 4doz corn in the freezer, 2dz pints of green beans. Trying some green tomato-hot pepper pickles for the first time. Even trying dehydrating some eggplant an zucchini cause we r running out of recipes.

cabbage an brussel sprouts were another bust this year. Dang cabbage moths. Wanted to make some kraut.

 

[ksgobbler]

We are in stage 3 drought emergency water restrictions so I cant water anymore but...

 

[swat1018]

Honestly thought once habitat season was about over, id start having a bit of free time.
Well tripling the garden this spring an some timely rains have me busy canning for winter.

Have put up 4doz corn in the freezer, 2dz pints of green beans. Trying some green tomato-hot pepper pickles for the first time. Even trying dehydrating some eggplant an zucchini cause we r running out of recipes.

cabbage an brussel sprouts were another bust this year. Dang cabbage moths. Wanted to make some kraut.

You should try growing fall cabbage, brussels, broccoli, kale, etc. The pest pressure drops way off in the fall and I think they taste better.

 

[bueller]

My garden has not done so well this year. It was way too wet early on and everything showed the stress from that. Then it went straight into being way to dry and I didn't keep up with watering.

 

[Mortenson]

Bethany dug some carrots for us to have a snack today. My wife wanted them to cook with salmon for supper, but that's not happening this time.

 

[Catscratch]

Did someone say carrots?

Does growing steak count as "gardening"? He has an appointment with the butcher in a month and is looking pretty darn good.

What about wild food? As well as digging carrots and playing with the friendly "steak on the hoof" we found Chants!

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[Mortenson]

Yeah he looks fat. A charolais cross?

 

[Catscratch]

The bull is, the cow was a Hereford. Nothing like hybrid vigor and known marbling traits!

Yeah he looks fat. A charolais cross?

 

[Mortenson]

Beef steak is probably my favorite food. My dad used to feed a lot, before I was old enough to help much.