Thread: In the Garden 2017

Well the tomatoes are plumping up nicely


There's a "ground cherry" plant that someone gave me in the spring. It's been super easy to grow, I basically stuck it in the ground and walked away. Making lots of little ground cherries now. I've had them before, they're really sweet. I think it's related to a tomatillo.


And we harvested a couple "Japanese fingerling" eggplants. Check out the double!

Ok Tuzi, those fingerling eggplants are really cool. I have to look into those

First tomatoes this season. Still waiting on the cucumbers to give fruit, and the peppers are coming along nicely.

Not really from the garden but a tree right next to the garden. I harvested some chokecherries, probably a bit early but I have some stiff competition from the birds or some other critters this year. As soon as the cherries are dark they disappear. Normally I would wait until they are a little darker but, oh well I enjoy the tart astringent taste anyways.

There are still many more on the tree so I will keep a close eye on them and hopefully get them before the critters do.

Here I am making chokecherry leather in the dehydrator. First I got the pits out, then a couple pulses in the food processor, then from thin strips on parchment paper into the dehydrator. I'll check them in a few hours and if they can hold together I'll slip them off the paper and straight on the rack to speed up drying. These are not everyone's favorite but I have a real taste for them!

I ended up with 8 strips of "leather", it worked very well. I think they taste great, but a little too tart for my wife. Next time I will consider adding something sweet like apples or pears perhaps. Here's four of them....

These are different - "lemon" cucumbers. Yellow and round kind of like a lemon but it's a cucumber. Good tasting ones too! We're growing them right alongside our regular cucumbers.

Todays batch of fallen apples.

I think we are getting to the point where I can go picking. Hoping I can get a clear 10kg. See if I can't make me some cider.

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Those look great, i hear it's a good year for apples, at least around where I live. I think it's because there was no freeze/frost to damage the early flowers in the spring? Or maybe the right amount of rain?

Originally Posted by xiaotuzi

Those look great, i hear it's a good year for apples, at least around where I live. I think it's because there was no freeze/frost to damage the early flowers in the spring? Or maybe the right amount of rain?

They are good this year. They used to be rather badly scabbed, but this year they are looking much happier.

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Todays harvest, some from the ground some picked.

So far we have made an apple crumble and a pie to take to my mother in laws today.

I reckon next weeke d I am going out with a big bucket and collecting enough to make up 10kg. Then I'm makin cider.

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