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Celeste

Celeste

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is producing. we've picked some tomatoes this week and cukes & zucchini. i'm excited and hope the tomatoes work out. everyone is saying it's not a great tomato year. how about you? do you have a garden? how's it doing.
 
I agree about it not being much of a tomato year. Our garden really wants it to rain! We have canned small-batch salsa twice in the past two weeks (about 10 pint jars per batch) but with no rain the tomatoes and peppers aren't getting ready at the volume they usually do. But YUM the mild batch - I added diced mango and grilled corn and had it for lunch today with multigrain tortilla chips!

We usually plant squash and cucumbers but didn't this year since I am the only one who eats them at our house :)
 
I can't keep a house plant alive. Years ago, I tried herbs and tomatoes on our then back deck. The only creatures that benefited from the vegetables were the bunnies that lived under our deck. I occasionally did beat them to the taller herbs.
 
Oh, I'm so jeolous. I can't grow a thing either :(. And I've actually tried, LOL. But I do love fresh veges so I am a frequent flyer at the local farmer's market :)
 
We love our garden! This year, we have tons of tomatoes, zucchini, squash, lettuce, herbs and....brussel sprouts (my DH planted those LOL).
 
We've been overloaded with cherry tomatoes. We had about 5 pounds of red potatoes, too. We've also gotten several zucchini and cucumbers, as well as a couple baby watermelons and some carrots. Oh, and tons of blueberries, and some green beans and black-eye peas. This is our first year doing a square foot garden, so it was very much a learning experience. We've already learned some things that we'll do differently next year.
 
Oh I would love a veggie patch but my black thumb makes gardening just a bit too hard ... I do have some chives and parsley in pots ... does that count? :giggle
 
Every year I plant a garden with the highest of hopes and best spirits and every year they are squashed by groundhogs. I have done everything to try and keep them away, including electrifying my garden fence!, and it never works. Havaheart gets turned over, repel sprays don't repel, and barriers don't block. *sigh*

I have gotten a great garlic harvest and they lettuces, herbs & tomatoes are going well, but all of the squash, cuke and bean plants have gotten chomped. The cukes were chomped as seedlings twice - first planting and the second planting I did to try and salvage something this year.
 
WOW, I never really did any gardening before! At our new house we have one small bed, about a foot and a half by six foot. It's pretty shallow and has very clay heavy soil about 8 inches down, with pretty dusty loamy earth on top. So... I dug it all over this weekend, took the bricks and bits of wood out. And, I've put in three big daisy type plants I got cheaply from the market, and a tiny little thyme plant that I rescued from the corner of the garden centre this morning :D

I would like to grow a load of lettuce and chills and tomatoes next year, but I have no idea how to get started :D
 
I can't take all the credit for the garden here at my dad's. He did most of the planting this year bc we didn't visit during planting time. Since we have been here over the past few weeks we have harvested corn, loads and loads of purple hull peas (a family favorite), tons of okra, and green beans. There is one chest freezer full of corn and okra, and one chest freezer full of peas. We have canned about 4 dozen quart jars of green beans. He didn't plant tomato, squash, or cucumbers this year, but he has worked a deal with another farmer/friend to pick each other's gardens on halves. I am a little sad that we are not getting as many tomatoes as we usually do, but am happy with the ones we have managed to get. We are still waiting on watermelon this year, there are lots of melons growing on the vines, but none are big enough to pick yet.
 
so far I've only gotten a couple tomatoes. Many green ones though. I've picked yellow string beans, snow peas, and roasted my first beets. Herbs. Peppers are okay.... and the cucumber are still too little to pick.
 
Juliette, I wish I could send you some and it would survive the trip.
We have it coming out our ears. The plants are taller than me and will last well into the fall, as long as we keep them cut they will produce until the first frost.
JuliettePerkins said:
It's so hard to find Okra in the UK and I just LOVE it <3
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We have tons of tomatoes but they are not getting red. I think I may have some kind of green tomato variety. LOL!!!!

btw. what are cukes?
 
Dalis said:
We have tons of tomatoes but they are not getting red. I think I may have some kind of green tomato variety. LOL!!!!

btw. what are cukes?
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cukes = cucumbers.

there are some varieties of tomatoes that are green and are delicious! if they get a little rosy on the bottom, you can pick them and put them in a paper bag in the house to finish ripening. I've been told by a couple of farmers at our local farms that once the tomato turns slightly pink on the bottom they aren't gaining any more growth or nutrients from the plant so to pick them. I have to do that often to prevent squirrels and chipmunks from taking a bite of them and then discarding them. So frustrating when that happens, lol!
 
I had a couple of cherry tomatoes that came off when we were picking ripe ones, so they've gone into a brown paper bag to ripen. One is turning... hopefully the others will, too. So far, we've only gotten the cherry tomatoes. We have a good number of large tomatoes on the plant, we're just waiting for them to ripen. If my kid didn't want to eat everything the minute we brought it inside, I might be able to do that paper bag trick with the tomatoes. LOL!
 
Ours is not doing great this year. We've usually had good luck but I think it's time to work our soil and build back up all that the planting the last few years have taken.
 
lcpereyra said:
cukes = cucumbers.

there are some varieties of tomatoes that are green and are delicious! if they get a little rosy on the bottom, you can pick them and put them in a paper bag in the house to finish ripening. I've been told by a couple of farmers at our local farms that once the tomato turns slightly pink on the bottom they aren't gaining any more growth or nutrients from the plant so to pick them. I have to do that often to prevent squirrels and chipmunks from taking a bite of them and then discarding them. So frustrating when that happens, lol!
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They are not turning pink, these tomatoes have been on the plant for over a month! Do they take that long to ripe?
 
I had such great hopes for our garden this year.. Last year was our first year doing our own, so we went a bit overboard then got overwhelmed and it ended up being a bit of a waste... So this year we reduced the variety of plants hoping to give them more attention and more space.. The squash has been great, the zucchini got overrun by the raspberry bushes, apparently we're less into salad this year than in the past, so most of that has gone to seed and the tomatoes - which were OVERFLOWING last year, so we planted less this year - aren't producing at all.. I think I've only seen about 5 cherry tomatoes ready to pick, which is a big disappointment since those are my kids' favorites. The raspberries have been crazy busy producing, which is exciting because we LOVE them so much, BUT we've been so darn busy this month we haven't had a free minute to harvest them.. I'm a bit sick thinking how many of them have gone to waste.. I actually think that's how I'll spend my evening tonight - maybe even getting in a few batches of jam before we head to the mountains this weekend..
 
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