TOR Victory Gardens

[Oswego]

finally got some wildflowers blooming in my 500sqft bed. next year should be great with bulbs and all the perennials flowering that won't flower this year.

starting to fill in nicely

Blueberry bush growth since pulling the flowers so they won't fruit has been nothing but epic. They are growing so fast I need to trim them almost once a week to insure next years crop is good and they don't crowd the middle. Going to let them overcrowd just a little so I can trim some new growth in August then root and replant them. If these things keep growing this well I'd like to trans plant about 20 for a hedge in my front yard to block my neighbors POS 4' chain-link fence and gain some added privacy.

I mulched over them to encourage more shoot growth and it's working. I'd like to have 8-12 shoots in a wine glass formation ultimately so every year the three year old shoots get cut off. When you buy them they are mostly 1-5 shoots max.

on a bad note I lost about 90% of the wild blueberry plants I grabbed, but the good news is at least 4 are alive and kicking so they should spread all by themselves eventually

 

[Taco Loco]

Thursday and Today’s harvest, tomorrow will consist of pickin mo maters, cucumbers cowpeas and green beans, then makin some salsa.

No doubt, you can’t go wrong growing and making your own homemade pico de gallo.

 

[Taco Loco]

Today’s backyard grocery store visit. Maters, Peas, Greenbeans, Sweet Pepers, Okra.

The cucumbers/Dill Pickles were picked early in the week. Zucchini sliced, blanched with lemon juice, and sea salt on the dehydrated, makes healthy chips and everyone loves them.

 

[Oswego]

I bought some snap pea snacks last week. Ill have to dig into how they made them because they are excellent. They are dehydrated or something but they are dry and crunchy. Never had anything like them before. Trying to get away from corn chips and replacing it with that stuff. Ill be hitting you up for some info over winter on your cucumber crop. I love pickles and cucumbers. Not going to plant much else food type items this year due to timing. Just going to prep soil and build raised beds for next year within my fenced in area so I'm ready to roll super early. Started way to late and screwed up way to much already.

 

[Taco Loco]

I bought some snap pea snacks last week. Ill have to dig into how they made them because they are excellent. They are dehydrated or something but they are dry and crunchy. Never had anything like them before. Trying to get away from corn chips and replacing it with that stuff. Ill be hitting you up for some info over winter on your cucumber crop. I love pickles and cucumbers. Not going to plant much else food type items this year due to timing. Just going to prep soil and build raised beds for next year within my fenced in area so I'm ready to roll super early. Started way to late and screwed up way to much already.

60-70 days you will have cucumbers.

 

[Taco Loco]

My Father’s Day gift, new sign for the Victory garden.

Left to Right
Yellow cherry, red cherry, tami grape, yellow pear

This mornings haul, milestone of over 2,000 maters reach today.

 

[tex]

Damn. I dont have the space you do. Now I need more yard when we move

 

[Oswego]

On your 2,000th mater..... I'm on my first berry

I let two berries grow. Rest of the flowers got tossed to inspire root and shoot growth. Just plucked and ate the one ripe berry and not all that impressed. Taste was bland. Fine for pies and baked goods but meh for just the berry. Plant was under stress so hopefully next years batch is tastier. As soon as berry #2 ripens I'm freezing it to save the seeds.

 

[Silverback]

You know what they say "The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice"

 

[Oswego]

Had to do my first round of pest control today. Ants have started taking over and I do not want aphids so I mixed a half a cup of borax & sugar then added water it until it formed a paste that I left outside their homes. Hopefully it works.

 

[Taco Loco]

Repurposed 6 x 6’ gate for climbing cucumbers, and the Victory Garden is being dressed for success (fingers crossed).

Neck Ties; GOP and Americana flag & Patriotic colors.

 

[Oswego]

Looking good! I like the re-purpose. Makes me wish I kept my chain link from out front when I took it down & put up wood....perfect for some climbers.

Are you on a well? or City?

 

[Taco Loco]

Looking good! I like the re-purpose. Makes me wish I kept my chain link from out front when I took it down & put up wood....perfect for some climbers.

Are you on a well? or City?

Neither, community water and the well is down the street.

 

[Taco Loco]

Today’s haul.

 

[Silverback]

Dang!!

 

[Taco Loco]

Salsa!!

^BB-8 is hiding.

6qt more Dill Pickles.

 

[Oswego]

Neither, community water and the well is down the street.

Nice. I wonder how much better my plants would be if I didn't have city water. Grew up on well water and all our plants were great.

I leave my watering jug filled overnight to de-chlorinate when I water my berry bush's but my wild-grass bed and grass patch's get strait chemical water from the city. I can smell the chlorine it's so strong. Same reason I never drink strait from the tap

 

[Taco Loco]

The Laundry Fairy took 5 zucchini’s and reconfigured the spicy saltine cracker recipe.

I’m not a big fan of zucchini but these are pretty good. These can be vacuumed sealed with a food grade desiccant bag and last forever.

• Slice the zucchini and blanch and shake the slices in gallon ziplock bag with 1.5 tablespoon of olive oil and 1.5 tablespoon lemon juice.
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• Mix in shaker
• 2 tablespoons of steak seasoning
• 1 teaspoon of cayenne
• 1 tablespoon of crushed red pepper.
• Lay slices out on dehydrator trays and light shake ingredients over slices and dry.

 

[Oswego]

I have another intruder in my berry patch. Seems like a rabbit based on the damage. Ill pull the SD cards tonight and will have hopefully captured whatever it is doing the damage so I can address it better. if it is a rabbit it's jumping my 4' fence so that sucks. Good news is I have a full 150' roll of 1' tall fencing I could add to the top. Just sucks if I need to pull all my t posts and reset them. or I just use the 1' tall roll to go around the base of every bush - I was hoping the 4' tall fence would save me from doing either, but if I'm getting eaten up now with no berries next years crop will really bring in the animals.

 

[Taco Loco]

200+ a day, and eatin a few maters a day, just might keep the rona away.

Health Properties of Tomatoes




These little farts have now found the rose bushes, I‘m gonna have to pick up a couple hundred feet of construction barrier fence and attach it to the gate and funnel these guys out!