Harvest Time Knives!!

[Paladin]

Thanks, 9-Ball! I appreciate the info. You'd think I would have been wearing them before as big and as old as I am but I never had a pair since I growed up.

Ray

[jerryd6818]

Rick, it's good to see you pokin' your head up here.

Ray, is it safe to assume you're talking about bib overalls?

And while we're here, my tomatoes are growing. Looks like I'm going to have a fine crop sometime in August.

[Paladin]

Rick, it's good to see you pokin' your head up here.

Ray, is it safe to assume you're talking about bib overalls?
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And while we're here, my tomatoes are growing. Looks like I'm going to have a fine crop sometime in August.

Those are the ones! Right on Jerry.
My tomater plants are beat down by the heat. I'm going to stub them off and see if can get some fall tomaters out of them.

Ray

[jerryd6818]

I can't get the galluses on my bibs to stay up. The left one wants to keep sliding down over my shoulder.

[313 Mike]

Nice looking plant Jerry....is that another one of the pinks you grew last year?
Regarding the bibs, I used to wear them when I was a teen for outdoor work, really like the way they stay up without need of a belt! Nowadays my lovely wife scowls at me whenever I mention getting a pair...

[jerryd6818]

Nice looking plant Jerry....is that another one of the pinks you grew last year?
Regarding the bibs, I used to wear them when I was a teen for outdoor work, really like the way they stay up without need of a belt! Nowadays my lovely wife scowls at me whenever I mention getting a pair...

No, I didn't get a Big Pink this year. Put this in instead.

[9ball]

If I remember how to do this & since I am motivated, I will attempt to show our 2017 Tomato Festival Knife.......a Case Bone Stag Trapper.
I hope they come out in order.......

I'll Be Back
9ball

I may have to lay down for a little bit

[jerryd6818]

Did you win that knife? It looks to me like the raffle is the only way you could get one. I didn't see anyplace on the website where you could buy one but the raffle drawing isn't until Saturday July 29th.

[9ball]

No Man.......I paid Cash Money. The raffle/drawing is only for #01.......I'm 9
There is few left of the first 100 if you are interested. Or I get tickets for drawing I am sure.

I am on and off-line.......health issues. I'll be back.

9ball
Oops, now I see there is 6 That is upside down.
From what I have seen in the past drawings, collectors do not win the knives.

[TripleF]

Knice tomato plant Jerry!!

[313 Mike]

Man that is my kind of festival! Charlie Daniels, tomatoes, knives. ....sounds like a party!

[jerryd6818]

Thanks Scott. Looking forward to a ripe one.

[treefarmer]

2nd picking of Banana peppers, thought I cut a few with my "new" #18 Queen from edge213. Usually the pepper stems just pop from plant but I had to use the little Queen. Didn't get a picture but I used it to also cut the peppers into rings, it's plenty sharp!
Treefarmer

[313 Mike]

Man Philip, those plants are producing nicely, very impressive!

[TripleF]

Man Philip, those plants are producing nicely, very impressive!

ditto

[philco]

Philip do y'all ever fry up a batch of those banana peppers ?

[treefarmer]

No Philco, we haven't fried any but I'm willin' to try it! Give me a little advice on frying banana peppers, please Sir. Just made 8 more jars of pickled pepper rings with onion and green tomatos. Have a tray of big one that I'm going to stuff and bake later today. Actually we cut a slab off the side, dig out the seeds and put the venison sausage mix in it, same as a stuffed Bell except the peppers are a lot sweeter.
Miss Joy's kitchen looks like a produce stand right now. Plenty of 'maters, peppers, pickled peppers, there even some okra layin' there some where.
Treefarmer

[TripleF]

Mmmmmm....mmmmmm......mmmmmm Philip!

[philco]

Treefarmer I like to cut off the stem, split the banana pepper in half long ways and remove the seeds. Next I mix up a batter of half corn meal, half flour with enough milk to make it soupy but still a bit thick. Dip the banana pepper in the batter then fry it in veg. oil on med. heat till crispy brown. Some dip the pepper in a beaten egg before dipping in the batter but I normally don't.

[Berryb]

wow Phillip, nice tomatos. Mine are just startin' to get a little color. 'course when you live this far north... I was just tellin' somebody that the first summer in this house I lost all my tomato plants to frost on the fourth of July.
Bruce

[treefarmer]

Philco,
That sounds doable, may try that on some of the next batch. Thanks!

Bruce,
That's interesting to hear about frost on the 'mater plants on the 4th of July. Our plants are now succumbing to the heat, nightly temperatures need to remain in the low 70s at night for a fruit set on with the new blooms. Temps are not cooperating, hey it's the middle of summer. The peppers usually go on producing till frost if we don't get tired of 'em and pull 'em up!
Treefarmer

[bighomer]

Fine looking harvest there farmer, I may have to try those battered and fried peppers, sounds good, I love'm roasted on the grill.

[313 Mike]

Holy Man Phillip, I am jealous of that harvest ! Looking good to say the least, I am actually salivating here..
Plenty of tomatoes on the vine bit bone ripe yet except a couple cherries. No ripe peppers yet either.

My squash plants are overwhelming their trellis and attempting to overtake the garden! There is one spaghetti squash plant in there, and two mini jack pumpkins.

[treefarmer]

Mike,
We've eaten 'mater sandwiches till we almost turned into a big ripe tomato! We had okra and tomatoes that was some kinda' good!

Your squash and punkin' vines look might healthy! I enjoy lookin' at the details of pictures. I see some good lookin' green beans in the bottom picture and was wondering about the solar panel on the building, is it hot water or electrical? Also that dude holdin' up the sunflower, is he an undocumented worker? The plants between the beans and the sunflowers look like carrot tops. I also see a nice sized green tomato. Your garden looks mighty good!

We're figuring on a fall garden, maybe some straight neck squash, a few green beans and hope to plant a row or two of the Seminole pumpkins. I sure need to downsize since we're not as spry as we once were, I just can't figure out how to get a tractor up in them raised beds that Miss Joy says are easier to care for!
Treefarmer

[313 Mike]

Thanks for the reply Phillip! No solar panels on the Shed, just your standard tin/ aluminum garden shed.
The man standing amongst the sunflowers is indeed undocumented, but has been dubbed "Scary" by the kids, so he does have an official name. This is his 5th or 6th year in the garden, and the elements have taken their toll!
Yep, you are correct on both the carrot tops and the green beans, matter of fact I just got done harvesting a bunch, along with a couple of "Rapunzel" grape tomatoes...still waiting on the larger varieties to turn, first blush of color on a "Champion" today, but still a ways off