2017 Gardening thread

[Shake N' Bake]

My bride worked on okrey last night after work... The freezer is lookin' pretty good!! That's zucchini/squash on the left, and peas/okra the rest of the way over... If you look close, you can see a bit of a brisket under the veggies right in the middle... I'm thinkin' we're gonna eat good this winter!



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Hech yeah! Details on bagging please!

[Shake N' Bake]

Our first bell pepper! My wife put it in our spaghetti and it was awesome!

[txtimetravler]

Last of the tomatoes.

[Brazos Hunter]

This is more than likely our last harvest of tomatoes. I have not kept up with them this year as I should have.



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[tbeak]

I haven't even picked one yet.

Picked my first cucumber last night.

Anyone have a good recipe for fig preserves?

[4_Fingers]

Cool thread, thanks for sharing.

[More Liberty]

I have a 30' x 72' high tunnel; it's one of my plots. Well one of the neat things about high tunnels is you can grow sooner and longer. In Texas if you throw a shade cloth over it during the summer you can grow somewhat cooler weather veggies. Well I noticed some of my sprouts starting to get eating. I found a hole under one of the base boards, threw a live trap out an caught a rabbit. My Blue Lacy - Ramadi - quickly caught the hare once I opened the trap.

[txtimetravler]

I have a 30' x 72' high tunnel; it's one of my plots. Well one of the neat things about high tunnels is you can grow sooner and longer. In Texas if you throw a shade cloth over it during the summer you can grow somewhat cooler weather veggies. Well I noticed some of my sprouts starting to get eating. I found a hole under one of the base boards, threw a live trap out an caught a rabbit. My Blue Lacy - Ramadi - quickly caught the hare once I opened the trap.

I do that with squirrels. My lacy loves em.

[Texas Grown]

I have a 30' x 72' high tunnel; it's one of my plots. Well one of the neat things about high tunnels is you can grow sooner and longer. In Texas if you throw a shade cloth over it during the summer you can grow somewhat cooler weather veggies. Well I noticed some of my sprouts starting to get eating. I found a hole under one of the base boards, threw a live trap out an caught a rabbit. My Blue Lacy - Ramadi - quickly caught the hare once I opened the trap.

Nothun wrong with grow-n a little rabbit to go in the stew with the veggies!

[Shake N' Bake]

Our garden has made a full come back. We have watermelons, cantaloupe, peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers on the vine!

[Booner Sooner]

The Lazarus garden

[SaltwaterSlick]

I've been off the grid the past few days so just now catching up on things... Just before I left for the Chandeleur Island trip (another fishing report thread), we pulled our first corn.

Probably a bunch out there now that needs pulling. Hope to get it done this weekend. A buddy of mine came over and picked the peas. They're about done now. My bride picked 6 buckets of okra again this week... will have more coming... Squash/cukes/zucchini/melons are all about done... Gonna start turning most of the garden under next week or so... For our first time to try a "real" garden, I cannot believe the bounty the Lord provided to my wife and me out of that patch!! It was truly a blessing and loads of work, but much fun too!!

If you wash and trim the okra then vacuum seal it good, you can take it out and do anything with it you want when your'e ready to cook it. It's sure a lot easier than chopping it and battering it for frying and prepared fresh for frying after thawing, this works better for us. It doesn't work so good just in zip-locs.

[Codypatt1]

Some pickings this week!

[Shake N' Bake]

Today's haul!!

[Texas Grown]

Had to space my pepper plants out. Some weren't getting enough sun. And some branches were growing into it's neighbor's cage. Also built the little risers for next year's RGGS. Also makes it easier to weed-eat around some of it.

The fish are biting, and there's hogs to be kilt. Gotta go!