Had squash patties tonight with fresh sand bass... Yummy!

I've made them 3 times, and changed my recipe each time. It could still use some tweeking. I used squash, microwaved potatoes, onions, flour, meal, eggs, and baking powder in the food chopper. How did you make yours?

Today's harvest....

Squash patties
3cups raw grated squash
1 egg beaten
1 tsp salt
3 tbsp oil
2 tbsp sweet or hot pepper
1 cup flour
3/4 cup sweet milk
1 tsp sugar
1 medium onion chopped

Mix all well, should be fairly thick, dip by spoon into hot grease and fry until golden brown

Speaking of making pickles, let's talk brine solutiuons for dill pickles. I can usually only find 5% vinegar in local stores but my Mom manages to find 9% vinegar in her area (lives in the country so the store there caters to the local farmers who do more canning/pickling). The recipe my Grandpa passed down calls for using the 9% vinegar in a 3:1 ration (water to vinegar respectively). If your only able to find the 5% vinegar in your area, what ratio are you using? 2:1? 1:1? I've still got enough of the 9% to get by for a while but will probably run out before the cukes stop making so I might have to alter the recipe for the lower concentrated vinegar. Comments? Ideas?

this is our 6th year to have Rudbeckia(black eyed susans) we planted 1 package of seeds back then and these are the ones that we allowed to stay this year. If anyone has a field or a large area they would want some wildflowers I would recommend them and if you live in Dallas you can come get all the seeds you want in 2 months.

The reason for the post is we haven't ever seen 1 like this 1

We're going to plant these and see what happens

here is a tomato question,
i have 6 very healthy looking tomato plants, only one is producing, why?

it keeps on kicking out nice size tomatoes but all are green and none have ripened yet why?
also how do i treat my cantalope and watermelons to get them growing?

thanks in advance

As to the tomatoes, each variety ripens at a different time. I would need to know which variety. As to why one is producing, spank the other ones...this week. Most varieties have to have daytime temps below 90 in order to have the fruit set. Otherwise, you'll have to wait until this fall to have a good crop.

With the watermelons, do you mean the plants or the fruit? If they aren't setting fruit, then you can get a fine paint brush and pollinate the flowers yourself. You would rub the brush on the male flower (without a baby watermelon or cantaloupe) and rub it into the female flower... If you mean the plants, they need water, lots of water, sandy soil and fertilizer.

Yup, the high daytime temps are keeping a lot of tomatoes from setting, mine too. Lots of blooms but that's it. I shake them every day but still nothing. Hopefully the lower night and day temps this week will get some to set. If not, I'll just try to keep them alive till Fall. I seem to always have much better tomatoes in the Fall anyway and they will go good for 2-3 months.

Oh, I grew Early Girls this year. Been doing Romas with good luck the past few years till about mid-June and great in the Fall but decided to change varieties and see what would happen. So far, it looks like I should have stuck with the Romas, lol. Is there any tomatoe variety that will continue to produce well throughout the summer?

Yes, the Heatwave...it's another hybrid variety.

Thanks. I'll get some of those seeds later in the Fall when I get ready to start my seed garden in the house. Reading up on those, they seem to be really heat and pest resistant while supplying a lot of fruit. Might as well try 'em!

I think the squash and Methley plums are about done. I already pulled two plants and started okra. The Bruce and Santa Rosa plums are starting to set.

The tomatoes are kicking in, should be a big month.

Today's

So, you are just now planting okra? By seeds or did you already make starter plants that you are transplanting? I've never tried to start okra this late in the season. My okras for the most part are knee high or so and already producing. They are loaded with 1-2 in pods so I will be picking a lot in the next few days.

By the way, I guess the tomatoes liked the cooler evenings and days this week, they are finally setting some fruit.

I just planted more okra where the onions had been. Did the same thing last year and had fresh okra all the way until the first freeze in November.