Backyard Gardeners

duke79 said:
Our strawberry crop is almost finished ("strawberry season" around here last for about 12 minutes) but they have been super delicious, as always. I never cease to be amazed at how much better locally grown strawberries are than the ones you get in the grocery store from California (I'm on the east coast).
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Our kids eat all of ours as soon as they start spotting red.
 
I've gone thru two bottles of Deer and Rabbit repellent so far to keep the hostas and other flowers from being munched.
 
no one has dropped a surplus zucchini on me yet (the Hillerich and Bradsby sized one) but it's only a matter of time...
 
budwom said:
no one has dropped a surplus zucchini on me yet (the Hillerich and Bradsby sized one) but it's only a matter of time...
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I've already made 9 pints of zucchini pickles. Picked 3 more yesterday and expecting two more today or tomorrow. I'm growing the cocozelle variety this year, which I find tastier and easier to keep on top of.
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fidel said:
You do your own pickle juice?
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I use this recipe, though I leave out the onions.
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Zuni Cafe Zucchini Pickles Recipe on Food52

This recipe comes from <em>The Zuni Cafe Cookbook</em> and is yet another solution to the question: What to do with all of those zucchini? A cold brine prior to pickling gives these zucchini pickles a saturated flavor and crisp texture.<br /><br />These pickles are on the sweet side, but I...
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That's production from one 4x8 bed! The yellow ones are smaller than I'd like, but I'm pretty sure I grew them from a bag of Trader Joe's spuds that started sprouting...so I'm thinking they are supposed to be small.
 
PackMan97 said:
That's production from one 4x8 bed! The yellow ones are smaller than I'd like, but I'm pretty sure I grew them from a bag of Trader Joe's spuds that started sprouting...so I'm thinking they are supposed to be small.
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Total take was just over 50lbs. Voles got into the russets, so probably lost 3-4 lbs worth. Grrr!
 
brickey said:
If you’re not giving any of the 50 lbs away, you should be required to post a before and after selfie
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I have two boys, 12 and 14. You don't need to worry about my caloric intake, I'll be lucky to see a potato. The only milti-word scentences they speak to us these days are: "I'm hungry", and "Is that all?"

They are also my muscle in the garden. Getting more useful every day. They have probably picked 10+ gallons of blackberries and blueberries this season. I'd be surpass if half that actually made it inside the house.
 
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