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

[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).

[anna_66]

Nice pictures Richard!
Question...I see that you have chillies, what do you do with them? I actually just bought one at the grocery yesterday and am not sure what to do with it
I'm thinking of trying to have salad and a few peppers in a planter for this winter...think it will work?

Willie, our corn never did good. Always seemed to blow down when we'd get storms.
You must have planted earlier than us because we haven't gotten a bean or a red tomato yet!

Sonia59 what do you use all your herbs for. I've never used them much.

[RICHARD]

Nice pictures Richard!
Question...I see that you have chillies, what do you do with them? I actually just bought one at the grocery yesterday and am not sure what to do with it
I'm thinking of trying to have salad and a few peppers in a planter for this winter...think it will work?

Willie, our corn never did good. Always seemed to blow down when we'd get storms.
You must have planted earlier than us because we haven't gotten a bean or a red tomato yet!

Sonia59 what do you use all your herbs for. I've never used them much.

I am going to buy a camper and going to visit everyone with canned veggies!

Anna,

It depends on what you want to eat!

The chillies I pick I put into a dish, let them dry, put them into a coffee grinder. I recycle an old spice container -the kind with the lid that lets you sprinkle the contents in it- and keep it on the table.


I use them on pizza, I like a spicy ramen soup, a few shakes in the broth is good!

Your jalapenos are BEAUTIFUL, Have you seen the recipes for stuffed jalapenos?

You slit the pepper and clean the seeds and ribs out, stuff with cream cheese, then dip into a cornmeal batter and deep fry!

A cold beer and some NASCAR?

I think that if you keep a planter indoors you should be able to keep them thru the winter!

I cannot say for sure, your weather is way different that the So Cal climate.


I have to say that I really found your breaded zucchini pics to be very disturbing.

I could not make a dish look that good in a million years!

[lizbud]

This thread is making me very hungry. Everything looks so yummy.
I've never had a garden. No green thumb here. I did plant some new flowers
this summer & they are still living.

Richard, the stuffed jalapenos sound great. Yum.

[Rachel]

WOW! I'm impressed. That is an amazing garden and what beautiful bounty you have produced.