Harvest Produce (Vegetables) blessings

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
Well it’s no secret the upper Midwest has been experiencing horrible drought conditions, and my garden sucked this year. A good friend is bringing me two hundred pounds of tomatoes here in a bit and some jalenpenos, looks to be about ten pounds worth!

Time to go get the kitchen in order so I can start canning tomorrow, first up cowboy candy.
 
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packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
congrats ---now get to work

Already have been. We've been cleaning the kitchen, sorted half of the maters, I've worked a couple of trades already for some maters, cooked down a bunch for tonights dinner into a righteous sauce to go over pasta with some italian sausage links, and I made a huge batch of fresh pic de gallo.
 

Murt

Veteran Member
our canning and processing has been winding down
it was tough for about a month
I picked some scuppernongs today that we will probably use to make a small batch of jelly
that's about all going on right now
 

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
our canning and processing has been winding down
it was tough for about a month
I picked some scuppernongs today that we will probably use to make a small batch of jelly
that's about all going on right now

what is a scuppernong? If it wasn't for my friend giving me tomatoes I probably wouldn't have had a canning season here this year. Something killed my cucumbers, my zucchini never grew, and something stole all of the squash off of my plants. Got to pickings of yellow wax beans and green beans, just enough for dinner times two. It's been a sad, sad year. I told OC just go to Aldi and pick up some flats of veggies, cause the garden just isn't putting out this year. Oh and every time my tomatoes get even a blush of color on them they're covered in those little black bugs and they're gone in a few hours.
 

Murt

Veteran Member
per wikipedia ---this is a good explanation


The scuppernong is a large variety of muscadine, a species of grape native to the Southern United States. It is usually a greenish or bronze color and is similar in appearance and texture to a white grape, but rounder and larger and first known as the 'big white grape'.

basically a bronze or yellow muscadine --very sweet
these are about the size of a quarter maybe a tad larger
 

Esto Perpetua

Veteran Member
what is a scuppernong? If it wasn't for my friend giving me tomatoes I probably wouldn't have had a canning season here this year. Something killed my cucumbers, my zucchini never grew, and something stole all of the squash off of my plants. Got to pickings of yellow wax beans and green beans, just enough for dinner times two. It's been a sad, sad year. I told OC just go to Aldi and pick up some flats of veggies, cause the garden just isn't putting out this year. Oh and every time my tomatoes get even a blush of color on them they're covered in those little black bugs and they're gone in a few hours.
I thought I was the only one. I don't grow enough to can but enough to keep me out of the grocery store if I want.

Not this year. I bought plants that were spindlier than seedlings I started. Part of the problem is likely I haven't spent much time out there but for watering everyday due to extreme health issues this year.

Also had tree rats eating everything. They are eating all the little melons. As soon as maters get a little color they're eating those. They even ate all the green bean plants, california poppies and morning glories! I have never seen anything like it!

Bout ready to just give up on this gardening deal! We probably haven't harvested even five whole pounds of produce. A few tiny little squash and tomatoes and enough basil for one batch of pesto.

On a brighter note, I finally got lavender started from seed growing successfully. Need to plant some sage and start making soap again when they get big.
 
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