A couple of days ago we pickled green beans and a tester of scarlet runner beans (with the same recipe). Success! Today we did another round of 6 mixed jars (10 jars total) because the beans are out of control.
That’s just today.
It looks like the sweet spot for the pickles, using this recipe is ~3.5 lbs. That makes 6 jars of beans with 3c each water and 5% white vinegar. 3.5 lbs of beans is roughly twice what’s shown in that picture. That gets us well below the 4.2 ideal ph.
I had another big haul today (mostly squash) and pulled some onions. First Roma tomatoes are starting to get color.
Pulled the rest of the radish and turnip plants from upper c and reseeded with beets and carrots.
It’s been a nice cool summer somehow, and we’ve all been happy about it… But today that changes!
I pulled all the garlic to cure. There’s a bunch. The metechi in the south bed seemed a little stunted. I think in general the Deerfield purple gave larger heads.
We also stripped down all the rhubarb, and picked raspberries at a friend’s- for brewing experiments.
Things look good. Good eating. Yellow beans are yellowing, green beans are getting ready to bear, and scarlet runners have given a few. I’ve been pulling squashes while they are small. I’ve got a couple of beds languishing now- I wonder if there is anything I can plant…
I’m pretty sure I’m allergic to turnips as well as radishes. *sigh*
And things happened!
Garlic is starting to look sad, so I pulled about half.
Food! First cherry tomatoes, yellow beans, runner beans. Raspberries!
Last 2 days.
There’s still a lot of rain happening. It’s balmy as heck but..
these photos are from a few days. We’ve eaten a bunch of kale, a few squash and artichoke, some peas. We will need to split daisies and probably the cat mint this year. It’s out of control. I put flash tape out to discourage the robins from stealing all the berries. ? hopefully it helps. Tomatoes are green, beans are flowering, peppers are starting… Okra is failing. It’s been kinda rainy and cool, which I’m actually kind of thankful for. Onions and garlic will probably need harvesting in the next couple of weeks.ys.
I haven’t been able to spend much time in the garden because I have a knee that is misbehaving, but I took the kitties out today to see what we could see
Good haul of ginornous rutabegas. This is only a few
Runners have pretty flowers
Another handful of kale and a few squash
Some onions were bolting, so I pulled them.
I’ve been a little unsteady with a flare up, but I taped up today to do a little light check on the garden.
Scapes! Squash
Peppers are flowering
I found a pea (ate it)
Runners are running
tomatoes in west e (the ones planted later)
