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    Here's our 60+ feeb basil plants, basis for mondo pestofests.


    Our peaness on the right is limping along as well.
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    And then we've got a ton of these:
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    Pulled “Chuck Norris’s nutsack” from the garden today.

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    Thought they were two close to each other when attempting to extract them from the thicket.

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    Any recommendations on a vacuum sealer? We’ve got an onslaught of produce and the wife wants to buy a sealer. Google reviews are unreliable, what’s the consensus on a good sealer?

    We have a Vitamix and an Excalibur dehydrator so we don’t mind spending some cash for a good unit.

    1 pound 12 ounce Mr Stripey

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    Five pints of romas canned yesterday, first time I’ve tried it, I usually freeze them. All lids sucked down, forgot the lemon juice but I boiled them for 80 minutes. I was already planning on boiling them longer than the recommended 40 minutes.

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    Been feeding all of my neighbors, employees, and moved out children. Today’s haul was heavy on poblanos. Bout that many couple times a week.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobMc View Post
    Any recommendations on a vacuum sealer? We’ve got an onslaught of produce and the wife wants to buy a sealer. Google reviews are unreliable, what’s the consensus on a good sealer?

    We have a Vitamix and an Excalibur dehydrator so we don’t mind spending some cash for a good unit.

    1 pound 12 ounce Mr Stripey

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    Five pints of romas canned yesterday, first time I’ve tried it, I usually freeze them. All lids sucked down, forgot the lemon juice but I boiled them for 80 minutes. I was already planning on boiling them longer than the recommended 40 minutes.

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    Been feeding all of my neighbors, employees, and moved out children. Today’s haul was heavy on poblanos. Bout that many couple times a week.

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    feed me too! that looks amazing!!

    i can loan you my vac sealer, leave it on your porch with all the bags you could possibly use. i'm in millcreek.

    otherwise, i have used a foodsaver fm2000 for years (for a lot of sealing projects) and the thing works like a charm. i love it.

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    Excellent bounties the last few pages.

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    Newbie gardner here, damn this thread is so full of winning!

    BobMc: I don't own one myself but several close friends swear by Foodsaver vacuum sealer FWIW.

    Just a couple shots of our humble (mostly) flower garden

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lexi-Bell View Post
    Newbie gardner here, damn this thread is so full of winning!

    BobMc: I don't own one myself but several close friends swear by Foodsaver vacuum sealer FWIW.

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    Holy shit that is one impressive flower bed!! Well done!

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    I planted some stuff starting in mid July after I pulled the brassicas. I basically had a whole, sunny empty bed with pretty good soil so I let it sit for a week or so before panting, in smaller blocks, as the space came available. I put in seeds for lettuce, turnips, dill, basil, parsley, cilantro, a whole bunch of bush beans to help get some nitrogen back into the soil, lots of carrots, grape and cherry tomatoes and transplanted a couple of pepper plants from the shady side of the garden to this sunny side. Well, Boom, the turnips are huge in 3 weeks and a couple will be ready to pull soon. The peppers are super happy plants but not really producing like they look like they would but, it is possible that the birds like the new peppers as they pop because they've been covered with flowers for a week. The other stuff is all doing surprisingly well for having been planted during the hottest part of the summer, hopefully now that we've broken summer's back here we'll bring the 10 week dry streak we've been on to an end and things will really pop. It drizzled non stop today and stayed in the mid 60's and in the space of the day there were noticeable gains made.

    I pulled my first melon today, it's almost ripe but the vine gave all it had and died so hopefully it will ripen inside. There are a few more melons that will be ready soon, it looks like the squirrels got tired of eating them so they're producing again and the plants are thriving. I have to pull the cucumber out of the pot that had 3 plants in it, they just died overnight yesterday. probably vine borers or something, those plants were never quite happy anyway. Butternut squash is failing and I've kind of written it off. The corn went well I think for my first try, I'll go bigger next year so it has a better chance but what I got was tasty. Berries were a fail, gonna move some things around for next year and get them into more appropriate soil. Potatoes didn't go as planned so I replanted last week from market bought that sprouted in the fridge and they're growing already, I think they liked going from the cold to the warm soil. They may not have time to finish before winter but maybe. I hope the sweet potatoes make it, another first time experiment.

    This region is big in the garlic world so next week I'm going to go get some seed garlic from a local farm and get that going when I empty the fall crops out. This years experiment has gone pretty well and now I have a better concept of how to do it next year. As much work as building it out this year was it will be nearly that much again this fall. I guess as the second wave hits and we're stuck at home I won't be bored. Yay...
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    Worked from home today to address the dual issue of overflowing fridge and lack of counter space to store more veggies. A couple hours of chopping later:

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    That's about 20 lbs of tomatoes, 10 cups of onions, 15 bell peppers, 2 big ass zucchinis, 15 eggplants, and countless minuscule garlic cloves. I just got done canning and got 7 quarts of salsa and 7 quarts of ratatouille with some left over that wouldn't fit in either the pressure canner or the water bath. And I still failed to eradicate all of the tomatoes:

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    Also, melons. Finally!

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    God dam man. Nice haul


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    Anyone have tomato plants that are producing but the foliage looks like its dead?

    Specifically Romas, which are determinate so maybe thats just the way they dedicate their energy to the final product?, but I have two plants that looks like it can barely support the weight of what look to be very satisfactory Romas in a week or two.

    Web search got me no where.

    I guess I shut up and take my meaty Romas but I'm still curious. Been supplementing w compost and some calcium.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thedude2340 View Post
    Anyone have tomato plants that are producing but the foliage looks like its dead?

    Specifically Romas, which are determinate so maybe thats just the way they dedicate their energy to the final product?, but I have two plants that looks like it can barely support the weight of what look to be very satisfactory Romas in a week or two.

    Web search got me no where.

    I guess I shut up and take my meaty Romas but I'm still curious. Been supplementing w compost and some calcium.
    We have a lot of dead foliage in the lower section of all of our plants, including the romas. Big yield so far so it doesn't seem to affect productivity too much but the fruits are small (for the romas only, everything else is legit). I thought it was from over-watering early in the season, we had a leaky valve and the tomatoes were getting a constant trickle I didn't notice for a couple of weeks. I fixed it right when the heat really turned on and figured the shock from being watered a ton in mildish temps to full-on baking with deep-watering every couple of days might have done it.

    The issue this year, also with romas for the most part, has been blossom-end rot. I'm trying a calcium nitrate supplement now to see if it helps. Will let the chickens loose on the garden plot once the season is done and get some better fertilizer in there for next year.

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    I have some of the blossom end rot too, but less than last year. I have all raised beds and am in CO. Feel like I’m constantly adding nutrients and tweaking soil for various types. Definitely gotten better over the years but it’s an ongoing experiment. Sure is satisfying when it pans out, gardens are fun

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    Quote Originally Posted by thedude2340 View Post
    I have some of the blossom end rot too, but less than last year. I have all raised beds and am in CO. Feel like I’m constantly adding nutrients and tweaking soil for various types. Definitely gotten better over the years but it’s an ongoing experiment. Sure is satisfying when it pans out, gardens are fun
    ^^ use a calcium FOLIAR FEED. not a root feed. foliar feed is the best way to fix this. apply it every goddamn day, and cut off the fruit that already has end rot - don't let it sit on the plant.

    also - thedude - i am 110% onboard with making compost tea. it's the shit. 10/10 highly recommend. it basically allows you to see the benefits of compost immediately rather than waiting a year for the soil amendment to settle in and become bioavailable to your plants. plus you can hack it with good organic fertilizer and it works wonders.

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    Mutant Radishes.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by tgapp View Post
    ^^ use a calcium FOLIAR FEED. not a root feed. foliar feed is the best way to fix this. apply it every goddamn day, and cut off the fruit that already has end rot - don't let it sit on the plant.

    also - thedude - i am 110% onboard with making compost tea. it's the shit. 10/10 highly recommend. it basically allows you to see the benefits of compost immediately rather than waiting a year for the soil amendment to settle in and become bioavailable to your plants. plus you can hack it with good organic fertilizer and it works wonders.
    This is great intel, I was under the impression you had to go the root route.

    You have any best practices/recommendations on making compost tea? I have plenty of compost but have honestly never tried it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pepperdawg View Post
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    Mutant Radishes.....
    that's an absolute unit if i've ever seen one, my god.

    This is great intel, I was under the impression you had to go the root route.

    You have any best practices/recommendations on making compost tea? I have plenty of compost but have honestly never tried it.
    so - you can actually combine compost tea with a calcium supplement and then use that as a foliar feed if you want to be extra fancy. take a 5gal bucket, add in 3" of compost into the bottom of it, then add in 1/4 cup molasses, ~1 cup organic fertilizer (this is what i do, YMMV - i'm partial to Tomato-Tone), and then cal-mag supplement at the recommended concentration. fill the bucket with dechlorinated water (this step is important - don't use straight tap water - i use rain water) then, put an aquarium airstone in it and let it bubble - this encourages aerobic fermentation and discourages anaerobic fermentation. let it sit for 24 hours under the bubbler, and then use it as a foliar feed.

    there are a whole host of reasons to use compost tea - my understanding is that introducing microbial action with fertilizers increases nutrient uptake while preventing burn.

    i have absolute shit soil - last year i probably harvested no more than 30 tomatoes from my 20 or so plants, and while i did amend the soil a bit between years, i wasn't able to do that much. all i really changed was adding compost tea, and while i don't have a garden as impressive as bobmc's or boissal's, it's honestly like 100 times better than last year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lexi-Bell View Post
    Just a couple shots of our humble (mostly) flower garden
    Holy crap! If I lived near you I'd ask to foster bees there. That's impressive.
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    Last year pretty much every roma/marzano tomato I grew had blossom end rot. This year I saved up all my eggshells, put them periodically in the vitamix and kept them all in a jar. I put a solid handful in each tomato and pepper seedling hole. I also went to a drip system and have a very consistent water regimen.

    This year I have had two tomatoes total with BER, one Jet Star and one Roma. Every other tomato has been perfect, little nipples on all my romas.

    My largest KQ flopped over, currently drying it’s top in the margins.

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    Grabbed a few tuna can carrots today, dogs love the shit out of these.

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    Those Mr Stripey tomatoes are awesome, yellow with red veins throughout.

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    Thanks for the recommends, a foodsaver v4400 is on the way, bonus will be the wine stoppers. If anyone local wants any food I have plenty of stuff, squash, cucumbers, various peppers, tomatoes, onions, potatoes, I have plenty, let me know and you can pick it up at my shop.

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    Just an FYI freebie for Reno/Tahoe gardeners-
    We have 4 raised bed "critter covers" that are no longer in use. They are free (beer always appreciated) and were going to be used by a co-op garden, then covid happened etc. so no co-op. They are pvc framed and covered in 1/2" square galvanized wire screening. They are gable ended, measure about 54x72" with gable height 24". They were used 2 to a 4x12 bed (2x6 tops), and were easy to cover with flannel sheets on frosty nights. Also have trex blocks to raise the covers as plant heights increase.
    2 local does did learn to tag team them and push the covers off with their heads.
    PM if you're interested, I can send photos by phone
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    Garden stoke / things that annoy you / things that amuse you crosspost:

    Ms Boissal had to dump a bunch of ancient canned goods we were realistically not going to eat because we're running out of pint-sized mason jars to can the garden bounty. This morning I had to relocate my sprouts and a bunch of grains and nuts to recover a few other small jars. We have 36 quart jars left but after that we're fucked and at the current pace we'll definitely get close to the 120 lbs of tomatoes that would fill all these jars.

    There's been a major shortage since COVID, most likely due to crazy preppers canning grocery store tomatoes and hipster asshats who insist on drinking their froofroo coffee in them. The official website for the main maker of mason jars is currently listing a single quart jar for $18. You can get a 12-pack for $125. Bunch of grandmas are flooding eBay with their stash at around $5 a piece. Insanity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boissal View Post
    Garden stoke / things that annoy you / things that amuse you crosspost:

    Ms Boissal had to dump a bunch of ancient canned goods we were realistically not going to eat because we're running out of pint-sized mason jars to can the garden bounty. This morning I had to relocate my sprouts and a bunch of grains and nuts to recover a few other small jars. We have 36 quart jars left but after that we're fucked and at the current pace we'll definitely get close to the 120 lbs of tomatoes that would fill all these jars.

    There's been a major shortage since COVID, most likely due to crazy preppers canning grocery store tomatoes and hipster asshats who insist on drinking their froofroo coffee in them. The official website for the main maker of mason jars is currently listing a single quart jar for $18. You can get a 12-pack for $125. Bunch of grandmas are flooding eBay with their stash at around $5 a piece. Insanity.
    We've vacuum sealed then frozen tomatoes successfully.

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