Spring garden

[Sean Gadhar]

Your Rhubarb Sweet pepper sauce got into my head and I just finished canning 8 jelly jars of Rhubarb Ginger jam made with juice from gooseberries & Chopped Rhubarb both from the garden.

 

[NeilMacleod]

Nice LOL.
Gonna make a Spicy Tomato jam in the next couple days from my pickings

 

[coloradoclyde]

"Rhubarb ginger".......That has a nice sound to it.....could be jam, wine or beer. Always looking for something to do with rhubarb, but, isn't it past it's prime this time of year?

 

[NeilMacleod]

Mine are still going even though it feels like winter around the corner already.

 

[coloradoclyde]

I was always told not to pick it after it goes to seed..... :idunno:

 

[NeilMacleod]

Fist pick of the season.

 

[Sean Gadhar]

I was always told not to pick it after it goes to seed..... :idunno:

Me to, but my Rhubarb has not bolted yet :wink:

 

[coloradoclyde]

Wow!....Mine did over a month ago. :idunno:

 

[Ames]

The Mrs. was given permission to mow down the rhubarb around this farm. Over and over. Hate that stuff. :barf:
However, it IS the season to can my blueberry lime jam. Now THATS good eatin'.

 

[NeilMacleod]

Only thing bolted is the Spinach, again Grrrrr.
Picked my Garlic this morning, nice hand fulls
..and some peppers.

 

[coloradoclyde]

The Mrs. was given permission to mow down the rhubarb around this farm. Over and over. Hate that stuff. :barf:
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I love rhubarb....and here's why

Rhubarb is a perennial that lasts all summer and is hard to kill and even harder for weeds to take over.
The first time I visited a friends place in the country I noticed he had a very long wash berm for erosion/water control running along his yard.
The berm was about a 100 yards long by six feet tall and had rhubarb growing on it.....I asked him why did he plant so much rhubarb?....He said, "so I don't have to mow the berm".....

:haha: Pure genius.

 

[Sean Gadhar]

Bit of a timing mistake.

It's still on the hot side here, dropped last week from the 100s each day to the low 90s but still hot.

And I have quite a few winter squash that are ripe, I don't have a cellar or really anywhere cool until it gets cool.

What am I to do with Blue Hubbard, eating Pumpkins and the like when they are ready a full month before I have cool storage weather? :surrender:

 

[NeilMacleod]

The air for the past week has felt like Fall, yesterday morning saw the first of the trees leaves going yellow Looks like early Winter.

 

[Ames]

Bring them into the house if the vines have died back. Let them rest on the floor to keep cool. 55-65.
I have kept them till March this way. If they begin to give up the ghost once in the house, bake them and freeze the meat. Gives you a whole nuther year.

 

[Major Dorman]

Bit of a timing mistake.

It's still on the hot side here, dropped last week from the 100s each day to the low 90s but still hot.

And I have quite a few winter squash that are ripe, I don't have a cellar or really anywhere cool until it gets cool.

What am I to do with Blue Hubbard, eating Pumpkins and the like when they are ready a full month before I have cool storage weather? :surrender:

Dehydrate or can the punkins.

 

[NeilMacleod]

Temp 2-4c right now manure!!!

 

[Sean Gadhar]

1st load of winter squash



At least that many again still on bright green vines so I am letting them grow for now. These all came off vines that had started to yellow a bit. (and a few giant okra off a plant I must have been missing :redface: )

 

[coloradoclyde]

Very nice. :hatsoff:

You got me beat by a mile....It's been a bad gardening year.

 

[NeilMacleod]

Great looking Squash :thumbsup:

 

[coloradoclyde]

Which one of those is your favorite to eat?