Garden : What have you picked? [Archive]

heb1976

07-25-2009, 11:49 PM

I have been so excited at how well my garden is growing - I thought I would start a thread so we can share.

These pics are over a 5 day span. Everyday there is something else and I am loving it. I have 2 yellow squash, 5 cucumbers, 22 jalapenos, 5 sweet peppers, 17 banana peppers, 1/2 bag of green beans, 1/2 a bag of peas, 3 cherry tomatoes, 3 cauliflower heads, 2 zucchini, 1 broccoli head and 8 chutes in the fridge / freezer so far.

I have a ton of cherry tomatoes getting ready to turn, celebrities getting pretty big, and about 30 green peppers that have just a couple more days til I can pick them.

What about you??

smoke king

07-26-2009, 12:09 AM

Great idea for a thread! Sadly, my garden has not been so fortunate. I lost all of my hot peppers and bell peppers early on (well, they're not all dead yet, but the ones that are hanging on are at seedling size) and the eggplant I tried for the first time is now gone too. I suspect rabbits had a hand (paw?) in this..........

The upside is that my Tomatoes are thriving, having picked any yet, but very soon for sure, and I've got more cucumbers than I know what to do with! Also, I've got lots and lots of Dill, Chives, Sweet Basil and Arugala from my very first time herb garden, so its not a total loss!

Oh, and regarding your pictures-I'm jealous-it all looks great Heather!

heb1976

07-26-2009, 12:13 AM

thanks SK ... i can barely walk in my garden right now. the squash, zucchini and cucumbers have taken over. i had a cucumber with my salad at dinner last night and man was it tasty. i love the ones i grow.

buckytom

07-26-2009, 03:11 AM

good haul you two.

i got my garden in late this year and it's been very cool and wet, so it seems like everything is takin' it's sweet time,

i have taken in a few pints of nice, peppery radishes, and tons of romaine, black seeded simpson, and some kale. most of my arrugula was a little too bitter; not sure why, so i pulled it.

we've gotten about a dozen yellow cherry tomatoes, and the same in small cubanelle peppers, and just a couple of snap and snow peas. and a few of the tiniest baby carrots.

i'll take pics this week.

homecook

07-26-2009, 06:08 AM

Good haul Heather!!!

I've been picking things here and there the past couple weeks, just forgot to take pictures. This is what I got yesterday.....zucchini, cucumbers, banana peppers, jalapenos, peas, beans, broccoli, rosemary and basil. We've eaten a couple green peppers, lots of green beans, lettuce, cauliflower already.....

VeraBlue

07-26-2009, 07:43 AM

homecook

07-26-2009, 08:06 AM

Every year I wish for a bigger garden, but space is so limited in my yard. I've picked about a dozen tomatoes so far. Peppers are still just flowers. Most of the basil and parsley are gone already. I have noticed a few tomato plants that I did not plant...must have sprouted up from tomatoes that rotted on the ground last year. Can't wait to see which varieties they are.

The tomatoes have been magnificent, so far.

By the way, love your gardenia!

I've expanded mine a couple times. Now I'm getting too old for it. LOL
I've got 3 cherry tomato plants coming up that I never planted, plus another basil plant. I've still got a ton of basil, rosemary, oregano, thyme, and parsley. The tomatoes are turning slowly but that's nothing new for here.....

Heather's gardenia was my mom's favorite flower!

VeraBlue

07-26-2009, 08:47 AM

when I got married my bouquet was full of gardenias and orange blossoms. It was so magnificently fragrant.

homecook

07-26-2009, 08:51 AM

They are fragrant. My mom tried to grow the plants here but the weather just isn't conducive for them. They all died on her after they bloomed! LOL

Miniman

07-26-2009, 06:35 PM

I've had black currants, strawberries, raspberries, logan berries, french beans, broad beans, courgettes (zucchini) and thats the lot for the moment. The green gages are just coming ripe.

joec

07-26-2009, 06:53 PM

We have had a good crop of cucumbers, egg plant and zucchini as well as jalapeños, habaneros and sweet peppers. We have also been going strong on the in house basil, oregano, dill, thyme, tarragon and flat leaf parsley. I've also got a couple of mint, cat nip, rosemary but didn't plant tomatoes this year at all. A fried has more tomatoes than he can eat so it brings them to me about 2 dozen at a time which I give some to my kids. We eat about 2 to 3 a week so I sure don't have a need for that many myself. Oh and forgot the chives which for me grow year around even out doors even in the snow. I've had the same plant now for 6 years my son gave me and it just won't die.

Maverick2272

07-26-2009, 10:21 PM

So far we have harvested just the collared greens and some lettuce from the front pots. Coming up soon are the tomatoes, peppers, and some Kale that is almost ready to pick.

heb1976

07-27-2009, 12:37 AM

today i picked 2 more squash, a green pepper (had to throw it out because it has holes in it), 7 jalapenos, 3 cherry tomatoes, 2 cucumbers, and some peas.

suziquzie

07-27-2009, 10:45 AM

I've picked 3 $15 cherry tomatoes.
:(
I spent $45 on plants and thats what I got so far.

Its been so dry here I couldnt keep up with the watering early on. There's still a few things trying to make it, so we'll see.
A complete bummer this year Im considering giving up.

heb1976

07-28-2009, 12:54 AM

went out yesterday and today! getting alot of stuff - don't know what to do with all. LOL loving it tho!!

GotGarlic

07-28-2009, 12:05 PM

This has been a prolific year for most of our veggies. In the spring, we had snow and sugar snap peas, green beans, arugula, romaine, red and green leaf lettuce, and Swiss chard. We've been picking cucumbers like crazy - one day last week, I picked 10! We've probably gotten 3 dozen so far.

I've also picked quite a few tomatoes - mostly small Stupice and pretty good sized Romas. We also have some Italian paste tomatoes, but I don't think there are enough to make a pot of sauce. We've also picked several cubanelle and serrano peppers, but the sweet bells aren't doing so well.

I have a large herb garden, as well as several basil plants among the veggies - I put them there because they need more water than the other herbs. I have a bay tree that's probably 12-13 feet tall, so I pick those whenever I want some. We also have thyme, sage, parsley, rosemary, lemon balm, lemongrass, purple ruffle basil, mint and oregano. We had dill and cilantro in the spring, but they don't like hot weather, so they're gone.

I'd take a pic of the herb garden, but it needs weeding bad :blush:

Miniman

07-29-2009, 09:42 AM

This todays pickings - the fruit off the greengage tree and some veg.

suziquzie

07-29-2009, 09:47 AM

Well my margins went down a little yesterday....
1 yellow tomato 5 more cherries, 2 romas....
I think my produce is down to about $3 a piece now!!!

High Cheese

07-29-2009, 09:59 AM

So far I only harvested 2 zuchinis, a handful of peas and a coupla cowhorn peppas. My tomatoes are getting ready.

QSis

07-29-2009, 02:09 PM

This todays pickings - the fruit off the greengage tree and some veg.

Mini, I had never heard of green gages, so I Googled them and found an article that makes me want one of those plum trees! You lucky duck!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/08/13/HOGB6E5PN91.DTL

In the last paragraph of the article, the author says, "Flavor: The taste of my 'Green Gage' plum (when it has fully ripened) reminds me of the taste of a fine well-balanced sweet German Trockenbeerenauslese."

Now I have to Google "German Trockenbeerenauslese". Isn't the internet a wondrous thing????

Lee

homecook

07-29-2009, 02:21 PM

PanchoHambre

07-29-2009, 09:33 PM

I'm killing just about everything this year.... the contstruction work took my back yard and its just been a mess... I have a few beans that's about it... pathetic... well there's farmers markets and next year.

The grape vine I planted is doing great wont yield for a few years though

JoeV

07-30-2009, 06:54 AM

went out yesterday and today! getting alot of stuff - don't know what to do with all. LOL loving it tho!!

Heather, my brother has 4 planting beds measuring 20' x 20' each, and every one produces magnificently each and every year. That was not always the case. When he first started gardening he kept his entire harvest for him and his family, and each year the yield seemed to be less and less. He discussed this with a neighbor whose garden was extremely prolific, and only a short distance away. Both received the same rain and weeding and crop rotation, yet the neighbor's was 3-4x the yield. Matt came to find out that the neighbor gave away a lot of the produce to neighbors without gardens, often without keeping a days yield for herself. Each year her garden increased its yield as she increased her benevolence, and found that she always had more than she needed. When Matt started sharing his bounty with others, it seemed like he always had as much as he needed, and often had more each year that he could give away.

Don't hesitate to find someone to share your bounty with, and trust that you will continue to have all that you need.

"Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure, it will be measured back to you." Luke 6:38

heb1976

07-30-2009, 03:24 PM

it thought about giving some to the neighbors and hubby is taking some of the squash to work (altho i dislike those people so they shouldnt get any). i give some to mom too, but she can' t eat these fast enough. i'll figure something out i suppose. the cherry tomatoes are really starting to turn now so i am gonna have a ton of those as well as green pepper which i will chop up and freeze.

joec

07-30-2009, 03:43 PM

What is it with the cucumbers this year?? It seems like everyone is getting a boatload of them!!! Have you all gotten alot previous years?
It seems like every other year is a good year for me. I still can't figure out why. This year has been great!! I can eat cucumbers any which way...
I'll be making alot of these in a day or so....

http://netcookingtalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2456

We haven't had any problem growing cucumbers as every year seems to be abundant. Last year no tomatoes due to strange weather patterns and didn't plant any this year though my daughter in law has this year. Jalapeños, cayenne and banana peppers have been great but not so good with habaneros. The outside dill didn't last long about 1 week but the inside is doing fine as is everything else this year. Jeff sent me some seeds this year that though have grown haven't produced a single pepper as of yet but a couple beginning to come out. I will just have to wait and see how it goes. I still have some seeds I might try in the garden window later. I've also had another great crop of egg plant and zucchini this year as I have since I've been here.

Miniman

07-30-2009, 03:48 PM

Picked 2 pounds of blackberries from the bushes growing wild in the garden. DW turned these into jam. She made greengage jam yesterday as well as bottling some of the greengages.

joec

07-30-2009, 04:36 PM

God man you have no idea how I love wild blackberries. They grow here also and my favorite way is in a biscuit dough cobbler. I really need to see if I can find some greengage as I've never heard of it either. To let you know how much I like blackberries I picked up a case of blackberry jam as well as honey a year ago. Drove 7 hours to North Carolina to get it just to have on hand.

suziquzie

07-31-2009, 07:09 AM

I found quite a few raspberry bushes in the yard yesterday, I ate a couple and lived to tell about it so I'm pretty sure they're not poisonous. :)
There are a few here and there, I need to figure out how to move them so I can grow them on purpose!

Miniman

07-31-2009, 08:18 AM

joec

07-31-2009, 09:07 AM

Appreciate the offer Ray but that won't happen anytime soon for sure. My days of crossing the pond are pretty much over.

homecook

07-31-2009, 09:37 AM

This morning I picked 3 zucchini, 4 cucumbers, 4 tomatoes, couple handfuls of beans and peas, 3 green peppers, 5 jalapenos and 3 banana peppers. I'll be putting them all to good use, plus what Heather brought me the other day. lol

Miniman

09-01-2009, 06:25 PM

Todays hall - several pounds of Coxes apples, 5 courgettes (zuchini), 1 cucumber, 4 cauliflowers, plenty of French beans and some lovely carrots. The cob nuts are nearly ready & the pears not far behins.

In our fgarden, I've got damsons to harvest.

GotGarlic

09-01-2009, 07:05 PM

Maverick2272

09-01-2009, 07:20 PM

Our tomatoes did not do so good this year, only got a couple cherries and one large one so far.
Hungarian Wax Peppers are doing great and we have harvested several in the last week, plus Kale, collared greens, eggplant and some squash.

QSis

09-01-2009, 09:59 PM

Nice haul, Mini! And yeah, what ARE cob nuts?

I just made 4 jars of pesto and will be shopping for more pine nuts and cheese to make even more. The unfiltered olive oil I bought is LOVELY for pesto!

Lee

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/4967/1242481.jpg

Maverick2272

09-01-2009, 10:08 PM

Blues Man

09-01-2009, 10:14 PM

What have I picked? I think I picked every weed known to mankind!

homecook

09-01-2009, 10:26 PM

What have I picked? I think I picked every weed known to mankind!

I'll join you............that's about what I've been picking also!!:lol:

Blues Man

09-01-2009, 10:57 PM

Here is a pic prior to the invasion ......

http://i314.photobucket.com/albums/ll440/the_selling_blues_man/100_0189.jpg?t=1251860668

Miniman

09-02-2009, 01:14 AM

cob nuts are a kind of hazel nut.

Miniman

09-02-2009, 01:15 AM

The allotment is also full of weeds but I'm kinds shutting my eyes to it at the moment.

High Cheese

09-02-2009, 12:19 PM

My beefsteak tomatoes have been doing well considering the crappy weather we've had. My Sweet 100's are "ok", from top to bottom they are over ripe to totally green. If I don't pick them individually they split.

My zucchinis have been steady. Thanks for the tip on the epsom salts Lee! I don't have anymore BER and as of yesterday I have 4-5 new blossoms and the plant generally looks very healthy. I did have one mutant zucchini that was hiding under some foliage....thing is HUGE. Gonna post a pic tonight.

Cowhorn peppers have been doing pretty good. Bell peppers not so much although I just harvested one last night. That's pretty much it, basil and parsley are great. I like the pesto idea.

buckytom

09-02-2009, 12:31 PM

here's my haul from monday, reposted.

anyone want some tomatoes??? i think we have enough.

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/1926/img3645i.jpg

last weekend, i trapped the ground hog that had been invading my garden. apparently, fresh fruits and veggies that i put in the trap didn't seem appealing to the little fecker unless they were still on my plants. so, i put some peanut butter on a halved apple (yum) and that worked. well, after i trapped myself a few times... i ove peanut butter on apples.

so, we took him to the other side of town, about a mile away, on the top of a big hill in a wooded park. as soon as we let him go, he dashed into the brush. but as we started to leave we saw him climb a big fence that surrounds a water tower, and actually appear to be looking in the right direction to find his way home. like he was getting his bearings.

yesterday, my neighbor came over with some pictures on a cd that he'd taken the night before, entitled, "the tomato burgular". :sad:

the ground hog found his way back. across the center of town, past the city hall and high school, all the way back to my house.

i found out today that you have too bring a ground hog at least 5 miles away before their little gps's stop working... (groundhog positioning system).

vyapti

09-02-2009, 02:19 PM

We had to move this July, so I had to transplant my entire garden. The tomatoes and herbs (potted) all made it just fine. I have two huge zucchini plants and a cucumber plant that were stunted. I'll probably only get 1 cucumber and 3 zucchini. Everything else died.

buckytom

09-02-2009, 03:27 PM

where did you move july to, vy? after september, i hope. i could use more summer...

:bonk:

:wink:

vyapti

09-02-2009, 03:52 PM

I moved about 4 blocks away, still in Eugene. My landlord's wife decided that his in-laws could have the house we lived in. So my family and my plants had an unexpected evacuation. It's all good, though. Our new house gets lots more sun, which, in Western Oregon, is a valued commodity.

QSis

09-02-2009, 08:37 PM

the ground hog found his way back. across the center of town, past the city hall and high school, all the way back to my house.

Are you kidding me????? Basturd!

Man, I had one for the last 3 years, but he must have died this year, along with the raccoons we've had for the last 15 years.

That's the good news. The bad news is that most of my tomatoes are still green. Early Girls. In September.

Nice haul, though, BT, and lovely photo!

BluesMan, your early garden photo is wonderful!

Lee

High Cheese

09-02-2009, 08:54 PM

Mutant Zucchini !!!!!!!

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n248/Jeekinz/My%20Recipes/IMG_2769.jpg

QSis

09-02-2009, 09:52 PM

Whoa, HC! Whaddaya gonna do with him?

I'd cut it in half, scoop some out, and stuff with chili and cheese.

Lee

vyapti

09-02-2009, 10:12 PM

Mutant Zucchini !!!!!!!

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n248/Jeekinz/My%20Recipes/IMG_2769.jpg

It grew that big on just half a beer?

Miniman

09-03-2009, 02:04 PM

Picked 24 pounds of damsons today - sorted out the best for sale.

Also processed half a giant courgette into 5 jars of courgette chutney

High Cheese

09-03-2009, 02:09 PM

Ha ha! I don't know what to do with it! Can I eat it? I thought it may be bitter or something by now.

Fisher's Mom

09-03-2009, 02:20 PM

Ha ha! I don't know what to do with it!I'm trying hard to control myself here, Cheese.

vyapti

09-03-2009, 03:20 PM

Ha ha! I don't know what to do with it! Can I eat it? I thought it may be bitter or something by now.
I be you could slice it and salt it like you would an eggplant. Then, maybe get Miniman to share his chutney recipe.

buckytom

09-03-2009, 03:59 PM

slice lengthwise in 1/2" slices, oil, s&p, and grill it, cheeks.

i just picked one like that, and it wasn't that seedy inside. you know they;re gone too long when the seeds form and harden up.

homecook

09-03-2009, 04:11 PM

Ha ha! I don't know what to do with it! Can I eat it? I thought it may be bitter or something by now.

When they're big like that I slice them, bread and fry. Somehow it works when they're bigger...they don't get as mushy as the smaller ones.

that just sounds so wrong....

buckytom

09-03-2009, 04:41 PM

Picked 24 pounds of damsons today - sorted out the best for sale.

Also processed half a giant courgette into 5 jars of courgette chutney

damn, son. that's a lot of damsons.

how many trees do you have?

the best white lightning i've ever had was one that had about a dozen damson plums soaking in it. have you ever tried that, mini. soaking the plums in grappa or corn liquor? good stuff.

Miniman

09-03-2009, 05:17 PM

I tree - it is big and laden. This was just the damsons I could reach from the ground. Using ladders over the weekend to pick more.

I'm not a big one for alcohol, so probably won;t try that.

Mr. Green Jeans

09-04-2009, 08:42 AM

My first time doing container grown spuds. These are an heirloom variety Austrian Crescent. Jake is attempting to snitch one.

buckytom

09-04-2009, 11:07 AM

very nice, jeans.

i tried growing spuds a few years ago by planting the eyes from a few past-their-prime potatoes. all i got were a bunch of very tiny potatoes that probably didn't add up to the first few spuds.

ChowderMan

09-04-2009, 11:48 AM

we've been munching on our small potato patch all summer - this is the last
(planted from certified Russet seed potatoes)

Miniman

10-14-2009, 04:14 PM

Picked some of the last things today - season is coming to an end. There were still a few French beans, my courgette plant is still producing, got 3, 3 pumpkins, the last cucumber, some ears of corn which I have blanched and frozen and all the pears off my tree.

Still got Brussels, celeriac, some more corn & leeks and then I'm finished with the allotment. (I will bring over my new gooseberry bushes, strawberry plants and a couple of black currants.

buckytom

10-14-2009, 04:28 PM

courgettes here too. plus some small wax peppers, a few habaneros and gochu peppers left, and a load of grape tomatoes.

and another load of baby carrots.

ChowderMan

10-14-2009, 04:36 PM

except for the leek patch, my garden is enroute to "compost" [g]
they'll take a reasonable frost - not a hard freeze - some straw, could have them a while yet.....

central PA - ducking & weaving the frost warnings . . . .

vyapti

10-14-2009, 08:52 PM

I pulled up my summer garden last winter. I've got brussels sprouts, cabbage, & broccoli and shallots, garlic & onions in the ground for the winter. It's my first attempt at a winter crop, we'll see how it goes.

homecook

10-14-2009, 09:06 PM

I've still got brussel sprouts, broccoli, onions and carrots going. The brussel sprouts are better once the frost hits them.......which will be any day now. lol

Mr. Green Jeans

10-15-2009, 01:15 AM

Still picking Canadice (a seedless variety) grapes and running 10# at a time through the dehydrator. The late pick ones make AWESOME raisins as they have the max sugar content. One just has to pick through the clinkers on the stem. Also getting ready to harvest the heirloom finger spuds planted last April.

PieSusan

10-16-2009, 02:27 AM

Wow, you are all so impressive. Last year I had a container garden and I had fun with flowers, herbs, strawberries and I also planted hericot verts. It was fun but the yield was not great. This year, I got smart--I bought plants for my neighbor who loves to garden to relax. When she has extras, she offers them to me.

buckytom

10-16-2009, 09:24 AM

well, we got a good dose of sleet this morning, from about 3am (doesn't insomnia suck?) to around 8am. so that's about it for the garden, except maybe the carrots. i'll take it down and rake it out on saturday.

a few years ago, we had the same kind of conditions on the day i took the garden down. sleet, rain, cold blustery weather.

but fortune smiled on me as i pulled out the dead stringbean vines. hidden behind them was the runt of a mama cat's litter, who she left there when she moved the other 3 larger kittens. her eyes were just opened, so i figure she must have only been a few weeks old.

i held the freezing little thing in my coat for a while, and when she started to do that really high pitched kitten mew, i knew she was hungry. i brought her into the basement, away from our other 3 indoor cats, and set her up in one of my parrots travel cages, with a towel, litter box, and a bowl of milk.

dw brought home some kitten food, and that was that. we had our 4th cat, originally named stringbean, but then changed to bean bean.

for the next 6 months, dw would lay down on the couch and bean bean would climb into her hair around her neck and feed on a bottle of kitten formula.

she's a nervous but sweet little cat who sublimely watches her brother and sisters (from her litter) through the window, toughing out each winter outdoors. another neighbor caught the 3 of them, had them fixed, and released them, so they're sort of our outdoor cats. more like the neighborhood cats since they get fed at 4 or 5 houses everyday, lol.

the funnniest thing is when bean bean "cleans" my sideburns, eyebrows, and hair on the edge of my temples whenever i lay down and put my head next to her. if i let her have her way, she'll lick my forehead 'till the skin is raw and my hair looks like it's been moussed.

she's the best thing i ever harvested from my garden.

luvs

11-04-2009, 08:11 PM

THAT is too adorable!

luvs

11-04-2009, 08:33 PM

my windowbox just kepps growing & growing basil!

Maverick2272

11-04-2009, 10:48 PM

The last thing we got out right before it started freezing overnight was a couple more squash. Not the greatest year, but we never did get the garden fully outlined and set up so I am glad we got out of it what we did. Next year should be even better as the rest of the prairie plants will be gone from the veggie garden area and it will be outlined better so we can fit more in. We are also moving the squash plant up towards the house and not in the veggie garden as it went crazy and crept everywhere! This way it won't overwhelm everything else.
Still, a good year with the herbs, tomatoes, squash, kale, collared greens, Hungarian wax peppers, horse radish, red peppers, Habenaros, and a couple of Jalapenos I think.

Onionking

06-14-2010, 02:17 PM

Those crops look beautiful, and I bet they taste even better!

abi_csi

12-29-2010, 08:30 AM

Love this thread, I will have to try and take some pics of my own harvest.

Mr. Green Jeans

12-29-2010, 09:30 AM

We've not harvested anything from Stag Hollow Farm but with the New Year around the corner, I'm getting cranked up about next season. Last fall I planted 12 blueberry bushes and relocated/rejuvenated a red raspberry patch. Soon, plum and cherry trees will get planted.
Seed catalogs are appearing and it won't be long before early season crops can be sown either in flats or outdoors.