What did you do in your garden today?

[CrealCritter]

mama mia, that'sa lotsa soupaeria! (ain't spell check so much fun )

I make tomato puree, just so the house smells like cooking tomatoes. Close to 4 gallons of puree this time, that's a 16 quart pot. I think it's gonna be a Bistro Homemade Savory Tomato Basil Soup this time. But can't say for sure, hard telling actually. Whatever farm babe makes out of the puree, I already know will be good

I would say about 15 gallons left to table ripen and put up.

The end of 2022 tomato season is nigh

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Picked okra...

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Okra...

 

[Mini Horses]

That okra just won't stop! Amazing really. Just move that you like it . Now if you could just get tomatoes to do that for you

 

[frustratedearthmother]

That okra just won't stop! Amazing really. Just move that you like it . Now if you could just get tomatoes to do that for you

I've gotta get started building my screen house. I will have bug free tomatoes!

 

[CrealCritter]

Farm babe told me low in the upper 20 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday then back into 70's during the day and 50's overnight. IDK seems like good weather for cabbage, brussels sprouts, lettuce, spinach & peas. Though it depends of just how cold it will get and for how long... I'll just have to wait and see, I reckon. Only thing I can do is pray and try to water them in real good.

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[farmerjan]

Use the sprinkler to keep them getting wet from before dawn til after the sun is up. If they are getting wet down, even if you get some frost, it will keep them from getting the leaves frosted and then when the sun hits them the leave cells won't rupture... that is what the frost does... the warm sun right on the frosted leaves makes the leaf cells rupture... I have kept tomatoes from actually frosting by using a sprinkler and even with the ice it forms if it gets cold enough, the melting ice will be slow enough that the leaf cells won't burst when the sun comes out and warms them up too fast. It is good for when you get a real early unexpected ice cold snap... won't help for very many nights as the cold its self will kill the tomato vines... but it ought to really work on the peas....
We are supposed to get down to 30 tonight and upper 20's the next couple of mornings. I am done in the garden for this year. Next year will be better, but I got good squash and potatoes and peppers...and some decent tomatoes late ; next year the cotton pickin deer will NOT get a smorgasbord for their summer grazing... they did a number on the green beans and the tomatoes early this year. Hoping the neighbor gets a few this year to thin them out a little too.

 

[Dreamz]

Well, got bored from all the rain and crocheting. Hub convinced me to go to Walmart to get green plantains and shrimps. So at 8pm cooked some mofongo with shrimp scampi it was delicious!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

So at 8pm cooked some mofongo with shrimp scampi it was delicious!

Yum - looks delicious!

 

[Dreamz]

Yum - looks delicious!

It was. I made some last week and still had that garlic smell and taste on my brain that when asked after being in pj's had no problem agreeing, lol I need a bigger pilon for this. The hardest part is smashing the garlic.
A pilon is a wooden mortar. A bit of Virgin olive oil, a bit of sal, about 8 pieces of garlic and smash them until a paste. About 4 green plantains cut in rounds and fried to golden, add to the mortar and smash all together. Serve as a ball or make it like a cup and put meats on it like fried small pieces of pork or chicken, anyway cooked shrimps or lobster. I just love this.