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Agricultural Update
Aug. 17th, 2013 11:40 amThe summer squash has started flowering, and the pole beans are climbing up the trellis.
I have a pattern with the tomatoes. I pick about 4 gallons at a time-anything that is showing color. As they ripen in the course of three days, I put them in the refrigerator, and can the whole lot together, when all are ripe. Then I start again with the picking.
This is my first experience with determinate tomatoes, and I thought they would all ripen together, but they are ripening slowly over the course of months. I'm getting good yields and can organize things such that I fill my canner to capacity each time.
This year I'm getting a bumper crop of everything. It's a struggle keeping up with it all. I'll probably end up with a freezer full of dried onions and peppers, an extra 50 lbs of fresh onions, a dozen big butternut squash, and 80 quarts combined of canned summer squash, green beans and tomatoes.
The local farmers are harvesting their onions, but mine were ready over a month ago. After the onions came out, I quickly put in squash, for a second crop in the same bed. Someone told me the farmers were next going to plant Halloween pumpkins, but now it might be too late for that.
In other news, the old man is patrolling the neighborhood with a club. He says that he just saw the pitbull that attacked him a few weeks ago.
I have a pattern with the tomatoes. I pick about 4 gallons at a time-anything that is showing color. As they ripen in the course of three days, I put them in the refrigerator, and can the whole lot together, when all are ripe. Then I start again with the picking.
This is my first experience with determinate tomatoes, and I thought they would all ripen together, but they are ripening slowly over the course of months. I'm getting good yields and can organize things such that I fill my canner to capacity each time.
This year I'm getting a bumper crop of everything. It's a struggle keeping up with it all. I'll probably end up with a freezer full of dried onions and peppers, an extra 50 lbs of fresh onions, a dozen big butternut squash, and 80 quarts combined of canned summer squash, green beans and tomatoes.
The local farmers are harvesting their onions, but mine were ready over a month ago. After the onions came out, I quickly put in squash, for a second crop in the same bed. Someone told me the farmers were next going to plant Halloween pumpkins, but now it might be too late for that.
In other news, the old man is patrolling the neighborhood with a club. He says that he just saw the pitbull that attacked him a few weeks ago.
