Garden 2024

[Inor]

Wait a minute you live in the fricken desert!

Yeah well, "shoot for the moon" is my motto. I might come up a little short, but you know... If by some quirk of fate I am able to make it work, I figure I will retire a rich man selling seaweed in the desert!

[BucketBack]

Deer ate my apple tree buds, veggies are in 6" containers looking OK for a late harvest. Looking to sell off some new canning stuff

[Sasquatch]

Just yanked these monsters out of the garden. Gonna smoke a brisket flat tomorrow so I'll make some kind of squash dish with them.

Also had a ton of apricots this year about to have a tone of donut peaches. I need to go start thinning the tree. My cherries, as usual, didn't do much. only got about 15 from two trees and birds got most of them.

[Slippy]

Just yanked these monsters out of the garden. Gonna smoke a brisket flat tomorrow so I'll make some kind of squash dish with them.

Also had a ton of apricots this year about to have a tone of donut peaches. I need to go start thinning the tree. My cherries, as usual, didn't do much. only got about 15 from two trees and birds got most of them.

Cube those squash up, drizzle with olive oil, salt, pepper and lightly pan-fry in a cast iron skillet over whatever smoky wood used on the brisket. Dash of Tony Chachere's cajun season prior to eating and WALLAH!

Pairs well with a good Tequila...

[Slippy]

Tomatoes, squash, zucchini, all peppers, (jalapeños, banana, fresno) some mint, lemongrass, cucumbers are all ripe and ready to harvest daily. Last of the peas cleaned up.

Compost bin re-filled. Summer heat is heating up in Alabama.

Already made a couple batches of refrigerator pickles. And eating cucumbers/tomato salad a few times a week.

Good stuff!

[Mad Trapper]

Fresh bear track in the garden this morning, no damages. Neighbor seen it , with two young cubs, thinks it's same one who had two 1 1/2 year olds last year.

[Sasquatch]

Cube those squash up, drizzle with olive oil, salt, pepper and lightly pan-fry in a cast iron skillet over whatever smoky wood used on the brisket. Dash of Tony Chachere's cajun season prior to eating and WALLAH!

Pairs well with a good Tequila...

Always know Slippy is good for a Pro Tip or two. I might just do them that way.

[Sasquatch]

Fresh bear track in the garden this morning, no damages. Neighbor seen it , with two young cubs, thinks it's same one who had two 1 1/2 year olds last year.

And I think Squirrels are a pain.

[Mad Trapper]

And I think Squirrels are a pain.

Back a couple years I was loosing sweet corn ears but it wasn't coons or bears. I found a pile of stripped ears at the base of a tree when I mowed the surrounding field. Little MFers were stealing 1 ear at a time then eating them at the tree, so they could skittle up it if anything that would eat/kill them came along.

[Chiefster23]

Because the mega hospital decided to get rid of older, experienced, expensive doctors, I had to move my knee replacement from fall to June 17 before my surgeon was retired. So now I’m laid up and my garden is coming on. And of course now we have a record heat wave. The wife is a trooper and has taken over garden duty. Watering every day and harvesting broccoli and cauliflower. She’s been blanching and freezing it. Blueberries are coming soon and peach trees desperately need thinning. I’m hoping to salvage most of the garden produce this year, but I’m thinking that garden chores and canning are going to be painful this year.