The Endzone Garden Thread

#1,551
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Did 2 quarts whole pickle cuke and Lemon Cuke quick pickle last night. Pretty simple pickling recipe, and they stay a bit fresh looking and crunchy so you can break them open for a kinda fresh munch with some maters or something.

In jar - few sprigs fresh dill, few cloves garlic, 3TBSP salt. Pickling spices or other spices optional. I added a dash of pickling spice and 1TSP sugar.

Cut off ends of cukes and stuff in jar. Cover to top with warm water. Sit 48 hours to "pickle". move to fridge. Will keep approximately 4-6 months in fridge.

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My garden is hanging in, despite the weathers extremes. (Hot & Dry // Hot & Drenched). It could be better, but other than my corn i can't really complain too much yet. Considering the high winds we had from two storms, only some of my corn and most of my sunflowers are laying down. My butter peas have been protected by the weeds. Looks like it may be time to clean them out so they can finish off. Well, my watermelon sucks too. But, it always does. I just keep planting them for some reason. My step son has a killer pumpkin patch going. He'll clear about $15K off that planting.
 
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The corn hasn’t tasseled yet. Or blossomed. Or bloomed, or whatever it’s supposed to do to create cobs. It’s growing great guns, though. The sunflowers all have buds. A male and female American goldfinch were hopping around this morning, pecking at the green buds. #UnclearOnTheConcept

Some of the corn and sunflowers got flattened one evening, but I sort of propped them up and they’re behaving. (the soil is really loose.) Some other corn then flopped down, and I just ignored it, thinking I was going to have to rig up some sort of framework, and three mornings later it was all upright again. Alrighty then.
 
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3 hours in the garden:
- an hour and a half on tidying up 9 indeterminate (vine) tomatoes (an hour on just the 3 dang cherry tomatoes - SunGold will rule the earth after the apocalypse)
- an hour and a half on 2 determinate (bush) San Marzano tomatoes.

Four more bush tomatoes to go.

Memo to self: it is just as important to rassle the little guys as it is the big guys.
 
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VolNExile said:
3 hours in the garden:
- an hour and a half on tidying up 9 indeterminate (vine) tomatoes (an hour on just the 3 dang cherry tomatoes - SunGold will rule the earth after the apocalypse)
- an hour and a half on 2 determinate (bush) San Marzano tomatoes.

Four more bush tomatoes to go.

Memo to self: it is just as important to rassle the little guys as it is the big guys.
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I went for three determinates this year (Goliath Bush). The only cherry tomato I have is a "Husky Cherry Red," and it is acting like a determinate. I have never grown it before. It has a little cherry tomato growing right against the stem at the bottom of the plant. I have never seen that. When I go water everything later, I'll grab my phone and take a pic and post it up.

We also grabbed a little tray of tomatoes at Lowe's, Better Boys. There were 8 in there, and only two or three of them looked like they were worth saving. Two of them looked dead. I think it was like 3 bucks for the tray. I wound up putting five of them in 7-gallon flower pots in old dirt and amended the soil. I put the two scrawniest ones together. After about two dosings of SuperThrive, all of them are out of control in those pots, and I don't know what I am going to do with them. My wife caged one, I put a little bamboo stake into one, but I literally have nowhere to put them. I think I am going to move them out into the yard or something. I am pretty sure my wife would kill me if I moved them into a flowerbed, but that would be the best place for them hahahaha
 
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GordonC said:
I went for three determinates this year (Goliath Bush). The only cherry tomato I have is a "Husky Cherry Red," and it is acting like a determinate. I have never grown it before. It has a little cherry tomato growing right against the stem at the bottom of the plant. I have never seen that. When I go water everything later, I'll grab my phone and take a pic and post it up.

We also grabbed a little tray of tomatoes at Lowe's, Better Boys. There were 8 in there, and only two or three of them looked like they were worth saving. Two of them looked dead. I think it was like 3 bucks for the tray. I wound up putting five of them in 7-gallon flower pots in old dirt and amended the soil. I put the two scrawniest ones together. After about two dosings of SuperThrive, all of them are out of control in those pots, and I don't know what I am going to do with them. My wife caged one, I put a little bamboo stake into one, but I literally have nowhere to put them. I think I am going to move them out into the yard or something. I am pretty sure my wife would kill me if I moved them into a flowerbed, but that would be the best place for them hahahaha
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I’ve got some patio tomatoes (Tiny Tim) in pots, but I think Better Boys would come in through the glass doors and strangle us in our sleep if I had them up on the deck!

lol at “My wife caged one” - I’m picturing her chasing it around the yard, catching it, wrestling it to the ground, and shoving it into a giant kennel-type cage! 🤪
 
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VolNExile said:
I’ve got some patio tomatoes (Tiny Tim) in pots, but I think Better Boys would come in through the glass doors and strangle us in our sleep if I had them up on the deck!

lol at “My wife caged one” - I’m picturing her chasing it around the yard, catching it, wrestling it to the ground, and shoving it into a giant kennel-type cage! 🤪
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HAHAHAHA well it had gotten big, and she had to do some rasslin to get it into the cage without damaging the plant
 
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My weird Cherokee-cherry home-crossed hybrid is already seven feet tall with suckers growing off every flower stalk. It’s covered in green tomatoes the size of babies’ fists. I wish some would ripen…

My pure Cherokee tomatoes are beginning to ripen. 😁
 
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Tin Man said:
My weird Cherokee-cherry home-crossed hybrid is already seven feet tall with suckers growing off every flower stalk. It’s covered in green tomatoes the size of babies’ fists. I wish some would ripen…

My pure Cherokee tomatoes are beginning to ripen. 😁
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So are you talking about the Cherokee purple in the cherry tomatoes?
 
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VolNExile said:
That makes for a pretty tidy tomato plant!
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Yessss

So I Googled Cherry Husky Red. It is indeterminate, but only grows 3 or 4 feet tall. I have cut away a lot of the lower branches (I do that when they start getting yellow or brown), and if it was determinate I began to worry if I had cut too much.
 
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The garden still looks like pickled ass but I managed to not kill the cucumbers. The tomato plants have perked back up but not the first damn tomato on them. They’re probably too out of control to prune at this point 3B0F3A1A-CDB9-4319-8642-CD183D21A13B.jpeg
 
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