Mrs BeeKeeper
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Frustrating, but very funny!!!
let's see your veggie garden {pics}
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workhorse_01
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It's like a little tobacco savings account.
squeezyjohn
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My veggie garden is the same place as the tobacco is growing - this is what it gave me for tonight's dinner:
Broad beans (in the pan), golden mange tout peas, champion of England shelling peas, Kohl Rabi, Round courgette, Calabrese broccoli and sweet pea flowers for the table.
Broad beans (in the pan), golden mange tout peas, champion of England shelling peas, Kohl Rabi, Round courgette, Calabrese broccoli and sweet pea flowers for the table.
Mrs BeeKeeper
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Never had it, but have been hearing its name about lately. Got any favorite recipes?
squeezyjohn
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Kohl rabi is a gem of a vegetable - easy and productive. It's a bit like the sweet inside of a broccoli stem but the plant makes it in to a big ball - the one I picked was 2lbs!
There's not much I would like to do with it beyond eating it as it is - peeled and raw cut in to slices it's crispy, juicy and refreshing with a texture like water-chestnuts and a taste like very mild radish or cabbage but much sweeter - boiled for 5 minutes in salted water makes a soft tasty warm vegetable to have on the side of any meat dish - like a lighter version of a swede (rutabaga). Some shred it and dress it to make a slaw from it - but I'm just enjoying it "au naturel" at the moment.
There's not much I would like to do with it beyond eating it as it is - peeled and raw cut in to slices it's crispy, juicy and refreshing with a texture like water-chestnuts and a taste like very mild radish or cabbage but much sweeter - boiled for 5 minutes in salted water makes a soft tasty warm vegetable to have on the side of any meat dish - like a lighter version of a swede (rutabaga). Some shred it and dress it to make a slaw from it - but I'm just enjoying it "au naturel" at the moment.
Mrs BeeKeeper
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YUM!!! I'll pick some up at the grocery store next time to give it a try!
Blacktail Mountain Watermelon
My watermelon and cantaloupe share a 5' x 6' bed of cleared soil. By now, both have spread out over the neighboring grass. Blacktail Mountain watermelon is a short season melon. This particular spot in the garden has had standing water for several days on two separate occasions. The melons continued to grow well, but downy mildew (encouraged by the wet soil) is slowly taking its toll on the cantaloupe.
The watermelon has blossoms galore, but only a single maturing melon.
Blacktail Mountain watermelon is in the size range of Sugar Baby (less than 12").
Bob
My watermelon and cantaloupe share a 5' x 6' bed of cleared soil. By now, both have spread out over the neighboring grass. Blacktail Mountain watermelon is a short season melon. This particular spot in the garden has had standing water for several days on two separate occasions. The melons continued to grow well, but downy mildew (encouraged by the wet soil) is slowly taking its toll on the cantaloupe.
The watermelon has blossoms galore, but only a single maturing melon.
Blacktail Mountain watermelon is in the size range of Sugar Baby (less than 12").
Bob
workhorse_01
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Wow they look good. With the water we had my canteloup turned to mush and my cucumbers swole up and turned yellow.
DGBAMA
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Picture a turnip sized bulb that grows on top of the soil instead of under it. Fun to grow.
I planted Scarlet Runner Beans in the ground at the corner of the front porch. The bean vines have now fully covered the wrought iron corner post. Today, I sat for about an hour with a camera in my hand, trying to catch a shot of one of the three hummingbirds that have begun to visit. One finally showed up. These four pics are the only ones out of 14 that caught anything more than a blur. The hummingbird is about 3" from tip of the beak to tip of the tail. In the shot of it perched on one of the bean stems, it is discreetly eating a bug it found. I had never seen a hummingbird on its feet. In another view, it is hovering directly below a bean blossom, holding its entire body vertical in a hover. In that view, distinct wing feathers are visible, while the wings are beating at a gazillion times a minute. In a couple of views, you can actually see its claws.
Bob
Boboro
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Mean little birds. I had to pick one up and feed it cause a bully had beat it up so bad.
DGBAMA
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Great pix. Where are seeds available for those beans?
Something I forgot to mention about the hummingbird is that, while it was hovering, I heard it chirp a number of times. It sounded like the pattern and high pitch of a chicken hatchling, only much softer. Peep peep peep. Peep peep peep. (I always knew that the "hum" was from their wings, but I never even thought about a vocalization. Who knew?)
I think I'll finally see some beans among all this glorious leafage, now that there is an irresistable number of red blossoms.
Bob
I think I'll finally see some beans among all this glorious leafage, now that there is an irresistable number of red blossoms.
Bob
ive found that anything '' RED '' will attract a humming bird,
i was in line not moving in my dumptruck years ago, and just happen to be looking in my mirror,
and the side '' red'' light on the back of the bed,
had a humming bird, hovering at it, checking it out, for a food source,
i was in line not moving in my dumptruck years ago, and just happen to be looking in my mirror,
and the side '' red'' light on the back of the bed,
had a humming bird, hovering at it, checking it out, for a food source,
Boboro
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Ive heard them scream at one anutter when fightin.
My bird book uses the term, "pugnacious."
Bob
Bob
Boboro
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Im glad they are very small.
workhorse_01
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I have a cow itch vine that draws them every year. It has big orange trumpets. My wife has photographed them many times, and I have to hand it to you, They ain't easy to catch without a blurry picture. I always hear the hum but I've never been fortunate enough to hear them chirp.
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