Everyone seems to be humming right along!
Here, too!
Here's a multi-shot Panorama I PhotoMerged in Photoshop to give you the big picture of the main veggie garden.
I had to dig in three more areas for left-over seedlings!
Edibles - '09 - Part 2
You can sort of see two of them here.
In the back is the salsa garden, full of hot peppers and cilantro.
In the foreground garden are more hot peppers (far), Swiss Chard, Yellow Straight Gooseneck Summer Squash, Zucchini, Sweet Peppers you can barely see they are so small, and lettuce.
The squash has just been blooming away!
I think this is a spaghetti squash flower
the squash patch
One of the Tomato Patches
with basil and onion sets
Brussel Sprouts looks great! Hopefully the summer won't be too hot for them.
Zucchini is just starting to explode .... tons of flowers starting to come on.
They all are starting to load up with blossoms.
Zucchini 'Black Beauty'
As with all the squash
Acorn Squash
Spaghetti Squash
I think this is winter squash ... NOID
Sweet Peppers Tollie's Sweet Red are coming on slowly. Maybe the are slow growers?
But! They are loaded with these!
Have already had some of the Swiss Chard ... This is NOT Fordhook Giant, I am guessing!
The eggplant looks great, too! Guess I should hurry up and get some supports behind them.
The chives have flowered strongly. The red currants are starting to ripen.
Here's the third new area for veggies where the great oak used to sit .... sigh.
Far Left on fence, Sweet 100's ... back fence has Sungold.
There are also hot peppers far right, before those Early Girl Tomatoes then BeefMaster to the left.
Next to the BeefMaster, farther left, are the Bhut Jolokias.
There are also some yellow straight gooseneck summer squash and one zucchini plant.
Some sunflowers far right and cantaloupe far left, just under the log on the ground.
Also scattered some dill seed in there
Here is one of the five Special Turkish Tomato plants grown with seeds from Cyndie.
Growing up the stump of the missing oak.
Must be happy, as there are loads of these forming already, with Spidey there to protect!
Sweet 100's are starting to load up, too!
Seems everywhere I look I see these things popping up!
I am not sure if you recall .... last winter .... I posted some pies I baked for the holidays and set it up on the counter with some pumpkins, apples, cranberries, etc.
Seems I never got around to making the pumpkin into something, so I set it out in the backyard so it wouldn't rot on the counter before I could get it into the compost pile.
There she sat all winter .... shriveled, covered in oak leaves and promptly forgotten.
Well, I was raking the oak leaves and discovered the shriveled pumpkin proudly nourishing tons of tiny baby pumpkin seedlings!
Looks like I have a pumpkin patch now!
WOWSER WNYwillieB that's not a veggie garden, it's a market!!!! wha I have never removed any flower bud from the toms. I didn't know you were supposed to. I pot up and bury my toms deep in their final containers so they are rooted at least a foot up their original stem so they're pretty sturdy.
It's great to walk around the yard and see all these things flourishing in the perfect weather we have been getting, so far.
I am very thankful to all the participants in the Round Robin Seed Box, without whom none of this would have grown.
If any of you are reading this: Thank you all!
Thanks, Dahlia!
I am growing my first dahlia now, thank you very much.
Arabian night (pretty common one, eh?)
I didn't know I should pinch first flowers, either!
Willie I love those beds, so nice and neat! Everything is really coming along at your place...im waaayyyyyy behind!
Thanks, Celeste!! I am a poppy planting next week!! Woo Hoo!! Thanks to you!!!!
Willie, looks wonderful.
willie how do you have all these sqash flowers all ready? your in buffalo and should still be under snow when i plant?!!?!?!?!?
Did you forget to shake your snake eggs and chicken bones??
Each and every dahlia is special WYNBwillie ^_^ You're gonna get hoooooooked.
now your sounding like that guy in the movie major league!
Or, maybe Blackula .......
^_^
We have had virtually no growth in the veggie garden for weeks. I think we will plant it later next year. Nothing like WNYwillieB garden. I posted this collage in the long view today already, sorry if you already saw it. Being lazy. I have to go check out my dahlia's Patti
YIPPEE Dahlia pics from Patti! Note that dahlia tubers are edible so can be in this thread too.
Well, Patti and Bill, I did start my seedlings March 1st on the second floor of the greenhouse (warm) under lights to extend the day in my special pampering potting soil from the local GH.
Then, they spent about a month in the cold frame hardening off. We have been having several weeks of perfect growing weather, I think. (Knocking hard)
I seem to remember someone telling me that for good growth there should be at least 20ºF difference between nighttime and daytime temperatures. Which has been going on for probably two months now. About 75-80ºF day ; 50-55ºF night some into the 40's
The cold nights seem to be hanging on this spring, which I think pleases most things, save the peppers.
Are they good to eat???
Patti does have awesome plants and photos! I enjoy them all.
That "view to die for" down the steps, in particular, I do say......
I could never eat them as it would feel cannabalistic. But here's a receipe
Dahlia Bread-
Preheat oven to 350*
3 eggs
1 cup veg. oil
2 cups sugar
2 cups grated dahlia tuber
2 tsp vanilla
3 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. soda
2+ tsp cinnamon (I piled it up!)
Beat eggs until light & foamy. Add oil, sugar, grated dahlia tuber & vanilla. Mix lightly but well. Sift dry ingred. together. Add to wet ingred. Mix only until blended. Put into greased loaf pans.
Bake in 350* oven for 1 hour.
Great veggies Willie!
Willie, your garden is way ahead of mine! My soil is saturated---the weatherman just said 2" for our area---I'm crying.,