***What's growing? The official garden thread***

lastexitlondon

Inspirational as always lou

Loujoe

^^Nice Rob.  Thanks. You too man. The plot really takes care of itself. You know. I dumped a bunch of composted manure & chopped up leaves tucking in the turnips. Hope to keep the harvest going into winter. Then come spring, I push the leaves aside and plant rows of spring stuff. Really enjoy doing it. Feeding the worms and the soil. 
The woman I got the sheep manure from told me "have fun playing with your poo!"
 I always do.

Loujoe

Loujoe

the last harvest. Was a great season. 

Leezestarr313

The garden is going a lot better this year with more rain and more raised beds with neato soil.

lastexitlondon

Loujoe

Sweet peas. Great garlic. Very nice.

Loujoe

I just harvested mad amounts of shelling peas. Made pea fritters for the first time. Yum. Like potato pancakes.
Also did garlic for a first. I want to plant more in the fall. Any tips Rob? Yours looks fantastic!!

Loujoe

Packing up some pickled beets now. Bud gave me a nice head of garlic I'll plant in the fall. Also harvested wild black raspberries. Made a hot pepper jam with a pint of blueberries/wild berries. Planted butternut squash and pumpkin seeds now 

josevolution

Picked the tomatoes this morning! Yesterday I picked cucumbers and squash 

lastexitlondon

Oh man I forgot to show you all

lastexitlondon

JeBurkhardt

lastexitlondon said:

Very nice, but the cat seems less than impressed. Did you wake it up from a nap?

lastexitlondon

That is not one simple animal. It's really lost looking the whole time haha 

Loujoe

Great harvests! Hope to add to thread soon.
Slowly getting tomatoes, a few cucs, stringbeans. Just added Epsom salt and some organic fert to my plants. Planted pumpkins and butternut squash a little late. Always fun getting my hands dirty.

Leezestarr313

We had the best garden year thus far, and I attribute it to near perfect weather conditions with lots of rain but also heat and sun and my newly amended raised beds. Here are some photos, the apples are from today (some ended up in a cake).

It started with garlic scapes and herbs (nasturtium, rosemary, mint, lovage, chives, thyme), and some of the most beautifully smelling rose petals (I have some in vodka but then found dehydrating them better for preservation).

Then came the gooseberries, rattail radishes and cherries.

 

By the end of June, I harvested a bunch of green English walnuts to make Nocino, and some golden beets.

Then summer really began, and it was a big blur of everything.

I have been pickling and fermenting and dehydrating and cooking a lot. The okra was super slow this year but the tomatoes were amazing, as well as the eggplant and peppers. I grew most of the tomatoes from seed. And I cannot wait for next year!

Loujoe

Inspired. Wow. Great harvests.

josevolution

Leezestarr313 said:

We had the best garden year thus far, and I attribute it to near perfect weather conditions with lots of rain but also heat and sun and my newly amended raised beds. Here are some photos, the apples are from today (some ended up in a cake).

It started with garlic scapes and herbs (nasturtium, rosemary, mint, lovage, chives, thyme), and some of the most beautifully smelling rose petals (I have some in vodka but then found dehydrating them better for preservation).

Then came the gooseberries, rattail radishes and cherries.

 

By the end of June, I harvested a bunch of green English walnuts to make Nocino, and some golden beets.

Then summer really began, and it was a big blur of everything.

I have been pickling and fermenting and dehydrating and cooking a lot. The okra was super slow this year but the tomatoes were amazing, as well as the eggplant and peppers. I grew most of the tomatoes from seed. And I cannot wait for next year!

Damn that’s awesome you must have a green thumb! 

Leezestarr313

josevolution said:

Damn that’s awesome you must have a green thumb! 

Thank you! I try every year but this year was exceptional, and I think it really came down to great (new) soil in the raised beds and all that rain and sun. I am stoked myself. I have been trying for almost ten years in this spot now and some seasons were good others bad. This year was different. The peach and cherry and green walnut produce every year though.

lastexitlondon

Blown away 

josevolution

Leezestarr313 said:

josevolution said:

Damn that’s awesome you must have a green thumb! 

Thank you! I try every year but this year was exceptional, and I think it really came down to great (new) soil in the raised beds and all that rain and sun. I am stoked myself. I have been trying for almost ten years in this spot now and some seasons were good others bad. This year was different. The peach and cherry and green walnut produce every year though.

Yeah we had a good harvest too but not on your level! The peaches look fantastic 

Loujoe

Leezestarr313

Loujoe said:

Awesome! Those Shishitos are nice, aren't they? I grew them for the first time this year and will definitely do so again.

Loujoe

Yes. Seared them up on an iron skillet. Little oil. Some nice flakey salt. Great snack. This batch holds a little heat. Maybe because they are planted close to hot peppers. Yum.

Leezestarr313

Loujoe said:

Yes. Seared them up on an iron skillet. Little oil. Some nice flakey salt. Great snack. This batch holds a little heat. Maybe because they are planted close to hot peppers. Yum.

I think they are supposed too have a little heat. Mine did too. They will turn red too if you let them on the plant a little longer.

Loujoe

Ok. Cool. Thx