2012 - What's Going On In Your Garden Today?

[texasrockgarden]

I have been ask for the pickle recipe so here it is.

Photos 1 and 2 - Counter-top dill pickle recipe.

Photos 3, 4 and 5 - 1st really nice 9 oz Indian Stripe tomato of the season.

Photo 6 - On the slice.

[texasrockgarden]

Todays gardening yields a 15 oz JD's Special C-Tex that has been visited by a katydid forcing it to be picked early. There is a photo of a 1+ oz Rambling Red Stripe. The markings are almost identical to Black Zebra another one of my favorites.

We have cukes and zucchini picked yesterday and this morning. When there is enough for 5 pints of sliced cukes there will be in the works another batch of counter-top salt pickles.

And last but not least my helper laying down on the job.

A picture of the 15oz Special C-Tex sliced. Saved a few seeds too.

[Crandrew]

looks amazing !

[texasrockgarden]

Yesterday my neighbor and I pull the rest of the beets. I took enough for five pints of pickled beets bring my total for this season to twelve enough for one a month until next season this time. The rest went to the neighbor, probably enough for a dozen or more pints.

[feldon30]

Originally Posted by texasrockgarden

Yesterday my neighbor and I pull the rest of the beets. I took enough for five pints of pickled beets bring my total for this season to twelve enough for one a month until next season this time. The rest went to the neighbor, probably enough for a dozen or more pints.

Wow those look great. I bet they can't be beet.

*runs away*

[texasrockgarden]

Yesterdays harvest, tomatoes, cukes, zucchini, eggplants and okra.

It rained 1 1/4 " last night. I pulled onions yesterday and the tomatoes are really starting to pop, literally after the rain. Also, bad timing for the rain, so far as the onions go.

[Crandrew]

great harvest! Looks like you are consistently having a decent yield.

[livinonfaith]

Wow! Love that big triple fused tomato. What a monster!

What a beautiful harvest! I would be horribly jealous, but my sugar snap peas are finally ready. That's enough to keep me satisfied until my first green tomatoes ripen. (Probably a week or two)

[texasrockgarden]

crandrew - thanks. Toms are starting in. Next week I will start canning tomatoes and dill pickles.

livinonfaith - This year I have more double, triple and quads fused blossoms than ever. I set out a few transplants earlier then ever before, Jan 16 and Jan 23 and they are the ones producing the fused toms.

I'm jealous over your peas. We have such a short window here between too cold and too hot that peas never have a real chance to do well.

[b54red]

Congrats, that is one beautiful garden with really healthy looking plants. Your onions look great this year. Mine grew like gangbusters last year; but for some reason they are doing very poorly this year.

[texasrockgarden]

Originally Posted by b54red

Congrats, that is one beautiful garden with really healthy looking plants. Your onions look great this year. Mine grew like gangbusters last year; but for some reason they are doing very poorly this year.

Of three varieties I planted two, Texas Early White and 1015Y, did ok. Red Creole is one I will not plant again. It just didn't meet my expectations.

I pulled 1/2 my onions yesterday morning to lay out on the soil for 2-3 days to dry out and start curing. Last night it rained 1 1/4 inches.

Here is a picture of them on the ground after the rain and of them on 1" chicken wire racks. Hopefully they will dry enough this afternoon and tomorrow before the next big rain chances.

[Tonio]

wow, great harvest.

Who was that southern cook that used to say ONIYON

[g8shot1]

Mmmm, love the onion shots. Great job with your garden!

[livinonfaith]

Originally Posted by Tonio

wow, great harvest.

Who was that southern cook that used to say ONIYON

Justin Wilson!

Always added wine to his food.......tasted it......and then added a little more.

He was the king of the cooking shows back when there weren't many.

Loved that man, "I gar-on-tee!"

[texasrockgarden]

A test ear. I've not grown corn but only once more than 30 years ago. I Googled when to pick corn and found that when the silks turn brown it should be ready. A further test is to examine the kernels near the top of the ear and if they have milk it is ready.

I took an ear with brown silk and with my pocket knife I cut across the ear at the top and peeled the shuck back a bit. It was juicy but not milk. I picked it and shucked it anyway. It looked good enough to eat to me.

I dropped it in a pot of boiling salted water and cooked it for 8 minutes (also from Googling). It tasted good enough that I think I will be eating corn on the cob for a while.

Twilley's ACcentuate Sweet Corn Hybrid