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

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

Leezestarr313

I love nasturtium and grow it every year because I love the flavor. This year, it did well, and tonight I made stuffed nasturtium leaves, dolmades style. They turned out awesome, and I enjoyed that they were less chewy than grape leave dolmades can be. I used a filling with pork and herbs and rice. It was very, very good.

Loujoe

Beautiful. Inspired to try that^^thx. I was eating those leaves at work and my coworker asked if I was eating Lilly pads.

Loujoe

Loujoe

Bump it up.

 Garden prep here. Seeds lined up. Will plant peas. Snap and shelling maybe today. Carrots. Radishes. Beets . Spinach. Lettuce. Very soon too. 
Great time of year.
Enjoy