So What Did You Pick from Your Garden Today? (flowers, mushrooms, grow)
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6 cocktail toms on the 4th & 8 yesterday... I'm happy.
The regular toms are getting big, can't wait until they turn red.
Those ugly green horned worms better stay away. Haven't seen any evidence of them yet...I better not.
At least I know I will get my revenge when they do show up...the chickens LOVE them. HA !
Does anyone have problems with them ? I don't want to use any chemicals on my veggies, so what do you do if they start showing up ??? Besides spending hours looking for them to pick off.
cstleddy- Wow you got quite the bounty today. I also have spacesaver cukes but I have no idea what they look like or how big they get. I bought then from a garden supply with no description. Do you have a picture?
It sounds like you have a ton of tomatoes. Do you do any canning? There is a thread for that if you are interested.
Younglisa7, thanks for the link and recipe, I'll definately try them out. I've never canned but I read you can freeze whole tomatoes with the skins on. I've made lots of Gazpacho and froze it. I've been getting recipes for green and red tomatoes.
Here's a pic of my first bountiful harvest. They just keep coming like that once a week.
My first time growing cukes and wasn't sure when to harvest. My neighbor suggested growing them under the tomatoes but at first they didn't get much sun. They seem stunted. some dangled and turned out droplet shaped and others on the ground were normal shaped. Pick them early, don't let them begin to whiten/yellow (dry and seed development) Mine taste great, but only reached 4".
Picked our first cucumber on Saturday! About 7-8 inches long and already devoured. Today I picked 11 cayennes. Tomatoes are still green. The Long Hots should be ready by this weekend. The jalepenos are starting to come along. Oh yeah I also picked some spearmint and orange mint to have with ice tea. I've never had orange mint before and I wish I had gotten the chocolate mint plant. Never heard of the chocolate mint before. I also have some sweet crimson watermelon plants but they seem to be slower than everything else. We did watermelons only one other time and only got 2 melons. Is that normal? I know there were 8 melons but only 2 made it to full growth. The others disappeared. Do the rabbits eat them? We have a lot of rabbits in our yard.
Picked our first cucumber on Saturday! About 7-8 inches long and already devoured. Today I picked 11 cayennes. Tomatoes are still green. The Long Hots should be ready by this weekend. The jalepenos are starting to come along. Oh yeah I also picked some spearmint and orange mint to have with ice tea. I've never had orange mint before and I wish I had gotten the chocolate mint plant. Never heard of the chocolate mint before. I also have some sweet crimson watermelon plants but they seem to be slower than everything else. We did watermelons only one other time and only got 2 melons. Is that normal? I know there were 8 melons but only 2 made it to full growth. The others disappeared. Do the rabbits eat them? We have a lot of rabbits in our yard.
I got my chocolate mint plant off Ebay a few years ago. I couldn't be happier with it. It comes back every year and I've even given some plants away and I still have enough. It's great in tea and for chocolate sauce.
At the end of the season, I put the leaves into ice cube containers, fill with water and use the cubes in iced tea all winter. Can't beat that for being a useful plant
nuala- I never thought of making tea. I have some lemon balm growing which I think can be used for tea. As far as herbs go what is the best way to dry and preserve them?
cstleddy- Wow you got quite the bounty today. I also have spacesaver cukes but I have no idea what they look like or how big they get. I bought then from a garden supply with no description. Do you have a picture?
Here is a recipe that I tried for the first time this year and I thought it was pretty good:
Country Style Tomatoes
4 large tomatoes
1 8 oz. package of cream cheese
1/4 cup minced fresh parsley
1 1/2 tsp. minced fresh basil
1 clove garlic minced
1/4 ts. salt
1/4 c all purpose flour
1 cup panko
1 egg
1 Tbl. milk
3 Tbl. butter
2 Tbl. olive oil
Cut each tomato into 4 thick slices, draind on paper towels. Beat cream cheese, parsley, basil, garlic, and salt until blended. Spread cream cheese mixture over 8 slices of tomatoes and top with remaining slices.
Place flour and bread crumbs(panko) in separate shallow bowls. In another bowl whisk egg and milk. Coat the top and bottom of each tomato "sandwich" with flour, dip in egg, and then coat with crumbs.
In a large skillet, heat butter and olive oil over med-hot heat. Fry tomato sandwiches in batches of 3-4 minutes on each side until golden brown. Drain on paper towels and serve immediately.
I made these and oven fried them at 400 degrees for about 15 minutes. I sprayed them with cooking spray and turned them half way.
plaidmom- Thanks for the picture.
okiegirlfriend- Next time just take the tomato, lol.
just picked a mess of green beans, gonna use them in chinese stir fry tonight.... I had delusions nof canning and freezing the excess from the garden, but we keep eating it all!
You're welcome. I liked it. I love cc and tomatoes together.
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Originally Posted by Roaddog
tomatos and jalapenos
Time for some salsa. yum.
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Originally Posted by kshe95girl
just picked a mess of green beans, gonna use them in chinese stir fry tonight.... I had delusions nof canning and freezing the excess from the garden, but we keep eating it all!
Ha, ha me too. I think in a couple of more weeks I won't be able to eat it all.
Looks like I have some more cukes ready to go. I'll wait until the morning to pick those.
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Never heard of the chocolate mint before. I also have some sweet crimson watermelon plants but they seem to be slower than everything else. We did watermelons only one other time and only got 2 melons. Is that normal? I know there were 8 melons but only 2 made it to full growth. The others disappeared. Do the rabbits eat them? We have a lot of rabbits in our yard.
