let's see your veggie garden {pics}

[CobGuy]

Geez, you're a brute ... or was that a riding mower?

Sorry about the grapes, Bob. They'll be monstrous next season I bet!

~Darin

 

[deluxestogie]

This is an ancient John Deere lawn tractor that has a history of causing mischief.

Bob

 

[CobGuy]

LOL ... I know their kind.

~Darin

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

My first Alvaro melon was delicious. There's about 5 more on the vines, and about 20 on the Minnesota midget vines. There's a cross happening naturally, though, where some of the midgets which have the classic netted skin are looking like charentais melons with the smooth sections. Actually, this one has some netting on it, so that's probably the case to some degree with a large portion of them.

 

[OldDinosaurWesH]

Must be all that northland long-day sunshine. Your melon looks good enough to eat. Hope it was good.

Wes H.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Must be all that northland long-day sunshine. Your melon looks good enough to eat. Hope it was good.

Wes H.

I've never had anything like it. It would probably taste normal to folks down south, but one thing that blows the minds of people around here is fresh fruit. Anything that doesn't grow here is always picked before being ripe. Like, I actually have vivid memories of the first time I truly tasted some fruits, like an orange in Turkey on the side of the highway, juice dripping everywhere, tasting an orange for the first time. Pineapple, Bananas... Mind blowing stuff.

 

[CobGuy]

Looks like a great melon ... anybody in your neck of the woods use salt and pepper on them?

~Darin

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Looks like a great melon ... anybody in your neck of the woods use salt and pepper on them?

~Darin

Black pepper flavored cantaloupe? Sounds like you just need a papaya.

 

[CobGuy]

Black pepper flavored cantaloupe? Sounds like you just need a papaya.

LOL ... in Illinois some of the folks I knew would salt and pepper (lightly) their slice of cantaloupe. It's not something I ever adopted myself.

~Darin

 

[OldDinosaurWesH]

I love the taste of a good ripe cantaloupe.

I have some watermelons on the way. Hooray! I think that I might just get a few after all. I planted them so late I wasn't sure. This heat we've been having is good for all kinds of growing things. Especially melons and tobacco.



I have squash on the way also. Man these things grow fast! That rapidly expanding fruit was a bloom a week ago.



The squash is very aggressive grower. This vine has escaped through the fence into the alley. That's okay, the part that gets in the way of my car tires will just have to suffer. Maybe the rest will produce a squash.



I've been having to trim the squash to keep them from overrunning my flowers and watermelon vines. I'm learning a valuable lesson on squash culture and where not to plant them.

Wes H.

 

[deluxestogie]

I have some watermelons on the way. Hooray
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When I was 10 years old, at summer camp, I won a watermelon for our cabin by being the only one to hit it with a bow and arrow from I forget what distance. I'll just say that the one I nailed was a more promising target.

Bob

 

[deluxestogie]

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Bob

 

[skychaser]

If I lived there I'd be a billionaire!

 

[deluxestogie]

If I lived there I'd be a billionaire!

At their 2018 inflation rate of 13,865%, by this time next year, instead of a billionaire, you wouldn't even rank as a millionaire. You probably should just eat the tomatoes, and be happy.

Bob

 

[skychaser]

lol I am eating them. But I also sold 40 lbs today for US dollars. So I am happy.

 

[CobGuy]

Nice 'maters ... so far just a few Cherry Tomatoes for me.

 

[OldDinosaurWesH]

Melon is definitely growing


Hey! this works.

Wes H.

 

[OldDinosaurWesH]

More garden photos



I was hoping I might have something to put in the local fair coming up in just over a week. My produce just isn't mature enough. The last time I put tobacco in the produce section, the produce superintendent gave me a large ration of ****. I might put some cured tobacco in there just to tick him off. (I know the guy) And of course my home made home ground whole wheat bread. The one squash pictured, probably weight several pounds by now, but is a long way from being mature.

Wes H.

 

[deluxestogie]

I picked tomatoes on Friday morning. I was gone for the weekend, and finally got to picking tomatoes again Monday afternoon. That's about 3 days later.

I cooked a small tomato into my dinner tonight (Louisiana black beans and rice), so that helps.

It's really unpredictable. Putting in roughly the same number of tomato plants year after year, I experience tomato feast or tomato famine, depending on the whim of Mother Nature.

Curiously, the two tomato plants growing below the corner of my porch have been the healthiest, and have produced the largest, most flawless tomatoes. And the porch tomatoes get only a half-day of sun. One is a Big Beef, the other is a Roma.

Bob

 

[OldDinosaurWesH]

Crazy Squash, fast growing watermelon.



This crazy squash has made a break for it. It is on the outside of the fence facing the alleyway. Hopefully it will get a chance to mature before some passerby decides to pick it. I had to hold the leaves out of the way to take the picture, so it is pretty well camouflaged.

This melon is about 9" long now and more than doubled in size in a week. I have another melon that has been on the vine considerably longer that isn't as big. I guess that the growing conditions are better for the one pictured.

Wes H.