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  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    Great work this season Mr. greenthumb!
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,590
    Second year in a row most of my tomatoes did not ripen until the Fall. Anyone else experience this?
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,691
    Yes. Some were so slow to ripen. Brought them, unripened, inside. They ripened up nicely on the table. Also kept the critters from snacking on them.
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,691
    Spunkie said:
    Great work this season Mr. greenthumb!
    Thanks!  It is satisfying and enjoy sharing my harvest with friends. Was a great season. Now adding chopped up leaves to the top of my garden. Lettuce making it through a few good cold nights still. 
  • Loujoe
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,691
    "rainbow blend' carrots. Still growing. A fresh carrot pulled from the dirt smell so good! Freezing cold morning. Happy that this season is continuing on. 
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,876
    I love that smell. We had those all be it shop bought. And the purple ones are so sweet. They are great just roasted 


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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,691
    yep. Nice and simply good
  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,063
    Loujoe said:
    yep. Nice and simply good
    Looks great. Now if only you had some new vinyl to play for dinner music ;)

  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,316
    didnt have such a good year in our newly constructed raised beds. have a jalapeño,  serrano and poblano still going, new flowers and peppers coming in,  in the pop up greenhouse. the early girl and big boy tomatoes that were smallish and still green late are slowly turning red on the vine in the greenhouse
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,691
    Bump this up.
    Spring is coming.
    Planning what to plant and have to go visit my community plot to see idig up my carrots i left in the ground.
    Early season I plan to plant seeds:
    Peas (snap and shelling)
    Onions (never did them before)
    Beets
    Carrots
    Lettuce

    Have lots of seeds.

    Then summer. June/July when above is harvested. 
    Peppers
    Tomatoes
    Potatoes (never had luck with them and see others grow well?)
    Dill (still wating the stuff i dried)
    Stringbeans
    Cucumbers
    And who knows what else?

    Always a nice time of year.
    ❤️ 
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,691
    edited March 24
    *edit. Home garden*

    Planted my spring seeds. Hope not too early:
    Carrots, beets, spinach, shelling peas, snap peas. I was a little more haphazard about seed spacing. If most germinate, I'll have to thin them out a lot.
    The soil looks great. Added some sheep compost and mixed it in. Last seaon after I pulled out my plants, I added eggshells and other more raw compost. It broke down well over the winter. 
    I read somewhere to get good plants, you have to start with being a good dirt farmer. Makes sense.
    Anyway, anothrr hopeful season had begun
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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,691
    busy day at community plot.
    Turnips, carrots, beets, lettuce.
    Did a row of red onions and a row of sweet onions. First time ever planting onions. 
    Garlic in back corner looks good.
    Snap peas along path and shelling peas in back right corner.

    If all grows I'll be knee deep in good stuff. Love this time of year. 

    Now: wait, thin, water

    Pat's self on back
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,656
    edited April 11
    The blossoms are growing! I obviously did nothing to accomplish this, but it is growing, and I love it every year.


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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,876
    Beautiful photo 


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  • Purple Fairy Tree
    Purple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,055
    Mint

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,336
    Purple Fairy Tree said:
    Mint

    The weed that won't die, lol.
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,691
    What do you do with it?
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,691
    onions looking good. Have about 15 bulbs of garlic. Everything else is slowly germinating. Added some beet seeds and turnips where looked empty. Will see. Last year had a bummer beet havest, so I figured to add more seeds. Peas about 6' tall. 

  • Purple Fairy Tree
    Purple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,055
    Loujoe said:
    What do you do with it?
    What Mint? Well, you can put it in a clear glass cup and add hot water to make mint tea, or you can chop it up and make Mojito's 

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