Weather was mild and dry yesterday so I moves 100+ Mache volunteers from front garden to the Dahlia bed. They will be long gone before time to plant tubers and should be a great cover crop.

I got back from the lake yesterday morning. We got 3 deer between the 4 of us and took 2 of them in to be processed into summer sausage, jalapeno/cheddar meat sticks, and jerky. We grilled the fresh backstraps from the other one for dinner one night. We caught a few white bass and crappie off the dock too.

I finished processing the rest of my horseradish after I got home. I ended up getting 9 pints total which is about 4 times as much as we will use in a year so I will have plenty to share. I shed a lot of tears during the processing....it's some potent stuff.

I still have some clean up work to do in the garden and was hoping to get it all done this week while I'm off work but the weather isn't going to cooperate for the next couple days at least. Working in the garden during a cold rain doesn't really appeal to me.

Congratulations on the successful hunt Jack. I always liked the spicy link sausage and jerky when I had it processed (rarely-I am usually the processor).

Winner: Cherokee Purple

Finally got a decent sized Black Beauty eggplant-so I am going to try to make Eggplant Parmesan tonight. All of the Brandy Boy tomatoes were between 11-14.5 ounces, so I still didn't get a one pound tomato.

Winner: Brandywine Pink (the Black Krim was a little immature and green).

Sigh... i just hate it when my posts vanish instead of posting. Perhaps it was the pictures. Grrr

Sorry Margi that is frustrating. It usually happens to me when I am posting on Android App and there are more than about 3 photos. It is drizzling here today so staying inside lusting over Richard's tomato crop. We have one lone Black Krim tomato left on vine in greenhouse...we can have that on Thursday and be thankful!

Jack - Very successful hunting trip. And you could maybe swap horseradish for lobster??

And Jamie I think I'd ferment some of that 2 quarts of lemon juice for mixing with drinks. It's a shame to mix an adult beverage and use ingredients that ain't fermented!!!

There's apparently a run on vitamins here. I said to DW maybe I could take a woman's vitamin. What's the worst that could happen. H A Ha.......

Len - Did I send you seeds for Greygo pepper? If so, how did it do for you? I did not have much luck with it.

Jack - Congrats of the deer hunting. How are you going to get more meat in your freezers?

Yesterday I planted more garlic and onions. Still want to get a few more in the ground and Friday is looking like a decent to to do that, weather wise.

Cindy the Greygo pepper plant did poorly in the hoop house (one pepper and would not set fruit when I bagged the buds) but I brought it along with 10 other peppers inside after preparing them for dormancy. When they came in they were just sticks with no more than one or two leaves.

Apparently I did not get it right because all but one sprouted new leaves and are flourishing except for an aphid problem. So I just decided to see how far they would go and taking cuttings to see if I can clone some of them..

Here is that Greygo

Peppers on top shelf

And Bottom Shelf

It is going to be tricky around here if they continue to thrive when we need the space and lights for next spring's starts!

Thanks all! Cindy - I only brought home about 15 lbs. of venison. When we get the sausage and jerky back that will only be about 15 lbs. more. I have plenty of room in the freezers for that much.

John - I WISH I could trade on HR for Lobster here.

I just heard an ad on the radio. The local Giant Grocery Store chain has turkeys for .39 cents a pound!! They are probably not ones that I would purchase due to antibiotics and hormones, but that price is unbelievable!!

Winner: Box Car Willie

Pink Berkeley Tie Dye

Turnips

Artichoke

It’s early but, Happy Thanksgiving, all! We are staying here at home so it’s just the two of us. I’m cooking a “small” thanksgiving supper though. We did go see my parents this past weekend but didn’t want to be with the big crowd on Thursday.

And Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours as well, Jamie. And to everyone else here, too. Hoping that everyone is safe and well! Take care.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING to ALL

Does anyone know how to turn the Houzz notifications on? I accidentally hit the turn off notifications link when I was picking up my phone and now I can’t figure out how to turn it back on. I went through the settings and thought I enabled everything but still don’t receive any notifications.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Richard, I hope you can get the notifications back on. You’ll soon be swimming in tomatoes, it appears.

Happy Thanksgiving to all. I'm especially thankful for all of the help this group has given me!

Hoping everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving . I've got lots of ripe tomatoes, more than ever, to celebrate a great gardening year. My mom who started this tradition in our family would be proud!

Happy Thanksgiving back to all of you! No plans for a big traditional dinner here. I got a roasting chicken out of the freezer and will do it beer can style on the grill. Plan to make some twice baked potatoes and a bag of frozen corn from my brother's garden. I bought a fancy cheese cake a few days ago for dessert.

It is sunny for the first time in several days and 50ish right now. Heading out to do some work in the garden and yard to get it done before real winter sets in next week.

Gotta do something constructive so I don't have to watch the dud football games on today. :-p

Jack - One of my FF players is on one of the "dud" football games today. I'm rooting for him!!

Decided to make a 'new to me' dessert today. If it turns out well, I'll post a photo later. It sounds delicious to me!!

https://www.foodnetwork.com/fnk/recipes/cranberry-lemon-bars-8106360#reviewsTop

Those look tasty Cindy! It is only 4:20 here on west coast so the turkey is still in oven. DW has been making our own dog food so Rocky will get more than half of the 22# bird mixed with rice and pumpkin. It was 59 cents a pound, not 39 but still cheap protein for the poodle boy.

Our fall has definitely turned into a second Spring

The bed of brassicas is looking good and it’s time to start eating some of these

And the camellia is really putting on a show this year. A lot of these flowers (especially the ones in the first few photos) won’t last past Tuesday (probably) as we are supposed to have lows in the 20s for the first time this season.

Forgot the photo

Beautiful, Jamie!!

Jamie that camellia is gorgeous...are you planning to take her with you?

Thanks everyone! Yes, Len, I’m planning to dig until and take it with us when we move.

Still no luck finding a lot. We did look at 9 acres today but I think that it’s going to be outside of what we are comfortable with spending. The lot I mentions earlier (by the county road and cow pasture) sold the other day. I liked it well enough but didn’t really love it. Mike really wanted it though. The other one we are looking at is in an HOA neighborhood. It would basically mean moving into a neighborhood like the one we are in now with bigger lots. It would not be bad, but not perfect either.

Jamie - Stay away from HOA's! esPecially if you garden.

I'm looking for a replacement for the Ambrosia corn I grew this year. The only problem was the tips of ALL the cobs not filling out, in all 3 patches. The biggest shocker to me was when I looked at Fedco's Ambrosia write-up and read this. In stressful conditions the tips don't always fill." So: Cindy - Did yours do the same thing. I could live with the problem we enjoyed the fresh corn. But many times we both ate two cobs for dinner. After reading the statement I got to thinking we could have had more meals out of the same space in the garden if the cobs were filled out.

And Jack I'd respect your opinion on what I might grow. I'm thinking maybe Northern Extra Sweet for an early crop and then a few patches of Peaches and Cream? But I haven't decided yet. I still have enough 2020 Ambrosia seed for another patch.

Many years ago I bought 40 acres in the suburbs of the burgh. You can do a lot of dickering......

John - I haven't really grown many sweet corn varieties. The last couple times it's been Ambrosia just because I can get the seeds in bulk locally. I've only grown SE and SE+ types because there is always field corn nearby that I don't want to cross pollinate with.

Let's see, I've grown Delectable once and IIRC it did well. It is a late season SE+ variety. I grew one of the Mirai varieties several years ago but I can't remember which one.

John - I usually grow Ambrosia because it does quite well here. I tried Silver Queen and Bread and Butter years ago but I prefer the taste of Ambrosia.

Still can’t get the notifications even though I put every single category on Always-so I am lost. I can’t believe they don’t have a way to go back. I hate my phone so much.

Got the last of the garlic (last bulb from Cindy) in the ground yesterday. I planted the rest on Monday and tried one container with 5 cloves, but it looks like it grows much better in the ground. Margi and Cindy’s varieties planted on Monday already have 3-4 inches of growth above ground. It is actually raining today-what a miracle.

How much should I water the garlic 🧄 this early in the growing season?

Richard, you may have to contact Houzz directly.

Also, when that happened to me, when the next month's thread began it went back to normal notifications.

Richard - I would water the container garlic when you water your tomatoes. I usually do not water my in-ground garlic.

I also finished planting my garlic and onions yesterday!

Cindy and Jack - Thanks for responding. I can't believe I created a "stressful condition" for the Ambrosia corn. I don't have the best sun here with all the Norway Spruces but if that was the problem then the outer rows would be better than the inner rows which wasn't the case. And I might have forgot to lime one patch but not all three. And I used mushroom compost to amend one patch and a combination of MC and horse manure for the other two thinking that I'd get more nitrogen out of the HM. I hand pollinated the silks to help out the wind.

I've grown corn here before and didn't have stressful conditions except that I grew a patch of Country Gentleman in the field next door two years in a row, the 2nd year using seed saved from year one. The only soil prep I did was to mow, I punched holes with a long rod and dropped seed into the clay and if I missed I pushed the seed in with the poker.

I think I'll go with the Peaches and Cream this year except I'll use up the Ambrosia seed I have left and side dress when the corn is knee high.

JohnD, I've tried about a dozen varieties of corn over the years (including peaches & cream) but have found nothing that beats the sweet/corny balanced flavor and longer lasting tenderness of Ambrosia. If your tips didn't fill completely due to a source of stress then other corn varieties may not fair so well under similar stress conditions. My tips seem to fill out ok here other than the earworms chewing them up ;-)

Maybe I should stick with the Ambrosia. I grew IOChief here and that spot was much shadier than the plots I grew in this past summer. I'm thinking this spot was full of moss in years past. That's mostly disappeared as I've slowly taken over the area, at first with fruit trees and then more and more garden. Perhaps i just didn't do a good job guessing how much lime and wood ash to apply.

John - I also grew Illini super sweet corn decades ago but we were not crazy about it.

Len - seeds went out in today's mail pick-up. You should get them by next week!

It's raining here today and then the cold will move in. Actually, it's pouring. Everything I planted last week is getting a nice drink, which is good.

It is supposed to be 29 here in the morning, so I guess I am going to have to move a lot of tomato plants. The Chocolate Stripes first tomato looks more like a Red Zebra plant. The seeds I think were from Tomatofest. I think I still have a few of the seeds I got from Cindy-I will have to grow them next time and save some seeds.

Richard, that sounds cold for your area. Guess you will get your exercise the next few days.

Yesterday I did a final turning of compost in my makeshift bin at my community plot. It is breaking down well. I hope the latest aeration and nutrient additions will get most of it broken down by spring. That is when I plan to work with it next and hopefully have good compost to use. If nothing else, I am glad I could put lots of plant wastes into my makeshift bin instead of the trash cans people were told to use....not for composting but for general trash pick up. I don't like to see nutrients go to the landfill. I'd rather give up a corner's worth of growing space and do some composting.

We will have similar temperatures, Richard. I am still in denial about winter coming hahaha but it’s going to come whether I like it or not.

It will be cold here too, but not really until Wednesday, when the prediction is for 28 degrees.

Just saw on the news that north western Georgia is getting some snow!

We're supposed to get 2-4 inches of snow tomorrow afternoon. Hey! It is December, well will be. The local schools are planning to go back to in school teaching tomorrow. So the kids'll probably get a snow day.

The Raisons and the Stillers game is postponed again till Wednesday. My prediction is the game will be played on Saturday. They already delayed next Sundays "Red Skins" / Steelers game by one day ( the third delay ). I guess it looks better for teams to play 2 games in 2 days rather than have a team get out of their sick beds and play football in a snow storm.

My agribon and propagation domes arrived today from Johnny's. Richard your weather would drive me crazy...well that is a short trip.

John please say what you really think :)

December! https://www.houzz.com/discussions/6035947/veggie-tales-december-2020