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Harvesting Time - What are you growing?

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The tomatoes are starting to ripen, and I can start picking massive amounts of basil in a week (fresh pesto). Beans and zucchini - feast or famine.

We also grow lots of hot peppers, and plant them around the edge of our raised beds - deer take one bite and don't come back.

Bluezilla - that's one purty garden - far beyond our scale.
 
#183
Our tomato plants are taking off. I think we're going to have more than we can eat, so I'll be passing out free bags of tomatoes soon. The bell peppers are coming along nicely, plenty of early growth there. The hot peppers surely benefited from the spell of hot temps (mid 90's) we had here over the last week, but probably not hot enough long enough to produce some real hot ones.

The wife has taken to growing celery starts in the windowsill from leftover stalks. We have quite a few plants going now, and gave some away.

The cucumbers and peas aren't doing much. Maybe they will soon, but it isn't looking good right now.

-Mike
 
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DerHoggz said:
Those are mini Bics aren't they, cheater.
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They are not. This is actually kind of a poor harvest and batch of shroom. The Oysters can easily reach 5" across and long without being tough or past their prime. I've been changing up my space, might have got a bit un-enamored with growing shrooms. It's fairly labor intensive when the weather gets warm - hoping to to do some batches when cool weather hits again in September and wrap up a week or two after Thanksgiving. But I have a few 1/2 gallon zip-locks full of dried ones. Which each would be approximately 10X as heavy before dehydrating - and these varieties run $12-15/lb. fresh. I buried a few blocks of spawn in a 5-6 yard pile of chips....it's been so wet this summer I think I will just cover that prick with some cardboard or a loose tarp in the fall and get some easy pickings with no work out of it. I have "spent" bags of shroom "stuff" out by my compost pile I haven't had the time/inclination of dumping - *((^*('ers keep trying to grow, breaking through the plastic bags eventually. That happened one time with a more "Woodstock-ish" variety :woot: - what do I do?

Everything in moderation.
 
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edpal said:
They are not. This is actually kind of a poor harvest and batch of shroom. The Oysters can easily reach 5" across and long without being tough or past their prime. I've been changing up my space, might have got a bit un-enamored with growing shrooms. It's fairly labor intensive when the weather gets warm - hoping to to do some batches when cool weather hits again in September and wrap up a week or two after Thanksgiving. But I have a few 1/2 gallon zip-locks full of dried ones. Which each would be approximately 10X as heavy before dehydrating - and these varieties run $12-15/lb. fresh. I buried a few blocks of spawn in a 5-6 yard pile of chips....it's been so wet this summer I think I will just cover that prick with some cardboard or a loose tarp in the fall and get some easy pickings with no work out of it. I have "spent" bags of shroom "stuff" out by my compost pile I haven't had the time/inclination of dumping - *((^*('ers keep trying to grow, breaking through the plastic bags eventually. That happened one time with a more "Woodstock-ish" variety :woot: - what do I do?

Everything in moderation.
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I work with a woman who used to work in the mushroom mines, old mines they grew in. You grow sheepshead?
 
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DerHoggz said:
I work with a woman who used to work in the mushroom mines, old mines they grew in. You grow sheepshead?
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I grow those - awesome flavor. But those would never grow in a mine, they need 8-10 hours a day of some low light, like you'd find in deep woods - those normally grow anywhere from 2-15' off the ground on dead or dying trees. Really only 2 types of edible mushrooms that thrive in the dark - white button and portabellas. And portabella's are botanically just a brown variety of the white button, allowed in some cases to grow bigger.

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What type of chili peppers you all growing?
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Jalapenos and one plant of "Ghost"(world's hottest :woot:)

Been harvesting a lot of fennel, freezing the stems and drying the tops - great on fish. Been picking some monster zucchini but who isn't by mid-summer.:rolleyes:
 
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edpal said:
I grow those - awesome flavor. But those would never grow in a mine, they need 8-10 hours a day of some low light, like you'd find in deep woods - those normally grow anywhere from 2-15' off the ground on dead or dying trees. Really only 2 types of edible mushrooms that thrive in the dark - white button and portabellas. And portabella's are botanically just a brown variety of the white button, allowed in some cases to grow bigger.

Jalapenos and one plant of "Ghost"(world's hottest :woot:)

Been harvesting a lot of fennel, freezing the stems and drying the tops - great on fish. Been picking some monster zucchini but who isn't by mid-summer.:rolleyes:
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The sheepshead weren't in the mine. My Bio teacher in high school gave bonus points for bringing them in.
 
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So far, the Smart Pots have been a huge success. This pic is from a couple of weeks ago. The stakes are 6 Ft for reference. Not bad for only having been planted at the end of May. Loaded with tomatoes, too.

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Titania said:
So far, the Smart Pots have been a huge success. This pic is from a couple of weeks ago. The stakes are 6 Ft for reference. Not bad for only having been planted at the end of May. Loaded with tomatoes, too.

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What are smart pots? We do containers and raised beds, but those look interesting.
 
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buldog5151bass said:
What are smart pots? We do containers and raised beds, but those look interesting.
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They're a non-woven polypropylene fabric pot that has a long history of use with tree growers. The fact that they are porous means the plant roots get air-pruned, rather than going round and round, which is what happens in a plastic pot. There's been some studies on them: Invalid Link Removed

I found out about them through a local gardening expert who has a radio show here in New England. We'd had problems with yield in our raised bed garden and decided to give them a try. So far, I'm impressed.
 
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buldog5151bass said:
What type of chili peppers you all growing?
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This was last year: Harvesting Time - What are you growing?

Lots of Ghosts and Habs last year.

So this year we're doing more medium-hot varieties: Aruba, Cora, Chile de Arbol, Serrano, Jalapeno, Poblano, Shipka, and then Pequin and a couple of different kinds of Habs for hotter ones. I have hundreds and hundreds of dried ones from years back, a few liters of pepper rum and tequila, and a few DIY bottle sauces. Phad Thai with freshies tomorrow, yay!
 
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