I finished pulling up my cucumber vines. Pulled all of them, even the late planted ones. Those really late planted Double Yield pickling cukes never even set a cucumber. Covered, just covered in male flowers. And been covered in male flowers for weeks. The heck with them, I pulled them. I will just try again with them in the spring.
Still have my tomatoes and peppers in ground and still getting a fair amount of tomatoes to eat. Since it is already October, I consider getting tomatoes to eat now a very good thing.
Pickled a nice amount batch of Hildora yellow bush beans. Second picking and this time I got lots more than the first picking last week. I haven't made anything out of them yet, just eating them raw as I pick.
I happen to like raw beans if they are flavorful and tender.
But boy, I do NOT like picking these. I would pick pole beans any day. These you have to bend and squat and pick all thru the leaves near the ground and find the beans. Beans mostly flopped near ground. I don't know how you guys that really love bush beans and pick a lot do it. Nope, going back to pole beans next spring.
I must say, the Hildora are a very nice tasting tender bean. Much, much better tasting than those bland Tenderette bush beans I planted this spring. But the Tenderette held the beans high above the plant and where easier to pick. But I didn't much want to eat them. These are tasty for eating but a pain for picking.
So I have some REALLY nice looking Rutabagas. I think chelle said you wait till after frost to pick them? I also have a few Golden Beets and a few white turnips. Then I have some again, really nice Purple Top Turnips that are eating size.
These would all be from those root crops I planted at the beginning or so of August.
I am making veggie soup on the crockpot and it smells divine. And no where near ready to eat yet.
