Watermelon season ahead
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Comments (23)I have bad soil, half your garden size, and it greatly improved for things not effected by juglone, squash, corn, melons, etc. You wouldn't believe the size difference of the year before, so I'll always compost or at least throw leaves all over garden area. All you have to do is dump bags of leaves about a foot or two high over the whole garden area, maybe mow them to speed up decomposition, and you will have given your garden lots of great leaf mold, plus you already have your manure. I think the manure could be new because it can age all year before you throw it down. I wouldn't waste the manure until about a month or 2 before planting, or maybe even half at the end of the year, save the other half at the beginning, but some in the middle of the year too. I've got beds for next year, waiting to put them in, but I'm waiting for the leaves to fall and looking into local pastures for manure. I couldn't give advice on weeds being I'm going to plant some good weeds over the area until the beds are in. Try ragweed, dandelion with the flowers pruned off, yellow dock, and a few other deep rooted types of weeds that bring nutrients to the top of the soil. They will make good compost....See MoreEnd of Watermelon Season?
Comments (3)I've had good watermelon after the ave first frost date. Around here that's late October. If your vines are still healthy, and it sure sounds that way, you still have a chance for good fruit. But it may be a less than a 50:50 chance. If it is still warm in the afternoon, that increases your chances. If not you'd probably be better going to the cool season crops. The Fruitnut...See MoreLooking ahead, brine question
Comments (1)Because your dealing with small cukes, and they should be very fresh when they are being brined, it would be more effective to make several smaller batches, or try to gauge the output and pick as many that you can that are a suitable size all at once, the brine them. Cukes usually grow very fast and an inch of growth overnight is not uncommon. You could probably refrigerate a bunch, but once they are stored and dealyed from being brines, they will become softer. I usually pick cukes almost every day and find that I have quite a lot of them within a single day. I use the Mrs. Wages dill pickle mix as it has the necessary salt and also contains dill flavor, far more intense compared to just adding fresh dill. also, if your doing dill pickles, a good crop of garlic can also be grown, as well as many dill plants/ Last year, I didn't plant dill, and any that did grow was from dropped seeds from the previous year. By the time they were flowering and forming green swelled seed heads, the cukes were also ready to pick. My half sours are still stored in the fridge and I will get a few every once in a while. Adding a continous supply of cukes to an already percolating brine is not good. You can't tell which ones were there the longest in the brine. Adding more after a day or two seems to change the natural fermentation of the cukes. For a larger supply of cukes, plant more seeds....See MoreThinking ahead to fall...
Comments (6)Carol, It's just been that kind of a weather year, hasn't it? I don't even think all the heavy rains/flooding in 2007 made us plant as late as we have this year, because I think we had heavy rains earlier in spring that year, then a drier spell in late April/May so we could plant, and then the flooding rains in June. For many of us, the spring planting did barely end this year, and it was already time to start looking at our fall planning. I only have space for fall tomatoes because I kept one section of the spring garden fallow so it would be there for fall tomatoes. However, it will hold less than half of what I am going to plant, so I'll have to squeeze the others in elsewhere. Hopefully, the potatoes, cabbage and onions will finish up on time so I can use their space for fall crops. Everything is so, so late this year, including my corn, and late corn is iffy in our heat so I hope it makes good ears. I am planning a big corn planting for fall because my corn is pollinating with daily highs in the upper 90s which can impede pollination, and I also have a raccoon around the yard, checking daily for those ears of corn too. So, I think it likely I'll have a poor spring corn crop and will have to fight the coons for every ear. Where, you might ask, will I put a big corn planting in my already crowded garden? Well, I can't put it where the spring corn is planted because the beans and squash in the three sisters planting will take over when that corn is done. So, to have a place for fall corn, we're going to have to rototill up bermuda grass, rake out the roots, add some compost and manure to the soil, and plant the fall corn there. The good thing about making a new corn bed is that I'll have a new place to plant AND I'll be getting rid of more bermuda grass. The bad thing is tht it is going to require a lot of physical labor at the hottest part of the year, and fencing it will be an expense. Without a fence, though, the corn will belong to the deer and raccoons and not to us. I have "Make A New Place To Plant Corn" on my "To Do" list for July, but Tim doesn't really know that yet. We've discussed it, but I don't think he realizes I am serious about doing it this year, because we talk about it every year, but never seem to get around to doing it. Dawn...See More
5 years agoI saw this post on FB the other day and need to look at it the next time I buy a watermelon.
lucillle thanked jewels_ks- 5 years agolast modified: 5 years ago
- 5 years ago
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoLucille, here is a recipe (hard to actually call it that, it's so simple.) I would suggest using Greek, Bulgarian or French feta.
https://elenisaltas.com/2016/08/23/chapter-seventeen-karpouzi-salata-watermelon-salad/lucillle thanked Zalco/bring back Sophie!
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