Gardening 2024

[Saltwater60]

anybody else start their fall garden

wife planted broccoli and beans mid august
all plants are growing like crazy

her zucchinis had some sort of slug inside the stems that killed the plants, her tomatoes went wild, she got about a bushel from 4 plants, she made and froze a gallon of tomato sause already, and she gave away about a bushel of tomatoes to the women at church



?????? what are the best yellow onion for storage, we planted some no name sets and got a ton of onions, but they arnt keeping very well

Did you cure the onions? Can you cut and freeze them or can them?
The critters in your zucchini were probably squash vine borers and I had them as well. They are gross and very damaging.
Yea, I started my fall garden and it’s going ok. I’m still having slug issues so they killed my squash second plantings. I tried carrots for another planting but I’m not a good carrot farmer. I planted some spinach and I’m hoping for good results. I’ll plant some lettuce as well.

 

[fresch]

Pickle them.

 

[Saltwater60]

Amazing year this year. A few less tomatoes than expected because it was hot, my bell peppers were a bit disappointing but other than that great. I did my basil and parsley yesterday and oh my it was a lot of it. This is just what I dried and ground up. Basil I froze 2.5 gallon bags worth. Parsley I have another large bunch fresh.

 

[S&W Fan]

We spent most of Sunday picking and pickling the remaining cucumbers and my hot peppers. All total we jared up another 7 quarts of pickles, ( dill & bread & butter) and 6 more quarts of hot peppers. I still have enough hot peppers to make a few bottles of hot sauce. Tomatoes did fairly well but I was hoping for more to can lots of sauce for the winter months. I guess 8 quarts will have to do. We too had TONS of basil again this year. We will have more than enough to get through until next season and thats After sharing a lot with our kids .
my wife also makes basil finishing salt and she made just shy of 6 lbs. this year. We are still picking and eating Zucchini and in another week lr so our acorn and butternut squash crop should be ready to pick , harden off and store.

 

[Saltwater60]

We spent most of Sunday picking and pickling the remaining cucumbers and my hot peppers. All total we jared up another 7 quarts of pickles, ( dill & bread & butter) and 6 more quarts of hot peppers. I still have enough hot peppers to make a few bottles of hot sauce. Tomatoes did fairly well but I was hoping for more to can lots of sauce for the winter months. I guess 8 quarts will have to do. We too had TONS of basil again this year. We will have more than enough to get through until next season and thats After sharing a lot with our kids .
my wife also makes basil finishing salt and she made just shy of 6 lbs. this year. We are still picking and eating Zucchini and in another week lr so our acorn and butternut squash crop should be ready to pick , harden off and store.

Too hot for tomatoes by me in July and August so the flowers failed to pollinate by me. My last planting of carrots and spinach look good and will be ready to start harvesting in a week or two. I’m still picking squash, peppers, tomatoes and everything else. Raspberries are coming on strong again and the fall ones are so very good. My blackberries and raspberries did so good this year. I have to can some strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries to make a compote for desserts. I’m out of freezer space.
My cukes did terrible this year. I had tons of flowers but they never got pollinated. Maybe too hot as well I don’t know. I’ll change a few things next year as I always do until I get it dialed in. I’m only on my third year of gardening with veggies again.

 

[Varmint]

anybody else start their fall garden

wife planted broccoli and beans mid august
all plants are growing like crazy

her zucchinis had some sort of slug inside the stems that killed the plants, her tomatoes went wild, she got about a bushel from 4 plants, she made and froze a gallon of tomato sause already, and she gave away about a bushel of tomatoes to the women at church



?????? what are the best yellow onion for storage, we planted some no name sets and got a ton of onions, but they arnt keeping very well

 

[Saltwater60]

This is about a week to a week and a half worth of cherry tomatoes. I have two other varieties and just roasted an entire sheet pan of plum and Jersey breeze tomatoes. Lots left on the vine too

 

[Saltwater60]

Just picked probably the last round of peppers with the temps bottoming out here. I have tons of small ones on the plant that I’ll see if they size up a bit or not. The real small ones are bitter but maybe I’ll pick em and cook them up. It’s a nice batch and I’ll bet I got 100 or so off each plant and I have 4 plants. Love this variety. It’s jimmy Nardelo for anyone interested.

 

[Saltwater60]

Planting my garlic today.

 

[Saltwater60]

Well that’s probably about it here folks. I harvested the last of my tomatoes and peppers today and yesterday and most of my plants are cut down. I left a few cherry tomatoes on the plant because they are just about ripe and will get there today or tomorrow. Plenty of green ones that need to ripen and some of those small peppers got large enough for me to harvest today so I’m glad I left them.
Overall a great year and the only disappointment was the watermelons but I didn’t have enough space for them and they were an after thought and the cucumbers. I had massive pollination issues with cukes and only cukes. Strawberries were the best this year but that was weather related.
I kept track of my harvest this year and between peppers and tomatoes alone I figure I had $300 worth of produce and that broke me even for the year. This price is at conventional produce price and all mine was 100% organic so probably double it for organic tomatoes.

 

[S&W Fan]

Over all another good year here too. We have enough fruits and veggies frozen, canned and dried to get us through the winter without worrying about running out! Everything is pulled except out beets. I’ve got most of my boxes hand turned and the garlic is in the ground. I’m thinking of putting in some onions as well.

 

[Saltwater60]

Over all another good year here too. We have enough fruits and veggies frozen, canned and dried to get us through the winter without worrying about running out! Everything is pulled except out beets. I’ve got most of my boxes hand turned and the garlic is in the ground. I’m thinking of putting in some onions as well.

I did cover crop of Austrian winter peas and still have spinach and some late carrots. Carrots look great but need to size up. No frost on my cherry tomatoes so I might try to leave them in. I ran antifreeze through my irrigation lines yesterday to prevent breakage.

 

[Saltwater60]

Still picking tomatoes. A few plants made it through the first and had nice green new sprouts on the plants. I cut the new growth off so they can turn red but I picked 30 tomatoes today. Never would I thought November 3rd I’d be picking tomatoes grown outside with no cover.

 

[S&W Fan]

I harvested the last crop of the season today, about two doz. hearty Detroit Red beets.

 

[Saltwater60]

I harvested the last crop of the season today, about two doz. hearty Detroit Red beets.

Ive still got some spinach and carrots. Just harvested more parsley for my MIL today. Just an awesome year for me.

 

[S&W Fan]

I’ve still got a couple of herbs growing . Parsley is one of them and I still have a nice sized Rosemary plant growing as well.

 

[Saltwater60]

I’ve still got a couple of herbs growing . Parsley is one of them and I still have a nice sized Rosemary plant growing as well.

I plucked my rosemary three weeks ago and dried it. I was afraid it would have gotten frosted out and did yesterday because I left a branch or two for thanksgiving bird seasoning. All this week and next week are above freezing so my tomatoes will last until mid November and that’s just nuts. The ones on my driveway get taken out yesterday but not the ones between my house and my garage. The soil there must have held enough heat and been protected enough that frost didn’t settle there. I love it and sad I cut back the majority of my other produce there. I’d still be harvesting squash and probably some cucumbers. Crazy year for sure.