Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Finally my harvests are coming in

Yesterday, I didn't go out to the garden at all. I had my first Actemra infusion and it totally wiped me out. You can read about it here.

Today, however, I went out into the garden between rain showers. I was able to get a bunch of things. One more zucchini was ready. Those plants are pretty much done, but I seem to keep getting one or two a couple of times a week. I also picked a couple of big cucumbers and 4 pickling cucumbers.




 Oh and I got one lonely green bean off what was left of the bush beans that the groundhog ate. I did plant more for a small fall harvest though. I also have my pole beans, which are looking super good now. Woot!





My green peppers are growing like mad, and I pulled 8 of the biggest ones off my plants so that the others have the chance and room to grow. These plants seem to be making up for the bad pepper year last year.





My tomatoes are starting to come in finally. I picked a bunch of romas today and one big beef. Some of the romas are not fully red, well most of them. I have a lot of birds in the yard and the last thing I want is them munching on them when they are bright red. So I have been picking them when they show a little color and let them finish ripening up inside. My cherry tomatoes are so packed in with both leaves and fruit that I almost happened to miss seeing the 4 that were very ripe. Two of them had split so they went into my compost. But we have two little guys. There are tons more on the plants.



The butternut squash is producing tons and tons of fruit. As of yesterday, I have counted 42 fruits growing. I have already let my neighbors know to expect some and this little restaurant that the hubby goes to for lunch everyday is going to take a bunch as well. The hubby loves butternut squash, but he doesn't need this many. LOL. I planted 13 plants with the expectation that not all will produce. Ya right. They all grew and are going nuts.





The pumpkin plants are growing really well too. They have started to go up the pole bean trellis and even up the sunflowers. LOL. Next year I will be planting these somewhere else in the garden so the vines have someplace better to go. I even have a baby pumpkin growing now. I planted these kinda late, so not sure if I will have pumpkins in time for fall carving.





Aren't the pole beans looking super? I am soooo happy that they made a comeback after Mrs. groundhog ate them. And look, I even have little beans growing!! There are a bunch of flowers all over the plants too. My sunflowers are still growing tall. I planted these late as well, so if I can get seeds out of them, I will be happy, if not, I will plant them early next year. I still have plenty of seeds left. I have them right next to my pole beans. You can see them in the second pole bean picture above.








My fall garden is growing nice. I have snap peas, romaine lettuce, butter head lettuce and carrots growing in one bed. My bush beans are growing in another bed. The bed that the other bush beans were in.  It has been really cool and fall like this whole month so far. I think we had one kinda hot day when it was mid 80's, but the rest of the time it has been in the 70's with lows of the 50's. So the fall garden has been loving this weather, my tomatoes, not so much. Oh well. Can't please everyone.


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    1. Thanks. I keep bringing bushels of things everyday.

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  2. Wonderful! Your vegetables look amazing - this has been an unusual year for gardens! I do appreciate you sharing with Home and Garden Thursday,
    Kathy

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    1. I have noticed the same things about all the gardens this year. The weather has been odd all across the country and messing with the gardens.

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  3. Your garden looks gorgeous. I haven't been able to get bell peppers to grow here very well, Sweet Italian ones yes, but not the bell shape. We're workin on it though, and we have gotten a lot of zucchini. Thanks for linking up to the HomeAcre Hop. We'd love to have you back tomorrow: http://wp.me/p2urYY-16c

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    1. Last year we got one bell pepper, this year, the garden is making up for it. Each plant (and I had 6) grew about 8 peppers each. I froze a bunch and gave a bunch to my sister.

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  4. Aww..nice everything looks so lovely.

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    1. Thanks. I love gardening and seeing all the free food I have for my family.

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  5. Seeing all your pictures and post brings back precious memories of my dear departed in-laws. They always had a nice garden and being the oldest child from a large farming family, she learned to can and freeze vegetables at an early age. It would be just about this time of the year that she would go hunting for a specific apple to make into applesauce. She made 14 day pickles from cucumbers that they grew in their garden. She would can them and sell them among her Masonic friends with proceeds going to her "Ways and Means" charity. Right after her friends had learned of her death, they wanted to know if she had any 14 day pickles left and wanted to buy them. Even her grandchildren wanted them to remember Grammy by. I would always help her make applesauce or prepare the vegetables for freezing when I could. Remember all the ice you needed to use. All the sugar she used to sweeten the applesauce, all the alium used. When we had the estate sale, a neighbor bought 3 or 4 bushel baskets of canning jars for his daughter to use. Thanks for the memories! What kind of camera do you have, sure does take great pictures. The colors are so bright and clear.

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    1. Growing my garden and preserving my harvests reminds me of my grandmother. She passed away last month and every time I snip and snap my beans, I think of her. It is one of many memories I have of her. Sitting on her porch with a big bucket of beans.

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  6. I just read over my last post. Alium is used in pickling vegetables, not applesauce! Opps! She always froze whole ears of corn after blanching them. Tomatoe for spaghetti sauce and tomato juice she also put up in canning jars plus string beans. I'm typing between the tears from the sweet memories.

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    1. Aren't memories of our loved ones wonderful? I am remembering my grandmother reading over this post and getting teary eyed myself. Tomato sauce is next on my list of things to do. I have tons frozen right now.

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