Edibles - '09 - Part3

Coming from here:

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/993179/

Keep us up to date on your success (or failure) with your edibles.

Yes, Sherrie----white maggot type worms! Now I eat only the root! Tied up tomatoes again today---the heirlooms (most) have small green fruits---the ones I raised, just blossoms---beans also blossoming---squash budded.

i only like the beet greens - garlic, olive oil and balsmic - wife eats the beets

Only eat the beets if they are pickeled.

I'm looking forward to my cukes. Found some baby ones forming today. I have about 7 tomatoes forming and still green yet. Still some lettece too.

This message was edited Jul 5, 2009 10:30 PM

I love beets.

No worms and if there was they would of not of gotten eaten! Gonna try to pickle the beets this fall. Time will tell with this crappy weather.

I like beets but never think to buy them - I'll have to now.

too early here for cukes due to weather and having too re-plant- finally have plants though! We do have a number of little tomatoes.

beets are definitely an easy crop to grow. I haven't grown it in years.

The cukes are loaded with flowers, but no little baby cukes, as yet.

The eggplant flowers are finally opening up

Eggplant 'Viserba' flower

The zucchini has to be over three foot tall, already.

Some of them are nearing pickin' time!

Zucchini 'Black Beauty'

Harvested the broccoli the other day. It went from small heads to big ones in just a couple days, seemingly during the constant rain we were having. Unfortunately, some of the middles of the heads started to spoil, probably from having water constantly sitting on top. But, I just cut out the bad parts and saved the rest. Now we just wait for the side shoots to develop a bit.

And I got a first meal of sugar peas the other day too. Found you really have to let the Mammoth Melting Sugar Pea get "mammoth" for the best flavor. I picked some when they were 3 inches long and they were OK, but not really sweet. Let them get to 4-6 inches long however and the sweetness develops.

Same here with the cukes, flowering and little babies and had to replant one hill. Zukes are 4-6" long same with summer squash. Broc and cauli have no heads started yet.

All pepper plants are pitiful.

Tomatoe plants - I dont even want to talk about them. I tried to do a collage POOF. The one on the left is 6/27 and the one on the right is 7/6. 10 days most of them have grow well over the stakes and the hoops. I will NEVER plant 81 tomatoe plants again in my lifetime or you people hit me with flower petal or better yet rose bush stems without being dethorned.

My pepper plants are in flower. One has been chewed to almost nothing. Who knows by what, DH has 5 other ones doing fine.

I have fertilized the plants once. With all this see-saw weather they are growing out of proportion! Some are 4' tall. They grew so fast I cant keep up with them. The growth is starting to not let the plant breath! Another week I might need a chainsaw!!!!!!!!

I picked 3 cherry tomatoes today. DGD helped. They are visiting from OR. Also some puple green beans that will turn green when cooked. I'll let you know. And zucchini is coming on. After not having success for 2 years, I planted about 8 plants. Now they are doing well. Yippee!!!

Now you'll need plenty of recipes, Jan. Sherrie, your toms look very nice---they are about the size of mine. I lost 2 pepper & 2 cabbage plants---bunching onions are way sad!

Triple Crown blackberries coming along.

2 of my pepper plants are chewed up as well...

let me know when the blackberries are ready Victor... that's when I want to come over and see your garden

;)

Let me know too! I'll come the night before and raid the place. Muha ha ha ha!

I'm planning on room for plane parking on the patio/dance floor. Victor I think the Homeland security dudes need a GPS location to make this doable. Victor? Yoo Hoo? Mrs. Victor? Kidlings in the Treehouse? Marauding deer? Anyone?

LOL

Hee hee! Still waiting for the dance floor to be sealed!

Victor what are you sealing it with? I think you have to be careful finishing dance floors so you don't lose the slippyness that you need to glide and dip about.

Blackberries--yum---the domesticated ones froze out on me, but I have black raspberries---I know, not the same!

I highly recommend this variety - Triple Crown. Huge, delicious and thornless.

DH stepped on one of my lettece plants by accident. I guess it's really smooshed. He harvested what he could for me.

delicious & thorn less.... sounds like a winner!... full sun right?

Yes.

sigh

Mmmmmm Blackberries!! I was just talking about growing some the other day. We used to have them under the one oak tree, I think I have mentioned, until it became to shady for it. BUT, now that the other oak has been "murdered" ^_^ I now have plenty of sunshine there again!

I will definitely seek out triple crown!

Hey! Look! Finally! Peppers!!

Tollie's Sweet Red Pepper

This message was edited Jul 8, 2009 4:12 PM

For a scraggly looking plant, they are starting to fruit up nicely, I think.

I don't usually have too good of luck with peppers.

This pic is from two days ago. They are much larger now!

Zucchini 'Black Beauty'

They are really getting tall

The tomatoes are start to gain some heft

'Special Turkish'

Cherry / Grape tomatoes everywhere

Sungold

The romas that have been planted since Memorial Day have yet to produce any fruit.

BUT, the roma seedlings I have yet to plant are loaded!!

Tomato Pomodoro Rio Grande Roma (they are more round than the following Roma Nano)

Same thing with the Pomodoro Roma Nano

(these are the more elongated of my 2 roma types)

willie i'm jealous!!

Me too! Looks great, Will.