i'd like to take this opportunity to send my thanks to all the posters who have been of invaluable help to me as i've blundered my way into a successful vegetable garden this year!!

well, between the rains and the heat, it took awhile, but everything is, at long last, thriving and some tomatoes have begun to ripen. it would seem, for the moment anyway, all's right with the world (at least my little piece of it). here are some pictures...









my first (albeit, green) brandywine!
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against all odds (and innumerable icky things), a baby cantaloupe!


carrots, zucchini, bunching onions, cucumbers, basil & tomatoes (striped cavern, Eva's purple ball, orange banana, pleated Zapotec & Burbank red slicing


onions, scallions & shallots drying


if anyone is interested, my efforts are comprehensively chronicled and on display at my site, Growth Industry.

thanks again!

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
- Oscar Wilde

Well done! Great pictures.

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John - Zone 6

What a great looking veggie garden you have there!!!
Well Done

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Your garden looks fabulous--lush, green, and healthy!!

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Sarah - Zone 5b/6

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but there's ALWAYS chilled creamed cucumber soup in the fridge and bacon&tomato fixings (or mozzarella&tomato) and i'm about to dehydrate some of those orange banana (plum-like) toms in my nifty new dehydrator & grate some zucchini for sundry recipes... so drop by anytime for a home-grown treat!!

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Now that's my kinda' food!!
Your garden is beautiful!! Your harvest pics are mouth watering...perhaps I will drop by anytime for a home-grown treat.

Christina

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here's what i concoted tonight...

orange banana tomatoes partially dehydrated


chilled, creamed cucumber soup, zucchini fritters w/ sour cream, Burbank slicing tomato & basil


everything was home-grown & everything was delicious (the fritters would be particularly yummy with the mint chutney you get at indian restaurants). unfortunately, i've no way to make my own coke, so i guess i'm not quite self-sustaining, just yet. oh well.

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
- Oscar Wilde

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Originally posted by peppereater:
Mine is nothing but a huge weed patch with tomato plants and okra poking out.
I'm eating tomatoes every day right now, though, and that's all that matters to me, especially with the high for today hitting 108! I'm watering, but I will NOT get out and weed in this heat!

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I hear you peppereater, mine is the sameway. I am not getting out there in all of this heat to weed. I am considering taking the push mower in there to make a patch to the tomato rows though

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Dave are those bugs solid black??? Take a look at the ones I found today around my melons I had rubber knee boots on today we got 3 inches of rain over night and I knew it would be really wet in the garden.

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Originally posted by comfrey:
I hear you peppereater, mine is the sameway. I am not getting out there in all of this heat to weed. I am considering taking the push mower in there to make a patch to the tomato rows though

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I took my tiller in there to get to my maters and cukes. But ya didn't hear it from me...

I might brave the burs if I needed to, too.

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CajunMama
"Sing praises to the Lord..." Psalm 9:11

Heyyyyyyy, we should start a new thread
on "HOW OUTTA CONTROL OUR GARDENS' ARE!!!"

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Weezie

Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have
done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
- Bible - Hebrews 13:2





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