What's Growing in the Garden

trc65 said:
Hard freeze last night (27°) so my growing season is mostly over. Still have Brussels sprouts, Chinese cabbage, regular cabbage and winter squash to harvest.

With vines and weeds now dead, time to start cutting pumpkins from vines and bringing them to the house for decorating. Not as large as previous years, but I was late getting them into the ground.

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Makes my three pumpkins look pretty sad.
 
Here are a couple of the "big" pumpkins. No where near the size of the one last year, but got four of them to grow this year.

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My spot is too shady. I got 3 winter squash that I have already sent to the parents house. My cucumbers are just now blooming. Hard freeze tonight. Don't think they will make cukes... I am wrapping up a mini greenhouse.
Hoping to lengthen my bean harvest by a week or so. My pollinators will drop out so I won't get more. Just finish off what's set. After that I plan to start potatoes and onions and let them get a head start on next year's growing season.
 
Nice little greenhouse Frank! That should give you a lot more than a week unless you start slipping into the low 20's at night. Watch the temps on warm sunny days, I'd imagine that could go up to 100°+ on a sunny 70° day.
 
trc65 said:
Nice little greenhouse Frank! That should give you a lot more than a week unless you start slipping into the low 20's at night. Watch the temps on warm sunny days, I'd imagine that could go up to 100°+ on a sunny 70° day.
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Thanks. Yeah, I plan to get some automatic vents for crawlspace. They open at 70 degrees. And put 2 or 3 on each end.
 
Frank, that's awesome. I'd love to build a greenhouse. But, not going to happen where we live - at least not until the day comes that we are living in a house of our own instead of a parsonage.
 
Sprung said:
Frank, that's awesome. I'd love to build a greenhouse. But, not going to happen where we live - at least not until the day comes that we are living in a house of our own instead of a parsonage.
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You can , if you use a high quality plastic, put a greenhouse together using a harbor freight storage tent/shed. Especially if you keep the door end that comes with it. That would go up in about 4 hours and down in two in the spring. Storage for those is about 1ft x 1 ft x 4ft.
 
@Sprung mentioned fermenting garlic in honey and that got me looking at recipes to see how people used them. I'm not going to do any garlic, but found a recipe for fermenting cranberries in honey and that's what I got working this afternoon. Cranberries, ginger, orange juice and a cinnamon stick- then pour honey over the top and let it work. Here's the recipe: https://www.growforagecookferment.com/fermented-honey-cranberries/

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I've got high hopes for this one!
 
trc65 said:
@Sprung mentioned fermenting garlic in honey and that got me looking at recipes to see how people used them. I'm not going to do any garlic, but found a recipe for fermenting cranberries in honey and that's what I got working this afternoon. Cranberries, ginger, orange juice and a cinnamon stick- then pour honey over the top and let it work. Here's the recipe: https://www.growforagecookferment.com/fermented-honey-cranberries/

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That really looks scrumptious! Let us know how it turns out when you eventually open it. Chuck
 
trc65 said:
@Sprung mentioned fermenting garlic in honey and that got me looking at recipes to see how people used them. I'm not going to do any garlic, but found a recipe for fermenting cranberries in honey and that's what I got working this afternoon. Cranberries, ginger, orange juice and a cinnamon stick- then pour honey over the top and let it work. Here's the recipe: https://www.growforagecookferment.com/fermented-honey-cranberries/

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I'm not real sure how this could go wrong...

Alan
 
Nature Man said:
That really looks scrumptious! Let us know how it turns out when you eventually open it. Chuck
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Alan R McDaniel Jr said:
I'm not real sure how this could go wrong...

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It was almost a shame to "contaminate" the honey with the berries. The guy with the hives has a combination of apples, pears and black locust trees along with several large raspberry patches to feed the bees. Probably the best tasting honey I've ever had.
 
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Well, I love good honey and I love cranberries... soooooooo, It looks like the best of both worlds to me...

Down here we have a brush specie called guajillo. There's a pretty good flow in Spring. If you put the supers on when it starts and pull them when it's done (or before something else starts), it makes the best honey I've ever tasted. It's a very light colored and flavored honey. But unless a guy runs his own hives, it's hard to come by. The last I had was from the last super I pulled and that was in 1989...

Alan
 
Tim, that looks like it'll be a delicious ferment. Let us know what you think of it later on!
 
Alan R McDaniel Jr said:
Well, I love good honey and I love cranberries... soooooooo, It looks like the best of both worlds to me...

Down here we have a brush specie called guajillo. There's a pretty good flow in Spring. If you put the supers on when it starts and pull them when it's done (or before something else starts), it makes the best honey I've ever tasted. It's a very light colored and flavored honey. But unless a guy runs his own hives, it's hard to come by. The last I had was from the last super I pulled and that was in 1989...

Alan
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I’ve had Guajillo honey, and it is fantastic! Would really like to try the honey that Tim spoke about. Chuck
 
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