My garden is puttin out
 

Gardenias starting to bloom……..
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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!

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Cucumbers and blue lake beans are next

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All the flowers/crapes/butterfly bushes in the front of the graden are doing good too!
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Stand alone maters looking good too
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Pix? :waiting:

Well.............here is my 1st freak fruit of the year, my snowman!
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And a bumper crop of celeryworms enjoying one of my dillplant's flowers;

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going out to pick todays bounty

Picked these yummies around 7pm last night:

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

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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+

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Calabash squash starting off good
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All else looking good!
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My newest freak fruit:
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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
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Sunflower finally openned up so I can get the birds in the graden to help with eatin da bugs
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And a nice red moon.............just after 9pm no less
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Very cool, indeed

how big a garden did you plant?

Only a 29' x 40' :)

Nice lookin Maters

That turned into this:

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eggplant Parmesan

Another larger snowman

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And other stuff!

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Still goin.............down to 49 tonight
Picked this basket this evening......all kind a peppers, eggplant & okra
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Teenage mutant tomaters! :D

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

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.

Nice harvest! :seasix:

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

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!

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

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This thread is making me hungry!

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

My poor garden is being fooled by mother nature...........
On my deck, potted rosemary bush:
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Hearty sugar snaps in the garden:
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Poor rose...........SE front of the house:
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And found in my tree.........praying mantis pod :seasix: In the garage as when they hatch 500+ of these little mofos come out!

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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