Gardening Gardening

Hit the 47 "Mountain Fresh" tomato plants this morning. Picked Friday and got 3 baskets. Today might be peak but lots of green ones Stihl hanging. Hungarian hot wax peppers too.

 

I thought this may be the best forum to get an answer.
My wife has a recipe to make copycat V8 she wants me to can up. The recipe calls for 1 lb. of carrots juiced. How do you juice a carrot? Could I run them through my Victorian Strainer? Do you par boil them first?

 

I think you need a juicer. It will grind the carrots into a very fine pulp, and extract the strained juice. Check Craigslist, people tend to buy them in a fit of enthusiasm, then grow tired of juicing.

 

Hadn't thought of a juicer, but not going to go out and buy one. Diced the vegies up and added to the tomatoes and cooked. We then then put the pulp though the strainer. Took the left over pulp and ran the immersion blender though it and strained again. My wife ran that pulp through the blender and we strained. The blender wasn't worth doing.
Juice taste pretty good. Looks like I have about 8 qt. of juice. 24 lbs. of tomatoes, a whole celery plant 1 lb. of carrots, parsley , onion and the afternoon making it I don't think it was worth it. I will buy my V8.

 

First kiss of frost last night!

I did cover the girls with sheets incase, but some of the longer vines running into the yard got frost bit.

 

Will they grow after that or does it shut them down?

 

They’ll grow but we’re in the slow slow period. If the frost got into the garden, it’d be pretty much over. That was just a little bite on a tertiary vine.
We’re picking one tomorrow to bring to the local Harvest Fair. I’ll probably pick the other two good ones this weekend also so I can start on clean up and get some rye in there while it’s still growing season.

 

On the way to fair.
Measured out at 231, way less than I had guessed.
Nice color and shape though.

 

And you just tossed that in the back of the vehicle to take to the fair? That is massive!

 

Picked another melon!



And a bunch of peppers. They are still flourishing!

 

Not really a toss.
It was a good exercise in Emotional Intelligence for the family.
In better years, when we’re close to 500#’s, it’s a little more involved.

 

You’re a Mellon Master now!

 

Which saw is your preferred for pumpkin carving?

 

Cut some cabbage this morning. About 50 heads in the cart. Mostly green but about a dozen red in there.

 

Need a hand?

 

You got to the root of the problem.

 

I cut down the last tomato plants, and spread the soil on the lawn (I grow them in whisky barrels). They never did get black spot. Saucing the last red ones with garlic, parm rinds, and bay leaf. There are some green ones that I'll keep in the house until they ripen.

 

Stuff for produce auction yesterday. Peppers and tomatoes winding down but the cole crops are doing fine.

 

Is that a canning recipe or a use now? If it is canning, I would like to have it.