Re: Monthly Avatar: September, Show Off Your Garden Harvest!

yolos 9/16/2012, 7:34 pm

I think it is time to try and figure out how to use the pressure canner I bought last month. I have tomatoes coming out my ears. affraid

I harvested the following today. Something ate the leaves on one of my sweet potato vines so I harvested this sweet potatoe vine early. Also, I think I may have waited to long to harvest the eggplant. But if it is too tuff, I will get my son in law to make eggplant chips.
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**camprn** 9/16/2012, 7:39 pm

VERY NICE! Yolos. Very Happy

greatgranny 9/16/2012, 8:45 pm

yolos wrote:I think it is time to try and figure out how to use the pressure canner I bought last month. I have tomatoes coming out my ears.

I harvested the following today. Something ate the leaves on one of my sweet potato vines so I harvested this sweet potatoe vine early. Also, I think I may have waited to long to harvest the eggplant. But if it is too tuff, I will get my son in law to make eggplant chips.

Wow, that is some harvest.

ericam 9/16/2012, 10:05 pm

Wow yolos, nice looking tomatoes!

CapeCoddess 9/3/2016, 3:51 pm

Begin!

( I'm not ready yet. Wink

)

**Scorpio Rising** 9/3/2016, 8:14 pm

CapeCoddess wrote:Begin!

( I'm not ready yet. )

Me neither....tomorrow AM Monthly Avatar: September, Show Off Your Garden Harvest! - Page 2 3170584802

countrynaturals 9/3/2016, 10:30 pm

YEE-HAH! I changed mine this morning and it qualifies! That's one of my Armenian cukes Fawkes is playing with. I sent it down to some friends in the Bay area with Katie and she took the pic. Had to take it away from him and put it in the fridge. He was really in love with it. Laughing

CapeCoddess 9/7/2016, 3:39 pm

OK, I'm using my fall lettuce harvest:
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CC

**Scorpio Rising** 9/7/2016, 6:09 pm

Pretty! I got nothin'. Working on it.

**Scorpio Rising** 9/10/2016, 11:56 am

OK, just got in from harvesting, and have a September avatar!

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Melons, a few beans, peppers, paste and cherry maters, and a Patty pan (and a past it's prime overlooked cuke).

countrynaturals 9/10/2016, 5:53 pm

Beautiful, Scorpio! Monthly Avatar: September, Show Off Your Garden Harvest! - Page 2 3170584802

(Boy, am I jealous! Twisted Evil

)

**Scorpio Rising** 9/10/2016, 8:50 pm

Sweetheart, just wai til February! We will be deep chill. You, eating yummy stuff!

Ginger Blue 9/11/2016, 7:53 pm

September update:

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**Scorpio Rising** 9/11/2016, 8:30 pm

Nice! What kind of melons, GB?

Ginger Blue 9/11/2016, 8:44 pm

Scorpio Rising wrote:Nice! What kind of melons, GB?

Thank you SR. The melons are Sugar Baby watermelons. drooling

**Scorpio Rising** 9/11/2016, 8:57 pm

Are they seedy? I am gonna see if the 2nd Blacktail Mountain is as seedy as the first...if better, I am going to throw those saved seeds and use these!

Ginger Blue 9/11/2016, 10:26 pm

Scorpio Rising wrote:Are they seedy? I am gonna see if the 2nd Blacktail Mountain is as seedy as the first...if better, I am going to throw those saved seeds and use these!

These are the first melons I've successfully grown. They're seedy and very, very juicy, but not as flavorful as I'd like. I've saved some seeds from the largest of these melons, but probably won't grow them again. A couple of small "Jubilee" watermelons, as well as several cantaloupe are coming along on trellised vines; I'm hoping they'll ripen before our first frost.

Blacktail Mountain and Osh Kirgizia are on my plan for next year, while Cream of Saskatchewan, Golden Midget, Sorbet Swirl and a dozen other types of melons are in line after those...

So many melons, so little garden space! Cool

CapeCoddess 9/12/2016, 2:34 pm

GB, are those Lemon cukes in your photo? I've never grown them before and mine look like lemons now so I'm wondering if that means pick em.
CC

Ginger Blue 9/12/2016, 7:49 pm

CapeCoddess wrote:GB, are those Lemon cukes in your photo? I've never grown them before and mine look like lemons now so I'm wondering if that means pick em.
CC

Yes, CC, they're Lemon Cukes. This is my first year growing them, too. I've only harvested one, previous to these, at about the same look of ripeness (if that makes any sense) - a yellow hue over all, but not necessarily bright - whether perfectly ripe or not, it was juicy and had a lovely mild taste. Haven't eaten these, yet.

I'd say go ahead and pick the yellowest one and give it a try... What a Face

**sanderson** 9/13/2016, 2:40 pm

I'm this close to pulling all the peppers to make room for the winter starts. Green Jimmy N., 2 red chilis, poblamo, cayenne, jalapeno, paprika, 3 eggplants, green, orange and lilac bells. Monthly Avatar: September, Show Off Your Garden Harvest! - Page 2 Harves10

Ginger Blue 9/13/2016, 3:48 pm

sanderson wrote:I'm this close to pulling all the peppers to make room for the winter starts. Green Jimmy N., 2 red chilis, poblamo, cayenne, jalapeno, paprika, 3 eggplants, green, orange and lilac bells.

Beautiful, Sanderson! Monthly Avatar: September, Show Off Your Garden Harvest! - Page 2 3170584802

What are you gonna do with 'em?
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**Scorpio Rising** 9/13/2016, 9:06 pm

Gorgeous! Do the hot peppers cross with the bells? I would love one jalapeño plant....but don't want hottish bell peppers....

**sanderson** 9/13/2016, 9:53 pm

GB, The hot are chopped and drying. The Jalapenos will be roasted, peeled and frozen. The Jimmy N. for snacks and the bells for stuffing and freezing for winter.

SR, As I understand it, the mother plant determines the variety. Mine are all planted mixed together, but then, I don't save the seeds as the next generation could be hybrids. At least that is what I think. Embarassed

Anyone else regarding peppers cross-pollinating??

Same with squashes. I'll grab any male to pollinate a female. But, I don't save the seeds.

**Scorpio Rising** 9/13/2016, 11:00 pm

Makes sense. Thanks Sanderson. I would never save pepper seeds either. With SFG, some seeds you have so many. Due to our planting habit! Some, I do save. Melons, ground cherries.

yolos 9/14/2016, 12:42 am

sanderson wrote:SR, As I understand it, the mother plant determines the variety. Mine are all planted mixed together, but then, I don't save the seeds as the next generation could be hybrids. At least that is what I think. Anyone else regarding peppers cross-pollinating??

Yes, according to this article, they can cross pollinate.

https://www.southernexposure.com/isolation-distance-requirements-for-peppers-ezp-34.html

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