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miteigenenhaenden
7-5-22, 4:56pm
How are you doing with the harvest?
Our harvest of strawberries, white and black currants and gooseberries is over. There are a lot of currants this year. That's good, because last year there wasn't a good harvest, so the stock was gone.
At the moment I'm still harvesting red currants and raspberries.
I harvest cucumbers, beans and peas every 2-3 days.
Gradually I can fill the storage cellar.
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That is impressive! I do not grow any edibles other than a patch of mint in the garden, and some parsley and basil in pots. Actually, my basil is fizzling out and I need to buy another plant.
My fruit harvest is just starting. I have alpine strawberries in horse water troughs. They are tiny, and are just gardener snacks. The blueberries are just starting to ripen. I've gone from 3-4 berries a day to about a cup. When it gets going, I can get up to a quart a day. Raspberries are late this year- I've only had 5 of so per day but when that is in full swing its about a cup to a pint per day.
The veg harvest continues. I start lettuce under cover, so I've had lettuce for 2 months. The cherry tomatoes have started in the last week, and I've picked my first cucumber and first zucchini. I have lots of peppers, but all still green.
It got too hot here too quickly before it cooled off again so everything I planted is behind in growth. However, tomatoes and lemon cucumbers are coming along. Our peach tree was abundant with fruit but then we had a late snow and lost much of it. It is very challenging to garden here.
iris lilies
7-5-22, 7:55pm
We've had tons of green beans, a few snowpeas earlier, small cukes coming on. Leek was harvested months ago.
Squirrels took all of our apricots, peaches, apples. Birds got the cherries.
I may have some summer squash, Japanese eggplant and a variety of peppers within a week and probably another week for tomatoes. I was thinking today that the local produce market should have local sweet corn and plums.
Your berries look wonderful!
All I grow is herbs (doing very well), tomatoes and garlic. I do grow flowers for the bees and butterflies.
Your gooseberries remind me of a funny story---they always remind me of my mom.
When she was a new bride, she decided to surprise my dad by baking him a gooseberry pie--her first pie as a newlywed.
I'm not sure where she got the gooseberries, but when he dug into her beautifully-baked pie, they discovered the gooseberries were infested with worms! Poor thing!
miteigenenhaenden
7-6-22, 4:50am
Oh, cakes with added proteins! Very annoying.
Chicken lady
7-6-22, 6:49am
KayLR, your poor mom!
here - Beans, beets, kohlrabi, summer squash, potatoes, cucumbers, kale, onions, carrots, camomile, a few raspberries on the second year canes. Peas, lettuce, and spinach are over. Garlic is all pulled and drying. Tomatoes are still green. Basil is ready, but haven’t cut any yet. Eggs and milk are plentiful.
Late yesterday, a FedEx driver came flying down the street and smacked a large limb of our peach tree. Peaches went flying everywhere. Grrr...
miteigenenhaenden
7-9-22, 4:01pm
Today I preserved a mix of different berries and fruits (raspberries, strawberries, gooseberries, blackberries, cherries, red currants, black currants).
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Chicken lady
7-9-22, 4:49pm
I am jealous of all the fruit! Yum!
my harvest today was a few carrots, a couple of cucumbers, and an onion. There is other stuff ready, but it can stay in the garden.
I’m about to chop up all the green beans, blanch them, and get them in the dehydrator with some salt, oil, and cayenne.
iris lilies
7-9-22, 5:16pm
Today I preserved a mix of different berries and fruits (raspberries, strawberries, gooseberries, blackberries, cherries, red currants, black currants).
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beautiful!
Does anybody make elderberry jam here? We have mini mini wild elderberries going around here. We have an elderberry in our yard even.
I would use some for a tincture to ward off flu and colds. I buy elderberry dried because the spots where I used to get them are no longer.
Elderberry jam sounds lovely.
miteigenenhaenden
7-10-22, 12:51am
I make elderberry jelly and elderberry juice.
Elderberry jelly is easy: you boil the berries in some apple juice. Drain the berries in a cloth overnight, catching the juice.
The next day, add pectin, sugar and lemon juice and finish cooking the jelly.
Besides wine and sparkling wine, elderflowers can also be used to make other good things. See here (https://miteigenenhaenden-wordpress-com.translate.goog/?s=Holunder&_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp)and here (https://miteigenenhaenden-de.translate.goog/?s=Holunder&_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp).
iris lilies
7-10-22, 9:34am
I make elderberry jelly and elderberry juice.
Elderberry jelly is easy: you boil the berries in some apple juice. Drain the berries in a cloth overnight, catching the juice.
The next day, add pectin, sugar and lemon juice and finish cooking the jelly.
Besides wine and sparkling wine, elderflowers can also be used to make other good things. See here (https://miteigenenhaenden-wordpress-com.translate.goog/?s=Holunder&_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp)and here (https://miteigenenhaenden-de.translate.goog/?s=Holunder&_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp).
great ideas here! These will resonate with my husband because he grew up with Swiss – German food techniques because his mother was from Switzerland. One time when our garden was open for tour someone walked in to our yard, looked at his vegetable garden and remarked “you’re German aren’t you?” because there was something about how he was planting and what he was planting that was clearly of the German tradition.
He made a “ canning kitchen” in the basement of our renovated cottage, so I am Looking forward to things he prepares there.
miteigenenhaenden
7-10-22, 1:10pm
I wonder what it is that Germans are recognized all over the world. ����
A canning kitchen s wonderful!
dado potato
7-31-22, 2:47pm
This morning I harvested 26 hard-neck garlic plants, variety "Zemo". I snipped off roots, rinsed them with a garden hose, and set them out to dry in a ventilated shed. These were planted on Oct 11, 2021.
I plan to set aside 3-4 of the largest bulbs, and plant cloves from those bulbs on the second Monday of October 2022.
For the rest, I plan to cut the stems off after they have dried, bag the bulbs in a mesh bag, and hang it on the sunporch until needed for cooking.
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iris lilies
7-31-22, 5:15pm
DH Harrison bags and bags full of onions two weeks ago. Probably 100 to 150 of them.
Chicken lady
8-3-22, 3:41pm
Some of the vloggers on YouTube are doing an “every bit counts” challenge to try to put something up every day in august.
there is no way I am going to preserve something every day - but I am trying to focus on the garden as much as I can.
today I picked some dry beans and set them out to fully “dry” from the humidity, snipped the few chamomile flowers, filled my dehydrator with lemon and licorice basil, weeded, and picked beans and tomatoes. And of course milk and eggs…
yesterday I picked beans, tomatoes, summer squash, cukes, peppers, and kohlrabi.
Container cucumbers are making their appearance!!!
happystuff
10-2-22, 4:23pm
I gleaned all the ripe and green tomatoes off the last of the tomato plants. Have two trays on/under newspaper to see if they will ripen and some of the little yellow ones (very ripe) on the dehydrator. Only things left growing are a couple of carrots and the squash plants. The squash is going wild with growing and blooms, but not harvest-able squash yet. I can't wait as this is the best squash I've ever had!
Going to try to start some "garbage" lettuce inside. First attempt failed on the transplant to the pot of soil.
dado potato
10-2-22, 10:51pm
My garden harvest is done for the year.
A friend called with a request to harvest MacIntosh apples from their trees, because her husband is in hospital being treated for leukemia. So, I had a great afternoon. I have a hunch the deer were watching my every move. I tossed any bird-pecked apples into the long grass. As soon as I was 140 feet from the tree the white tails were dining on some apples!
Each bushel increased my respect for the braceros who have picked apples in the USA since the 1920s. If the going rate now is 75 cents per bushel, they earn it! Damn.
Cleaning out the butternut squash area, in anticipation of the hard freeze. Lots of green in the new compost bin. Still a few that I hope will turn color. Processing squash everyday, usually butternut and cushaw. Harvesting poppy heads for growing poppies next year. Had a great year with my heirloom poppy that I got out in Michigan at a heritage farm at the national park when they were selling them about five years ago. Gorgeous flower.
Was hoping my collards would bloom and go to seed but no go. These are a big favorite of mine, as the seeds are descendants of a collard that got resurrected from the garbage; I planted the leftover end and I've had ten years of collards from that one plant. I've still got seeds from prior years, but I like to get new ones every year.
dado potato
10-3-22, 8:09pm
pinkytoe,
If you have details for the record, you might consider reporting the hit-and-run on your peach tree to FedEx Corporate. Can you put a monetary value on the loss of peaches? I am not suggesting a lawsuit, but rather a reasonable and cordial process of complaint and compensation for your loss. Internet search gives me to understand the current price of peaches is 99 cents per lb., and the U-Pick price is $13 per half bushel
gimmethesimplelife
10-9-22, 10:57pm
Limes, figs, and Armenian cucumbers here at Casa Rob.
Planning to plant for the cooler months when I can grow what many of you plant in the Summer. Beets, kale, turnips, squash, and radishes.
LIMES and FIGS What a treat, Rob.
iris lilies
10-10-22, 11:04am
We are eating a lot of fried green tomatoes.
We had a very good year for tomatoes and our freezer is full of bags of tomatoes.
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