Harvest Time Knives!!

[junebug]

AWESOME,MIKE AN SOFIA!!!!!!!
PEPPERS NOT READY BUT A PIC
SOME OF TIFFS FLOWERS ........


AND HAVE YA EVER HEARD OF "STINKHORN" GOODNESS...I NEVER HAD TILL YESTERDAY!!!!
HOLY SMOKES ......THEY STINK LIKE #$$........
LIL ORANGE MUSHROOMS, COUPLE SPRUNG UP IN THE YARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ya have to dig out entire lawn section,put in plastic bag, and displose...OR SPORES SPREAD!

[Cutty]

Never heard of stank horn? It's fugly lookin' though.

[junebug]

stanks like well STANK...LOL.......if ya pick one..........MAKE YA DRY GAG SMELL IS SO STRONG OF COW MANURE.........

[gino]

I don't usually use this knife for cutting up food but I have it in my pocket and it does the job
Here are some of the different tomatoes I grew this year

Yellow boys
Celebrity
Sunburst cherry
Pineapple cherry

They sure were good

[philco]

Well done Gino. I love those home grow tomatoes. Never ate a bad one.

[gino]

Your right Phil, nothing like them

[jerryd6818]

This is fresh salsa I made from grocery tomatoes, onions, peppers, etc but that's all I had at the time. Mmm good.

These tomatoes came from the patch of Cousin Roy, a neighbor from the old neighborhood and fellow Marine. I made fresh salsa from them too. And cucumbers, tomatoes and Miracle whip and a couple of BLTs.

I didn't have anyplace to put 'em so I planted my cushaw squash seed at my ex-sister-in-laws place. I planted the seed towards the last of May and they're not doing so good.

[treefarmer]

Hey Jerry! Since you mentioned the cushaws, this might be a good place to post a picture of one of the rows of cushaws we planted around the 1st of August. It is not a pretty site , having had 18.85 inches since the 1st of August on top of 21.8 inches in July. You can't even walk in the patch let alone cultivate with a tractor. Most of the seeds germinated but have been damaged by the excessive rain fall. Sure hope I get to post a Harvest time knife picture butchering a cushaw right before Thanksgiving! Hey and that salsa looks mighty good .
Treefarmer

[jerryd6818]

From the looks of things Phil, you have Chicago Cubs Cushaw. "Maybe next year". The one in my bottom picture is about double fist size. Not a lot of hope for it since around here, Sept is harvest time for them.

[philco]

This big ole tomato didn't stand a chance against my Bark River Bravo 1.

[313 Mike]

Alright gents, it's that time of year again! Harvest time is upon us... Time to bring this old thread from last year back to life and show us what ya got. Tomatoes aren't ripe yet, except a couple cherries, but Sofia and I harvested some baby carrots today...used the Northfield EZ open 85 to chop off the ends. Big ol' spear blade works great for that kind of thing.

Anybody else doing any harvesting yet? Who's got some nice plump tomatoes? cukes? peppers? beans? anything?

[Dinadan]

I am on the Gulf Coast of Alabama. My Asian pears are ripe right now. Figs too. Only problems are the heat, the birds, the squirrels, and the raccoons.

[philco]

Can't say I've used my knives much in the harvest process but I've sure used my ESEE 4 and a Canal Street Pinch Lockback for a lot of slicing work as I process my veggies.

[313 Mike]

Can't say I've used my knives much in the harvest process but I've sure used my ESEE 4 and a Canal Street Pinch Lockback for a lot of slicing work as I process my veggies.

Is that ESEE 4 a full flat grind? What are ya slicing and processing Phil?

[philco]

Mike, the ESEE 4 does have a flat grind. I've used it to lop through some zucchini, slice up cucumbers for pickling and to cut the ends off corn. I've used the pinch for lighter duty dicing bell peppers and slicing yellow squash, and for coring out tomatoes, chopping onions and cilantro that were about to become salsa, and for slicing okra that was headed for the skillet.

So far I've canned 40 quarts of dill and bread and butter pickles, three quarts of salsa, and nearly filled my small freezer with the other goodies from the garden.

[jerryd6818]

I put out one tomato plant this year and it's a good thing I did. My normal tomato source, a neighbor from the old neighborhood, Cousin Roy, said his tomatoes are a total bust this year. He's getting ready to pull them all up.

I got the plant I stuck in from the local grocery store and it's called Big Pink. Anyone ever hear of that variety before? It shouldn't be long now. It has a couple of dozen tomatoes on it and the bottoms are turning "white" (a much, much lighter shade of green).

[gino]

This Gec has the perfect size blade for cutting tomatoes and cucumbers and peppers I grow in my garden

[313 Mike]

Dang Phil, you have been busy! 40 quarts of pickles? Outstanding.

Jerry, glad to hear you have a 'mater plant going this year, never heard of the Big Pink, is that an heirloom variety? post some pics when they ripen up!

Gino that Ben Hogan is a nice one...I have a spear point ebony model that I use for food prep quite frequently, that long blade makes it a great slicer

[philco]

Gino what's the closed length on that GEC ? It looks quite a bit like the Canal Street Pinch Lockback I've been using.

[TripleF]

You got the life Mike!! I envy you!

Enjoy!

[gino]

Gino what's the closed length on that GEC ? It looks quite a bit like the Canal Street Pinch Lockback I've been using.

Phil I believe its 4 1/4 closed

[313 Mike]

Here are a few Sweet 100 Cherry tomatoes I picked this evening. I had a low hanging ripe red on the Early Girl plant, I went to grab it and it was gnawed out hollow! Some doggone little critter keeps chewing up my low hanging fruits. I think it's a vole or something similar.....

[treefarmer]

Due to knee surgery, this is the 1st year in 40 years we haven't planted a garden. We did however put in several types of pepper plants. Usually the banana peppers are put up as pickled peppers, but they have been on their own and got pretty big. So I cut a dozen yesterday and stuffed them with venison sausage, rice, chopped mushrooms, chopped onion, chopped up colby-jack cheese and sour cream. Used my 1970 Case Trapper for the work. Turned out great, stuffed peppers, ice tea then cheese cake and coffee for dessert.
Treefarmer

[313 Mike]

Great looking Banana pepps there Treefarmer! ...and that recipe sounds fantastic. Venison and chile peppers, two of my favorite things, then you add in some cheese too? Are you kiddin' me? That's how you make a Wisconsin boy happy right there.

Fine looking old Case too by the way...that main blade looks like it's seen some use!

[treefarmer]

Mike, I tried real hard to wear that knife out in the early 70's. It was my 1st SS knife and I couldn't figure out how to sharpen it. The hinge pin finally broke and it sat in a drawer for about 35 years. Had an issue with some gal at Case about fixin' it and Elvis interceded, got it fixed in 2011. She sees light duty now and then and I finally learned to sharpen SS .

Strange thing, you could clearly count the 10 dots before the repair but when it was returned they are not visible . It's the same blade, never did quite figure that out. One other thing, this knife has one SS spring and one CV spring. There are pictures of it somewhere on the forum.

We usually have grated mozzarella to mix in with the sausage and rice but this time we only had colby-jack in a block, so grated it and it worked very well. They sure make a good meal if you ain't in a hurry .
Treefarmer