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I went out yesterday and picked the rest of the melons, about half the peppers, the end of the brocc and cauliflower. I have more green/wax beans than I know what to do with and the matos are ripening rather quickly now. :)
So whats being harvested in your neck of the woods?
This message was edited Sep 2, 2011 5:40 AM
Pixie, you can make a wonderful bean soup from the beans....that's what I've been doing. Curried yellow bean is very good! Getting some tomatoes, but not too many...cukes are still coming, but slowly....beets are awesome this year....and why are my carrots purple? Do not remember ordering purple ones!
Purple carrots? Psychedelic!
They become orange when cooked, but I was surprised when I pulled one!
Picking beans has gone from pleasure outing to chore. I'm no longer searching for and rejoicing over green tomato that appears, but now just scanning the jungle for red. Cucumbers are a pleasant surprise this year, my first real success with them. I have all I can eat and enough to share.
Very strange year in my garden. So many of the plants are just hitting stride now. I finally have a couple of pumpkins that "took." Habaneros and thai chiles have been prolific, italian roasters and bells both stingy. It took a good beating from Irene for the rest of the peppers to fruit, and now I can see that I've got some more bells and some good looking jalapeno coming. Eggplants and broccoli are chugging along at a consumable rate, and we just pulled our first real potato harvest. Celery stalks are still thin, but some of the leaves are turning brown. Time to harvest a head? Herbs are out of control but I miss the cilantro that went all coriander on me. Should have reseeded.
DH is working hard with the chain saw. We got a whole gang of firewood out of Irene. Once the garden finishes we'll take down the trees shading that and we'll be golden for next year.
Ingrid
Sounds like you have made lemonade out of the Irene lemon! Good for you, Ingrid. My garden is producing slowly, but that's fine with me......my next project is pickling beets.....
I should have planted more beets. You'd think I would have noticed by now that I say this every year.
DD went to the hospital this morning for evaluation of labor, so I've got an extra 3 year old here and a lot on my mind. Today was going to be all yard and garden; now not so much. I did manage to contribute to the wood splitting for a little bit before the "big" phone call.
How wonderful! A new grandchild.....keep us informed.....
No baby yet, another in a string of alarms. She dilated 3cm, but they sent her home, where she remains today, exhausted and nesting her little butt off.
OF course I still got nothing done in the garden, save picking some MORE beans. Irene knocked the trellis down, but didn't stop them from growing.
best wishes to her!
Poor girl! I know how it is to dilate slowly.....it's so fustrating and you spend alot more time being uncomfortable! Best wishes for a speedy delivery!!
Thanks for the good thoughts. She spent a couple of days in the hospital last month when she went into premature labor. They stopped it, and she actually UNdilated over the next month. Even the OB admitted that this does not happen...but it did. Now she's working her way back. She shares my tendency to rapid labor so we're all watching her like hawks and sleeping with fully charged cell phones.
Exciting time!
canned the first 5 jars of t's last night and made my first batch of gazpacho today.
BTW, the watermelon in the harvest picture at the top of the page was juicy! Joshua & his friends had a BBQ and he brought one of my watermelon for dessert.
Mallory loves watermelon, this is her 2nd piece!
You're busy, Bill! Pixie, love the freckles on Mallory.....
brought the gazpacho to work for lunch - hopefully it will keep visitors away as i have some stuff i need to get done this afternoon:)
Good plan!
LOL Bill! Did it work?
yes it did and i have more today:)
Made 2 pints of pickled beets...froze 5 half pints of peaches.....
Good to hear from you, Sherrie....yeah, all those tomatoes are a lot of work! But you'll enjoy them in sauces this winter....
I almost had a heart attack yesterday.. I had enough red cherry tomatoes for me and the dogs.. and I see 2 pumpkins turning orange!!!... this is the first year!!!.. one more big green one too.. in the past they always stayed green.. was ready to spray paint the one big one last year
:)
Yay!
Cool!
that is great allison
YAY
Congrats Allison!!
still wondering if the spray & grow was the reason this is the first year they changed
I don't even have tiny, green pumpkins yet. Guess we will be buying them for the neighborhood kids this year. :(
This is one of the gardens....pumpkins, corn, butternut squash and cabbage.
I planted my pumpkins late this year as I didn't want to pick them until Oct. 1st. so I planted in lated June. Well they are orange and good sized but we have a frost advisory for Sat. night so i'll have to pick them or cover them. :(
such a bummer
I would just cover them.
I think so too.
Isn't frost a bit early this year?
YES!
Oh, that's a lovely pumpkin patch.....I would cover them, because it will be warm again in a few days.....
Felt well enough to walk out to the pumpkin patch and check on my biggest pumpkin. The vine is still semi-green so it's still growing. ^_^ This is my cell phone on top of it so you can get an idea of how big it is. ^_^ ^_^ ^_^
Randy said we are coming up and stealing your pumpkins!!
