Nice! My melons seem to be growing well too. Have to look for fruits.
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We have peppers!!!
Bill.....now im rubbing it in!! LOL Picked 4 yesterday, and a dozen this morning. I will have to pick another dozen by tuesday. ^_^
Oh, I love cukes & mine are not producing very many....and they're ugly looking to boot! I can taste that watermelon!
i have one to pick here celeste :) my veggie gardenis smaller
Pixie, everything looks great, but your melons look fabulous! Do you grow them in a sandy soil? I don't suppose you have deer, do you?
Our cukes have been delicious, but slow this year, and the deer (before we netted) helped themselves to our biggest tomatoes. Some of our tomatoes (we have only about 50 plants) have also been really slow growers this year. Despite the heat, they are just fruiting now, with very small tomatoes, and some of the heirlooms haven't fruited at all.
Not sandy soil, just put black plastic down on the soil to trap the heat in. We then plant them, and water well. As for deer, yes we have them but they do not come up close to the house. They mind their business in the other 15 acres....those 3 acres I garden in are protected by a gun toting pixie!
Cathy, my tomatoes are doing what yours are....the heirlooms have a few toms on them, but nothing is ripening, except Suppice, which is a small tomato....
No tomatoes ripe here, either. Getting some cucumbers and they are GOOD! Made a salad with cukes, greek yogurt, fresh dill and purslane vinegar. YumO! Took it to Shakesphere in the Park Saturday night at Beardsley Park. Only it was The Three Musketeers and not Shakesphere - but who really cares? It was hot but there were friends and food and sword fights - what more could you ask for?
LOL...that sounded like fun, Memory!
schickenlady--
Please let us know what those "ox heart" (or whatever) things turned out to be...and how they tasted.
Tomatoes just starting to turn this morning...but it was time to go :(
Cucumbers just starting to flower, nearby volunteer squash vine turns out to be acorn- yum!
Pattypan squash vines bearing like crazy, pole beans flowering. Lotsa lettuce, we'd better eat it quick before it turns bitter, if it hasn't already.
Little baby radicchio looks good...beets about done...
I guess that's it for now.
Pam
Our beets are slow but the cukes are growing like crazy. Good beans, snow peas, yellow squash and zucchini. We will have our first red tomatoes tomorrow if the sun comes out, but it is a patio plant in a container that has a nice crop of mid sized ones growing on it. The Basil is amazing this year, some lettuce still holding on. Some Cabbages, both red and green, could be harvested and some of the skinny eggplant variety are ready to be picked. We leave for a visit to the family cottage up in Canada on Thurs for a week, so I hope our friends who are using the house while we are gone are going to enjoy eating well from our efforts, plus do some weeding. Fair exchange. I need to grow patty pans next year. Patti
I have to leave my gardens in a few weeks to visit my niece in Pittsford, NY.....no one will be picking the veggies....or weeding...hate to think of the mess I will come home to......
Robindog, that is a shame, but enjoy your trip. Patti
Thanks, Patti...enjoy yours as well!
WOW
Tell me.
Been reading about Basil and some other herbs. Mostly basil. Take your basil leaves and wash them. Chop them up fine and put them into a processor. Add water and make a mushy liquid. Toss the liquid into ice cube trays and freeze them. Pop em out and put them in a freezer bag.
You can have basically fresh basil at your hands for soups, sauces and other things all winter long.
Ouch!
Gee, Sherrie.....that's a nasty bill! But a good recipe for the basil....I need to do that....
nasty who marilyn?
Another ice cube trick is to make ice cubes out of the punch (or whatever you will be serving) at a party, in advance.
That way the punch won't get watered down by the melting of conventional ice cubes.
Saw that basil tip on a garden show years ago.
The nasty bill, Bill! Made a curried veggie soup out of my green beans....serve it cold.....
Made a casserole out of Lambs Quarters, pinto beans, diced tomatoes (canned) lots of leeks and a smidge of garlic. Really good.
Sounds good!
Not a lamb person.
mmmmm, lamb chops
How could you?!!
love lamb
Me too
re Basil: a woman I work with tells me she just plucks leaves and throws them into a freezer bag...she uses them just like that year round. I'm going to give it a shot - I've been whirring it with garlic and olive oil and freezing tablespoons-full on wax paper.
The sad story is about my yellow squash. A few days ago there were 5 of them growing happily -- I picked two perfect specimens. Yesterday I took a look and there were none left. Closer inspection revealed piles of unrecognizable mush where the fruit used to be. We're talking 2 or 3 days from gorgeous to gone. I'd like to think I would have noticed BER. Pollination's not an issue because I had fruit. Calcium deficiency? Squash vine borer (no sign on casual inspection)? Is it too late to save this plant?
My zucchini, perhaps 10 feet away on the opposite side of the corn bed, is not performing and I wonder if it's a related condition. I had a gang of male blossoms and then nada. My pumpkins, way on the other side of the garden, are sprawling happily and look very healthy..but again I have no female blossoms yet and now I am concerned.
I hang my head while admitting I did not soil test this year. Is it too late? Or, rather, is it too late to do anything about the results?
This photo was taken about 10 days ago when all was right in my garden world. Any thoughts and advice would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Ingrid
The plant looks great.....don't know what hit the fruit....sounds like a fungus....
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