Veggies 2 (and other Edibles!)

I finally got to pick string beans.

DH pear is growing.....hope I don't have to share mine!

Looks great!

Yummy!

I'm picking Strawberries again. Love my Tristars.
Andy P

Andy, how many strawberry plants do you have? I'm wondering how many I would need for a reasonable harvest. I love strawberries. I didn't know you got a second bounty...how wonderful! I'm picturing a nice raised bed in my yard.

I wish I had more room. I'd love to grow corn and melons. It's nice and cool today. I'm going to get some broccoli planted. The seed came yesterday.

Gorgeous day today!

Sunny, breezy and 65: ideal for digging plants for others and planting all I've received.

Doing something with the family - maybe a hike.

It is gorgeous! I'll be planting pirl's stuff. I won't have to wait until the sun settles behind the trees, either. Victor, enjoy your outing. Take pictures.

Andy, I think we can call you the Strawberry Man. Those look great! Celeste, your crops look perfectly yummy. Jan, your melon does too!!

Harper

ooh... gorgeous strawberries!!!! I have 3 to pick... yes... only 3!!!! but I am happy because it has grown so much and I am hoping for a good crop next year...

time to plant lettuce... I have to dig out all the cukes and okra... they have no more leaves and too much mildew has damaged the cukes.... it was a great experience and I hope to do better next year...

the herbs are so gorgoeus... I think at their peak!!!

Grampapa, I plant 25 new 'Tristars' every 3 or 4 years. These are Day Neutral types rather than the June bearers. They produce little the first season, years 2 & 3 are loaded and the 4th is less. 25 plants will give you 100 for the second season ~ plenty.
They also have excellent flavor.

Pixie,
What kind of pear is that? How long till it produced and do you need another for pollination? I'm trying to decide if I want to plant another apple tree or a couple pear trees. DM

DigMontana,
Welcome to the N.E. forum! I'm not sure what kind of pear tree it is but I believe we bought a self-pollenating one.I think we've had it about 3-4 years. Not positive, will have to ask DH when he wakes up. I went out this morning to find one of the pears had dropped to the ground. Guess what DH is having for breakfast! LOL

I also saw that another row of corn is ready. I plant 6 rows, 2 rows of 3 different kinds. I set it up so the first kind is ready and 2 weeks later another 2 rows will be ready, and 2 weeks after that the last 2 rows will be ready.

Cantalope is almost ready......good thing too, it's been mighty chilly here at night and in the morning! It's 45 right now, a bit warmer than when I first got up.

Yesterday I picked more green beans threw them in a pot with a ham and some potatoes! MMM-mmm good!!

DonnieBrook.....sauce is good. Brought it to a boil again last night as I wait for someone to come by and do something with it. Planted too many black tomatoes this year and they turned out bland of course. Oddly enough, cooking them really brings out the flavor.

Did achieve my goal of doing a comparision test of black tomatoes. No one here, including me, could tell the difference between noire de crimee, carbon and nyagous.

So I'll plant nyagous from here out. Its the most prolific and uniform.

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Thanks for the comparison info David.

Pixie - I just picked another pan of green beans, and after reading your post, the subliminal message "Go to the grocery store and buy a ham" screamed out at me. We are going to see Bourne Ultimatum at the movies tonight, and then I'll probably, highly likely, get a ham to cook tomorrow with my beans........need some new potatoes too. I always plant the red norlands because it is like an Easter egg hunt to dig them up........but this year, no potatoes and no corn. Shucks!!

David - again you crack me up with your waiting for someone to come by and do something with your sauce. Yummm...freeze it and you'll have it when you need it. It sounds like you did a good job!! If I only had some tomatoes, I'd make some sauce too.

I have honeydew melons for the first time in many years. Does anyone have a trick to know when they are ready to pick?? I can't recall....is it when the vines die??? Help!

DB, buy the ahm...you won't be sorry!

Here are the "Before" and "Now " pictures of my garden. Trying to keep it contained is like training a wild tiger!

DB, buy the ham...you won't be sorry!

Here are the "Before" and "Now " pictures of my garden. Trying to keep it contained is like training a wild tiger!
Sorry for the double post....noticed the "ham" LOL and tried to stop it to fix it. Didn't work!

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Nice Celeste. Love all that room!!

Yes, very beautiful Celeste. Wow, no fence! You don't get rabbits or deer?

Harper

Don't you see the deer in the top shot, Harper?

Yes, but that one seems to have been standing there a while... the grass has been mowed around it, but not under it. I don't think Celeste has anything to worry about with that one. He doesn't look very hungry.

Celeste - we have something in common with wild gardens.

I have rabbits, deer, coyotes and an occasional moose. But in the top photo, past my seedling greenhouse it stops being mowed......thats the field and as close as they come. Except the rabbits, they come right up to me. I can feed the white one by hand and he lets me touch him sometimes, but not the black one he just takes the food and runs.
And one time the moose decided that my blueberry bushes looked good so he stopped and helped himself. I was at a loss on how to stop a 1000 lb. moose from eating them without getting trampled.

Pirl, I have a second smaller garden out back where I plant my gourds, pumpkins, and sunflowers because those were taking over my garden. Now the squash plants are taking over my big garden. They obliviated my cucumber plants to the point the can no longer get sun and grow. I only planted 2 plants of each Acorn and Butternut squash and they have gone across and up the garden and are on the lawn now. I thought a 25 X 100 garden would be big enough.......I was wrong!! DH says the squash are going to the pumpkin patch next year!

Pixie - love your garden shot and the beautiful setting you have there.....really lovely! I got out of the movies too late to get the ham........maybe later today....am just really enjoying the sunshine and lush stuff today.

Pirl - I checked on my bagged green tomatoes.....still green after 2 days in the bag.... I'm sure it takes a few more days........

Pixie - what kind of vitamins do you take? You seem to have the drive and energy of a few people. We stopped growing squash because of how it wandered all over the garden so now the cucumbers are climbing up the mesh and we need a sickle to get through to any other crop except the tomatoes and peppers.

Donnie - they like to be warm in that paper bag. It should be very, very soon that they ripen. Ours have and they were in a bowl with a towel thrown over, in the kitchen.

Thanks Pirl........I'll bet they appreciated my turning the heat on again this morning!!

Man, heat on in August. Can't fathom that.

We're getting close - too close.

I refuse to put on the heat until October - no matter how cold it gets.

57 right now.

Same here.

41 degrees on the hill this morning...........groan! I only leave it on for a few minutes to take the ice off my fingers.........yuk yuk yuk......really! Never turned it on before Oct. myself until this year....

Same here...refuse to put the heat on before Oct. but the fireplace gets used alot!

I have a little electric space heater that I use. It's cheating 'cause I can say I didn't turn on the boiler and mean it!

While my neighbor is away this week, she asked me to pick her veggies. I think she has a rat that's nibbling the goodies. Ugh.