You gotta see these:

I woke up this morn and look what I found!!!!! My fairy tale eggplant:

And corn silk:

I found out, the tomatoes on my favorite 5 gallon buckets are definately chocolate cherry tomatoes:

My health kick tomato:

My Brandy Boy:

Here is the round cucumber and they seem to be all doing that and turning yellow? Have they decided to become squash on me or what?

Here is another picture: These are the 4th of July Tomatoes, and those stake thingies I got at Lowes' they have loops at the top that you can slip around the stems where needed.
joy


This message was edited Jun 7, 2009 9:10 AM

Joy you are gonna love the eggplants.

I picked two Ichiban eggplants yesterday. I cut the ends off and peeled them. I sliced then longways into 1/4" slices and salted both sides real good to let the bleed. After 20-30 minutes I rinsed them and covered the bottom of an 8" Pyrex Pie plate with them.

Here is what happened next in layers:

- 1/8" cheddar cheese
- finely chopped onions
- 1/8" sliced rings of fresh peppers from the garden
- diced tomato fresh from the garden
- 1/8" cheddar cheese
- finely chopped onions
- 1/8" sliced rings of fresh peppers from the garden
- 1/4" slices of ring jalapeno sausage
- a 1/2" slice of tomato off a huge tomato
- cover tomato slice with 1/8" slices of cheddar cheese
- cover cheddar cheese on top of tomato slice with sausage

Cover with an 8" Pyrex lid that fits the pie plate. The lid lacked about 1/2" from sitting down on the pie plate.

I placed the pit plate on a pizza pan on the center rack in the oven and baked 10 minutes at 375º and 20 minutes at 400º.

It came out perfect. Yeah, I pigged out and ate the whole thing. And, took a long nap afterward.

Jerry

Jerry: I gotta try that, that sounds delicious. I've been busy reconstructing my garden a bit, makes it easier to tend to, I hope.
joy

HI Joy

Great pictures! Your corn looks fabulous! How many plants did you put in the containers and did you make them self watering like an EB? Your grow bags look great as well.

Jerry: Your recipe sounds wonderful. Always nice to have more eggplant recipes. Can't wait for mine to come in.

Sherri

Sherry: I saw white silk today, now isn't it mineral oil we put on the silks to keep the ludwigs, is it, from eating the kernals before we do?
joy

Hi Joy

Never heard about mineral oil. We grew lots of corn when I was a kid and just picked and ate. Let me know if it works though.

Sherri

Sherri: They say BT or mineral oil, it suffocates the larva, that way they cannot eat the kernals. I also have one lay flat bag of coconut coir left, and I'm going to inflate it today and add melons to it. I did an experiment with another type bag and another type medium on my watermelon and it don't look so good, so I'm moving it to the lay flat bag of coir. Coir is excellent for the melons because the melons need lots of moisture and the coir absorbs it and holds it in and the melons get it that way, it's getting warm in this part of Fl, and think it will give my melons the edge they need.
joy