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Post by red14 on Aug 21, 2020 10:48:22 GMT -6
We call them String Beans.
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Post by sparkle on Aug 21, 2020 12:36:52 GMT -6
We call them String Beans. Yep, we called them that too, growing up in the Midwest.
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Post by SaddleLT on Aug 21, 2020 19:22:58 GMT -6
First picking. Brits call them French Beans. The French call them Haricots Vert. We call 'em green beans.
Aug 10, 2020 at 7:20am sparkle said:
Weather seems so weird this year and everything is happening LATE! I'm just now getting blooms on my winter squash and enjoying the morning activity of hand pollinating them, hoping the fruit will have time to mature. My tomatoes took so long to set fruit that I doubt they will have time to mature either. Bad gardening year, I guess.
Just saw the first black tail fawn yesterday! Normally we see them by mid-July.
We're having homegrown green beans tonight. Funny, we're experiencing an earlier than normal cycle for us! It has truly been a different season this year. My wife planted just enough tomatoes and green beans so as to eat them fresh and not have to can them. Mid July, she was bringing in 7-8 tomatoes a night and has put up 12 jars thus far. Usually, they aren't ready until late this month. I made the comment then about an early winter, or at least possibly early freezes. Today we observed that the Cottonwood trees are starting to show a bit of color already as well.
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Post by sparkle on Aug 21, 2020 19:42:22 GMT -6
First picking. Brits call them French Beans. The French call them Haricots Vert. We call 'em green beans.
Aug 10, 2020 at 7:20am sparkle said:
Weather seems so weird this year and everything is happening LATE! I'm just now getting blooms on my winter squash and enjoying the morning activity of hand pollinating them, hoping the fruit will have time to mature. My tomatoes took so long to set fruit that I doubt they will have time to mature either. Bad gardening year, I guess.
Just saw the first black tail fawn yesterday! Normally we see them by mid-July.
We're having homegrown green beans tonight. Funny, we're experiencing an earlier than normal cycle for us! It has truly been a different season this year. My wife planted just enough tomatoes and green beans so as to eat them fresh and not have to can them. Mid July, she was bringing in 7-8 tomatoes a night and has put up 12 jars thus far. Usually, they aren't ready until late this month. I made the comment then about an early winter, or at least possibly early freezes. Today we observed that the Cottonwood trees are starting to show a bit of color already as well. And my neck of the woods is just the opposite Everything is LATE! My tomatoes have set fruit but I doubt if they'll ripen. All still green. Squash the same. Deer the same -- I saw the first fawn about 10 days ago, second week of August instead of second or third week of July, like normal.
Enjoy those beans!
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Post by SaddleLT on Aug 21, 2020 22:17:53 GMT -6
Being in the high desert, some years we get a bit of rain, and some years we get feet of snow. Many years back I was researching a pasture grass that was protein consistent for horses and cattle. I found one and it had a temperature rating of 17 degrees to 103 degrees. As I was talking to the salesman (in Florida) I asked him how he thought the grass would do in a little more wider temps on each end, which he asked, "like what?" I said, "we've seen temps, not often, but it can range from -10 without wind chill, to 114." He said, "holy sh**, where do you live." When I said CA, he said, "bull sh**!" When I gave him our shipping address he said, "I never would have believed it." The grass is 20 years old now and still doing well having survived those ranges several times. It makes gardening interesting and it'll be interesting to see what my wife's garden is telling us this year. My buddy (avatar) used to be our weather gauge. When he'd hair up in September when it was still in the 90's, we knew it was going to be in the teens in October! He was always right, and on both sides of the spectrum. He just couldn't tell us if was going to be wet or dry!
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Post by sparkle on Aug 22, 2020 11:53:52 GMT -6
Being in the high desert, some years we get a bit of rain, and some years we get feet of snow. Many years back I was researching a pasture grass that was protein consistent for horses and cattle. I found one and it had a temperature rating of 17 degrees to 103 degrees. As I was talking to the salesman (in Florida) I asked him how he thought the grass would do in a little more wider temps on each end, which he asked, "like what?" I said, "we've seen temps, not often, but it can range from -10 without wind chill, to 114." He said, "holy sh**, where do you live." When I said CA, he said, "bull sh**!" When I gave him our shipping address he said, "I never would have believed it." The grass is 20 years old now and still doing well having survived those ranges several times. It makes gardening interesting and it'll be interesting to see what my wife's garden is telling us this year. My buddy (avatar) used to be our weather gauge. When he'd hair up in September when it was still in the 90's, we knew it was going to be in the teens in October! He was always right, and on both sides of the spectrum. He just couldn't tell us if was going to be wet or dry! Wish I had as reliable a weather gauge! I've got a dog but she just sleeps and eats.
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Post by piney on Sept 3, 2020 8:21:26 GMT -6
With the excess of hot weather up here this year, the tomatoes went completely unhinged. Yesterday I processed oodles, I may have two more bushels ready to pick. I'm cooking down about three gallons of them today, I have 42 freezing whole in the freezer, I will bag them up later. Hot peppers are doing well, they're normally hit or miss here, but I can't eat them anyway. My shelling peas didn't do very well but they were choked out by hollyhocks again.
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Post by sparkle on Sept 3, 2020 8:44:10 GMT -6
With the excess of hot weather up here this year, the tomatoes went completely unhinged. Yesterday I processed oodles, I may have two more bushels ready to pick. I'm cooking down about three gallons of them today, I have 42 freezing whole in the freezer, I will bag them up later. Hot peppers are doing well, they're normally hit or miss here, but I can't eat them anyway. My shelling peas didn't do very well but they were choked out by hollyhocks again. I envy your tomato bounty! Mine were slow to set fruit and are only starting to ripen now, very small fruit.
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Post by piney on Sept 3, 2020 10:04:46 GMT -6
Last time we had such explosive tomato crop action was when my parents were still alive. Dad grew an amazing garden and tomatoes were his specialty and favorite, he made up variety boxes of all his vegetables for his friends and some of the relatives that had no gardens, we'd deliver them all washed and ready. The year dad had surplus tomatoes, he helped me make a batch of homemade ketchup and I stirred for hours, it was so worth the effort. Delicious! I may try that project if I can round up a hotplate, my stove is a ceramic top and should not be used for canning.
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Post by sparkle on Sept 3, 2020 10:58:45 GMT -6
Last time we had such explosive tomato crop action was when my parents were still alive. Dad grew an amazing garden and tomatoes were his specialty and favorite, he made up variety boxes of all his vegetables for his friends and some of the relatives that had no gardens, we'd deliver them all washed and ready. The year dad had surplus tomatoes, he helped me make a batch of homemade ketchup and I stirred for hours, it was so worth the effort. Delicious! I may try that project if I can round up a hotplate, my stove is a ceramic top and should not be used for canning. Oh, I'd love to make homemade ketchup! I don't use it much, except as the base of barbecue sauce, and I do love my BBQ!
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Post by piney on Sept 3, 2020 11:11:21 GMT -6
That's exactly what I did with my ketchup, it made the best BBQ sauce and I shredded a lot of pork that winter for sandwiches. Excellent.
This batch of tomatoes has been such a surprise. Tomato soup for lunch, very tasty.
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Post by sparkle on Sept 3, 2020 11:24:21 GMT -6
That's exactly what I did with my ketchup, it made the best BBQ sauce and I shredded a lot of pork that winter for sandwiches. Excellent. This batch of tomatoes has been such a surprise. Tomato soup for lunch, very tasty. Good for you! Enjoy the bounty.
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Post by eddien on Sept 3, 2020 11:24:45 GMT -6
I love garden vegetables. My sister gave me some of her tomatoes. Absolutely delicious. And very juicy. Also, large.
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Post by sparkle on Sept 3, 2020 12:15:49 GMT -6
I love garden vegetables. My sister gave me some of her tomatoes. Absolutely delicious. And very juicy. Also, large.
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Post by sparkle on Sept 7, 2020 9:03:04 GMT -6
How I love the smell of picking 'maters first thing in the morning!
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