Garden Thread 2023

[gamer_jim]

From what I understand, all newer "pressure treated" lumber should now be fine for use in gardening as they use Copper vs Arsenic these days. I don't think you want to drink the chems directly, but incidental contact through soil transfer should now not be the concern it was back when they were using Arsenic 10+ years ago.

Would need to do some reading, but that is my recollection.

That is correct that they don't use arsenic for many years now.

That said, they are still injecting these wood boards with chemicals. Fewer chemicals in you body is better.

 

[gamer_jim]

Bounty from our #garden, #parallelSociety : pickled cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes, basil, oregano, red peppers, zucchini and made zucchini chips.

 

[Baldheaded]

Bounty from our #garden, #parallelSociety : pickled cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes, basil, oregano, red peppers, zucchini and made zucchini chips.

What's your recipe for the pickled cucumbers?

 

[gamer_jim]

What's your recipe for the pickled cucumbers?

Loosly followed from here:

https://growagoodlife.com/dill-pickles/

I didn't bother with the spice bag. I used a few more teaspoons of the pickling spices from McCormick in the brine.

This is my first time doing this so I don't know how they will end up. All I know is we had way more cucumbers than we could eat before they went bad so this is a bit of an experiment. I'll let you know how they turn out.

 

[Baldheaded]

Loosly followed from here:

https://growagoodlife.com/dill-pickles/

I didn't bother with the spice bag. I used a few more teaspoons of the pickling spices from McCormick in the brine.

This is my first time doing this so I don't know how they will end up. All I know is we had way more cucumbers than we could eat before they went bad so this is a bit of an experiment. I'll let you know how they turn out.

Thanks. Can't wait to hear how yours turned out.

 

[Archeryrob]

I’ll have to look for my daughters dill and bread and butter recipes. Balls are usually not bad.

I ventured into lots of peppers this year. Always lots of bells and jalapeños but trying pablano and cayenne

Splitting jalapeños and deseeding and freezing. Some for poppers and thinking of hot relish. For sandwiches and cooking. Anyone got a recipe for this?

Cayenne I and freezing while to process when the season is over. Maybe hot sauce or look for other ideas.

Pablano I am just figuring out. They are 4’ ta and just producing. Had two go bad and not sure when to pick them. Some seem small. Think I need a heat mat growing them to get them a head start

 

[Sundazes]

I’ll have to look for my daughters dill and bread and butter recipes. Balls are usually not bad.

I ventured into lots of peppers this year. Always lots of bells and jalapeños but trying pablano and cayenne

Splitting jalapeños and deseeding and freezing. Some for poppers and thinking of hot relish. For sandwiches and cooking. Anyone got a recipe for this?

Cayenne I and freezing while to process when the season is over. Maybe hot sauce or look for other ideas.

Pablano I am just figuring out. They are 4’ ta and just producing. Had two go bad and not sure when to pick them. Some seem small. Think I need a heat mat growing them to get them a head start

Is there anything special you need to do for the jalapeños to freeze them? I have a ton that are turning red. Did t think about freezer bag them.

 

[on_the_rox]

Is there anything special you need to do for the jalapeños to freeze them? I have a ton that are turning red. Did t think about freezer bag them.

I just take mine, cut the stem end off, slice them in half lengthwise and scrape the seeds out (they tend to discolor) I then put them on a cookie sheet or plate in the freezer with some space between them and once frozen bag them in freezer bags. This way they come out easily as separate peppers, ready to use.

I do the same for sweet peppers, except I slice them in ready to use bits and then freeze those.

 

[wilcam47]

Got some muscadine grapes. Still need to ripen. Not a lot of them but maybe more next year! They are purple when ripe

 

[Sundazes]

I just take mine, cut the stem end off, slice them in half lengthwise and scrape the seeds out (they tend to discolor) I then put them on a cookie sheet or plate in the freezer with some space between them and once frozen bag them in freezer bags. This way they come out easily as separate peppers, ready to use.

I do the same for sweet peppers, except I slice them in ready to use bits and then freeze those.

cool, thanks

 

[adit]

cool, thanks

If you want them to keep for a long time vacuum seal them. They will "ice up" in a regular freezer bag (Ziploc/Hefty).

 

[Archeryrob]

I do the same on On the Rox except I also cut large green peppers in half and individually freeze them for use as stuffed half shell peppers later. Big peppers move into 2 gallon ziploc and jalapeno into 1 gallon and chopped green peppers into sandwich bags. They get iced up, but it all melts off and they reuse fine later on.

 

[FrankZ]

If you want them to keep for a long time vacuum seal them. They will "ice up" in a regular freezer bag (Ziploc/Hefty).

Good advice on anything going into the freezer really.

 

[gamer_jim]

Last night we ate 3/4 of our meal from our garden: potatoes, green beans, tomatoes and butternut squash. Grass-fed steak was from grocer.

 

[foodpoison]

Making last batch of tomatoe sauce for the year.

 

[lawrencewendall]

Only have 2 small raised beds. Morning glories took them over. I got some produce. When everything is harvested, I'm going scorched earth with roundup.

 

[F-Stop]

Try vinegar and little dish soap in sprayer when sun is on it before that roundup. Then cover with black plastic or even trash bags after few days.


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[lawrencewendall]

Try vinegar and little dish soap in sprayer when sun is on it before that roundup. Then cover with black plastic or even trash bags after few days.


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From what I've read, the vinegar route only kills what's above ground. Morning glory roots can go down 5 ft

 

[eruby]

Only have 2 small raised beds. Morning glories took them over. I got some produce. When everything is harvested, I'm going scorched earth with roundup.

Did you staple that black garden cloth on the bottom of your raised beds?

Or are you using natural earth, and not filling them from bags of soil?

We're still going strong with cherry tomatoes, and there's 5 or 6 Japanese eggplant doing well

 

[adit]

We had so much rain here last week that I lost probably half of my tomatoes to splitting.