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Here is the okra that I have vacuum packed and frozen over the last three weeks or so.
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Two more quarts of pickled whole seedless jalapeños, green this time.
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A quart of nacho slices.
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I pickled this batch of jalapeños a few days ago when I had more than we could use. Yesterday I did a single quart jar of them, but in rings instead of whole. the pictured batch I cut off the...

Want more tomatoes? Don't wait for bees to pollinate them. They do a piss poor job on tomatoes. You can tap the stem of the blossom vigorously and sharply several times, or vibrate it with an...

I didn't know Cavendish was a seed variety. I thought it was just a process.

Could be YTB, though. A few of the cigar guys on the Fair Trade Tobacco forum grow it and recommend it.

I finished...

yup. Tobacco.

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Boxcar Willie harvest from the last couple of days. I have to pick them pretty green or the bugs get them. They ripen up ok in the kitchen, especially in a paper bag.

I was cussing the big...

Are you pollinating them? They need to be out in the wind or where the blossoms will get disturbed, to pollinate. I use an electric toothbrush on the stem or the back of the bloom, to shake the...

A few days ago and again today I found myself with more Boxcar Willie tomatoes than we could eat. I cook with RoTel tomatoes and chiles a lot so since I also had a bunch of Jalapenos from the garden,...

I just set the seeds for the second crop of tobacco and peppers of 2023. Check out the cute little label flags, huh? Rainproof.
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I'm still liking the Jiffy trays and peat pellets, for seed...

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I picked about half the remainder of my tobacco this morning. Above are some nice leaves from the one Monte Calme Yellow that the bugs didn't get. Tape measure in pic, for size. 29" long...

Try planting earlier. Broc can tolerate a light frost. BTW, you can eat the leaves and their stems. Cook them like collard greens or bok choy. We start the seeds indoors and transplant at the 50%...

26 April 2023 video tour of the garden

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

I just picked this gnarly beast of a broc about two hours ago. A hair under a foot across, over 2-1/2 lbs. Wife calls it
BROC-ZILLA.
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This is the second head, the first one was a couple...