Here is the first crop of my eggplants I picked today and some tomatoes .My tomatoes were great this year ,only one got a little blossom rot .My cucumbers did not do well this year,I planted Three more a few weeks ago,hoping I will get some by fall..
Who likes Zucchini ?
Sold maybe 100 today at Farmers Market.
#1 Our stand.
#2 Looking south, from our stand.
#3 looking east.
Market is a square with 2 rows of stalls all the way around. About 40 vendors today.
beautifull!
These are my latest harvests.
The tatume zucchini were a total surprise. I found them in my front garden where I planted extra zucchini plants ...
The Aswad eggplants are the only eggplants I harvest recently.
The Red marconi peppers are just so small and thin ... not like the ones I harvested in the spring, which they were huge.
I have NO Ghost or Scorpion peppers at all.
Tons of okra.
The Chinese Long Beans are just starting to form.
So hot here ...
Eating my breakfast of a bowl of fresh strawberries, picked Friday, with corn squares from Aldi's.
This is how I raise strawberries. We pick 3 x a week, all summer.
drthor,despite the heat your garden is doing fine .Great produce.
agreed, while many of our summer gardens are giving up, Dr thor's garden is still truckin' right along, lol :)
thanks
It is just super hot here ...
Carrot seedlings are popping up more densely now.
And the japanese morning glories are really going crazy with the blooms
Wow, I love, love, love morning glories! The colors are so vivid. I have Grandpa Ott's. Thanks for sharing yours!
Pretty morning glories! Absolutely nothing going on in my garden, but we are getting some much need rain and cooler temps.
I am harvesting okra everyday.
I absolutely love to bake the okra at 450 F for 30 minutes. Before baking I rubbed the entire pods with just a little bit of olive oil, salt and pepper. In this way the pods are super crispy and not slimey !! The taste like "healthy" French fries !
My long beans are staring to produce.
I have NO Ghost or Scorpion peppers at all !!! The Red Marconi peppers are supper thin and with sun scald !!!
My indoor fall garden is looking good at least !
Ghost and Scorpion peppers have a long DTM. About 120 days after planting the plants, maybe more. They need a long season, which we have. Are they flowering?
carrots sprouts are becoming more established it looks like. And i have some cabbage growing under lights indoors, i did lose one of them, but maybe 6 heads of cabbage would have been too much anyways, lol.
Well,
Yesterday, I started out messing with the compost in the two Geobins. My intention was simply to feed bin #2 with all I've collected -- table scraps, shredder paper, grass, and coffee grinds. I ended up turning that pile. And, then, I looked over at #1 bin and decided I needed to sift the compost to see how much I'd have available for the raised beds. So, I worked fast to get ahead of the rain we were promised.
Well, don't you know if you sift compost you'd better have a place to put it if it's not going straight into the garden. So, here go the dominoes. There's one empty 25 gallon cattle molasses bucket, so I filled that up. No rain yet, so, I keep going. I discover there's potting mix in cattle molasses bucket #2, so what to do with that? Since it IS potting mix I saved from last year's seed flats, well, put it back into the seed flats! So, I ended up seeding SEVEN flats, and filling up that second molasses bucket. 50 gallons of sifted leaf mold compost from 1/2 of ONE Geobin...I also ended up tacking covers on each flat to keep the squirrels out.
And, since it still wasn't raining (actually, the wind was blowing a nice, cool breeze most of the cloudy morning...), I decided to hedge my bets and spray EVERYTHING for the aphids, mealy bugs, and brown buggies attacking the PHPs. And, it stayed dry for most of the day. Right up until I was putting a cover on the last two seed flats.
Then, the sky opened up. And, I mean OPENED UP!!! I was trapped under the patio cover for about 25 minutes before it let up. We got a LOT of rain!!
So, I ended up sowing the fall/winter seeds outdoors, out of necessity...Arcadia broccoli, Buttercrunch & Butternut? lettuce, Georgia collards, Red Creole and Yellow Granex onions, and Dwarf Russian Kale.
I'm gonna freeze some more broccoli and some cabbage seeds in ice cube trays and plant them directly into the garden. We'll see what happens to each group of transplants, LOL!
Hugs!
Ghost and Scorpion peppers have a long DTM. About 120 days after planting the plants, maybe more. They need a long season, which we have. Are they flowering?
LOL Linda! Sounds like you got a lot accomplished before the rains arrived!
Steph,
Believe me, it was NOT by choice. I'm finding that a lot of gardening is about lining up the dominoes, and, I'm not good at lining up dominoes...
Despite a dry July the garden is full on. I'm continuing to improve succession planting planning so if something doesn't do well the next round might improve. It means I don't have as much all at once for canning but at the same time we are not drowning in any one vegetable. #1 pic is the rear third of the garden and #2 pic is some of the thirty odd tomatoes. The remaining pics are this morning's harvest. What isn't shown is the colander full of salted, chopped pickling cukes about to become pickle relish. We picked sixteen pounds of peaches this past week. I canned peach jam, peach chutney and peach butter. We ate lots of fresh peaches and used two pounds to make gelato.
Way to go! Everything is looking great!
Thanks. Pooped after a day of preserving the bounty.
Absolutely gorgeous harvest, Laurel!
MaypopLaurel
that is an amazing harvest ! great job !
I posted ten pics at the end of the thread "Weather Worries", over on the Georgia forum, of the mini garden we created for our three year old grandson, in a very small space, in Atlanta. My tablet is not easy to make links but I'd love for you to go look. We have virtually no full sun and our house, though in the city, is buried in the trees. He is having so much fun tending his garden with the mini tools and gloves we got him for his birthday. He helped me plant seeds in the basement last March and water seedlings under lights through the cool spring. He's learning the process. We garden and cook together.
"Train up a child in the way he should go,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it."
I checked yesterday evening, and, my seeds are up! :)
Arcadia Broccoli
Buttercrunch Lettuce
Georgia Collards, and
Dwarf Russian Kale.
The Red Creole and Yellow Granex onions will take a minute, LOL!
I did NOT see that coming, so soon! Gotta put the pedal to the metal! :o :o
And, MORE rain on the way -- fourth day in a row. Hurray!
My practically stalled Gretel eggplants that got sprayed only hours before the rainfall last Saturday, are COVERED in brand new swollen eggplants. Amazing growth from these Gretels, this season! Even the lone straggler in the 15-gallon SmartPot has caught up in production. I think that going into the cool of the fall, these eggplants are gonna go buck wild with production (if I can keep the squirrels from stealing them...)
So. Who wants eggplants shipped to them, LOL?? Lovey dubby Lovey dubby
Hi all. Once again, I'm dropping in out of seemingly nowhere to say hi and try to get back in the groove. The summer garden was mostly a flop! But I have a clean slate, tons of seeds, and I'm going to start a few seed trays today for fall veggies.
Hey, LiseP!
Better to drop in out of seemingly nowhere than not to drop in at all! Been missing you!!!!
Put the pedal to the medal, girlie! I sowed seeds in flats Saturday, and they're all up except two flats of onion seeds! Arcadia Broccoli, Dwarf Siberian Kale, Ga. Collards, and two flats of Buttercrunch Lettuce.
Thanks, Linda. It looks like you've gotten quite a bit done on the fall garden already. I always enjoy reading your posts. Having fun catching up on some of the other folks' posts too. Puts me in the mood!
I did get a bunch of seeds planted this morning: brocc, caul, kale, Swiss chard, bok choi, lettuce, spinach, parsley, kohlrabi, cabbage.
And off we go!
LiseP,
What're your temps in San Antonio these days? I'm gonna do spinach again, and try some herbs for the first time. I think it's still too hot here to sow the seeds, so, probably the end of September or so. We'll still be in shorts, LOLOL!
Can't wait to see your progress!
Hugs!
Maypop - Beautiful garden and garden bounty and how wonderful that you have the Grandson so interested in gardening.
Thank you, Brenda. SO has some better garden angles on his phone. I'll post when he sends them to me. Meanwhile, boot camp for tots continues. :)
More garden photos from Maypop to share...
I picked tomatoes, okra and cucumbers last evening (photo #1) and southern peas and limas this morning (#2 & #3). The second photo shows from upper left, clockwise, Christmas beans, whippoorwill peas fresh, whippoorwill peas dried, & yardlong beans with a few dried beans in the center. The third photo, top left, clockwise, shows fresh zipper peas, speckled butter peas, Harry's Black Jungle beans, Cowboy peas and dried zipper peas. Photo #4 is zipper peas in the garden and #5 shows a few beans picked for dinner tonight starting with pale yellow Meraviglia d' Venezia (Marvel of Venice), Blue Peter, Hilda Romano and Kentucky Wonder brown seeded. I'll pick more okra shortly. Peppers are accumulating.
boy look at all those goodies! all of my summer crops have officially finished, many plants dying from rain stress. and then plus i had to start making room for the autumn crops. Turnip, beet, and kale seed has been put into the ground today. also started oak leaf lettuce seed under a light indoors
MaypopLaurel
amazing pictures and harvests well done.
Hi Maypoplaurel,your garden in beautiful the produce is great, I cooked my second batch of pole beans yesterday. It's such a nice feeling to cook your home grown vegetable.
Beautiful Bounty, Laurel!
What is the name of the dark red, boxing glove tomato at 8:00 on the plate?
Yesterday's Gretel harvest....this is getting obscene..., LOL!
Seed flats!
#1 Arcadia Broccoli
#2 Buttercrunch Lettuce
#3 Dwarf Siberian Kale
#4 Georgia Collards
Getting cups ready for potting up.
