What's Growing in the Garden

trc65 said:
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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The apple and raspberry honey is relatively rare (neither makes a bunch of nectar) - but are both really sweet. Pear honey is extremely rare as they make almost no nectar. However, in a hard year, the bees will collect pear juice from overripe pears - and that can be super tasty. Now locust, in a good flowering year can make a delicious, mild, clear and pale honey. You can see the color difference on a frame from when they collect locust nectar and they stop and collect others.

I'd say the combo of apple, raspberry, and locust makes a great honey!
 
Nearing the end. Still have a bushel or more of apples on the tree, but can't find anyone else to take more. Picked some Brussels sprouts and an acorn squash for supper.

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Nature Man said:
Will you plant a Winter garden? Chuck
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Other than planting garlic in a couple weeks, no. I've got some Chinese cabbage I'm going to try to keep alive for a few more weeks by covering at night, but in a typical year our ground will freeze by the end of December, so without a heated greenhouse nothing will grow.
 
Wildthings said:
44° here last night, Yikes. Back to the mid 80°s this weekend!
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43 was our high today. Little white tuffs in the air that seem to disappear as they fall. I'm not ready yet. We've had 3 weeks of frost in the valley and only a few here on the hill. 28 this morning, so we are for sure done too.
 
Mid 40's today, but are supposed to hit 80° on Saturday before seasonal weather returns next week (highs in upper 50's to low 60's).
 
trc65 said:
Nearing the end. Still have a bushel or more of apples on the tree, but can't find anyone else to take more. Picked some Brussels sprouts and an acorn squash for supper.

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When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When you have too many apples... make apple cider vinegar. I look forward to having such problems. Someday.
 
JerseyHighlander said:
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When you have too many apples... make apple cider vinegar. I look forward to having such problems. Someday.
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I was going to make cider, but don't have a press, and just ran out of time (and freezer space) to do anything more with them. May have to buy a press though for the future, just ordered another apple tree to help with pollination of the Honey Crisp. Ordered an Orange Pippen to go with the Honey Crisp and Winesap.
 
trc65 said:
I was going to make cider, but don't have a press, and just ran out of time (and freezer space) to do anything more with them. May have to buy a press though for the future, just ordered another apple tree to help with pollination of the Honey Crisp. Ordered an Orange Pippen to go with the Honey Crisp and Winesap.
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We bought my dad a couple of the stainless jack lalane juicers at the goodwill and they have seen him through several seasons of cider and cider vinegar.
 
We haven't had a freeze here yet - have gotten real close a few nights. There was frost one morning a week or so ago, but it was sporadic and our backyard/garden was spared. But, either way, everything's done in the garden, except some bok choy and leeks - and those I'll probably pull and take care of this weekend when we clean out the beds.
 
Been going strong through two growing seasons, but will probably get a little slow in the coming months unless some of you southerners grow some winter crops...
 
trc65 said:
Been going strong through two growing seasons, but will probably get a little slow in the coming months unless some of you southerners grow some winter crops...
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Am giving it a try. I have one last gleaning on my bush beans in the green house. Then I feed the plants to the goats and geese and follow them with potatoes and onions. Even if they don't finish, they should be ready for a fast start next spring. I plan to only start leaf and root crops since the greenhouse will block any pollinators that may survive the cold.
 
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