Summer Veggie Gardens Pt 2 & Beginning Fall Gardening (Pt 1)

Everything I've read on the Munchers has been positive. Sounds like they're prolific, crunchy, and burpless. We'll see!!

Pickling cucumbers will be new for me. I decided I should try some and got those seeds. But to late here to plant cucumber seeds now so I will be hopefully planting them next year. Unless they are no good. That is why I will be waiting for your reports on this variety.

Lemon cucumbers are VERY prolific!

My Lemons are getting small cukes setting , none as yet , only I am seeing them .. oh-(sigh)- yeah !!!

Last year, I took some to work. I cut one up and had chunks so people could taste it and see what it was. After that, I had people asking when I was bringing more.

I have a long list of frends and neighbors that I give veggies too each summer season. Mostly tomatoes and cukes that I share. I have to have tomatoes that look like tomatoes and cukes that everyone recognizes right away. No green when ripe type of tomatoes and no cukes that I have to cut up to give samples. And really, the idea of growing a cucumber that doesn't look like what most of us think of cucumbers as looking like just does not much appeal to me.

I love trying "non-traditional" vegetables, but I agree with Rita in that ff it looks too different most people won't try them. People have accepted non-red tomatoes and non-green peppers and even blue corn chips, so maybe some of the other ones will start to "stick." In the meantime, I try to avoid planting anything that I might not be able to either eat all myself or be able to give away.

I got NO GARDENING done this weekend... My body just shut down, and I ended up taking catnaps all weekend. The most energy I had was to hold the water hose on the grass...in between the rain...

Since I can NOT sleep during the day unless I'm absolutely sick or totally exhausted, I guess I was exhausted. And, my brain advised me to go with the flow and get the much-needed sleep...

So. The press is now on to get in gear to sow seeds this weekend!

I so understand Rita and Nicole! I find it amazing how "programmed" the American public has become when it comes to our food source. I like trying new and unusual stuff, and educating those I share it with. My friends at work always enjoyed learning about the produce as well. However, I do understand your predicament.

Don't 'yah just love the folks who say, "I don't eat that"? And my next question is always, "Have you ever TRIED it?" And, 95% of the time the answer is "No."

"So, how do you know you 'don't eat that' if you've never tried it before?"

It's good to try new foods. Sometimes I doin't like them but almost all the time I do like them.

I can see the difference between Green Tiger and Caserta. Green Tiger has those heavy stripes. Caserta is light green background with dark green mottling. Both of these look to be much prettier than your average dark green common zucchini. So you might be thinking what difference does it make? It does to me. I want my zucchini to be more appealing and prettier than those dark green types you see commonly at the supermarket.

Well nowhere near you all , only here you go , munchies ,, two oddities in the back of the pic , I think I picked them too soon ,, had to beat the raccoons and ground hog to them , low hangers ..

What are those yellow things you picked too soon?

Lemon cucumbers !!! Not much taste to them , but not bad , will have to let the next ones ripen some more .. ?
Cool here the rest of the week , if they go on growing and settting the vines at the back of the garden are covered with small ones..

http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/62261/ I know , you already know this ; only don't believe the 6 to 8 ft vine part ,, I have a few back there well over 12 ft and growing still , like fast growing and vigorous so far a few of them ..

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I pick lemon cukes when they still have a little green on them. Don't let them get too big. Also, use a vegetable brush to brush off the spines on them.

The Lemon cukes are not as good as the White Wonders , Lemon makes a lot more cukes ,onlt the white tastes better
Spoiling one self , requires control , Their both better than stored ..

Really? I grew WW once and hated them! LOL It all comes down to personal taste.

Looks like every cucumber seed I planted on Monday is going to sprout after yesterday's rain.

Always that way isn;t it .. I did not even like cucumbers at all until I aged a while . Must of happened from always drinking green tea , (picked and made myself ) That I have done as long or longer than I can remember ..
I use to grow a few cucumbers though anyway , good food .. not always my favorite .
Some days I could eat a bushel of green beans(and got close) , I wouldn't try that anymore (lol) only at times I still could.
40's TONIGHT .. Getting cool here , way too early for these temperatures .. Half done melons might be dead tomorrow morning or the day after .
Kale and Mustard are going to like it .. nice days I like,, cold nights I don't , can't have everything our way when we play outside , I guess ..

Straight Eight Cucumbers. 2nd pic Burpless and Camilla. Third all cukes from today.

My Fall crop or second crop of cuciumber plants are doing really great and growing fast. I never tried a fall crop of cukes before so want them to do well. These are Suyo Long and Orient Wonder. Last pic is my little cuke seedlings I just planted.

Beans! Purple beans, yellow beans, all the beans. I made them into a bean green bean casarole. Only mine was a purple and yellow bean caserole!

Wow Rita!! Your garden is really cranking it out! Good job!

I'm overwhelmed !!! Some one knows how to garden !!!!

I am growing a wider range of veggies this year than ever before. So really the garden really is doing fabulously. Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, various squash, melons, beans, eggplants, peas and a few other things.

Pulled out the last of the melons and cukes today; that leaves just the winter squash, peanuts, tomatoes and peppers in the garden of the summer crops.

It's sad to see them go, but beets and radishes and peas and more are ahead!

Cucumber vines have a limited life spand anyway before the deseses get to them and they need to go. Melons just seem to peter out after they set and grow those melons.

It's actually pretty late in the year for cukes here, but then again we did get started late, too.

Nights are going to be in the 60's again all week and it's a gorgeous 78 out there right now. In August. My weather surprise meter has just been pegged all year; you'd think I'd be immune by now.

I am really not that good of a gardener when it comes to many things , I study the plants and diseases and look for remedies and cures .
I enjoy a few health benefits from the different foods , and enjoy the gardens in general

Could not imagine being without some of the goodies anymore . Takes a lot of energy sometimes , only it still fun!!!
Except the Balloon spider I picked up out of the compost that was as big as my hand , and yesterdays scorpion recluse I put a finger through it's web in the Tomatoes before I saw it there .. Only it moved away , and they rarely bite , they would rather move away from my hand or things that bother them ..
The praying mantis are small here but their cute .. Only things to enjoy ..
We have Tarantula and Brown recluse or widow here also . Only things to watch for sometimes while picking through ..

Weather is crazy .. who really knows ,, ( yeah well , besides the creator ) lol



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Those spiders would freak me out. I shudder just thinking about them.

I'm not as fond of them as I could be either ! lol I like silent quiet places in the garden . only those things are too quiet ,, sneaky like nature made them ..

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