Sun on my back; Dirt on my hands…

[Mars Hydro Led]

Looks good ^^

Hiding in plain sight

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Nice little hiking & swimming day w the girls - cool water but super refreshing & clean

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What kind of trees are you planting outside your greenhouse, they bloom beautifully.

 

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What kind of trees are you planting outside your greenhouse, they bloom beautifully.

TY - it’s a type of Hydrangea, turns crimson / reddish in fall… They grow very easily @ here, I have to cut them back a lot every year to manage them in order to not block the entire front of the GH

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Outdoor Plants had a huge growing day today, early morning rain, bright sun & humid - 4 total plants outside

80’s BLD Colombian has beautiful structure & color

Been periodically bending back branches as they grow above the fence

 

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3 inside the GH which have taken it over, my wife told me yesterday after harvesting carrots & beets it felt like the rain forest in there -

 

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Nothing beats fresh food, I haven’t had a meal dinning out in years that touches this one & trust me we eat out & at expensive places often; the inputs just aren’t comparable and never as fresh…

Local free range beef, seared then slow & low all day in the crock pot, only salt & pepper to season…

Local fresh baked wraps, aged cheddar then fresh garden goodies diced up & raw, Beets, Carrots, Garlic, Onions & Tomatoes + hot sauce from last season, I could eat this everyday all day

I had 3 for dinner last night

Wife’s plate, we were both stuffed properly

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Kids if you don’t have any yet get some

3 year olds

6 yr olds

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Succulent & cactus tray I bought a year or so ago, all have 4-5X’d in size, & most have flowered out at least once

Hydrangeas - The color types teach you your soil PH

Blue = Alkaline
Purple = Neutral
Pink = Acidic

PH dictates flower coloring - pretty neat

 

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Took a nice long vacation second half August, things have begun flowering - July & Aug sucked in upstate NY this year for farming but Sept is looking good & that’s key for cannabis @ here, things have gotten huge while We Were away

 

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Had a good harvest BF we left, brought a 10gallon bucket for us & left one for the in-laws whom we’re watching the dogs

Cucumbers coming to an end, Korean Melons next to them

This is how you take over a vacation home

Ha

 

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Artistic Tim Burton like Pepper

 

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Decent pepper harvest today

Nothing beats broiled / grilled peppers, quality oil & garlic then with a nice piece steak, dinner was great tonight

Beautiful though cool evening tonight

Turmeric is flowering

 

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2009 Tangerine Dream seed pack (believe it won the 2010 cup), popped last 5 I had from a 14 yr old pack - two came up (I was lazy & went straight to soil, nothing else) they’ve been like this a few weeks but ime very common with older seed, they’ll start growing for real here in next week or two, key is to just do nothing with them, lower light & water very sparingly… back when I used to buy seeds I’d always buy the cup winners, wish I still had the old 2008/09 SLH, shit changed dramatically after original release as many know - I’ve never grown the Tangerine Dream but remember Tangerine @2000/01 that was killer -


anyone have experience with the tangerine dream?

 

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First day school today for one kid Friday is for the other, so we went yesterday to take a swim at the nearby lake, it was a scorcher, today too - very humid High dew points

But alas beaches & everything like that shuts down after Labor Day @ here so we did a nice little hike instead….

Little one nearly stepped on this guy

Then we came home kids hit up the Hot Tub & I harvested a good variety of stuff

- 5 Apple Varieties
- 6 Tomato - 2 sauce, 3 beefsteak & 1 cherry
- 7-8 types peppers
- Musk Melon
- Cucumbers

Then wife reminded me we still had a bushel of peppers from the harvest a handful of days ago

When peppers are in excess we process them a few ways but our favorite for LT storage is simplest & tastes best for it

^^^ Olive oil & diced peppers in large frying pan, dash of salt - cook down, add tomatoes near end continue cooking till it looks like above and that’s it - this makes it into a creamy chunky like blend you see above, it goes great on just about anything but cereal….I often eat it alone too for a quick pick me up

Then I had to go & catch a nice sunset ride along sunset ridge, what a great day…. Time to go pressure wash the house - no rest for the wicked

 

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But I’m mostly a grower

 

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Big Cast Iron Wok - 4 ingredients in total, Peppers, Tomatoes, Olive or Avocado oil & salt at end to flavor

Add tomatoes at this point ^

Cook down until water gone - I’ll do a few batches like this & put into 1Gallon vacuum sealed bags into the freezer for winter, this is great on many dishes but really makes a sandwich Devine

 

[Alitolla]

MITOLOGICO.
Ti stimo e ti seguo!

 

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^^^

I made a few more batches so have a decent stockpile for the winter blues to bring us back to summer

Chicken thigh dish we love to make with Garden goodies

Apple Tart - 4 or 5 types of garden apple varieties

Thelma x Chz

^^ Pretty far along for a really crummy year thus far

 

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So good are my feelings whenever I visit this thread!

 

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So good are my feelings whenever I visit this thread!

Many Thanks Humbl & Alitolla


7 or 8 types apples
Seckel aka Dessert Pear

Took a while to cut them all up but we’re just finishing batches from last year so I know well worth the efforts

@ a 7 Gallon Pot

The smells, oh the smells !

 

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Wowzers more than I was expecting, Gallons of Primo Sauce

Ingredients: Apples, Pears, Cinnamon & a bit of Maple Syrup from down the road

 

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I just got hungry browsing your thread. A lot of nice stuff going on!

 

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Ty Jacques ^^

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Thelma x Chz, yellowing is on branches I got too aggressive bending & braking

What’s left of 80’s Colombian - everything this year smells better than last (likely few reasons) but this plant especially smells wonderful today when I took these pics

 

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These two exploded, it’s mostly one plant which is 2x’s size other, both in @40 gallon containers sunk into ground, 10’ tall now I gave up bending them back

U2 x Chz, same dad as above X, just starting to flower hard