Definitely hard pruning toms has worked for me in the past so I'm a believer. WNYBwillie have you tried the milk treatment on your mildew? It doesn't kill it for me but it keeps it from spreading until the sun can do its thing.
Edibles - '09 - Part 4
blueberries are ripening fast and furious - most we have ever had.
It's going to be a good blackberry season. This is only a small corner.
Andy P
They look great, Andy! A fellow art student told me today she lost all 8 of her Topsy-Turveys to late blight----so it's in the air as well as soil---scary stuff.
Good timing, Andy - here's my harvest from a few minutes ago.
I haven't really been paying attention to the blight thing with tomatoes. Does this look like it or blossom end rot??
You're a little ahead of me, Victor. I still have to scour the entire blackberry patch to get a big handful. They tease us for a couple weeks before really coming in. I freeze 6 or 8 quarts and give away the rest. They are great in pancakes or as a glaze over French toast.
Not sure what hit that tomato.
The day neutral strawberries are producing again.
Andy P
You just freeze them as is? In ziplocs?
I freeze raspberries in ziploc, they can't compare to fresh, but baked are good.
Me too, I pick the blueberries, place them on a cookie sheet in a single layer. Put them in the freezer for about an hour, then take them out and put them into freezer bags. I used the last of mine from last year this past June. I stretched it out to make it last for 11 months. We had BERRY SOMETHING at least once or twice a month all year. ^_^
I got all of 2 blueberries this year, not quite enough to freeze and last a year!
Berries freeze well. Rinse and dry then into 1 Qt freezer bags. There are 8 qts of strawberries in the freezer now. Enjoy them year round.
Thaw a handful and serve with yogurt topped with Grape Nuts or Granola.
Savor them, Deb!
mmmmm .... berries ......
All I have been getting is zucchini. Good thing zucchini bread freezes well!
About another 25 pounds of the stuff ..... all going to the soup kitchen, this time.
Also a couple of summer squash, 4 or 5 cukes, a Lavender Touch eggplant and some spare tomatoes.
What a beautiful picture,WYNwillieB.
My SIL brought over about 5 cups of black raspberries and I'm not sure what I'm going to do w/ them! Thought I'd try making a syrup for pancakes and such if I can find a recipe. :-)
Nice bounty, Will!
Beautiful Willie!
Sandy, try All Recipes.com my favorite place to find ANY recipe.
Very pretty picture, Willie---artistic---& the blackberries looked sooo good. Yes, that tomato has the late blight. An article in today's paper told of farmers in CT losing thousands of plants---they are hoping later crops will be OK.
Don't forget to check the DG recipe forum.
WELCOME BACK, SHERRIE! I've been thinking of you and your poor tomatoes. inspecting mine every few days and spraying them every week ir two, so far so good. So Victor is infected too? Is that tomato OK to eat?
hey everyone! this year I planted more tomato plants - I have tons of cherry tomatoes... oh I love it... and the big ones are beggining to turn red!!!!
I still have no luck with zuccines - from 3 plants I only got 5 ,... and cucumbers??? they don't like me either... only 3 so far.... oh well....
above is the only squash? I have... and I planted 4 plants... they are growing but the flowers just die and nothing!~
tomato jungle...
that jungle looks pretty good kassia! - i would break off those yellow branches at the bottom to be careful of blight.
Took some broccoli out of the garden this week.
Red Cabbage is almost ready.
Cucumber plants running amuck!
Summer squash, the zuccini are the same way.
I think this was the acorn squash that has left the garden and travelled out onto my lawn.
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Green Pepper plants think it's finally warm enough to blossom, after all it's only the middle of August!!
Watermelon, Cantaloupe, and Honey due plants in here. The melons are about the size of a large egg to maybe as big as a baseball. Not sure they will have enough time to grow big enough to ripen this year. To cool for them here this year.
Cukes climbing........
This is either my String beans or wax bean blossoms. I've already eaten one meal of green beans.
This is either my String beans or wax bean blossoms, one is pinkish and the other one is more lavender colored.
I have a bowl all picked of green beans mixed w/ wax beans to go in a pot with a ham and some potatoes for tomorrow!
Last picture.......cooler full of cukes anyone?? Picked 46 just yesterday. Auntie has already picked and made 2 batches of pickels last week and now this!!
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how does your garden compare to last year celeste? for me here it is 2 years in a row of slow eggplant and peppers - i was hoping the trees i took down would give more light and help with the sometimes wet conditions.
how many cuke plants do you have?
I have my garden in full sun, I use my corn as shade from the hot afternoon sun on some of the plants. But this year it is just to darn wet!! Molding if I don't keep on top of moving the vines and such around to keep the circulation. Last year wasn't nearly as bad as this year. I had melons in August/Sept. last year....I don't think I'll get any this year. if I do it will be because this month and next stays fairly dry and warm. We've been running in the 70's all week again and had an inch of rain dropped the other night so it's not looking good!! lol
Cukes?????? TOO MANY!!!!! lol
Not exactly sure.....we have 'Marketmores', Straight Eights, Pickeling, and the European seedless ones.
Love everyone's pictures! I'm getting hungry!
Thanks on the advice for the recipe. :-) I'm heading off to find one before the berries are eaten up!!
Wow - looks great, Celeste.
Very nice, Kass.