2023 garden thread

[qclabrat]

4 deer sleeping in my fenced garden today.
looks like one tried to jump over, didn't make it, tore out the mesh, and the others walked right in.....
the didn't really eat anything - although one of the fawns got spooked, and ran into the mesh, cartoon rebound.

Had a tiny fawn squeeze under my perimeter deer fence a few years back and when I approached it ran repeatedly into the fence not knowing how to get out. They're not the gifted the brains of the forest.

 

[w_b]

4 deer sleeping in my fenced garden today.
looks like one tried to jump over, didn't make it, tore out the mesh, and the others walked right in.....
the didn't really eat anything - although one of the fawns got spooked, and ran into the mesh, cartoon rebound.

don't get me started on deer damage

looking into additional fencing and other deterrents.

 

[stb222]

Happy to have the black cherry tomatoes back this year, but I don’t need a pint every other day lol

 

[qclabrat]

Well this sucks, lost several hundred peaches. Plan to make several gallons of peach preserves

 

[ekuhn]

Well this sucks, lost several hundred peaches. Plan to make several gallons of peach preservesView attachment 222981View attachment 222982

I had the same thing happen this year. The deer have remedied the situation tho. I just need to clean up the branch.

 

[stb222]

When you go away for a week and your FIL doesn’t pick the tomatoes. We had 20 before we left too.
Best growing season ever

 

[qclabrat]

Maybe a week left to the season. I really let it go the past few weeks and will clean up in November when they die back.

Late crop of edible luffa, eat them young. They're sorta phallic before flowering...

 

[stb222]

I think this rain will do a bunch of the remaining tomatoes in

Fully admit tomatoes kinda suck now lol

 

[qclabrat]

Cleaned the beds at the beach house. Told the renters to harvest what they wanted, which they didn't. Lots of wasted, time to make green tomato sauce with roasted peppers...

 

[w_b]

We still pickin and givin. There’s more downstairs at Mimi’s. Still producing too, both sides of the fence.

 

[serviceguy]

Cleaned the beds at the beach house. Told the renters to harvest what they wanted, which they didn't. Lots of wasted, time to make green tomato sauce with roasted peppersView attachment 224973View attachment 224974...

How hot are those? Ours are HOT!

 

[qclabrat]

How hot are those? Ours are HOT!

Sweet bananas, we only grew cayenne peppers this year

 

[SAM]

Looks like it's gonna get down to as low as 28º F for a couple hours the next few nights, so I finally went out and collected the butternut squash. Also had some Anaheim peppers and even a couple of cherrymatoes. Season done. Still need to clean up the mess.

 

[stb222]

was a tomatoes in november kinda season. last pick, so many greens on the vine but i dont really like rippening them inside.

 

[qclabrat]

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was a tomatoes in november kinda season. last pick, so many greens on the vine but i dont really like rippening them inside.

Green tomatoes work great in soups and stews

 

[Patrick]

Time to harvest our 1 persimmon

 

[SAM]

Time to harvest our 1 persimon

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Cone protects it from accidents?

 

[Mahnken]

Time to harvest our 1 persimmon

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I'll have to take a look at mine tomorrow, there were a whole bunch of them last time I looked, but nothing much bigger than the one you got there, lol.

 

[Patrick]

Cone protects it from accidents?

Had some tree.work done in the area.
Didn't want the dingo to run it over

 

[qclabrat]

Final harvest, pretty sad looking