Vegetable gardens at my house

Hey Kim;
plum kute too_"are shot to h*$&%!" !
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"Stinkbugs are here just in time for the tomatoes"
[Try liquid 7]

TF is right again! Haha, 'Welcome to tha Jungle' !
Enjoy tha rest of this year and plan for tha next.
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It may turn out things are better than ya think!

I'm sending ya some squash by satellite lol.
I mowed mine down after most gave it up to tha heat &&&!
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Some time this coming week I'll replant squash where my corn was.
2nd crop of maters looking good and am going to plant 4-500 more. Soon lol !

Your place is beautiful and shows a lot of forethought & hard work
Be-happy................

Theresa called last night, and their squash plants are overflowing, so she's bringing some by here -- including a couple of zukes big enough to stuff & bake! OK, they're not as cute as the 8 Ball Zukes, but I'll share! C'mon by!

thanks for the squash Charlie, those butternuts are my favorites!

heycharlie- I let one of my zucs get huge and stuff it with spagetti sauce and jack cheese and ground beef. It was great!
bluekat76- I lost all of my burgundy beans to rabbits and other small and furries. I did so want to see the beautiful purple blooms and purple pods. I have now bought long redwood planters and put them up on blocks and have replanted all my beans. How goes yours?
-Juli

Ever hear of zuchinni cobbler? Ate some last night that tasted just like apples! Delicious! Sure would be a good thing to make to eat with all that zuchinni everbody's tryin to be rid of.

ooh, TC, please get the recipe! Do you think it would freeze well? I didn't even try to fight the borers this year to grow zukes, so I'm quite happy to take my friends' excess bounty. Next year, I'll try the zucchini rampanate (something like that) that I've been hearing about, as the borers don't care for it.

I planted purple pole beans last year, and they were really pretty! This year, I planted an assortment of climbers but am having little success, so no beans yet in my garden.

yes, recipe please!

I'm waitin on that recipe y'all. When I get it, y'all will here. ;~)

tell them there is a herd of hungry drooling mongrels waiting! (OK, i am just speaking for THIS household) :-)

Oh, you could count us in that herd, too!

Kim, PLMK if you want some of the lovely BIG zukes Irene dropped off yesterday!

Really nice garden! I'm so jealous! I have to stick vegetables around the perennials here in suburbia....Keep those pictures coming!

of, edible landscaping eh? remember the craze in the 80s? start your own thread so you can show pics...

Someone somewhere asked me about our beans - Well here they are - the bush beans anyway. this is our second picking. From left to right: Masai and Provider mixed, Cherokee Wax, Roma II, Royal Burgundy and Dragon's Tongue.

We ate some they rest have been blanched and frozen. Tomatoes are coming in, brussel sprouts are being eaten by worms/caterpillars (small blackish ones??) Moon and Stars watermelon plant is beautiful with all the yellow spots on the leaves (yes, they are supposed to be there)

Kim, those are great lookin' beans. Bet they taste as good as they look! I can't wait to plant mine down here in 6-8 weeks.
Flip

Flip--I'm lusting with you! When do you try bush beans for fall? I put in some pole beans about 2 weeks ago not expecting anything in the heat--but they are up and about 2 feet tall!
Debbie

Hi Debbie - about the only time I don't grow beans is from mid-June thru mid-Sept. I'll do both bush and pole this Sept. and grow 3-4 crops through next June. I hope yours do well but I'm guessing you should water them twice a day when it doesn't rain. Keep us posted!
Flip

Kim, sorry to hear about your BS. Try squishing a few, and their predators should show up shortly...

beans look yummy!

Flip--I have been giving them a good drink every morning. I think ya'll are getting all the rain this year. We are in a real drought here in Texas--even the normally humid coastal towns like Houston. The plants can really handle the heat; but not coupled with the lack of water! I knew I was gambling on those beans but I had the seeds, the time, and the lattice space so I went for it. Luckily, right after I planted them we got 5 inches of rain stretched over a week and a half and I think that makde all the difference! Now were back to excess heat and dry as a bone.

I also started some tomatoes from seed at the same time--there is an orange jubilee I really like with an 80 days to maturity and I was just going to PERISH if I didn't have them. They are up and doing pretty good too. We can have a freeze here in Dec (usually around Christmas) that's why I started them so early.

Nice to talk to someone with similar climate (except your warmer in the winter). Folks on the Texas Forum are great but not many veggie people there and San Antonio is hot and dry not hot and humid like we are. I just tuck my veggies in wherever I have room around all my perennials.

Debbie

Bluekat76- I asked about your royal burgundy beans since mine went kaput by way of rabbit. Yours look tasty. I replanted mine in long redwood pots and so far they are about 2 inches tall.
-Juli

They are tasty! They are so much easier to pick also. They grew taller with small tendrils than the Provider or Masai. Let me know how yours do. Next year, someone please remind me to plant a few weeks apart!

-Kim

I like tasty stuff. Lobster claws, for example, are quite pleasing to my palate.

Do you eat those? What do they taste like?
-Juli

Juli, maybe TC did eat some and that's what is wrong with him ;-)) I believe those are some type of bromeliad. I am sure TC will chime in and let us know exactly which one and @ which garden in Eastern PA he took the picture....

That photo was snapped at the Longwood Gardens Conservatory this past Saturday.

You can read up on it here - http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/55673/index.html

The plants are doing what they are supposed to do! I never believe it until I see for myself; seems like so much could go wrong between seed and edible veggies. The long beans are http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/50568 Looks like people like the flowers more than the beans. They are truly beautiful, I tried to take some pictures of a flower with a bean hanging below but they didn't come out so well. Those beans are 15-20 inches long! Was I supposed to let them grow to 3 feet??

John took lots of this haul to work since we are going out of town this weekend. He knows who will appreciate both the food and the gesture. They call him Farmer John or Compost Johnny @ work :-) I made Roasted tomato sauce with most of the tomatoes we kept. Here is the recipe we use: http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/519907/

Over by the zucchini those are not beans but Rat Tail Radishes http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/70712/index.html very tasty and unique. People don't expect to eat such a spicy 'bean'! Recently we served them as a garnish with gazpacho.

We are off to Florida tomorrow for my 20th high school reunion in Clearwater Beach. The school is actually in Brandon, outside of Tampa. There were something like 1200+ in my graduating class, hope they don't all show up;-) Can't wait to explain where Ijamsville is about a hundred times.

Happy Growing!
-Kim

Hey Kim;
" 20th high school reunion in Clearwater Beach."
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Happy days to ya, have fun!

"Ijamsville," just tell them it's where they make jam. Or it's where folks jam. Or just say Sam I am. Or...oh nevermind.

Your vegetables should be featured on Martha's table Kim!

(That'd be Mrs. Stewart's Martha)

As opposed to my mother Martha, how did you know!?! Mom loves to cook but after that she is nothing like MS. John picked more tomatoes tonight, so I am squeezing some sauce making in along with the laundry, packing and hair washing. Had a big Anna Russian for dinner, just that, with some salt.

T.C. where can I find pics of your veggies?

We have volunteer canteloupe and spaghetti squash plants! We also have a vine with white flowers - don't know what it is yet.

Uh, haven't taken any yet. Sorry. ;~(

I will though.

Long time no update. The unknown vine is a swan gourd, no gourds yet though. Tomatoes, yes. We have made over 3 gallons of tomato sauce with what we haven't given away, made BLT's, open faced sandwiches or eaten out of hand. Here is a picture of some of our bounty! The yellow ones are stuffer tomatoes.

This is why I planted all those seeds! Now to decide my favorites.

-Kim

Kim when you figgure out your favorites let me know how you did it they are all my favorites excep for the few I really take a dislikeing for.Ernie

My, this is a popular thread. Just look how long it's gotten. Would you consider starting a new one for those still on dial-up internet service? I'm sure they'd be much obliged. ;~)

I thought money grew on trees, not tomatoes!

~TC

Here is the link to the new thread: http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/538842/

See you there!
-Kim