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Harvested a dozen heads of cabbage...we'll make kimchi out of them all for the winter. Have one fresh batch going now that is awesome...eating kimchi everyday...my idea of a good time. It's going to be 100+ today so deep water all my raised beds and containers.
 
This probably falls more in line with yard work than gardening, so maybe I should ask our resident expert @THE HCP

How are you guys at shaping bushes/hedges. I feel like I’m okay, but maybe could get better.
 
riverman said:
Harvested a dozen heads of cabbage...we'll make kimchi out of them all for the winter. Have one fresh batch going now that is awesome...eating kimchi everyday...my idea of a good time. It's going to be 100+ today so deep water all my raised beds and containers.
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If you hook them up to electrodes like in those YouTube videos they could make music and you could start a band. You could call it “The Talking Heads”
 
Shaboid said:
Peppers haven't grown fantastic this year, but we made our first batch of hot sauce. It turned out sweeter than last year also, but it still packs a punch!
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Do you pick them young or let them ripen on the plant? Or does it depend? Any idea if it impacts heat/flavor to harvest them young?
 
Just want to say that I enjoy seeing all of your posts of your gardening adventures. Glad to hear y’all are enjoying yourselves as well.
 
Pumpkin before and after IMG_20250731_171051~3.jpg IMG_20250803_132416~2.jpg
 

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Do you pick them young or let them ripen on the plant? Or does it depend? Any idea if it impacts heat/flavor to harvest them young?
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We picked most of our less spicy peppers this time for a milder batch of sauce. Haven't had any good habs or reapers this year so it was mostly the jalapenos, Anaheims, and serranos. If you ripen and harvest later they should have more seeds, which in turn makes them spicier in theory, but there are other factors too. I don't think it matters too much though especially if you are growing a variety of pepper like we do. You can pick your spice level by the type of pepper.
 
Turned a pumpkin into pumpkin ginger soup. Harvested two more. Three pumpkins are turning orange. There are several green ones. The vine is putting out new growth, which means more flowers and fruit in the fall.

I will be filling big freezer with pumpkin bread, pumpkin mushroom risotto, pumpkin waffles, pumpkin date muffins, roasted pumpkin with caramelized onions, beef and pumpkin stew, pumpkin black bean soup, pumpkin butter, and pumpkin puree for Thanksgiving pies. And probably more.

At midnight my Corolla will turn into a pumpkin.
 
Put a drop of mineral oil at each corn tassel to kill earwigs.
 
Berries, on homemade yogurt.IMG_20250818_084054~2.jpg
 

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