All Vegetable Gardening (flowers, growing, containers, tomatoes)

[Rambling Iris]

He is going to do the planting, weeding and shelling. I will do the freezing.

[kshe95girl]

Originally Posted by younglisa7

That is great. Tell me about your orchard? I want to start a mini orchard next year.



Yay on the tomatoes. I just planted 16 tomato plants outside today. I am about 2 month behind you.


Did you get seeds for the Zipper peas? Here is a blog that might help.
The Corner Yard: Your All Purpose Guide on How to Grow Zipper Peas/Cream Crowder Peas

Right now we have mature oranges, tangerines, 2 kinds of figs and guavas.
We planted olive trees early this spring, and are going to plant another variety this fall, along with peaches and chestnuts.
We are also gonna plant blueberry bushes and some more thornless blackberries.
I would dearly love to have some cherry and apple trees, but thats just not gonna happen this far south.

[7gkids]

Originally Posted by kshe95girl

and picked the first 3 cucumbers.
They were delicious!

I am so jealous! I would love some cucumber/tomato salad right now! LOL Ours are starting to run...won't be as long as it has been. We planted grapes and blueberries. Jelly anyone?

[Nomadicus]

At least I don't have to stay in the kitchen doing the freezing.

[kshe95girl]

Originally Posted by 7gkids

I am so jealous! I would love some cucumber/tomato salad right now! LOL Ours are starting to run...won't be as long as it has been. We planted grapes and blueberries. Jelly anyone?

I did them up like this;
Adrienne's Cucumber Salad Recipe - Allrecipes.com
Only I used fresh dill.
The watermelons are really starting to run, they seem to have doubled in length since the weekend.
Corn is tasseling out, we got a late start on that this year.

[gentlearts]

My little garden is starting to really pop. I picked my first crop of green beans yesterday, the tomatoes are growing and there are some sweet little baby yellow squash and melons. The first cucumber is almost ready to pick.

[kshe95girl]

The watermelon is going crazy, so are the cucumbers, we are gonna be giving them away soon.
The eggplant is being rather pokey about doing anything, not sure why.
My basil is going wild, too, I have been harvesting every few days and drying, I am going to be making pesto and freezing it this weekend.
Blooms on all the pepper plants.......now if it would just rain.

[Nomadicus]

I need to go out and pick tomatoes today before it starts raining. Love home grown vitamin C.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by Nomadicus

I need to go out and pick tomatoes today before it starts raining. Love home grown vitamin C.

Hopefully when we get back from our 9 day trip to Vegas our grape tomatoes will be getting ripe. There are a lot of them, but they are still green as green can be. Of course we haven't had very warm weather the past week and the nights have been in the low to mid 40s.

Nita

[Nomadicus]

I got 5 today and should have many more now soon. Eying the bacon in the fridge.