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  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    West Coast Dreamgirl said:
    @deadendp just got sight of my first tomato  :)


    This is my strawberry plant:

    I see it and strawberries! Awrsome!
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576

    First harvest of zucchini coming in with the last harvest of peas.
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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,904
    Great quality. I must be 3 weeks behind i think 


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  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,104
    rgambs said:

    First harvest of zucchini coming in with the last harvest of peas.
    Those zucchinis look so good. I would make ratatouille with them. It's a nice summer dish.

  • Purple Fairy Tree
    Purple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,055
    @rgambs your sugar snap peas look tasty too. I hope they are crunchy. I'd probably have them raw.
  • Purple Fairy Tree
    Purple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,055
    Hi @deadendp, I just wanted to give a tomato plant update because I wouldn't have got this far without you:

    Once I kept a tomato plant on the windowsill from April to September and it just produced 4 or 5 cherry tomatoes in 6 months. Now I understand why (squashed roots). Next time I'll buy one of those tomato grow bags earlier on in the season :)
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    West Coast Dreamgirl said:
    Hi @deadendp, I just wanted to give a tomato plant update because I wouldn't have got this far without you:

    Once I kept a tomato plant on the windowsill from April to September and it just produced 4 or 5 cherry tomatoes in 6 months. Now I understand why (squashed roots). Next time I'll buy one of those tomato grow bags earlier on in the season :)
    It looks fantastic! So happy to see your happy plant.

    I did a tomato bag once. It worked out okay. My MIL had great success with hers. Worth a try for sure! 
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    2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    edited July 2020

    Crown Vetch. A weed, but we keep it because it is a butterfly host plant. 

    The volunteer lily. 

    Morning glories have started to bloom. 

    Butterfly weed is getting there. 

    The first bloom on the Rose of Sharon. Because it reseeds everywhere, my husband calls it Rose of Evil/Satan. 

    Zinnia from some saved seeds passed on to me. 

    Another color of nasturtium from the 25 cent variety pack mom passed on to me. 

    Goosenecks. An Uncle Jimmy split pass from 20 years ago. Uncle Jimmy may no longer be with us, but the plant splits he gifted sure are! 

    Volunteer Hollyhocks. 

    The first Cleome/Spider Flower bloom of the season. 

    The sunflower is working up a bloom. Funny enough, this one is a bird seed gift from winter feeding. 
    2014: Cincinnati
    2016: Lexington and Wrigley 1
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,904
    In bloom


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  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,104
    Deadendp, the flowers are beautiful. Can’t wait to see the sunflower when it blooms. I saw a beautiful sunflower in Santa Fe a few years ago. So perfect, it almost looked fake. 



  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    edited July 2020
    Potato plants were wiped out by flea beetles followed by 2 weeks days of heat around 90F and no rain.  Oh well.
    Everything else is thriving pretty well.
    I've got 15lbs of berries (2.25 gallons blueberries, 1.5 gallons wild black raspberries) in the freezer waiting to be processed and 22lbs of zucchini in the kitchen, neither count including what's been eaten already. Probably about halfway through the total harvest on both accounts.
    4 quart and 3 pint jars of peas got fridge pickled, but we've eaten 2 quart jars already and given away 2 pints.  
    I'll start in on the zucchini soon, but they don't come out as crunchtastic as the peas, so I've got the classic "too many zucchini" problem going on.
    Chickens have finally started laying, so that's exciting, I was getting impatient.  Averaging 2-3 edible eggs/day, with 1-3 throw aways, and over the next few weeks that will go up and up until I'm getting up to a dozen/day, at which point I don't know what the fuck I'll do with them all lol
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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,904
    Its  always feast or famine  isnt it!


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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    No doubt! 
    I love this time of year, every time I go outside I come back in with food, even if it's just a single egg or handful of berries.
    Turns out the potatoes are hanging in, I pulled the ones with dead and withered tops and found a surprising little haul of new potatoes to go with my bush beans.
    Soup is ready for dinner tomorrow!

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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,404
    I will now be purchasing a gooseneck to plant in the garden.  What a cool looking flower!

    My pickling cucumbers were ready to pick so I got 8 of them and am making pickles.  Never did that before so hopefully it comes out allright.

    Thursday they should be ready!
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    tempo_n_groove said:
    I will now be purchasing a gooseneck to plant in the garden.  What a cool looking flower!

    My pickling cucumbers were ready to pick so I got 8 of them and am making pickles.  Never did that before so hopefully it comes out allright.

    Thursday they should be ready!
    Sour pickles or lacto-fermented?
    I've never actually done real, fermented pickles yet.
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576

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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,404
    rgambs said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    I will now be purchasing a gooseneck to plant in the garden.  What a cool looking flower!

    My pickling cucumbers were ready to pick so I got 8 of them and am making pickles.  Never did that before so hopefully it comes out allright.

    Thursday they should be ready!
    Sour pickles or lacto-fermented?
    I've never actually done real, fermented pickles yet.
    Lacto!

    Made up a vinegar brine and put the pickles and brine in a big ol jar with some mustard seed, dill, garlic and salt.

    Hoping this works as I planted a bunch of pickling cukes for this very reason.
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,404
    @rgambs do u have a problem w ticks or do those chickens take care of that for you?
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    tempo_n_groove said:
    @rgambs do u have a problem w ticks or do those chickens take care of that for you?
    I haven't ever picked any up in the chicken yard, but I don't let them out of the yard or they shit on my porch and peck all my produce.
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,404
    rgambs said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    @rgambs do u have a problem w ticks or do those chickens take care of that for you?
    I haven't ever picked any up in the chicken yard, but I don't let them out of the yard or they shit on my porch and peck all my produce.
    When I had chickens they only pooped on my porch when I fed them bread.  When I switched to feed they stayed off the porch for whatever reason.

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