Gardens for 2021 season

   / Gardens for 2021 season #71  
Picked over 8 gallons of cherries and made over 24 quarts of jam.
been trying to keep up on the cultivating and weeding after we finally got 3/10'ths inch of rain.
Onions a potatoes getting big. Cant walk thru the rows anymore and onions have big bulbs as of today. they will be pulled the last day of July, so they need to get finishing up growing!
Pic of 4 of the 24 quarts of cherry jam.
I ordered/planted 2, Montgomery sour cherry tree 4 years ago, from a respecatble online nursery. Last year was the first year for only one to get cherries on either, but the birds picked them off while small and green. Being proactive this year, I got netting big enough to cover the one with cherries (none on the other again) when they started forming. Now, the more I look at it, it appears to be a wild cherry tree.

A buddy of mine has a sour cherry tree that has produced, and he has picked all of his. All of these are still rather small and green. I'll let them mature, but think I'll just end up with ripe wild cherries, LOL... If that's the case. I reckon' it will make a dab of kindling for the shop stove.
 
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Have gotten wild cherry trees from Owens Nursery a few years back-----a lot of them sub wild ones for regular ones and get by with it!
 
   / Gardens for 2021 season #73  
Have gotten wild cherry trees from Owens Nursery a few years back-----a lot of them sub wild ones for regular ones and get by with it!
To ne honest, I can't remember which one I got it from. It was from one of 6 or so that send catalogs out in the Spring. Pretty disappointing to say the least.
 
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In the process of diggin the Early Red Norland spuds ----- Rain is making that job a bit hard now!
 
   / Gardens for 2021 season #75  
First Zucchini. Also found my first tomato horn worm, how do they find my plants in the middle of nowhere :-(
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Fun little harvest for us recently. We've had tomato pie, tomato jam, we have a few jars of tomato sauce, we had a delicious low country boil using the potatoes and squash, we're enjoying some good stuff!
 
   / Gardens for 2021 season #77  
I've got at least this many more ripe on the vine. I still have a lot of green ones too.

Good thing a lot of people like fresh home grown tomatoes. Lol
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ours are not even close to being ripe yet----late start then slow growing this year. Hope to have late ones for juice,---late ones are never as good as early ones since the sun is not at the right angle to ripen them so they are never as good. More like store bought ones,---kinda nasty! lol!
onions potatoes and cabbage so far. late potatoes not ready yet. these are early red norlands. Onions are starting to get ready, 1 row of early ones are being freeze-dried right now and later ones will get harvested next week.
Cabbage is about half grown as of now. They will be 25 pounds when full grown.
 

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busy summer here, finally got the potatoes dug, kens. and pontiacs were good, sweets were not so good this year, too dry for them. Cabbage went like gangbusters! Had over 100 heads weighing 20 to 25 pounds and 1 variety that went 12 pound average. All of these went to the food bank to be sent to disaster areas. We also took around 4,000 pounds of tomatoes, 500 pounds of eggplant, 1,500 pounds of summer squash, 500 pounds of nice onions, and 2,500 pounds of potatoes along with 500 pounds of sweet potatoes.
300 pounds of spaghetti squash, over 200 pounds of acorn squash, 127 watermelons, along with a few other odds and ends.
The food bank was glad to get the produce this year since they had so many calls for help from the storms in the south this year.

We freeze-dried 250 pounds of onions and 150 pounds of sweetcorn for us.
Canned peaches, greenbeans, sweetcorn, and tomato juice.
Made peach jam, apple juice, apple butter, and apple sauce. 250 quarts total, plus the cherry jam.
Also canned some greenbeans and yellow summer squash.
The red dry beans really put out this year too, over 4 gallons in the 5-gallon bucket after they were shelled.
Most of the garden is winding down now, still have the food grade pumpkins to work on.
We steam the pumpkin, then push it thru the colender to make it smooth. Then it goes into the freezer in quart bags.
Going to try a batch in the freeze-drier and see how that goes.
A few pix. of the general harvest.
 

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   / Gardens for 2021 season #80  
Never ever had summer squash to grow like this. Have gotten probably 20 squash from them so far. I just brought up some creek overflow soil and topped off with my own compost.
 

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