How Does Your Garden Grow??????
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Tangerine_
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Just wanted to pop in and peep everyone's garden while I enjoy this fresh bruschetta I made for lunch.
I just picked couple of tomato's and red onions (first for this year) and chopped em up with some fresh basil, olive oil, garlic, cracked pepper and sea salt, then heaped on top of toasted sour dough.
There's something completely satisfying about eating your own freshly grown veggies.
That's all.
Pics to follow later.
I just picked couple of tomato's and red onions (first for this year) and chopped em up with some fresh basil, olive oil, garlic, cracked pepper and sea salt, then heaped on top of toasted sour dough.
There's something completely satisfying about eating your own freshly grown veggies.
That's all.
Pics to follow later.
MICHI-CAN
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I agree with the quality of our grows. And glad you are harvesting. A ways to go yet here. But getting close. Cucumbers, beets, herbs and chives on the menu atm. Lunch sounds tasty. Enjoy.Just wanted to pop in and peep everyone's garden while I enjoy this fresh bruschetta I made for lunch.
I just picked couple of tomato's and red onions (first for this year) and chopped em up with some fresh basil, olive oil, garlic, cracked pepper and sea salt, then heaped on top of toasted sour dough.
There's something completely satisfying about eating your own freshly grown veggies.
That's all.
xtsho
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The Seascape strawberries keep blooming and putting out berries. I'm trying to figure out where I can plant some more. I might have to build some planter boxes and stick them where I can. I don't want to tie up anymore garden space with something that stays in year round as I'm trying to get multiple crops in each year.
Got the first handful of Bush beans. Have a few yellow mixed in. There's about 4 times this many almost ready to be picked and they keep flowering so should be a decent yield for a 2 x 4 row. My pole beans are flowering and they look like they'll be putting out a ton of beans so most of those will probably get canned. We'll have filled up by then on the bush beans.
Cucumbers are really starting to kick out. The lady made some more refrigerator pickles. This time sweet and spicy. So we have a few jars in the refrigerator already. We're not going to be able to keep up eating them.
I thought I had picked all the ones ready to pick last night but I missed a couple. I don't know how I missed the big one. They sure can hide. Especially when you have so many crammed together in a tangled mess like I do.
Got the first handful of Bush beans. Have a few yellow mixed in. There's about 4 times this many almost ready to be picked and they keep flowering so should be a decent yield for a 2 x 4 row. My pole beans are flowering and they look like they'll be putting out a ton of beans so most of those will probably get canned. We'll have filled up by then on the bush beans.
Cucumbers are really starting to kick out. The lady made some more refrigerator pickles. This time sweet and spicy. So we have a few jars in the refrigerator already. We're not going to be able to keep up eating them.
I thought I had picked all the ones ready to pick last night but I missed a couple. I don't know how I missed the big one. They sure can hide. Especially when you have so many crammed together in a tangled mess like I do.
MICHI-CAN
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For as good as it taste and nutritious as it is, Why so slimy? Can only indulge deep fried or cooked to nothing. Nice harvest and flower.
Is this "other plants" or garden. Just got it. Always wanted to try. Unsure in Michigan. Any tips from growers would help. TY all.
injinji
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No slime how I cook it. I nuke what will fit flat in a 8x8 dish for three minutes, then 30 seconds more when everything else is ready. Add a small amount of olive oil, stir it, salt, pepper and parm.
Pineapple will stand some cold, but not sure it will winter where you are. We grow them at work but they are under the eves of the building. Frost will mess them up.
MICHI-CAN
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I'll bring the pineapple in. I have a couple thousand watts of LED's to put to use if need be. Just dabbing in things. And know I have to over winter indoors here. My lemon trees are really good. One is kinda nuts.
Thank you for the chat. Best wishes to you and yours amongst all the other dirty nail crowd.
StonedGardener
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xtsho
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This mornings pickings. The blueberries are done. There's a couple handfuls left on the bushes. Tomatoes are coming in, cukes going strong, beans are ramping up. I wait all year for for this and then it's over much too soon. At least I'm getting multiple harvests by strategic planting of certain things so I have been getting early and late harvests which extend the season significantly. And getting multiple crops in the same space really makes a difference with yield from the garden.
xtsho
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I always keep it simple and follow these guides.
Plain:
National Center for Home Food Preservation | National Center for Home Food Preservation
The National Center for Home Food Preservation is your source for home food preservation methods.
Pickled:
National Center for Home Food Preservation | National Center for Home Food Preservation
The National Center for Home Food Preservation is your source for home food preservation methods.
Moflow
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The garden is getting a battering with high winds and heavy showers arrrgh.
Damp and humid. Powdery mildew appearing
The big Hollyhock is now 12 feet 6 inches tall, staked and tied to the wall and the gutter now for extra support.
I can't let it snap at this late stage.
Squashed Poppies
Rudbeckia
Rose
Damp and humid. Powdery mildew appearing
The big Hollyhock is now 12 feet 6 inches tall, staked and tied to the wall and the gutter now for extra support.
I can't let it snap at this late stage.
Squashed Poppies
Rudbeckia
Rose
BlandMeow
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I'm not sure exactly what happened, but the tomatoes and delecata have been yellowing, wilting, and dying the past week. Harvesting some tomatoes, but yield was crushed by the lack of sun/heat in July and all that rain. Inconsistent daytime temp swings that go from 70s and raining to a few days in the mid 90s followed by more rain and tennis in the 70s. Definitely the most challenging growing season I've dealt with.
Harvested some tomatoes and strawberries this morning.
These are from the Ozark everbearing strawberry that I planted in April along with a June bearing variety called Sequoia. Both had their first set of flowers plucked, but I let the Ozark go so the kids could enjoy a small harvest. The Sequoia plants (foreground) are so much more robust after concentrating efforts on vegging instead of fruiting.
I am losing a bunch of berries to some kind of pest. The pile in the ground is just from this morning. Before the fruit fully ripens, something is eating away at it in small amounts that just leaves the berry bruised and damaged. I did see a worm/caterpillar this morning. Going to soak the berries in something, maybe salt water (?), to see what crawls out and then plan an IPM moving forward.
The whole family had a great time harvesting potatoes. We took down 5 bags, mix of the three varieties planted. Not the best harvest out of these, but enough for a few different meals so far. I think the huckleberry gold will make some good German potato salad along with our onions.
Still have 10 bags that need to be harvested. The plants have died off at this point and they will get cut down today. I want to dry out the soil after another heavy soaking earlier this week. Likely to harvest in the cooler weather next week.
Harvested some tomatoes and strawberries this morning.
These are from the Ozark everbearing strawberry that I planted in April along with a June bearing variety called Sequoia. Both had their first set of flowers plucked, but I let the Ozark go so the kids could enjoy a small harvest. The Sequoia plants (foreground) are so much more robust after concentrating efforts on vegging instead of fruiting.
I am losing a bunch of berries to some kind of pest. The pile in the ground is just from this morning. Before the fruit fully ripens, something is eating away at it in small amounts that just leaves the berry bruised and damaged. I did see a worm/caterpillar this morning. Going to soak the berries in something, maybe salt water (?), to see what crawls out and then plan an IPM moving forward.
The whole family had a great time harvesting potatoes. We took down 5 bags, mix of the three varieties planted. Not the best harvest out of these, but enough for a few different meals so far. I think the huckleberry gold will make some good German potato salad along with our onions.
Still have 10 bags that need to be harvested. The plants have died off at this point and they will get cut down today. I want to dry out the soil after another heavy soaking earlier this week. Likely to harvest in the cooler weather next week.
Tangerine_
Well-Known Member
Great links xtsho.I always keep it simple and follow these guides.
Plain:
National Center for Home Food Preservation | National Center for Home Food Preservation
The National Center for Home Food Preservation is your source for home food preservation methods.nchfp.uga.edu
Pickled:
National Center for Home Food Preservation | National Center for Home Food Preservation
The National Center for Home Food Preservation is your source for home food preservation methods.
Pickled beets are so effin good!
I just introduced steamed beets to the baby. Stained his little tongue pink, lol
