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Mine is finally starting to take off...........lots of little beans and tomatoes and peppers. I hope having rain everyday doesn't cause alot of fungal problems.
I should have some roma beans in about a week. Got a couple little cherry tomatoes about ripe. And the cucs have a bunch of blossoms even though they haven't started climbing up the trellis yet.
Haha.......I just remembered my dream last night.........I went out to the garden and there were some zucchini that were like 4' long and 2' wide. I couldn't even get my arms around them. hahaha Sometimes, that's not too far from the truth!
How's your garden doing?
Sadly our garden is doing strangely- 4 tomato plants- 3 have wilted and died not from lack of water....but the potatoes and onions are going strong after being netted to stop ground hogs and deer. Our blueberries have been raided, not sure if by humans or critters....branches pulled down, mostly ripe berries taken, it is in a netted enclosure, but that does not mean critters could not have crept under- thinking and hoping it was the resident groundhogs...not humans. Carrots have been replanted and caged.
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The view from the kitchen window, yesterday evening around 7 PM. Our peas are about over, and did really well. Potatoes in bloom, overwintering greens are bolting, figs setting & will hopefully get ripe! Apples getting blush on them, and pears are tiny but deep purple. Strawberries are still blooming, raspberries setting fruit, rhubarb still producing. Grapes coming on & we'll have lots in September. Herbs are taking over! Parsley particularly. Comfrey is amazing, and if I can keep it corralled - LOL - well, that will be a miracle.
Our garden is both ornamental & food, well intermixed. Flowers and beauty are as important to me as edibles are -- and some are both! We routinely put nasturtiums, pansies, roses, etc. in our salads. I love the mix. One day, I'll cook daylily buds, as I hear they are yummy.
Our garden is thriving because of the prodigious amount of ZooDoo we put in it regularly. Plus love!
http://www.zoo.org/page.aspx?pid=2001#.UdGn88u9KSM
Hanging laundry last night thrugh the middle of it was so sweet... I love being in my garden. Time to go out there right now!!
Nice, redfox. I should look into that ZooDoo....they have it over at the Oregon Zoo in PDX.
Oh Redfox, what a neat area you have there!
That link is hysterical! "The Leader of the Turd World, The GM of BM"........
What a neat program they have there!
Oh Redfox, what a neat area you have there!
That link is hysterical! "The Leader of the Turd World, The GM of BM"........
What a neat program they have there!
The guy who runs it is a total card. They used to haul it all away to the dump! Now the zoo composts the bedding & poo of all non-primate vegetarian animals. Our kidz LOVED hearing that their salad was grown in giraffe poop!
Our kidz LOVED hearing that their salad was grown in giraffe poop!
Hahaha...excellent!
Our garden is taking off now. Lots of salad greens and herbs already. Bushels of green tomatoes on the vines. All squash and melon varieties flowering like crazy now. Will start picking zucchini this week (and be sick of it by next week). More different peppers than I can remember, all with fruit set. Peas were about our only true fail so far. That was my deal. Planted them where they got almost no direct sun, only indirect. Turns out that isn't enough. Live and learn!
LOL about the zucchini Gregg.......how true!
Sounds like you have a great garden this year!
I left one corner of the garden for the milkweed. I pulled out about 10, but left about 18. They are about 5-6' tall, but there's not a single monarch egg or caterpillar on them yet. I sure hope they are still planning on coming this year.
I have a patch that is ten feet long and 18 inches wide. On a slope at the side of the porch. Six plants, and all are doing well, have lots of growth and blossoms (except the parsley), and I am remembering to water them and I think there is room for one more tomato plant at the end.
Gardenarian
7-1-13, 6:19pm
gophers. :(
Bushels of stone fruit, though.
Gardenarian......what is stone fruit? peaches? Or do you mean you have lots of stone in your ground? haha
Blackdog Lin
7-2-13, 5:15pm
I am grinning at y'all's stories.
We've been picking onions all along, still a few left. The snow peas (first time ever trying them) are ready to pick, but they don't look too good. Gonna pick and eat them anyway! Peppers (3 varieties) coming along, cuke plants look good w/scads of blossoms, but the only two we picked so far were bitter. Bummer, but it reminded DH that he'd better get to watering the garden - we've had no rain in over two weeks. The zucchini looks like I'll be picking the end of the week and the tomatoes are doing great, but nothing ripe yet. :( The Brussels sprouts are looking good but not near ready. And then there's the green beans.
Last year I liked to killed myself picking green beans (10 pickings in murderous heat before I made him mow them down), so really haven't been looking forward to that part of the garden chores. So Saturday DH says to me if I'd pick beans we could have them for Sunday supper. Now what I HEARD was "the green beans are starting to come on, darling, and if you would be so kind as to pick a few we could have our first pot of them all fresh and delicious for Sunday supper". I realized later that what he really SAID was "you need to get your butt out there and get to picking on those beans 'cause they're going crazy again this year and if you don't get started on them they're gonna go to waste". Sigh. I picked for 45 minutes and got 2/3 of a 5-gallon bucket of the things. It's looking like another banner year for green beans around here - we'll probably start canning next week.
But boy! they were delicious!
LOL Blackdog Lin! Do you grow any pole beans? I absolutely hate leaning over to pick the bush kind......especially if there's alot of mosquitoes in them. But now I pretty much just plant pole beans, and its so much easier!
I think I got one quart last year. We had a bad drought. Hopefully this year will be better.
I bought another tomato plant today. Huge, ginormous even.
Blackdog Lin
7-3-13, 7:55am
Cathy - they are indeed bush beans, but I've evolved a great method for picking. I have a very old 12"-tall wooden stool that I take out to the beans. Sit down and pick 3 bushes, which is about the ultimate reach of my arms, then move the stool down and pick the next 3. It's still time-consuming, but not so back-breaking.
I'm glad that works for you. I'm built weird, I guess. My legs are very long and my trunk is short, and leaning over at all, even while sitting, squishes my brains out my ears. :)
So interesting to read about all of your summer gardens. Down here in Hades, we are our going into dormant season. About all that will grow now without a lot of pampering would be okra, eggplants. This is the time of year when we plan for our fall gardens which is the best time to grow here.
So interesting to read about all of your summer gardens. Down here in Hades, we are our going into dormant season. About all that will grow now without a lot of pampering would be okra, eggplants. This is the time of year when we plan for our fall gardens which is the best time to grow here.
We must be neighbors. I have a few cherry tomatoes left on my parched vines but they are virtually sun-dried before I pick them. My neighbor is trying to foist his okra on me again this year but I have resolved that since he wouldn't help me out by taking my zucchini, he will have to deal with his own okra overload.
Blackdog Lin
7-3-13, 11:24pm
hee hee Florence. In another few weeks I'll probably be overloaded with both. Forgot to mention the two rows of okra that are looking mighty fine.
I discovered and fell absolutely in love with roasted okra last year. Have you tried it that way?
Oh dear, here in Colorado I am so far behind. Just getting tomato flowers and a pumpkin flower. The plants look good but are going to produce what feels like very late. But I put everything in very late to avoid frost
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