What Did You Harvest Today?

[Stwood]

Onions, few tomatoes. Tomatoes are diminishing, quit flowering. Won't be long I'll be pulling the cages. I cut back to 53 plants, half of what I normally plant. Now I wish I hadn't done that.
We'll be short on salsa, stew, etc more-n-likely.

May hit the amish produce sales later on and *if* theres some tomato bargains, we may get them.
Last year our distant neighbor bought there. Cases of tomatoes were bringing a dollar a case.  But it was a bumper year

[bigbear]

Squash, tomato, zukes, carrots, squash, beans, zukes, peppers, squash, cucumbers, zukes...  did I mention squash and zukes?  We're getting a few of them.

[David in MN]

Spent last night making pizzas with the fam from home grown tomato and basil. We really like the simplicity of a good dough, fresh sliced tomato, some whole milk mozz, and fresh basil as it exits the oven.

Other than that I'm awash in squash and ground cherries.

[Redman]

Groundcherries huh, had to look that up. Papery hush, I wonder if they are kin to tomatillos?

[David in MN]

Groundcherries huh, had to look that up. Papery hush, I wonder if they are kin to tomatillos?

Some call the "husk tomatoes". They are very much like a tomatillo but with a sweeter, more fruit-like flavor. My wife LOVES them. Not the easiest to start (they seem to wilt easily) but once running I get about a pint per day from 5 plants. I don't know about cooking with them, we only eat them fresh. FWIW my 3 year old loves them too.

It's one of those weird plants popular up here because it's a "fruit" thatt matures very rapidly. Like I said, once you get them established they're very hardy and even one plant would produce quite a few. I think they're all heirloom so you could save seeds but the seeds are so little I have never tried. All in all worth considering for next year if you've never tried one. I've never seen one in a store.

[mountainmoma]

We have chard, kale, magenta spreen lambsquarters, some other nutritious summer weed, and BASIL, yep I made pesto the other day ! Finally a summer crop is ripe. 

[Stwood]

Squash, tomato, zukes, carrots, squash, beans, zukes, peppers, squash, cucumbers, zukes...  did I mention squash and zukes?  We're getting a few of them.

Did you plant any squash and zukes??   

[Stwood]

Pickin elderberry heads today. Bag and freeze till we get enough to run them through the steamer.

[Stwood]

More elderberrys today. Yea their gonna be ongoing for a while yet. 
Tomatoes, okra, peppers.

[Stwood]

Elderberry's
Tomatoes
1 onion........found it in the row I dug up last week.   

[LvsChant]

Picked some apples today... the birds are destroying a lot, so figured I'd better get what I can. Also picked a few pears... they will ripen on the kitchen counter.

[Stwood]

Tomatoes.
Ear corn, too far past eating. Darn. Guess I'll let it dry then grind into corn flour.
New seed to me. Bloody Butcher. Anyone use it before?

[Carl]

Tomatoes.
Ear corn, too far past eating. Darn. Guess I'll let it dry then grind into corn flour.
New seed to me. Bloody Butcher. Anyone use it before?

  While I think you would know if someone had used the corn you have before you....go wash your hands

[Stwood]

 

[Stwood]

Another 2-1/2 gal bucket of elderberrys

[Redman]

Sounds prolific, no wine bottles on them bushes? 

[mountainmoma]

Tomatoes.
Ear corn, too far past eating. Darn. Guess I'll let it dry then grind into corn flour.
New seed to me. Bloody Butcher. Anyone use it before?

That one is not for fresh eating, it is a dent corn.  Dent corn is what standard cornmeal is made from. SO, yes, leave it on the stalk until they dry down.

[mountainmoma]

Picked 2 large heads of brocolli, and as that is too much for me to use up quickly, I need to freeze some. I ate a couple grapes, not quite, but I did not net and some critter was on the deck trellis eating grapes tonight. 

Late garden is growing well, there will be proper summer crops this fall.

[Stwood]

That one is not for fresh eating, it is a dent corn.  Dent corn is what standard cornmeal is made from. SO, yes, leave it on the stalk until they dry down.

Yes. Correct. I thought I'd planted sweet, but after lookin at my notes, I'd planted that variety to make cornmeal. 

So, no sweet corn for us this year, unless we buy it.

Yesterdays harvest.
Onions
Taters
Elderberry's
Peppers

[Stwood]

Elderberry's
Jalapeno's

[Redman]

Yes. Correct. I thought I'd planted sweet, but after lookin at my notes, I'd planted that variety to make cornmeal. 

So, no sweet corn for us this year, unless we buy it.

Kroger has been advertising Olathe sweet corn this past week 6/$1. They do it every year. I don't see nothing special about that variety. Comes from Olathe, CO not Olathe, KS.

[Stwood]

Thats a great price. All ear corn here is usually .33 per ear

[Redman]

Got some this morning and more of that $0.99 sugar. Yeah that is a good price, they do it for one week when the corn comes in. After that it can go up to 50 cents an ear.

[Stwood]

.99 sugar.  Thats .25 per pound. I haven't seen those prices for 2-3 years.
Even in 50# bags here, it's over .50 per pound.
Course yer closer to the source down there, all those fields and sugar plants there in east texas and LA.
We picked up a lot of sugar there in Gramercy, LA. Cargill plant

[Carl]

  Price tied for making MASH for moonshine. In Texas the watermelon and sugar are most often tied for MELON-SHINE.

[Redman]

.99 sugar.  Thats .25 per pound. I haven't seen those prices for 2-3 years.
Even in 50# bags here, it's over .50 per pound.
Course yer closer to the source down there, all those fields and sugar plants there in east texas and LA.
We picked up a lot of sugar there in Gramercy, LA. Cargill plant

I don't know about closer to the source. The Imperial plant at Sugarland was closed maybe 10 years ago. The prices are coming from I think Kroger offering a store/off brand name sugar. Last year it was PSST brand, they had several items on that brand. This year is seems to be Smidge and Spoon. It will probably go to $1.49 Wedensday.

  Price tied for making MASH for moonshine. In Texas the watermelon and sugar are most often tied for MELON-SHINE.

Watermelon Wine. Tom T. Hall

"God bless little children while they're still to young to hate."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqV9NZSGIa4

[mountainmoma]

Yes. Correct. I thought I'd planted sweet, but after lookin at my notes, I'd planted that variety to make cornmeal. 

So, no sweet corn for us this year, unless we buy it.

Yesterdays harvest.
Onions
Taters
Elderberry's
Peppers

I almost never plant sweet corn, it is too easy to buy at the store or farmers market. I usually grow dried corn, usually a flour corn, which grinds up much finer and lighter than dent corn.  It is impossible to buy flour corn whole kernel or ground into flour. All that they sell is corn flour from dent corn.  So, since I worry about cross pollination and seed saving with corn, I usually just grow the flour corn.  This year, my dd wanted to grow sweet corn ( and sorghum) so, we have a bed of sweet corn and a bed of sorghum.  NO flour corn this year for us.

Flour ground from cherokee white flour corn is so light I can bake certain cakes out of it for the multitude of food fadists out here ( no gluten...) http://www.southernexposure.com/cherokee-white-flour-original-flour-corn-42-g-p-1316.html   and other places sell the seed

this link has a good, short description of the flour itself and uses  http://www.mosbys.org/store/p1/Cherokee_White_Flour_Corn.html

[Stwood]

Thanks MM. I'll look those links over.


Today, elderberrys and peppers.....again. 
Oh. Walnuts. Falling early due to dry conditions I think.

[Stwood]

The last few days
Potatoes
Peppers
Onions
Corn
Elberberrys

[Carl]

  A friend pulled a few butternut squash from the hand tossed garden and that was a surprise.