@subdood_ky_z6b Thank you. Have to admit I was proud of those onions. Never had such a good harvest before.
What a good kitty with beautiful eyes. Yes, those sweeties are worth their weight in gold, else we would be overrun with vermin. It is so cute how they are proud of their catch and want to share it with you. Got to have cats if you are in the country!
Sandra
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I tried growing onions from seed this year, I wanted to do what you did. I got them sprouted in a shallow pot, but neglected them, so they shriveled up 
. Too many other crises to deal with I guess.
Yes, Theo is a good cat, altho a bit clingy, but I’m glad he’s got used to us. I think he’s the 6th cat we’ve had, the longest time one’s been here has been 5 years. It’s hard keeping them from wondering off after the ladies, but this one’s fixed so that ought to help keep him around.
He has a habit of standing at the storm door on his back feet, and pawing at it trying get our attention. Most time we ignore him, but sometimes we let him in for treats.
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I found first ripe apples dropped from my novamac on b9 espellar yesterday. July 23.
2 novamacs, 1 trailman.
The trailman was from a graft I added this spring… it bloomed and set 5 fruit… I thinned to 1… then It grew a other 1.5 ft and is still growing.
Love the taste of both… trailman is a little sharper, zippy… but still very good.
Also had some yellow crookneck squash, big beef and sungold tomatoes.
TNHunter
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First thing this year out of the garden, picked yesterday…
Pretty good, don’t know what variety, tho. More are on the way.
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Tomatoes, beans, okra, cucumbers, and some fresh sweet corn. I ate 6 ears. Can’t hold any more. I will have about 30 ears to pick tomorrow. Most will go in the freezer as creamed corn.
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I picked some Monark apples these last two days. They are very good apples and are not soft like most of the early apples. I will cut them up and freeze some and eat the rest. I am glad I put the Monark apple in my orchard. So far I have picked approximately 100 lbs of apples and there are about another 40-60 lbs of apples left on the tree. Our temps have been in the high 90’s and with the high humidity the temps have felt like 106 ±. So the apples have been easy to pick and many have dropped on the ground. They were ripe here last year on July 18. Since the temps have been so high I did not go out and pick them before they fall on the ground.
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Last night for supper… we had pork bbq… and from the garden sungold tomatoes, yellow crookneck squash, okra… shown below.
I pick that okra patch every other day and fix a big skillet of keto fried okra squash and onions. Yum !!
TNHunter
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Peach cobbler is ready for baking!!! Peaches are salvaged from the broken tree limb last Sunday. Long-term sunscald damage illustrated
… and baking is done:
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A couple of days ago, we had zucchini and yellow summer squash with onions, all three of which I grew. Sautéed the squash and onions in a little bit of bacon drippings and butter and seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic powder and a little Cajun seasoning. I still have several squash in the fridge so I may batter and fry up a few tonight in round slices.
I also found a few sweet potatoes from last year in the basement. Those things keep forever, not even sprouting. I washed them and poked a few holes in the skins so they wouldn’t explode and baked them all at 375 degrees for an hour. Let them cool all night and the next day the skins had pulled loose from the flesh and were so easy to remove with my fingers.
I mashed the sweet potatoes up with a fork and added brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg, heavy cream and a little butter, and put in a casserole dish and made a streusel topping. Baked in the oven for 30-45 minutes and it made a nice dessert. Sweet potatoes are a great survival food because of how long they keep right through the lean times of early spring and summer until the currant year’s produce starts coming in. Also, they are highly nutritious and give a reasonable amount of caloric value, which would be important in times of food scarcity. Just got to keep the deer and rabbits from eating every leaf. They love them.
Sandra
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Nice of colors. What tomatoes are we looking at here?
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no pics but i just converted the last of my slightly over ripe juliet cherries to cherry sauce. had some over buttermilk bisquits and whipped cream for dessert last night. delicious! really good over vanilla ice cream also.
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Picked my first ever fig yesterday. It could have gone longer for sure. I was not sure when I picked it! Now I know. It was just starting to have some good flavors in it and definitely could have been juicier.
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Thanks!
This year I’m growing:
Brads Black Heart
Herodes
Tigerella
Dragons Eyes
Black Sea men
Crushed Heart
Sgt Pepper
Ruby Surprise
Blackball
Ananas
Indigo rose
Teton de Venus
Green moldoivan
Perssimmon
Bolstar Granda
Golden Currant
Tigerette Cherry
The ones in the picture are mostly from top of the list above.
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I slow cooked a 3.7 lb beef chuck roast today…
Having keto fried okra, squash, onions… and sweet corn that I grew with that.
Mmmmmm.
TNHunter
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Shiro, Nadia, and Splash for my daughter.
Violette de Bordeaux (off year for the breba), Stella, and Desert King figs for me.
I’ve already eaten the only properly ripened Santa Rosa I got this year, and the first I’ve ever liked. Plus some other plums and a bunch of Pakistan and Silk Hope mulberries.
Plus a good sized white patty pan squash simply with olive oil, salt, pepper this time.
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