We are coming from here: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1024702/#new
So what are you harvesting?
My squash is threatening to take over the lawn, my peppers are bending the poor plants as there is so many to a bush!! Need to make me some Green Stuffed Peppers!! Oh and the melons are ready for picking! ^_^
This message was edited Sep 14, 2009 4:09 PM
Showoff! ^_^ Thanks for the new thread.
Oh no I wasn't showing off but im going to now! Just ran out and took a few photo's.
Corn......so sweet.
Broc is still going too.
Red Cabbage
Black Peppers
Green
Has not finished turning just yet....
White/Yellow
Watermelon I found in the grass on the outside of the garden. Was wondering why DH keep mowing out around this one spot!! lol
Now this is a RIPE cantaloupe Victor. ^_^
Last, this also grew out of the garden and almost into the carrot bed.
Buttercup Squash
Oh yes! Very nice.
Wow, Celeste what a haul!
Thanks Jen, we still have wax beans and green beans too. I'd freeze them but they just don't taste the same. ;(
Lord, Pixie---what beautiful veggies & melons---I have a red pepper----big whoop!
Thank you Robin!
You'll all be making fun of my veggie garden when you see it! I just HAVE TO figure out a way to get more sunlight on my tomatoes! I did make a big pan of green stuffed peppers yesterday though. Our neighbor down the road broke her wrist on her dominant hand and I thought those would be easy to eat, since she lives alone. Glad I went down....she couldn't get the cat food tins open. You just don't know how much you depend on a hand until you can't use it.
I think my broccoli has called it a day, as well as my cukes, but I did find 2 nice cukes out there yesterday. I still have green beans coming ....had a bunch last night!
Pixie - those are some gorgeous veggies! And that melon looks beautiful!
Victor - if you get a cold snap, your melon will sweeten up nicely! Most of the green should be gone when it is ripe. Yum Yum!!
Wonderful harvest pixie and pepper RD
Thanks, Louise! Nice that you helped your neighbor and lent a hand.
jealous of your peppers celeste - picked several anaheim here today - did not have a great season though - and only the summer squash did good - no blue Hubbard or winter squash!!
Awww, Victor! Any of us here would do the same thing!! Don't you just love sharing stuff from the garden with family and friends and those who need it? That's the best part of gardening....sharing the bounty! Right?
looking yummy Pixie!!!
I shared some tomatoes with the next door neighbor. She loved them. DH ad one of his peppers go red on the plant for him, he's excited to use it!
Yeah, a red pepper will do that---tough luck for your neighbor, Louise---that was a lovely thing for you to do!
my wifes friend came through HUGE with a half dozen eggplant, enough for the lasagna and moussaka! Tonight it will be Eggplant Lasagna
1 large eggplant cut length wise in 1/2 slices - brush with olive oil and s&p to taste
1/2 pd. FRESH pasta sheets cut. cooked, drained MUST BE FRESH
4 large tomatoes cored and thickly cut - olive oil, balsamic vinegar s&p and let marinate a bit
1 pd fresh mozzarella sliced
1 cp romano cheese
Oil baking dish turn on broiler and cook the eggplant slices for 3 min. until lightly charred
Oven temp 400 1/3 pasta sheets on bottom of container, eggplant, tomato's, mozzarella & romano in layers until filled.
35-40 minutes until romano cheese on top is browned
then EAT!
Favorite part is the last two words.
i made chile rellano's yesterday for the first time from peppers in the garden - eating was the best part - not sure i go through the prep for those again anytime soon.
You're a cooking machine, Bill. That reminds me - where is Willie?? Not to mention Candyce, Thom and Shelly. Maybe we should institute a 'green alert' when someone goes missing.
actually i broke down - wife did the egg whites and flowered the peppers - i was to pissed off at the peppers splitting when i scratched of the charred skin and was trying to put in the cheese - took hours to make those things and they were gone in minutes - mil makes them all the time god love her.
yep there are a few awol right now - sure they are just busy or off on vaca
had a little mishap yesterday canning pickles - last year all my pickles ended up soft - of course i never kept them in ice for a month like some directions suggest. so this year i have iced them overnight - also have this pressure cooker that is very difficult to open after canning and thought that the pickles probably were in there just cooking.
so this year i loosened the three little clamps a bit to let the top "screw" into and out a place easier. now after putting the jars in and keeping at pressure for 10 minutes i take off the removable pressure gauge to let out the steam and pressure, once the temp is down to zero i unscrew the eight or so clamps and using a screw driver slowly break the pressure seal. has worked no problem.
yesterday i decided to loosen the eight clamps (there are still three little metal ones) before the pressure gauge was completely to zero. well after loosening 5, i starter to slowly open the sixth. noticed the top of the steamer move and then the thing just exploded. the three little metal clamps did not hold it down. got burnt pretty good on one side of my stomach and had to clean up a pond of water from the floor, cabinets and walls.
thank god for aloe - no blisters only a bad sunburn - and lesson learned!!
Ouch! That would be an embarrassing 911 call. 'I've been hurt by exploding pickles!'
Oh my gosh, glad you weren't hurt worse.
Yes, me too.
the pickles are fine - the idiot who tried to take the short cut will heal :)
off to roll out my pasta dough and make lasagna - think it may require a glass of wine to set the right atmosphere
Try a Pinotage!
sorry went low shelf with black swan shirazz - will have to look for that though next time i need to stock up
Yikes, Bill --- that could have been a serious problem!!! Be careful in the kitchen from now on!
Glad it's not serious Bill!
Glad you're ok wha. Please be careful!
