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i got a rope ladder,we get to the otherside and pull it over and we have our escape route.....:nanadrink:

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Most people just knock on the door ... ask sunfish!

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LOL!!!!!:woohoonaner:.

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I can see that next summer we need to have a festival of fruit and world championship put-put tournament at my place.

:goteam:

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3 gallons of Green Gage plums.
3 gallons (10 bunches) of Flame Grapes.
1 pint of Sequoia Strawberries.

My location is not warm enough thoughout the day for Flame Grapes to ripen uniformly -- which they do in places with warmer days and nights. So a "bunch" from my orchard is 1/3 ripe, 1/3 under-ripe, and 1/3 over-ripe. I toss the over-ripe ones since they are starting to mold. Some of the remainder are eaten fresh but the majority are made into jam. Just make preserves, but add 1/4 cup sugar to each 4 cups of fruit. For my grapes, this is a necessity because the unripe grapes are too tart when boiled down into a plain preserve.

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A few of my Clemenule from Spain. Superb. And some white peaches and sweet nectarines. And green gage plums and Santa Rosa Plums.

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about 150 lbs of weeds.:ha:

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Mskitty:
Ha-ha-ha!
I never thought of that!
I had more than 2 foot long weeds in my sloopy backyard that my 3 kids and I pulled but only maybe 40 lbs. It's been neglected so long.

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O.K., but are you going to eat them? :D

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you could....there was polk weed and wild onions.....

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Picked a quart-size bowl of lima bean pods, plus the usual assortment of berries.

:woohoonaner:

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black russian tomatoes

ceylon spinach

chives

parsley

onion leaves

nasturtium

passionfruit

granadilla

lemon

made a salad for lunch :bananas_b

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Paradisi, congratulations on the Harvest!

Today I picked:
Last 2 gallons of Green Gage plums :(
3 gallons of Panamint nectarines :D
1 pint of Bababerry raspberries :)

The plums will probably be eaten fresh.
The nectarines will be dried.
The raspberries are already gone!

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thats how that one goes here as well!:ha:

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Today we got one nectarine.

nothing special except I live in Australia and we are in the middle of our winter. We only ever get fairly mild winters where we live, but for a nectarine to ripen at this time of year is very very strange. Its at least a month earlier than last year (which was extremely early) and I would guess its thanks to global warming.

We've even had to cover our tree to protect it from fruit fly - something we normally don't have to do until september.

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The plums not eaten became 1/2 lb dried and 3 pints of preserves.
The nectarines became 5 pints of preserves.
I'd make raspberry preserves but they never make it in the house :ha:

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2 days ago i froze 20 lbs of peaches till i get more canning jars then its peach jam time! and yesterday i froze 2 and 1/2 quarts of blackberries. all the blackberries but a handful went into the freezer....i had to taste test them. all of the fruit came out my parents yard.

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Oh yum! Freezing is so much easier than canning anyway. Our peaches are freestone, so my wife just cuts a great circle around each one, twists, and presto, two peach halves! There's already bags of frozen peach halves in the freezer. Come winter, it will be vanilla ice cream with sliced frozen peaches and chocolate sauce.

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thats what these were the freestone. very easy to pit! im gonna do the peach jam. it just mad me mad the recipe that i use calls for 6 lbs of peaches and only makes 5 and 1/2 cups.....thats 2 and 1/2 pint jars. so i had to wait till i had more peaches to do 2 or 3 batches. btw they are easier to peel also. i made a peach cobbler and ate a huge piece. oh boy was it yummy!

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Hmm ... I never peel mine. If making jam or preserve, I use a large knife to cut wedges out right over the pot. I like the flavor of the skins in the preserve. By the time it boils down, they have fragmented into unrecognizable little pieces.

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i peeled the skins for the ones in the cobbler not for the frozen ones. the skin stays on those. jam wouldnt be jam without the skins.

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Years ago we lived in Africa up on the high veld where the air was very dry, and the peaches, apricots and nectarines used to grow like weeds and you couldn't give the fruit away because everyone had them. So people used to spread them out to dry and the flavour was really concentrated. This was when people didn't always have electricity for freezers, and it was a common sight to see yards covered with corrugated iron sheets which were in turn covered with halved pitted fruit drying in the sun. If they had trees you could bet they would have strips of jerky (biltong) drying there - and we ate them all with never any ill effects!! Even now we eat from roadside vendors with impunity.

Sorry didn't mean to hijack this thread - got carried away.
Cassie

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lemon, parsley, celery, tomato

had them with some mako shark

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Cherry tomatoes and jalepenos.

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The last 10 nectarines :(
1/2 pint of strawberries :)
The first Sugar Pie Pumpkin :D

Did someone say "pumpkin jam" ?

:woohoonaner:

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im sure pumpkin jam might be interesting, my mom has made pumpkin butter( like apple butter but with pumpkin)....but i like pumpkin pancakes...yummy yummy!

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6 1/2-pound Better Boy tomatoes :)
The 1st yellow Azoychka tomato of the year :D

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passionfruit (panama red), celery - baby stalks used as a last minute addition to a soup, harvested some frozen bananas from the freezer the other day - to put into a carrot cake, the recipe called for a cup or two of water - and I thought that was boring so I grabbed a couple of lady finger bananas, let them get soft and mushed themin their plastic bag and added that to the cake mix......took an extra 45 minutes to bake but well worth it

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We harvested our first mexican lime day before yesterday from our little tree. And today I harvested my first artichoke ever, an Imperial Star.

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today I picked two paw paw - or papaya - they're on the kitchen window sill finishing off ripening,.

had to pick them just when they started to turn yellow otherwise our local family of possums would have them

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LOL! Papaya is a perfect meal for possums! Also thanks for clarifying they are papaya, and not one of the North American Paw Paw's (Asimina species, especially Asimina triloba).


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I almost had a triloba growing here - the seedlings were about 60cm tall - and then the wife found out about the smell of the flowers and their propensity to become a weed over here - so I had to pull them out.

That's why I know those on the other side of the pacific like paw paws to be called papayas:02:

BTW - am I missing much as far as the taste of your paw paw is concerned??

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Given you can grow papaya and all the other fruits you already have, I think you are not missing out on much. The plants become large and invasive over time -- esp. in your environment. Your space is quite limited. Even if your growing area was larger, say 1000 square meters (1/4 acre) I think there are other fruits you would enjoy more in both taste and behavior.

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3 Pettingill apples, about 8 oz. each :)
1 12 oz. Mr. Stripey tomato :)
1 12 oz. Celebrity tomato :)
2 10 oz. Azoychka tomatoes :)
10 12 oz. Better Boy tomatoes :D
about 50 Sun Gold cherry tomatoes :D

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One Babaco ;)
One Connecticut Field pumpkin ;)
Five Sugar Pie pumpkins :)
Five Celebrity tomatoes :)
Two 1.5 lb plus three other Mr. Stripey tomatoes :D
Four 1 lb Cherokee Purple tomatoes :D
5 pounds of Sun Gold cherry tomatoes :D
15 pounds of Azoychka tomatoes :D
27 pounds of Better Boy tomatoes :goteam:

Time to "jar" tomatoes!

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:woohoonaner:Show off!

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One Pettingill apple :)
1 lb Sun Gold cherry tomatoes
2.5 lbs Mr. Stripey tomatoes
5 lbs Azoychka tomatoes
3.5 lbs Cherokee Purple tomatoes
8 lbs Celebrity tomatoes
12 lbs Better Boy tomatoes

:woohoonaner:

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Another 50 lbs of tomatoes!

:woohoonaner:

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Wow,:woohoonaner: 50 lbs, how many tomato plants do you have?

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I have 10 plants, 6 of which are currently cropping heavily. Speaking of which, I harvested another 50 pounds this morning! :D

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:woohoonaner::goteam::woohoonaner:

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3 lbs lemon guavas
1lb strawberry guava
10lbs of snake cucumbers
10lbs bush cucumbers
5lbs lemon cucumbers
2 jack o lantern pumpkins
1 35lb moon and stars watermelon they are all huge
1 2lb cantaloupe

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lt_eggbeater,

You must have a good size garden.:goteam: Post some photos when you get a chance.

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Its about 100ft by 35ft most of the stuff has been rabbit attacked lol!
the melons zukes and cucumbers seem to have been attacked less. I put in "rabbit" fencing but they seem to jump through the top holes. I guess I will
have to chicken wire it, and see if the smaller stuff will make it next growing season. I just started some hydroponic systems in doors up in the tower room
of my house. We wil see how it goes.

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Sounds like a good sized garden. Sorry to hear about the rabbits. Darn critters love to eat their greens. My cucumbers and zucchini didn't do much this year. I guess to hot and lack of water. Your in the desert, how do you grow so much? Lots of water I guess? What do you plan on growing with the hydroponic system? The hydroponic systems are pretty pricey aren't they?:bananas_b

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I have alot of drip irragation, I have my own well so I take advantage of that.
The cucumbers zukes and melons have been huge. As far as the hydroponics goes currently I am attempting to grow watermelon,6 varieties of hot peppers, 4 varieties of sweet peppers, about half a dozen types of tomatoes, snow peas, corn and some cucumbers. Don't know if it will work or not... Not sure I can be bothered to keep that tight a control on the ph and everything. I'm using ebb and flow I have 2 2x6? units I think. and one 1x1 and 1 6x6? I think. So a decent amount of Hydroponics. But like I said I'm not too good about monitoring ph and all the other tedious hydrponic stuff.

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Oh and yes the hydro systems are a little pricey I guess.

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Today I picked about 20 pounds of Celebrity tomatoes and an Ambrosia melon. Sue also made 10 pints of tomato soup preserve from the tomatoes I picked yesterday.

:woohoonaner:

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More Tomatoes!

from top to bottom:
Better Boy;
Celebrity;
Hillbilly, Momotaro, Azoychka;
Sun Gold Cherry;
Cherokee Purple, Persimmon.

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Nice harvest Richard.
I harvested the last of my clemenule mandarin but I left the second batch of fruit that are not ripe yet. And I noticed there are more flowers coming.