Another peck of butter beans in the bank
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That is a cool picture of the man lighting his pipe. I really enjoy a pipe or cigar down camping on the river.Do you ever can your tomatoes?
Thats an old Winchester advertisement.
I would have canned some tomatoes this year, and i do still have a few quarts from the past few years, but I am almost out of jars, plus my garden gumption is about played out.
Quart jars are hard to find now, when I give someone a couple canned jars of stuff they rarely return the empties
That kinda takes the magic out of it, doesn’t it?
When growing your pumpkins, when do you know the pumpkin is ready to harvest? Just when it gets big enough to set it on the porch? I ask because I have a few that are still small but have turned orange. Those vines/leaves on that orange pumpkins are wilting and looking like they’re dying. Does that mean its done or will it continue to grow larger? The orange ones are about canteloupe size and I want them bigger of course.
I have several that are still very green with pretty healthy looking leaves. I have a month before I want to pick em of course, but is there a rhyme or reason as to why/when some vines look like they are dying off? All of my vines are still thick and green, just some have dying or wilting badly leaves.
When they get close pick them, they will ripen and get colored up off the vine much like a tomatoe on the windowsill.
If you let them ripen too much they go soft much sooner.
adjust off vine ripening time by size and variety
So once they turn orange, are they done growing? I want them to get bigger.
What does the vine look like?
Not real sure, according to the variety ismy best guess
The vine is still dark green and healthy looking. The leaves are getting wilty.
I’ll take a picture next time out. About half my vines are getting wilty looking. Too much water maybe?
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Give us a pic of that pumpkin but just a bit further up where the steam joins the vine. Look for the curly thing. When it turns brown pumkin is done growing. By the looks of your vines probably not going to get much more growth on pumpkins. Bad thing for us is pumpkins do not do well in our scorching heat. If we had EF’s climate your vines would probably me much greener right now. I’d probably give the one your showing another week but you could easily pic it now for decoration. On the growing longer by color, what EF said. Depends on variety. Some pumpkins turn orange almost from the get go while other start off green and gradually turn but continue to grow.
To keep them longer give them a gentle rub down with a weak clorox wipe. That will keep them from mildewing.
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This was the last time Dad ever drove the backhoe to the house about 4 years ago. The wife asked if he could grow her a big Pumpkin from a pack of “giant” pumkin seeds she bought. This one was 130# but it rotted before Halloween came. As you can see this variety started off Yellow.
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I just seeded a couple of these. Anyone that wants some heirloom seeds should PM me your mailing address and I’ll send you some.
These are the pear/heart shapped ones with the tails like the one down there i am about to munch
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Growing up we had a small orchard with about 25 trees.
Every fall we would press about 20 gallons of apple cider.
My granddaddy would always get three or four gallons and put it up and make hard cider.
