Okra, fried, boiled, grilled over charcoal, in gumbo, okra and tomatoes, I even like it raw. After trying it raw I know why deer will go for it even before they consume the pepper plants.
What's Growing in the Garden
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This is the garden after the corn, beans, peas, tigger melons and cukes are gone. Now I have beets, collards, kale, rutabaga, turnip and a half dozen things planted. Mustard is in another small plot along with white multiplying and Egyptian walking onions. Okra, peppers and a few tomatoes are still producing and won’t come down until heavy frost.
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I was doing a show today and a woman who has bought some stuff from me in the past came up and was looking at a Cholla peppermill I had on the table. We started talking about it, the upshot is she has one growing at her house. I didn't know it grew here but apparently it does. She went home and got me some cuttings, hopefully I can get it to grow in my yard.
That is awesome. If they take, those sprouts will be as tall as you and a couple of years.
Yep, they grow about 6" per year. It should actually take about 4 four years. ............. Nubs
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What kind of Cholla is it, Tony? ........... Nubs
No idea Jerry.
Looks like Versecolor. Remove that pod and save the seeds, Give them til May. They should sprout, then you will have a batch of home grown Cholla. But, when they get taller than you, you gotta watch out as they'll stick ya.
Below is dried Fulgida. Love'um. I'm not holding that one. I had to walk back to my truck and find my comb.
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OUCH!!!!!
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Double ouch. Reminds me of a story in yesterday's paper - they do a segment "what happened 100 years ago, 75 years ago etc etc. reprinting articles from old papers. It seems some guy a 100 years ago saw a porcupine sleeping in a tree. For some reason he decided to climb up and knock the porcupine down. The porcupine woke up, saw the guy climbing and started to climb higher. The guy was about 30 feet above grade with the porcupine way above him when the porcupine slipped and fell. It missed the guy by inches. Now that would have been a painful. And no porcupines were harmed in this story, it walked away.
Looks like a bumper crop of dried beans this year. I wouldn't have minded leaving them longer to dry on the vines but it's looking like quite a bit of rain this weekend. Hard rain and wind will beat them down to the ground and if they stay wet too long the beans will sprout. The were pretty dry after a couple of days of low humidity and sun. They will finish drying nicely on my attic floor and a added benefit is that when cold weather hits they will freeze. A couple of freeze thaw cycles will take care of any weavlels that might be hiding. I had about 1/3 as many last year and after threshing and cleaning I had 8 pounds of usable beans. If I get as many as I am hoping for I will only plant a few next year to produce a fresh seed crop
What kind of dried beans do you have?
We have had 2 frosts so far this week. Our garden is likely done. Most plants got bit last night. We are ready to say goodbye.
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We've got maybe a month before frost, but it wouldn't bother me if it frosted sooner. Have some lima beans to harvest, a few peppers, beets and potatoes, but the rest is dead. We have been wet for the last month and that trend is continuing. Tired of the mud and the grass growing too fast.
Do you turn your bean plants under at the end of the season?
No I pull them to make removing the pods easier then compost. I used to dry the whole plant then put them in a burlap sack and thrash them in the sack. That takes a lot more room that I don't have.
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A couple of light frosts here the only things still in the garden are turnips and parsnips. Tomatoes peppers and basil and still in the greenhouse but not for long, I'm not going to burn a five gallon can of diesel fuel to grow $10 worth of tomatoes. I may get another couple of weeks out of it unheated.