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wow, I think I am going to cry and do it right now. or maybe just pour another glass of wine.
I can say, with some pride (not much) I am using fresh dill and fresh basil from our garden in our tomato pie tonight and I counted about 30 tomatoes on the vines today plus a few green beans. Of course, at the rate the tomatoes are growing we will be doing good if they are ripe before the first frost.
Summer squash look great and I didn't know you could grow them in pots either.
nmnita, just your luck, all the tomatoes will come at the same time. I'm down to ONE regular plant and TWO little heirloom cherries.
Been eating beet greens lately. The leaves are huge! It's a good year for gardening here due to all the rain showers and then lots of sun. I wish the beets themselves were ready to eat.
We have a bunch of "Super Italian" paste tomatoes getting ready to ripen. They have a nice blush on them. And it looks like "Super Sweet 100" cherry tomatoes are starting to pink up a bit. We have 6 tomato plants. I keep telling my husband that by August we will be standing on street corners, giving them away! Yikes. He started them in the basement during the winter, so they flowered and fruited pretty quickly after I put them outside. But we had such a cool, wet spring that I held off planting them outside until about a month ago.
Nomadicus how do keep all that fresh once it is picked ? that is awesome your squash is the same size mine is and you grow in pots I'm impressed I alwasys heard you cant grow squash in pots ...guess your proved that theory wrong ty ty ....
Missed the keeping it fresh part. The secret is 3-4 plants per person planted every 10-14 days. Consume as they mature. Donate extras. They will keep a few days in a fridge veggie bin. Possibly some of the celery-lettuce keeping bags may work. Never tried.
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Oh go sit down Nomad ya show off. My bell peppers got choked out by my ever expanding creeping spaghetti squash.
I did sit down. Tried getting up and that as another story. I think today it will be used for bird watching. Container things get water and the focus on next season. Next season no long row of potatoes to plant and dig unless I find younger help. I lost 4 of 5 bell peppers 🙁. Moving made for a late start and then these ice age temps moved in. I could post pics of my 3 eggplants that are alive but as active as as a bedridden 110 year old. Gardening is like football. On paper every play in football is a touchdown. On paper every garden is a magazine cover with stories of filled cupboards and freezers. Reality the quarterback gets sacked every so often. When back on my feet I'll post some sacs. Now prune that runaway spaghetti squash.
Well gals and guys sorry to report I'm wiped out all but one tomatoe plant survives . the others got blight and I'm done I pulled em out and trashed em . It is okay I have one left and she is my lil bush tomatoe and she is doing good so far . squash is doing great and putting squash out every other day yeah ....and next month I will start my lettuce and my fall butternut squash . Next year I'm doing hybrid tomatoes seems they are easier and healthier to grow not so many disease afflict them .
Summer squash look great and I didn't know you could grow them in pots either.
nmnita, just your luck, all the tomatoes will come at the same time. I'm down to ONE regular plant and TWO little heirloom cherries.
Been eating beet greens lately. The leaves are huge! It's a good year for gardening here due to all the rain showers and then lots of sun. I wish the beets themselves were ready to eat.
If enough come at once at least I will be able to can them or make salsa or tomato sauce. I just hate it when there are too many to eat and not enough to do anything else with. I can report I have a lot of pepper blossoms in the last few days and still getting the Thai peppers that are really hot, but yummy.
My first time trials. Poblano pepper, San Marzano tomatos, Brandywine tomatoes.
OMG they are gorgeous; send me some and I will make something out of them for you and send it back. You know it is just getting into the full canning season. I particularly like the looks of those poblanos
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My bell peppers got choked out by my ever expanding creeping spaghetti squash. 
Now prune that runaway spaghetti squash. 
You know it is just getting into the full canning season. I particularly like the looks of those poblanos