2025 Garden!

[Sask hunter]

We got the first few beans out of the garden tonight. When they get going we will be loaded with beans!

 

[elkantlers]

Squash plant and grass eaters

 

[IDFireLass]

Canned 15 pints of green beans yesterday. Got the cucumbers cut up and soaking. Today go to step 2 in the lime pickle process.
Nice looking squash plants.
Tomatoes are coming on.

 

[gouch]

For some reason the grandkids don't want to help me pick zucchini anymore.

 

[WildWill]

Tomatoes are loaded like I've never seen I had to brace a couple of the cages. Nothings turning though, kinda strange. When they do though I'm gonna be bombarded.

Exactly what mine did this year. Ended up with 8qt of marinara and 2 1/2qt of salsa in like a week in a half.

 

[Sask hunter]

Slowly coming along. Tomatoes are starting to finally get some fruit on there and beans are just starting. Onions I struggle with. Lots of little ones, lots that randomly die then the odd big beautiful one. Going to plant them even shallower so the tops are almost sticking out next year. It was 5c just the other night so stuff better pick up the pace lol

 

[Keep on]

Peach jam yesterday, blackberry up next.

 

[MTGomer]

Personally don’t like Bell peppers but I have farmed one of them

 

[WesternWyoming]

For some reason the grandkids don't want to help me pick zucchini anymore.

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What IS that??

 

[IDFireLass]

gouch, I don't blame them. I think I'd be squeamish too.
Sask hunter, I can't get over the color of your soil. That is some good looking stuff there. We have glacier silt here. It's a pale colored dirt with little to no nutrients to it. Sucks water like a city. Have to do a ton of soil amendment.
Juiced 4 gallons of choke cherries yesterday almost got 2 quarts of juice. I bought a juicer years ago. It is easy to use. Just put water in the bottom pan next layer is the juice pan, next layer is the basket for the fruit then a lid. It takes a while to heat up and steam the juice out. Sure is fast and easy over the old ways.
Still have a lot of cherries on the bushes but they are small so letting the birds have them We have 4 bushes we planted on the place. The wild choke cherries got a disease a couple years back and quit producing. One year we picked 20 gallons or so. Made a lot of jelly and syrup. Need to thaw out some raspberries and make jam. Always busy this time of year.
Waiting on cucumbers to grow to make dill pickles.

 

[F250]

Slowly coming along. Tomatoes are starting to finally get some fruit on there and beans are just starting. Onions I struggle with. Lots of little ones, lots that randomly die then the odd big beautiful one. Going to plant them even shallower so the tops are almost sticking out next year. It was 5c just the other night so stuff better pick up the pace lol


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That Saskatchewan dirt is like potting soil !! The farm family I stay with have thousands of acres of that stuff. I’m pretty jealous as I live on a rock pile !!

 

[gouch]

What IS that??

We have always called them "Green Garden Spiders" This one is a little over two inches long, but they get somewhat bigger.

Once while pheasant hunting in some tall cover, I managed to face plant right in the middle of one of their webs. I love spiders and snakes and am not the least bit squeamish about them. But having my face stretched back tight in that spider web while looking cross-eyed at one of those big old bastards sitting on my nose, definitely got me in touch with my inner "little girl" for a moment there.

 

[brymoore]

We have always called them "Green Garden Spiders" This one is a little over two inches long, but they get somewhat bigger.

Once while pheasant hunting in some tall cover, I managed to face plant right in the middle of one of their webs. I love spiders and snakes and am not the least bit squeamish about them. But having my face stretched back tight in that spider web while looking cross-eyed at one of those big old bastards sitting on my nose, definitely got me in touch with my inner "little girl" for a moment there.

I have black widows in my irrigation boxes occasionally. I flip the lid off, do a quick look for spiders or webs before sticking my hand in the box. My main irrigation box usually has one. Find and kill it.

 

[IDFireLass]

brymore, where you live I'd go wide around corners stomp hard walking or tap things you are going to pick up. Rattlesnakes are not fun.
Too many on my last lookout. Had 3 one night coming at the lookout. I was so jumpy the rest of the summer.

 

[brymoore]

brymore, where you live I'd go wide around corners stomp hard walking or tap things you are going to pick up. Rattlesnakes are not fun.
Too many on my last lookout. Had 3 one night coming at the lookout. I was so jumpy the rest of the summer.

I’ve only had two rattlesnake encounters around the house in 20 years. Unfortunately both were in the basement of the and my wife found them.

 

[Gellar]

I’ve only had two rattlesnake encounters around the house in 20 years. Unfortunately both were in the basement of the and my wife found them.

I’d be posting about how my wife burnt our house down and we are moving out. As much as I love snakes she despises them.

 

[IDFireLass]

Gellar, I hate them too.
They really give me the willies.

 

[brymoore]

I’d be posting about how my wife burnt our house down and we are moving out. As much as I love snakes she despises them.

We have a lot of gopher snakes around my house. They look almost identical to a rattler for a neophyte. They’re good snakes and we let them be. They have caused me to jump about 4 foot in the air a few times being curled up like a rattler when I see them hiking.

 

[IDFireLass]

Fishing last year. Coming back across the out flow of the lake you have to walk across slick wet logs. Other half and dog just bounce across ahead of me. My turn to walk across hit dirt look down and there is a water snake. Couldn't go any direction so was stomping and let out a yell/scream the other half had never heard from me. I was afraid it would come up my leg. The snake left in a hurry he didn't want any thing to do with the screaming monster above him.

Same lake same year but earlier. Dog and I are on the road side of the lake other half on the far side. He yells over what is the dog staring at? I said I don't know. Turned around to look about a 100 yards or so there is a cougar on the hill staring down at us. When it seen my face it slowly turned around and walked off. Don't know if it thought the dog was a deer or me? There had been deer running through the area that the lion was tracking/following.

 

[IDFireLass]

Pulled the peppers. They were just loaded with aphids. Nothing was producing. Now get to go nuked the whole house and ground.
Made choke cherry jelly and raspberry jam this morning. Have some huckleberries thawing out some good friends brought us last year. A good year to clean out the freezers.
Canning green beans on Sunday morning and making jam.