JayMcB
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fvcking chipmunks are trashing everything. I have introduced 26 of them to the seed bucket challenge this year and there are STILL too many of them around
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What's growing well in your garden?
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Infinite Jester
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Zukes and summer squash like crazy.
What recipe do you use for canning the green beans?
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Clean jars heated in boiling water, pack broken beans in tight to 1 inch below top, add 1 teaspoon canning salt to each jar, fill with boiling water to 1/2 inch headspace, cap finger tight and pressure can @ 10psi for 25mins. Let cool down and remove. Snug lids and inspect button for vacuum when cooled down.
BTW, the dill pickles came out excellent....much better than I expected.
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Peppers doing well this year, while last year sucked. Broccoli was a waste of space. Carrots good except for critter problems. Off to the hardware store for more JAWZ rat traps. Strong enough for munks but sensitive enough for voles and mice.
GPP
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My peppers are also doing well this year, I had the same issue last year, they sucked, I never figured out why. My cukes are everywhere, and my tomatoes are awesome as well. The cuke and tomatoes overcame my snap peas due to bad box management, I fired my daughter and demoted her to waterer.
Thanks!!!
i have more beans than i know what to do with. I used the ball dill pickle mix to make the pickles, it was super easy and my wife loves them.
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You can also freeze the beans. I froze 8 one gallon vacuum bags the other day. That size makes a nice pot of green beans and potatoes.
I do like canning them, they last longer but we use a good amount regularly so freezing is also a good option.
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Canning is a process, the container type doesn't really matter. Glass jars are actually better as you can see the contents and there's no metal or metal can liner contamination.
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I grow them, because most of the vermin don't like them. Then, I boil the little ones whole.
I think these are onions that have bolted:
Tried oinions and basically this is all that has come of them.
Although slow coming finally am getting tomatoes and cukes. Corn looks good.
Only crop actually producing. About 2 pints of strawberries.... Oh so yummy.
Wild rasberries, can't pick then fast enough. Wild blue berries but they are the teenytiny berries taste on so good but after a 1hr picking you feel like you got ripped off.
Tried peppers again.... One bell peper and I have a Thai plant that seems to be doing better now.
pastera
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Same here - gallons of green beans last year and nothing yet because the rabbits keep topping off the plants.
One rabbit removed so far and it had a large growth on its neck - tossed the carcass deep in the woods.
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Basically my garden is on a few daily rid bits...just enough tomatoes for a salad ...all berries have come and went with the wild blue and black berries producing a good amount for about 12 days. Are lots of berries that week.
All that's left is corn , tomatoes and cukes.
They won't yield high numbers but in the eats for the summer.
All that's left is corn , tomatoes and cukes.
They won't yield high numbers but in the eats for the summer.
Broccoli and cabbages doing great. I covered them to keep the cabbage worms off of them and it helped although some still got through. Beans and peas doing great. Squashes seem to be going slow although I saw some starting to set. We probably don't have the best light for the garden and sometimes it seems things are not getting pollinated. I helped that process with a small paint brush last year and will have to do it again this season even though I left clumps of white clover in the garden to attract bees.
Been waging war on voles. They destroyed my squash last year. and that also might be part of the problem this year. I've been picking them off with mouse traps placed around their holes and paths.
Been waging war on voles. They destroyed my squash last year. and that also might be part of the problem this year. I've been picking them off with mouse traps placed around their holes and paths.
I had some chipmunks stealing all the feed from the chickens. I'm not a fan of the bucket method so I took a shoe box and cut a hole in one end and put the trap baited with sunflower seeds inside so no chickens or baby chickens could get to it. It only took a few days to get rid of the trouble makers.
No vegetables here but I will have some sunflower seeds. This is the first time growing sunflowers and looks like I'll be up to my azz in them. I have about 30 plants or so and they're currently at about 42" and growing close to 2" a day.
jerryhipp
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this is my 4th year trying. i stink at it but i try. i'm growing corn, butternut, banana peps and bel peps, tomatoes, and spinach in the garden. plus some basil, oregano, chives and thyme in pots. i never have much success. whereas i don't know much and squirrels and rabbits keep eating my stuff. but i try. the peppers and corn are doing okay. the spinach was burning and died. to much sun i guess?. the rest are getting eaten or just not growing well.
I'm no greenthumb nor have I tried growing it before, but I think Spinach is a crop you plant very early and harvest in early spring before it gets too hot.
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My cukes and green beans are producing well now, just waiting for those first tomatoes to turn red still.
Penniepup1
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The ground hog in my garden is growing well. I named it Maura for some reason.
In Boston the growing season extends well into the fall. We are very near the harbor so first frost often isn't until lat October, sometimes November.
We grow tomatos on the S side of the house and have to beat them down with a stick. Zucchini has been growing great as well. I'll ask my wife if she planted anything new.
We grow tomatos on the S side of the house and have to beat them down with a stick. Zucchini has been growing great as well. I'll ask my wife if she planted anything new.
pastera
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Bad year for me - I have two bucks that have decided the garden is their personal buffet. They are trashing everything to eat the green beans.
But it is two good looking 6 pointers - not that I hunt well enough to get either one.
I hope they get their racks stuck together in the backyard so I can kick them both in the nuts before hanging a tag on them.
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But it is two good looking 6 pointers - not that I hunt well enough to get either one.
I hope they get their racks stuck together in the backyard so I can kick them both in the nuts before hanging a tag on them.
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