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06-13-2012, 6:34am | #1 | ||||||
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My garden is puttin out
Gardenias starting to bloom……..
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! Cucumbers and blue lake beans are next All the flowers/crapes/butterfly bushes in the front of the graden are doing good too! Stand alone maters looking good too |
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Pix?
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Well.............here is my 1st freak fruit of the year, my snowman!
And a bumper crop of celeryworms enjoying one of my dillplant's flowers; going out to pick todays bounty |
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06-27-2012, 7:23am | #4 | ||||||
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Picked these yummies around 7pm last night:
Cooked the beets for 45 minutes, the greens for ~12, tasted just like spinach and dam good if I do say so myself! Tonight I will make harvard beets If my roma/ better boy tomatoes would just turn red!!!!!! It is looking like a good tomatoe year, should be 50lbs+ Calabash squash starting off good All else looking good! |
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My newest freak fruit:
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 Sunflower finally openned up so I can get the birds in the graden to help with eatin da bugs And a nice red moon.............just after 9pm no less |
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Very cool, indeed
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07-05-2012, 11:36am | #7 | ||||||
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how big a garden did you plant?
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07-05-2012, 11:51am | #8 | ||||||
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Only a 29' x 40'
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Nice lookin Maters
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07-17-2012, 8:26pm | #11 | ||||||
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That turned into this:
eggplant Parmesan Another larger snowman And other stuff! |
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10-10-2012, 7:59pm | #12 | ||||||
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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!
That reminds me to pick up some eggplant to make some moussaka. Time for a little Greek. |
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moussaka............yummy!
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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
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This thread is making me hungry!
Your garden produced a nice harvest this year! |
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My poor garden is being fooled by mother nature...........
On my deck, potted rosemary bush: Hearty sugar snaps in the garden: Poor rose...........SE front of the house: And found in my tree.........praying mantis pod 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 |
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