let's see your veggie garden {pics}

[deluxestogie]

I finally started to get ripe tomatoes about a week ago. As you can see, there are lots more standing in line. This year, I have various sizes of red, orange and yellow tomatoes.

Every year, regardless of the bed in which I plant my tomatoes, and regardless of the variety (including varieties with an alphabet of resistance genes), the bottom leaves blacken, and the blight works its way up the plants. If growth is robust, then the plants stay ahead of the blight. If growth is slow, then the whole plant dies. I don't know what organism causes this.

Bob

 

[Smokin Harley]

Yep , my tomatoes are finally getting red. Got 2 monster Beefsteaks out there a good 5 ,maybe 6 inches wide . I may pick them this afternoon. My Roma plants are so thick I can't even see in more than a hands length . I can see though that my harvests are going to be impressive .They are the plants I grew this spring from seed from my Sustainable Seed Company "bug out bag" I bought last summer.

 

[deluxestogie]

My tomatoes (as well as most of my peppers, and all of my cukes) are random transplants purchased in late May from a nearby market. Nearly every tomato, pepper and cuke that I lovingly germinated and then transplanted to the beds was immediately eaten by my herbivorous, mammalian neighbors. The one survivor of this ordeal is a Douce d' Spagne pepper, which has so far produced a single, large, deep red--almost burgundy--pepper that is the sweetest bell I've ever eaten.

Bob

 

[Smokin Harley]

The one survivor of this ordeal is a Douce d' Spagne pepper, which has so far produced a single, large, deep red--almost burgundy--pepper that is the sweetest bell I've ever eaten.
you saved seed ...didn't you??

 

[deluxestogie]

you saved seed ...didn't you??

Um...uh...sure! Yeah. That's the ticket. I definitely saved the seed. Definitely.

Actually, I did not. The seed came from www.seedsavers.org last fall. They don't list Douce d'Spagne currently, but they always rotate their offerings of heirloom seed. If you pay their membership fee, then you can get their enormous catalog, and order any item at any time. ALSO, I still have seed left from that batch, and hope to try again next year. (I still have seed as well for the other peppers I attempted: Quadratto D'Asti Rosso, Feher Ozon Paprika, and a 3rd one I can't remember at the moment.) AND...there is another fruit on the Douce d'Spagne plant, which may allow me to atone.

Bob

 

[Brown Thumb]

I Just finally got a chance after putting the wife's engine back together to Oil the corn.

 

[deluxestogie]

...Oil the corn.

What does that mean?

Bob

 

[Alpine]

Hey Bob, quadrato d'Asti, Nostrano del Brenta... You will soon begin to speak italian!
Pier

 

[Brown Thumb]

What does that mean?

Bob

50/50 mix of water and veggie oil sprayed on the corn silk when they start to turn brown to keep the worms out of the ears And suffocates the larve inside.

 

[Smokin Harley]

I Just finally got a chance after putting the wife's engine back together to Oil the corn.
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oil the corn...was it sqeaking?

 

[Hasse SWE]

Hey Bob, quadrato d'Asti, Nostrano del Brenta... You will soon begin to speak italian!
Pier

"Stiamo andando fino in fondo escursione".

 

[deluxestogie]

50/50 mix of water and veggie oil sprayed on the corn silk when they start to turn brown to keep the worms out of the ears And suffocates the larve inside.

That sounds like a great idea. I suppose the corn won't mind if I use canola. But it's hard to picture oil and water mixing very well.

Bob

 

[Alpine]

Add lemon juice to the mix and voilá... Emulsion ready
Pier

 

[Brown Thumb]

yesterday my wife made double chocolate chocolate chip zucchini bread,I think she puts sour cream in it as well...I've had 2 slabs already this morning. Its like eating cake.

Just walnuts last batch of cakes. Had a party for my daughters 13th birthday over the weekend.
1 left out of 4.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

It's 3am on a Friday night and I'm pitting cherries.

I planted an Evan's Cherry tree a few years ago and this is the first year it had a decent amount of fruit. Unfortunately i sold the house where i planted the tree. The renters there never answer the door, even according to the other neighbours. The cherries are on the verge of going bad. They didn't pick the saskatoons or raspberries, and there's some Artemisia vulgaris that's gotten 5' tall, which blocks the view from the house to the cherry tree. So the wife and I (her idea) pulled a Skinny John, hopped the fence and picked the cherries.

 

[ProfessorPangloss]

So the wife and I (her idea) pulled a Skinny John, hopped the fence and picked the cherries.

 

[Smokin Harley]

Doesn't that just chap your hide ? You go to the trouble of planting and nurturing the fruit trees and then after you sell the place the new owners just don't care or appreciate the harvest? Glad you got to get the fruit. I can just about taste those cherries...

 

[Smokin Harley]

Yesterday afternoon I came home from my sidejob and was preparing our summer favorite easy dinner....BLT's (Mr Gavroche ,in case you don't know what that is its a Bacon Lettuce and Tomato sandwich...we make them on toast. )and when I went out to pick some fresh beefsteaks the rains from yesterday has swamped the garden soil. I sank nearly 3 inches before filling up the front of my t-shirt with over a half dozen huge tomatoes. I couldn't get to the others but I might try to get to them this morning.
My "straight 8" cucumber plants are so aggressive they have started climbing up my tobacco shade structure and shade cloth.
I finally picked some sweet corn , gave 6 ears to my wifes aunt and she said they were delicious. I picked a few ears for us and one ear looked different (deeper yellow ,almost orange) and tasted like field corn. I only planted one variety . Maybe that one was mature sooner than I thought and I let it go too long and missed its sugar peak.
Zucchini is fading out. I pulled the first producing plant since it was starting to brown out the base of the stems and slowing down. The other two plants aren't doing much but still producing, might pull those soon unless the heavy rains swamp those out before I get to pull them.
Roma tomatoes are still green. I'll be harvesting bushels of them by the time they finally turn red. A week from today my wife and I leave on a motorcycle trip out to Colorado for 10 days ,seeing a concert out at Red Rock and also a trout fly fishing trip down the Colorado River. I'm almost positive the romas will be all of a sudden ready on the 3rd day we're gone .

 

[deluxestogie]

Roma tomatoes make spectacular green tomato pickles. Pick them green and firm, slice into wedges, then pickle them with garlic and dill. Fresh pack, refrigerator style.

Bob

 

[Smokin Harley]

my wife and I love to make caprese salad with them . a simple recipe she got from one of the girls she works with of italian descent. Tomatoes sliced, add a fresh green basil leaf and a slice of mozzarella cheese to each tomato slice, bathe it all in balsamic vinegar, add some fresh cracked pepper on top.