My Garden...Do you have one? (Pics included)

[Cookiebaker]

Wow, Anna! Your garden is beautiful! And everything looks sooo yummy! I can't garden to save my life so, no I don't have one. Just last year and this year I am figuring out how to plant flowers, so maybe someday i will graduate to vegetables.

[Killearn Kitties]

Looks fantastic! Bet it all tastes SO much better than what you buy.

[Marigold2]

It looks great. You should be very proud. Are those dill or sweet pickles you have made? Can I have the recipe?

[Medusa]

I'll be right over! Those pix made me hungry! No garden for me. My parents had a garden every year when we lived in the country for a while and they didn't make it an enjoyable experience for me. Years ago, my late friend taught me how to plant flowers and I still do that but I just have never wanted to grow veggies. Your garden is delightful, though.

[4 Dog Mother]

When you said garden, well, you know me, I immediately thought flowers, sigh, but it is just those vegetables. Actually I don't want to get as into it as you have but I do wish we had some tomato plants. I tried some last year but I guess the place I chose was not the best as they didn't do well at all.

Fried green tomatoes?? I will be down, oh, how about tonight. No one at my house likes them - so I very rarely make them - and especially since I don't have a tomato plant - but sometimes the stores do have them or I beg them off a neighbor or my mom. I love fried green tomatoes. You do have Miracle Whip don't you? It's not a fried green tomato sandwich without Miracle Whip!!!

[Freedom]

Great job!

I had my first zucchini this week, made it fried just like yours: YUM!!!

Er . . . how the heck to you keep your garden so weed free? Mine doesn't look nearly as "neat" as yours does. GOOD WORK!

[Taz_Zoee]

Your garden looks great!!
We had a garden a few years ago. It was nice. Bruce keeps talking about doing it again but never gets around to it. He did plow up the garden area earlier but never got to planting anything. It's nice because you don't have to go to the store, you just go outside to do your shopping. Bruce would tell me "I'm going to go shopping" while he walked into the backyard. LOL

[Randi]

Looks fantastic! Bet it all tastes SO much better than what you buy.

Ditto! But the soil looks so dry - how do you do it! You must water a lot.

I don't have a garden, but we do grow various herbs in the yard - for everyone.

I've twice planted Lavender on John's grave, but it died. Now, there's a little Willow tree.

[anna_66]

Fried green tomatoes?? I will be down, oh, how about tonight.

I just picked some...come on down!

Er . . . how the heck to you keep your garden so weed free? Mine doesn't look nearly as "neat" as yours does. GOOD WORK!

Hubby does it I fix the veggies, he keeps the garden weed free!

Bruce would tell me "I'm going to go shopping" while he walked into the backyard. LOL

I know, I love that feeling. I just went "shopping" tonight!

I don't want to embarrass myself so I won't post photos....I have peppers, zucchini, tomatoes and green onion, basil and radishes.
Do you have suggestions/recipes for pickling tomatoes?

Oh come on, it can't be that bad. And no sorry, no suggestions on tomatoes. I canned tons of them quite a few years back and can't remember how I did it. Guess I'm gonna have to search the net for some recipes myself!

Don't listen to Richard his garden is pretty awesome also.

I just knew it!


Pembroke_Corgi if you ever get any pictures I'd love to see it.
You have quite a few things I've never thought of planting!


ES your herb garden looks wonderful and great pictures!
I've never thought of planting herbs before. Maybe I'll give it a try next year.

I picked a few new things in the garden this evening so I hope you don't mind me sharing again.
Sweet Banana Peppers

Sugar Snap Peas-these are just sooooo yummy!

Jalapenos

And a few things I already had (just new pictures)
Salad mix

Funny looking siamese cucumbers

Green Tomatoes

Zucchini


That's it for now folks! Stop by any time to go "shopping" in my garden

[RICHARD]

I picked another zucchini today.

I didn't know that there were any under the leaves, the huge one I stumbled upon!

I also have basil, catnip, another tomato tree and an avocado I started from a seed!

I have a some peppers that are taking forever to grow and my other tomato/chile bucket!


No mater pics, I tend to eat them as soon as the come into the house.

I did make salsa with some tomatoes.

It rocked!

I'll take pics of my other pepper and zucchini plants tomorrow?


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If you are planting seeds, read the package carefully and try to figure out when they will germinate, you can time it so that everything matures at once, or you can stagger the timing so you have time to tend to each plant as you like.

Small containers, like cottage cheese or yougurt cups are great 'starter' pots, fill them with potting soil, plant your seeds and wait!

If you are planting to the ground? Prep the soil with compost or go to a home improvement center and look for additives.

My soil is hard and clay like, I broke it up with a hoe, sifted the dirt with a screen and added soil amender. Tough work, but well worth the satisfaction.

I water in the morning and early evening, lightly. When the plants sprouted, I bought plant food and everyone gets fed once a week!

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The hanging planter is my fave!

I came across some plastic water jugs, took a Dremel tool and cut the tops off them.

I used the bottom as a pot to put the plants that I got from the nursery into, I then took the tops and with the same machine cut holes into them, strung rope thru and have a neat little hanging planter to start my plants.

I placed some plant "fabric" into the bottom of the tops so the soil would not fall out and tossed some small plants into them to get them started.

[trayi52]

Anna, you have a beautiful garden! We have a garden too. Our corn has done lousy, because we got too much rain! The rest of the garden has done great. I have canned 40 quarts of green beans, so far I have eight quarts of tomato juice.

I love to can vegetables!

Willie

[Sonia59]

We have tomatoes and herbs (rosmary, thyme, basil, sage, lavender).