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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,759
    Snap. I hav regular shelling too. They didn't produce much yet. I find with shelling, you could pick tons, she'll them, and end up with a small amount. The snap are good this year and just eat the whole thing. You know.
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,759
    garlic scapes and a couple onion blossoms? (Not sure what to call them) read to remove them for a better onion too. 
    That butter adds something extra special to everything. Very mild flavor (to me) 
    Excited about this gardening discovery. At my community garden someone snapped their scapes off and hung them on the fence. Thinking freebies? Or maybe they are doing something else with them.
  • Auratonal
    Auratonal Washington, USA Posts: 942
    It looks like my housemate Justin is doing really well with some pumpkin seeds I brought home for us a few weeks ago. I think I must've gotten the seeds from either Safeway or Home Depot, & he kew what to to with them from there. He said to me that they should be ready some time in September, so I took a pic of his grow spot in the back yard
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,759
    Heck yeah^^ very nice
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,759
    Heck of a lot of arugula aka rocket. Had to be a little relentless pulling some out. Crowding out my peppers, tomatoes and everything else. Bud wants some seeds so I'm passing it on. 
    Went to a local farmstand and this stuff sells for like $5 for a small amount. Easy to grow if you like it.
    Washed/bagged/put away
    My secret to cleaning greens. Put in a large pot of water, lift the greens out, dump water, repeat.
     will likely turn some of this into a pesto. Never tried that. Maybe freeze it. 

  • highlights
    highlights Posts: 11

    Thanks to the July newsletter, now I know there’s a gardening thread :) Thought I’d share today’s little harvest - some tomatoes, kohlrabi, bush pickle cucumber, shishito peppers, banana peppers, couple of peas, and some basil. Zone 5a/ 5b just right on the line. I hope to see more of what everyone else is growing! 
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,759

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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,759
    good load of dill. Hang to dry a couple weeks then enjoy all year. More growing. Potatoes are getting hit by some bugs.
    Harvested all my lettuce. Now room for more plants. Not sure what. Might plant more turnips for fall harvest. Open to suggestions.

    Love this time of year.
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,759
    Auratonal said:
    It looks like my housemate Justin is doing really well with some pumpkin seeds I brought home for us a few weeks ago. I think I must've gotten the seeds from either Safeway or Home Depot, & he kew what to to with them from there. He said to me that they should be ready some time in September, so I took a pic of his grow spot in the back yard
    Updated pics? Sure they are filling in!
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,915
    Loujoe said:
    good load of dill. Hang to dry a couple weeks then enjoy all year. More growing. Potatoes are getting hit by some bugs.
    Harvested all my lettuce. Now room for more plants. Not sure what. Might plant more turnips for fall harvest. Open to suggestions.

    Love this time of year.
    I remember those days with joy


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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,759
    potato plants getting infested with some sort of fly. Harvested some where plants looked dead, the rest i put some dioteacious earth on them to deter the pests. Will see. Might be getting close to harvest time anyway.

  • highlights
    highlights Posts: 11
    Loujoe said:
    good load of dill. Hang to dry a couple weeks then enjoy all year. More growing. Potatoes are getting hit by some bugs.
    Harvested all my lettuce. Now room for more plants. Not sure what. Might plant more turnips for fall harvest. Open to suggestions.

    Love this time of year.
    I’ve been referring to my garden as the dill forest this year - it’s just nuts! I didn’t have much of it last year but I guess I’ve created the perfect conditions for it everywhere outside of my raised beds. Ugh hope to get it under control but at least it smells good I guess :D
    Also, definitely do turnips! I also do beets but I know not everyone likes them. I make a Polish soup called Botwinka with the small ones & the greens. Not sure what zone you’re in, but kohlrabi is another one that I do a second planting for Fall. All your produce looks great & hopefully you don’t have anymore bugs to deal with! 
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,759
    ^interesting^^^

    I'm zone 6. Good deal on the dill. My garden at my house is overrun with arugula, so I ate a lot, gave away, now pulling out and mulching them out with white pine needles (just convenient because I have lots of those pine trees). Once I mulched I  saw other plants I want to keep that were being choked out.
    My gardening friend said she makes a cayenne pepper spray that helps with bugs.

    I may look into that beet soup with the greens. Would like to pickle some too. 

    Pulled up all my turnips, beets. Carrots in my community plot. Prepped the soil eith a pitchfork and planted seeds. Carrots, turnips, beets hopefully for a good fall harvest. 
    Don't want to rush the summer.

    Great season 


  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,759
    beet me senseless!
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,759

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,474
    highlights said:
    Loujoe said:
    good load of dill. Hang to dry a couple weeks then enjoy all year. More growing. Potatoes are getting hit by some bugs.
    Harvested all my lettuce. Now room for more plants. Not sure what. Might plant more turnips for fall harvest. Open to suggestions.

    Love this time of year.
    I’ve been referring to my garden as the dill forest this year - it’s just nuts! I didn’t have much of it last year but I guess I’ve created the perfect conditions for it everywhere outside of my raised beds. Ugh hope to get it under control but at least it smells good I guess :D
    Also, definitely do turnips! I also do beets but I know not everyone likes them. I make a Polish soup called Botwinka with the small ones & the greens. Not sure what zone you’re in, but kohlrabi is another one that I do a second planting for Fall. All your produce looks great & hopefully you don’t have anymore bugs to deal with! 
    I've let the caterpillars take over my dill.  We like the butterflies so we are anticipating that soon.
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,474
    My cucumbers have sucked this year and my tomatoes are finally coming.
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,759
    tempo_n_groove said:
    highlights said:
    Loujoe said:
    good load of dill. Hang to dry a couple weeks then enjoy all year. More growing. Potatoes are getting hit by some bugs.
    Harvested all my lettuce. Now room for more plants. Not sure what. Might plant more turnips for fall harvest. Open to suggestions.

    Love this time of year.
    I’ve been referring to my garden as the dill forest this year - it’s just nuts! I didn’t have much of it last year but I guess I’ve created the perfect conditions for it everywhere outside of my raised beds. Ugh hope to get it under control but at least it smells good I guess :D
    Also, definitely do turnips! I also do beets but I know not everyone likes them. I make a Polish soup called Botwinka with the small ones & the greens. Not sure what zone you’re in, but kohlrabi is another one that I do a second planting for Fall. All your produce looks great & hopefully you don’t have anymore bugs to deal with! 
    I've let the caterpillars take over my dill.  We like the butterflies so we are anticipating that soon.
    Good thought. I'll do that with some of mine too. Cucumbers are slow to grow. Only have a few pretty good looking small plants with flowers. 1st round planted died/eaten by slugs. No cucs yet.
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,759

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