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| This year has been a very productive one for my garden, and right now I am still harvesting a bit of spring produce (edible podded peas though the lettuce has bolted) while also having available most of the high summer warm weather crops. This week we've eaten peas, tomatoes, basil, parsley, garlic, Russian Banana fingerling potatoes and broccoli. A bunch of peppers are ready for harvest and I made two batches of pesto for the freezer. I love this time of year! |
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| I think fingerling potatoes are going to be on my list for next year. We've had our first two cherry tomatoes but still waiting for tomatoes to ripen. Waiting for the peppers to get a little bigger. Zucchini took a break - probably not enough water during our dry spell but it's still producing. Cucumbers doing well. Made a kale and swiss chard salad with Asian dressing yesterday and can have leftover stuffed chard rolls tonight. Had to cut back garden sage so I tried sticking cuttings right in soil on the north side of a tomato bed just to see if it works. Severed other branches where I thought rooting had taken place. Will need to pot up for a plant swap. |
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- Posted by carol6ma_7ari zones 6 %26 7a (My Page) on Mon, Jul 30, 12 at 8:52
| It's amazing, isn't it? how our hard work is paying off at last! We've been eating lettuce (you have to keep reseeding patches every couple of weeks and you'll never run out), herbs, broccoli, peas (now over, but I just put seeds in for a fall crop), kale, chard, and now eggplant and tomatoes. Too bad I can't grow yogurt and eggs in my garden. And a nice olive tree. Carol |
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- Posted by diggingthedirt CapeCod Zone7ish (My Page) on Mon, Jul 30, 12 at 12:40
| Wow, you guys are industrious! I've slowly moved away from growing veggies, and this year I've just had lettuce, basil, parsley, and the perennial herbs (plus some asparagus, strawberries and blueberries). When I hear others talking about fresh peas and beans, I miss having those out in the garden. Kudos to you all! |
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- Posted by spedigrees z4VT (spedigre@sover.net) on Mon, Jul 30, 12 at 17:27
| I'm harvesting organic early golden crookneck summer squash! Yummy, yummy!
We used to grow a winter's worth of vegetables every summer long ago. This is the second year in many decades I've planted any vegetables, and just a small patch, but I'm re-discovering the joy of veggies right out of the garden. (We have so many farm stands and a farmer's market in close proximity that it's been easy to be lazy.) |
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| spedigrees, you have my grandmother's dishes! Those are lovely squash. I went on squash bug patrol this morning. Found a couple of striped cucumber beetles and one dead squash bug. There were three lives ones this weekend (of course, no longer alive). I try to grow organically so I've been scraping eggs and bugs into a bowl of soapy water. A dark zucchini, Raven, has pooped out after only a few squash and I'm not sure why. Right next to it, 3 Costata Romanesco zukes are going strong. My garden keeps getting bigger. One thing we don't grow that we love is corn but figure the raccoons would win out. I was happy to stop at the local farm but last year the latest in the kid run corn business, only grew one variety of a super sweet corn. Near the end of the season it was just too big plus I missed the varieties they used to grow like Silver Queen. I'll be trying a new farm stand. I like being able to pick just the amount I need but also having a bit too much that forces me to try some new recipes. Made a great zucchini banana bread this weekend (bought bananas and they were getting over ripe). Plus there's the ready snacks as I weed or just walk around checking on things. If I didn't have pea fences, I would have to put something else up so the birds would have a perch. And maybe next year I will remember to seed lettuce every few weeks! |
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- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Wed, Aug 8, 12 at 18:03
| Very pretty squash! What do they taste like? Summer squash? We had a good crop of snap peas in May. I cut back on the vegetable garden, knowing I wouldn't have the attention to give it this year. We did a CSA this year and have had a good supply of vegetables from that. We planted tomatoes, basil, peppers and a few string bean plants. That's about it. Sungold cherry tomatoes are now coming fast and I keep trying to keep them We tried a new variety last year, Bush Champion that only gets 3ft tall and is almost too bushy, but it produces lots of baseball size tomatoes that are very tasty. Those are coming in now too. Eating cucumber, tomato sandwiches on rye bread every day. Yum! Basil....oh my....I put in more than usual this year and they are really growing like gangbusters. Huge! And I don't like Pesto. Anyone have any recipes for using a lot of basil? My kids love it but I haven't seen them enough lately to keep it picked. |
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