Another update

[oldtrap59]

first pic is backyard plums about to become jelly

second pic is some of our dill pickles. Hate the waiting to try em

third picis our first real picking of tomatoes this year. time to start canning

last pic is taters we dug this week. Look kinda small in the pic but about 25 lbs in the tray. Also been eating on the reds as new taters already. Also yukon golds in the tray. planted 4 lbs of seed for each varity so happy with crop

[Rick]

Man! That is just so wrong!! I finally got the garden out today. We had over an inch of rain again yesterday. I couldn't stand it any longer. I mudded them in.

Okay, nice pics. I'm glad someone is getting to harvest.

[Alaskan Survivalist]

Those pickles look so good!

[hunter63]

.........second pic is some of our dill pickles. Hate the waiting to try em.....

According to my father, the next day is close/long enough to wait.....

I solved that problem with "Crock Pickels" just keep adding them and taking them out as I go.
Don't make them anymore, too much salt, but man yours looking good! I can tast them now!

Was gone for a couple of weeks, been weeding like crazy.

[crashdive123]

Looks like a great bounty!

[Winnie]

Wow! I won't be harvesting like that til september! I am picking some early salad leaf and pak choi. The strawberries will be ready in a couple of weeks(I hope)

[nell67]

Yea OT!!! Thats is a nice bounty you have,I won't see that in my garden for another month thanks to the wacky weather we had this "spring" and the rain that just keeps coming,I have been picking green onions,greens,and spinach,oh and radishes,three weeks after planting those buggers,they were bursting open when I pulled them outta the ground....

[grrlscout]

Nice haul! Those pickles look so freakin good.

[oldtrap59]

Got to tell you folks up north. I would love to have some of your rain problems right now. Seems that down here 98 degrees and no rain has become the rule in the last couple of weeks. The lack of rain is not new as we are already 10 plus inches short for the year but now the high temps have moved in also which makes it tough. Anyone know a rain dance? :>)

oldtrap

[Justin Case]

Got to tell you folks up north. I would love to have some of your rain problems right now. Seems that down here 98 degrees and no rain has become the rule in the last couple of weeks. The lack of rain is not new as we are already 10 plus inches short for the year but now the high temps have moved in also which makes it tough. Anyone know a rain dance? :>)

oldtrap

same thing here,, hmmm, a rain dance, Good idea, I'm going to put on the trusty loin cloth and give it a try ,,

[grrlscout]

Anyone know a rain dance? :>)

Washing the car or lighting the grill usually helps bring the rain.

[Winnie]

Anyone know a rain dance? :>)

oldtrap

Sourdough will tell you I can do snow,(I'm not called Winnie the Snow Witch for nothing).... I'll have a go at rain if you like

[Rick]

Well, we do have a rain problem. 3.59 inches last night. 9 inches for the month. Over 21 inches for the year. More storms in the forecast tonight. An entire town was evacuated because of flooding and an earthen dam lost about 1/3 of itself just south of Indy. It's still holding back the lake but just barely.

The temps are around 90 with the humidity about the same. It makes it pretty uncomfortable to be outside but the plants do love it. My blackberry bushes are growing 2 feet per day...literally. The green beans I planted on the 16th are four inches tall! Crazy.

[oldtrap59]

Rick. I feel for those going through all those storms, believe me. I have a son and daughter that both live in Iowa and they've been getting pretty much the same thing there. I talked to daughter the other day and she said that it's rained every day for two weeks now. Having lived through alot of midwest storms and floods over the years you all have my simpathy. I know that mother nature can treat that part of the country rather brutally. Maybe at some point this will level out for all of us.

oldtrap

[Rick]

Personally, I'm high enough that I don't have a problem. That large shallow primordial sea would have to reappear for me to get wet but there sure has been plenty of it flowing around me.

[nell67]

Didn't get the rain last night here Rick,but sure looked likeit would,but we has again,like last year,been blessed with more rain here than normal.

Humidity is a real problem here,and with the high temps it's hard to breathe,but the garden sure is doing well,picked my first cucumber today,and planted those 3 weeks ago..

[hunter63]

Lost all my peas to rabbits and some of my climbing beans.
(That's it "nite vision capability for the pellet gun!)
Radishes done, flowers on the cukes and zucchini.
Couple small tomatoes and peppers.
Ate all the spinach, lettace need replanting, getting milky and bitter.
Green beans, what's left and the climbers, flowers, and real small beans, couple of days I think..............

Wind blew over some of the sweet corn.

[nell67]

hunter,I cooked some fried green tomatoes Sunday,I couldn't take it anymore,had them sitting in a bowl while the meatloaf finished cooking and my son went through the kitchen, grabbed a plate,and took all but 8 pieces of the tomatoes,and he covered his plate in ranch dressing,I was mad as heck,but I was not touching those tomatoes after he ruined them with ranch dressing,gggrrrrrr

[hunter63]

LOL, Must be a teenager, or better known as "Bottomless pits" given to eat all sorts of stuff, shall we say, "differently".

At least he was eating good food, instead of chips, candy etc.

Our kids were encouraged to eat anything they wanted out of the garden, even put a salt shaker, in an old mailbox, in the garden for when they wanted a fresh cuke, radish, carrot, bean, etc.
Other kids would ask as they were foraging in the garden....."Won't your dad be mad?"
Them,..."No he gave us the salt shaker".....

(Not supposed to eat much salt these days......)

[nell67]

LOL, Must be a teenager, or better known as "Bottomless pits" given to eat all sorts of stuff, shall we say, "differently".

At least he was eating good food, instead of chips, candy etc.

Our kids were encouraged to eat anything they wanted out of the garden, even put a salt shaker, in an old mailbox, in the garden for when they wanted a fresh cuke, radish, carrot, bean, etc.
Other kids would ask as they were foraging in the garden....."Won't your dad be mad?"
Them,..."No he gave us the salt shaker".....

(Not supposed to eat much salt these days......)

Yea,but DAYUM,he could have left enough for everyone else,oh and getting him to help out in the garden???? Yea that won't happen,he is the laziest teen I have ever encountered in my life....