My garden is puttin out

[allthrottleandsomebottle]

Gardenias starting to bloom……..
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/71_El_Camino_doors-driveshaft-cross_memeber-vent_window_090.JPG

Just got my first zucchini, yellow squash & bell pepper yesterday.
Have already picked over 3 lbs of sugar snap sweet peas and a few salad jellie belly tomatoes too!

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/71_El_Camino_doors-driveshaft-cross_memeber-vent_window_089.JPG
Cucumbers and blue lake beans are next

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/71_El_Camino_doors-driveshaft-cross_memeber-vent_window_084.JPG

All the flowers/crapes/butterfly bushes in the front of the graden are doing good too!
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/71_El_Camino_doors-driveshaft-cross_memeber-vent_window_088.JPG

Stand alone maters looking good too
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/71_El_Camino_doors-driveshaft-cross_memeber-vent_window_087.JPG

[jaxgator]

Pix? :waiting:

[allthrottleandsomebottle]

Well.............here is my 1st freak fruit of the year, my snowman!
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/nc_June_2012_191.JPG

And a bumper crop of celeryworms enjoying one of my dillplant's flowers;

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/nc_June_2012_187.JPG

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going out to pick todays bounty

[allthrottleandsomebottle]

Picked these yummies around 7pm last night:

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/veggies_6-26-12_120.JPG

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/veggies_6-26-12_121.JPG

Cooked the beets for 45 minutes, the greens for ~12, tasted just like spinach and dam good if I do say so myself!

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/veggies_6-26-12_128.JPG

Tonight I will make harvard beets :datawiz:

If my roma/ better boy tomatoes would just turn red!!!!!!
It is looking like a good tomatoe year, should be 50lbs+

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/veggies_6-26-12_127.JPG

Calabash squash starting off good
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/veggies_6-26-12_125.JPG

All else looking good!
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/veggies_6-26-12_124.JPG

[allthrottleandsomebottle]

My newest freak fruit:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/garden_stuff_138.JPG

A nice cup of low bush wild bluberries also know as huckleberries from my back yard. It was too hot for the birds/snakes to get them so I did for a change! Nice and sweet, not tart at all
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/garden_stuff_148.JPG

Sunflower finally openned up so I can get the birds in the graden to help with eatin da bugs
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/garden_stuff_151.JPG

And a nice red moon.............just after 9pm no less
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http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/garden_stuff_143.JPG

[Chuck A]

Very cool, indeed

[CBonsall]

how big a garden did you plant?

[allthrottleandsomebottle]

Only a 29' x 40' :)

[allthrottleandsomebottle]

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/blue_014.JPG

[Bucwheat]

Nice lookin Maters

[allthrottleandsomebottle]

That turned into this:

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/veggies_131.JPG

eggplant Parmesan

Another larger snowman

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/veggies_128.JPG


http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/veggies_127.JPG

And other stuff!

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http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/veggies_129.JPG

[allthrottleandsomebottle]

Still goin.............down to 49 tonight
Picked this basket this evening......all kind a peppers, eggplant & okra
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/Ford_exhaust_parts_279.JPG

[Kerrmudgeon]

Teenage mutant tomaters! :D

That reminds me to pick up some eggplant to make some moussaka. Time for a little Greek. :yesnod:

[jaxgator]

Pix? :waiting:

I don't know what happened but I couldn't see your images before but do see them now. Must have been something to do with my workplace firewall.

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/veggies_130.JPG

Nice harvest! :seasix:

[allthrottleandsomebottle]

moussaka............yummy!

[allthrottleandsomebottle]

Picked another 5+ pounds of peppers, a pound of eggplants, a couple of green tomates and okra..........the end is near as we have had 34 degrees twice this past week and suppose to freeze tonight!

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/2012_stuff_397.JPG

[allthrottleandsomebottle]

Our 1st hard freeze last night.......25~, so my last pick was yesterday :yesnod:

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/last_veggies_11-24-12_188.JPG


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[wwomanC6]

This thread is making me hungry!

Your garden produced a nice harvest this year! :yesnod:

[allthrottleandsomebottle]

My poor garden is being fooled by mother nature...........
On my deck, potted rosemary bush:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/stuff_212.JPG

Hearty sugar snaps in the garden:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/stuff_217.JPG

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/stuff_218.JPG

Poor rose...........SE front of the house:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/stuff_213.JPG

And found in my tree.........praying mantis pod :seasix: In the garage as when they hatch 500+ of these little mofos come out!

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/photopost/direct_data/1271/stuff_220.JPG

[allthrottleandsomebottle]

The final veggie tally for 2012:
17.5 lbs cucumbers.....bad year
15 radishes.....bad year
33 lbs green/yellow peppers
2lbs sugar snaps
18 lbs cherry tomatoes
16 small potatoes
6 lbs yellow squash.....bad year
1lb zucchini......bad year
1.5 lbs beets
18 lbs black & white eggplant
5 lbs string beans
62 lbs regular tomatoes
10.5 lb roma tomatoes
29 ears sweet corn
2 lbs carrots
2.5 lbs okra
5 lbs cantalope
3 lbs calabash squash