I quit planting tobasco because they take forever to pick!!
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Just finished dehydrating some roasted okra. Has a good flavor. Should make a good treat in the deer blind.
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They are. They have a fried okra taste. I coated in oil and salt while roasting. Got the idea when I saw a package of crispy okra treats in the produce store. They are pretty good.
Name these peppers...
Ok, top row are all poblanos, rather small, but they turned recently.
Bottom right are anaheims. Left are bulldog paprika. First time trying them. Going to need to wait for a few more.
I'd not have guessed the poblano
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Right, most of my poblanos were huge. Had one unknown that flowered only in the last week. No peppers yet. I doubt this late it's going to.
My late jalapeno are smaller and ripen faster. The peppers that ripen early and are small tend to have a fungus inside.
Our new to us tomato is the pomadora. Very large fruit, quit a few bearing double lobe, twice the size of other tomatoes on the same plant.
Tops have slope from the stem and that part tends to split and scab (similar to celebrity or beefsteak) but very meaty and great for slicing.
Opalca we grew last year and have one plant this year that's just starting to give a few ripe. There's a lot of the plant though, enough to make a good batch of something.
After all we've put up, we've given 3 bushels away to friends and neighbors. Very grateful for not having any hornworm this year. Blight of course has my plants foliage 90% dead.
I messed up not planting san Marzano.
Tops have slope from the stem and that part tends to split and scab (similar to celebrity or beefsteak) but very meaty and great for slicing.
Opalca we grew last year and have one plant this year that's just starting to give a few ripe. There's a lot of the plant though, enough to make a good batch of something.
After all we've put up, we've given 3 bushels away to friends and neighbors. Very grateful for not having any hornworm this year. Blight of course has my plants foliage 90% dead.
I messed up not planting san Marzano.
Another salsa day. This is our 5th harvest of 30+ lb tomatoes. We are up to ~35 quarts canned and 30 pints of salsa. First batch with a habenaro today. I like the flavor of the cayenne more, and that's about the max heat tolerance for the boys, so they are the primary pepper in most batches. Hungarian wax and a few jalapeños make up the rest.
Going to have to try this next year. I was always a bush bean grower until my DIL bought some pole beans. Much easier on the back.
Sorry, but that sounds like an unholy mess to harvest. Since they didn't have wire fencing, or tomato cages, or fertilizer, I can see where it might make sense.
Banner year for tomatoes I guess...
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Also, not sure why, but I've had a quite a few tomatoes with buttholes this year 🤷♂️
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Also, not sure why, but I've had a quite a few tomatoes with buttholes this year 🤷♂️
Block's has really amazing tomatoes, right now. I canned 9 gallons yesterday, and they were so easy...... I have way too many super-hot peppers. I started smoking a bunch over the weekend, and will finish them today or tomorrow.
And they're relatively cheap right? And actually have flavor.
Growing your own is the best way to save $1.29 lol
Yes. They taste amazing. I actually kept out 4 of the most perfect tomatoes, just for slicing, and for a tomato/grilled cheese sandwich.
Looks like manually digging those borers out, then reaming the hollowed vine with a wire worked! A day or two later I followed up by pumping an epsom salt dilute of nearly 2 tablespoons per gallon through the worm holes. They all looked bad but the plants leaves and stems in the foreground were laying limp on the ground before hitting it with epsom. Barring any frost I may get another round of fresh zukes. I've trimmed yellow leaves off since.
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So the garden is winding down. Cold weather is coming! I have quite a few peppers still on the vine. I'm getting some late season green beans, and have enough Roma tomatoes for a few more jars of salsa. Started picking my butternut squash this morning. Quite a few are ready and will have several still on the vine. Over all its been a great year!
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