coach
Hunter
Our first harvest of the season. A candy land red currant tomato. Really tiny, about the size of a small marble and sweet. I got them in fairly early, but the cool, wet spring slowed things down a bit.
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Our first harvest of the season. A candy land red currant tomato. Really tiny, about the size of a small marble and sweet. I got them in fairly early, but the cool, wet spring slowed things down a bit.
BearBio
Buckeye
Tomatoes just starting to ripen but bushes are heavy. Same with tomatillos. Been harvesting peppers and cukes for about a month. Blackberries are going crazy. The big bush is still red/green mostly. Little bush has given us at least 4 gallons. Made blackberry ice cream, canned 12 jars of jam, pickled 12 jars of pickles (4 ginger, 8 dill), drying oregano and basil, Beans and corn are coming in.
ifithitu
Single-Sixer
Looks good and ripe.
reuben_j_cogburn
Buckeye
Growing tomatoes can be a real challenge up here.... even with a greenhouse. But I bet those would be very doable..
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Gave up on gardening years ago. The deer ate better than we did. The deer are still eating our, and our neighbors, phlox, brown-eyed Susan, and day lillies.
I’ve just about hit a couple deer in the last few days. A doe and her two fawns and another on the shoulder at a curve waiting to dart into traffic. Amazingly they leave the ornamentals alone but have a taste for the vegetables. A mesh fence around the small veggie garden keeps them out.
BearBio
Buckeye
Crops doing better now:
Canned 20 jars spaghetti sauce
18 jars pizza sauce
8 jars hot sauce
8 jars salsa verde
24 jars blackberry jam.
12 jars of pickles ('cukes, peppers, green beans, asparagus)
baked 4 blackberry pies (2 frozen, ate 2)
Making 6-8 more jars of salsa verde when tomatillos finish ripening (just started)
making 6-8 jars of hot sauce (this weekend)
gave away 3 gallons of blackberries
froze 7 gallons of blackberries
gave away 2 gallons of tomatillos
Have 1 gallon habaneros from last year, 1 gallon serranos from last year, 1 gallon of jalapenos from last year. 2 lbs grated horseradish from this spring, 2 or 3 gallon bags of rhubarb, 1 quart bag of garlic scapes, 1 pint jar home-grown dried basil (plants still producing) Quart bag of greenbeans for tomorrow dinner. Also 25-30 pounds of halibut from last year's trip to Alaska.
Potatoes coming in October. Corn and mushrooms failed!
Believe it or not, we were worried everything was going to fail about 6 weeks ago!
Canned 20 jars spaghetti sauce
18 jars pizza sauce
8 jars hot sauce
8 jars salsa verde
24 jars blackberry jam.
12 jars of pickles ('cukes, peppers, green beans, asparagus)
baked 4 blackberry pies (2 frozen, ate 2)
Making 6-8 more jars of salsa verde when tomatillos finish ripening (just started)
making 6-8 jars of hot sauce (this weekend)
gave away 3 gallons of blackberries
froze 7 gallons of blackberries
gave away 2 gallons of tomatillos
Have 1 gallon habaneros from last year, 1 gallon serranos from last year, 1 gallon of jalapenos from last year. 2 lbs grated horseradish from this spring, 2 or 3 gallon bags of rhubarb, 1 quart bag of garlic scapes, 1 pint jar home-grown dried basil (plants still producing) Quart bag of greenbeans for tomorrow dinner. Also 25-30 pounds of halibut from last year's trip to Alaska.
Potatoes coming in October. Corn and mushrooms failed!
Believe it or not, we were worried everything was going to fail about 6 weeks ago!
pete44ru
Hunter
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We planted our garden at the end of the 1st week in May, watering every AM/PM unless it rained that day.
By July, our perennial strawberry patch slowed/stopped producing strawberries, which we had been harvesting since early/mid June. :mrgreen:
Likewise, our perennial Asparagus patch started pushing up spears in very early June, finally stopping & going to seed in late July.
About the same time, our Cherry Tomatoes (2 plants) had ripened (more still are today); but our larger Beefsteak Tomatoes (4 plants) are for some reason taking a lot longer to ripen, one at a time.
Our Bell Pepper & Eggplant plants (1 plant each) have been slowly growing their respective veggies, with only 1 or 2 small units per plant, so far.
OTOH, our Cucumbers (2 plants) started getting pickable/large cukes in mid-July - which I've been pickling (some "Ice Box" pickles & more Dill Pickles) as we get enough cuke's to pickle (my Green Eyed Monster reserves 1 or 2 for table/sandwich use).
We don't preserve anything from our small garden (except for pickles), just eating fresh produce as it ripens, enjoying the freshness.
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We planted our garden at the end of the 1st week in May, watering every AM/PM unless it rained that day.
By July, our perennial strawberry patch slowed/stopped producing strawberries, which we had been harvesting since early/mid June. :mrgreen:
Likewise, our perennial Asparagus patch started pushing up spears in very early June, finally stopping & going to seed in late July.
About the same time, our Cherry Tomatoes (2 plants) had ripened (more still are today); but our larger Beefsteak Tomatoes (4 plants) are for some reason taking a lot longer to ripen, one at a time.
Our Bell Pepper & Eggplant plants (1 plant each) have been slowly growing their respective veggies, with only 1 or 2 small units per plant, so far.
OTOH, our Cucumbers (2 plants) started getting pickable/large cukes in mid-July - which I've been pickling (some "Ice Box" pickles & more Dill Pickles) as we get enough cuke's to pickle (my Green Eyed Monster reserves 1 or 2 for table/sandwich use).
We don't preserve anything from our small garden (except for pickles), just eating fresh produce as it ripens, enjoying the freshness.
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BearBio
Buckeye
Our 'cukes came early. Our Big Boys are running late, also.
We do a fair amount of trading with office-mates. Had an internal "farmer's market" a couple of weeks back. Traded some jam and pickled veggies for a bear roast last Christmas. Traded some halibut for venison.
Had a young girl help us put up a wood gazebo. Paid her partly in canned veggies and blackberries (her parents helped with raising the roof!).
We do a fair amount of trading with office-mates. Had an internal "farmer's market" a couple of weeks back. Traded some jam and pickled veggies for a bear roast last Christmas. Traded some halibut for venison.
Had a young girl help us put up a wood gazebo. Paid her partly in canned veggies and blackberries (her parents helped with raising the roof!).
pete44ru
Hunter
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WORK ? ? ? What's that ? .
(been retired 15 years, wifey-poo 20 years - she's younger then me, but got a Golden Parachute when the local branch of GE Capital closed during a consolidation, because she was 55 at the time)
OH - wait ! I did "work" once after I retired - a full day as a (voting) poll worker (I won't do THAT again, anytime soon.)
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WORK ? ? ? What's that ? .
(been retired 15 years, wifey-poo 20 years - she's younger then me, but got a Golden Parachute when the local branch of GE Capital closed during a consolidation, because she was 55 at the time)
OH - wait ! I did "work" once after I retired - a full day as a (voting) poll worker (I won't do THAT again, anytime soon.)
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We have ONE plant and it has produced and continues to produce those 'marbles'. Can't eat them fast enough.coach said:
Our first harvest of the season. A candy land red currant tomato. Really tiny, about the size of a small marble and sweet. I got them in fairly early, but the cool, wet spring slowed things down a bit.
