HomeGrownVegetables

Looks like some pickled green tomatoes are in my future! Last week a pretty good freeze came thru our area and wiped out the tomatoes, yes the fall tomatoes that were looking real nice!!  So it goes in South East Texas, just when you think its gonna stay in the 60′s …bammm a freeze rolls thru!

On the bright side, at least we knew it was coming and were able to pull them in time.  My wife Cathy was able to get out and pick them the Wednesday before Thanksgiving!

Green Tomatoes

Most of these were about racket ball size, about ten or so were baseball size, we fried those up along with some of our purple hull peas for dinner one night….good eatin Aunt Bea!

The Bigger Ones

So like I said looks like some chow chow or some other good stuff coming our way,   I sure can’t wait to get a green house so I can extend some grow time around here!

Well that’s it for now, another dip into the freezing range expected tonight, gotta go wrap some pipes up, stay warm ya’ll!

The Cabbage has taken off and is growing like gangbusters, it hasn’t started forming heads yet but looks like its coming soon.  I planted green and red cabbage , the green looks like it has just a little more uumph than the red cabbage, but the red is coming along too.

Green Cabbage

We just mulched the beds with some pine needles from the front yard, tryin to keep some of the water where the plants can get too it, our drought still remains in effect, hopefully we will get some rain this weekend!

The whole bed o' Cabbage

Those are the red cabbage in the middle of these beds, as you can see they are just a little slower than the green. Behind that is the Brussells Sprouts, they are looking good too!  We have another bed of those as well.

2nd Bed Of Sprouts!

The ducks like these too, that’s what happened to the front left plant there, looks like it will make a full recovery. We also hung the bird / deer netting up around both beds last weekend , for just such issues!

Tomatoes

The tomatoes are still holding on, we had some cool temps last week, down in the mid 30′s. So far the tomatoes are still looking peppy, maybe the daytime temps in the 70′s are keeping the growing, going!

Tomatoes Still Holding On!

Hopefully they will get ripe, but if not we’ll make some relish or chow-chow, maybe even some fried green tomatoes.

I hope your sstuff is working ok, leave a comment and tell me about it, love to hear from ya!

Until then, Take it Easy