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[nobadays]

 

[Sailingeric]

Helped out a brew buddy who has a couple apple trees, crush about 10 gallons of cider. I am going to wild ferment and see what happens.

 

[day_trippr]

Direct drive on that crusher?

 

[Sailingeric]

Direct drive on that crusher?

It was the grinder to break down the apples.. it was hand crank on a jackscrew (8 TPI Acme thread, thanks all the YouTube machining channels for new vocabulary words) to get the juice.

 

[GrogNerd]

I distinctly ordered the Antarctic Blue Super Sports Wagon with the C.B. and optional rally fun pack

 

[GrogNerd]

 

[corkybstewart]

Barrels are blooming

 

[nobadays]

Weird!

 

[day_trippr]

The heirloom toms have been coming in like crazy this week!

The local Shaws lists heirloom tomatoes at $4.99 a pound so that right there is close to $45!
Anyway, along with giving some away we're coming up with all kinds of ways to eat 'em. Besides tomato sammiches we've had Panzanellas (yum!), Capriccios, and similar salads like this...

Cheers!

 

[balrog]

I'm surprised the rain didn't damage them with too much water in too short a time.

 

[day_trippr]

The incessant rain definitely slowed things down in the garden and led to mano a mano battles with slugs (I picked the wrong year to switch from fabric to straw!) but other than a bit of sunburn the toms have done well. Given everything I can't complain...

Cheers!

[late edit] Our veggie garden is raised to about 18" above grade which surely helps keep the beds from staying soaked for long...

 

[Rodent]

Market sized cantaloupes are getting close to being ready for picking. Excited to finally be able to grow melons after multiple attempts at previous homes (that all failed due to weather) The one in the upper right should be ready any day now, as it's turned a golden hue in the last 2-3 days

 

[gromitdj]

Man, I think I started my 'loupes too late. Mine are nowhere near that size. My biggest is about 4" in diameter.
Of course I did have to start hand pollinating to get anything...

And my toms? A rat got 3/4 of what did ripen.

 

[Rodent]

looking back it appears I planted a 4" plant from Lowes around July 20th (likely the weekend prior to this, so say I planted a 4" seedling pot on July 16/17)

we had several weeks in Aug where multiple days were 100F or above for the highs, and the soil is volcanic ash (silt) that's loaded with an abundance of everything except nitrogen, so the cantaloupes and maters really took off without overgrowing.

sweet corn I sowed in a new bad on 29 July is now 48"-54" tall and starting to have the beginning of what will be ears. water and warmth without humidity really get some plants growing vigorously.

that cantaloupe in the upper right corner dropped off the vine at lunchtime today when I gently lifted it, so it's inside and awaiting breakfast later this week. just under 2-1/2 pounds. exciting to finally have a homegrown melon after decades of discouragement from sporadic attempts

 

[Rish]

The heirloom toms have been coming in like crazy this week!

My crop is all done. Hoping for a fall crop but may have started too late. Hopefully the frost will hold off.

 

[DBhomebrew]

I've got a dozen or more green Romas. We'll see if they finish. It was a free volunteer from a colleague's compost pile that got planted in mid-August.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

No pics of my tomatoes but we've been eating tomato sammies for a while now, not complaining, they're excellent. Here's my first attempt at pumpkin growing, still got a month to go.

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

There is a piece of bread under that slice of tomato.

 

[Rodent]

There is a piece of bread under that slice of tomato.

Mortgage Lifter or Bloody Butcher? could be one of several other beefsteaks, and always curious what others are having success with

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

It was a beefsteak hybrid from burpee, cant recall exact name. My wife might know... and we are in central PA if that helps.

Edit- wife says Big Boy Beefsteaks

 

[InspectorJon]

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

First hop harvest done, gonna dry em up for a few days then put them in the freezer.

 

[GrogNerd]

Quiet ho's hours are posted by the elevators

 

[balrog]

 

[day_trippr]

I have so many questions...

 

[ncbrewer]

 

[balrog]

View attachment 829163

as a banjo picker, I approve this meme

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[Ki-ri-n]

Those two items don't even belong in the same aisle!

You should gave to walk past one, to get to the other. Otherwise, it's too late.