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What a bounty! Woohoo!

by Amy on August 20, 2008 in Harvesting & Preserving

Wow. I haven’t even set foot in the garden in 3-4 days because of the heat then rain and I was thrilled by what I found. Our first red roma tomatoes, crooknecks and zucchini, lots of corn and more. Check it all out :thumb

And the crookneck squash siamese twin that wants to be a porn star:

General growy-ness

by Amy on August 15, 2008 in The Growing Garden

Just a general update on how things are going in the Garden of Eatin’ today.

The weeds are taking over. I need to get out there and attack with the weed whacker, it’s that bad. It’s not stopping things from growing, so that much is good! But it won’t happen in the next few days…yesterday we had 100F+ temps, today we’re due for 105F and tomorrow is supposed to be 100F, and Sunday 90F…temps should be back in the mid 70s on Monday, so I’ll plan on going lots of work in the garden then, with before after after pics.

The tomato stake experiement has literally been a giant FLOP. As soon as the tomatoes started getting big, the plants got so heavy and thick they’ve tipped over, breaking the stakes and I have lots of tomatoes on the ground at risk from bugs…trying to keep them UP but they just keep growing and falling more :help

The corn is nearly 7′ high with lots of ears. I think we might have some grilled steak and corn for dinner tonight.

The lemon cucumbers are finally growing, well….like taking over their corner of the garden. I definitely planted too many. And the little vines have built in protection to keep me from picking too early, their thorns leave me bleeding when I try.

The strawberries stopped producing fruit all together after giving us hardly anything and are producing runners like crazy. I tried stopped that to see if it would encourage fruit, but it didn’t.

I’ve gotten 6 gigantic zucchini now and there’s lots more growing. I’ll be shredding and freezing it this weekend. Those suckers grow fast!

The crookneck is finally starting to grow fruit, but only after the plant grew to “Little Shop of Horrors” porportions.

Out one pumpkin is about basketball sized and just starting to turn orange.

Potatoes will finish being harvested tonight, there’s 3 plants left and I want to make potato salad. I forgot to write down the ingredients I used last time, I’ll do that this weekend and post the recipe

The bees and the squashes and the corn

by Amy on July 27, 2008 in The Growing Garden

Notice: The weeds are taking over. Ignore them and don’t think too badly of me I don’t have enough time to keep them in check lately!

I’ve noticed a lot of bee life in the garden, and managed to get a couple photos of them helping me out…
With my tomatoes:

And my lemon cucumbers:

The squash are doing excellent. The growth each day is amazing!

“Prizewinner” pumpkin:

Zucchini:

Crookneck:

The corn (and my 2 year old carting a dragon around), which is almost as tall as I am:

Corn Porn

by Amy on July 19, 2008 in The Growing Garden

I’m gonna kick myself for using “that word” when the google ads turn nasty, but I couldn’t pass it up :lol

I cannot wait for fresh corn on the cob! Corn sugar starts turning to starch as soon as it’s picked so the fresher the corn is, the sweeter. I look forward to picking the ears and immediately throwing them on the grill or in water….YUM!

Zucchinis and crooknecks and tomatoes, oh my!

by Amy on July 15, 2008 in General

Yes, I do have a “thing” for using the Wizard of Oz themed titles :p

Crooknecks:

Zucchinis:

Roma tomatoes:

Beefsteak tomato:

Corn:

Green beans:

The thyme is FINALLY growing!

And the parsley is ready to get cut again:

Those pictures I promised

by Amy on June 20, 2008 in Harvesting & Preserving, The Growing Garden

I couldn’t wait to get out and get pictures…I’m like a kid opening presents with this garden :lol

Here’s a pea pod:

One of the ripening strawberries:

And the tomatoes with their new supports (the smaller plants are the early girls that I started from seed much later then the beefsteak and roma)…I wasn’t able to get a decent shot of the flowers, my camera has been having issues focusing:

The biggest corn:

And in other news, I went to Fordyce farms and got a 1/2 flat of strawberries for way more then they are worth and made jam:

I still have enough to do another batch of 4 pints, which I’ll get done today before they go bad:

(sometime…around visiting my dad and working and getting the house cleaned for my brother and his family that is coming Monday :dizzy )…Not gonna be a relaxing weekend!

Today: News! Tomorrow: Pictures!

by Amy on June 19, 2008 in The Growing Garden

I’m so excited I can’t stand it :lol

I bought plant stakes at the Grocery Outlet yesterday and got plant tape at Lowes today (last roll in the whole store) and went out and took out the tomato cages I had (they were given to me, so no loss) and tied up the tomatoes to the stakes… everything I’ve read about the cages say they are just bad business for growing good plants. Pictures tomorrow – they’re starting to flower! I do have to take back what I said about the tomatoes loving being flooded, the 4 of them that got the most water aren’t so thrilled. I’m letting the area dry out well (not too well) so the roots can recover from being drowned.

Then I tied up the sagging peas… had I done the trellis vertically in the first place, the peas would have a good hold on the twine, but they are heavy now and have a hard time holding themselves up. The tape helped immensely – they’re much taller! And – I have pea pods! At least a dozen, both sugar snap and oregon snap, with a couple ready to pick so I did. I haven’t had snap peas in many years and I might be biased, but they were really freaking tasty. I’ll get pictures of the smaller ones I left on the vine tomorrow.

There are many more strawberries with a couple turning red, which of course I’ll get pictures off, and I dug into the potatoes and found a teeny little russet and a teeny little red potato…I covered them back up to keep growing and can’t wait til I can take a picture of their harvest!

The broccoli is growing quickly, as it the lettuce and the parsley – I’m going to have to cut some soon and dry it. I bought more basil seeds, 4 types and will try them again. The corn is crazy…we drove by some corn fields yesterday on the way to visit my dad and mine are thicker and much livlier

I want to be able to buy a house with land so I can farm so bad!!

The corn and the carrots

by Amy on June 8, 2008 in The Growing Garden

Sounds like a book.

This is the biggest corn so far…a few not far behind…they’re all out of seedling stage but some much smaller. 4 got trampled by a 2 year old today so we’re down those most likely, but they’re still doing well.