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Top 3 garden items this time off year
Posted on 6/26/20 at 8:36 am
Posted on 6/26/20 at 8:36 am
This is the best time of year to eat food. I am fortunate enough that my father plants a gargantuan garden every year and I can pillage it at my own discretion. That’s what I did yesterday. He supplies our family, neighbors, takes some to the farmers market and donates a pile to the Baldwin county food bank. Ready right now is about 30 different varieties of tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, zucchini, various peppers, snap beans, butter beans, G-90 sweet corn, Silver Queen sweet corn. egg plant, watermelon and cantaloupe. Most of his vast pea and bean patches were not quite ready but getting close. So as I’m I’m polishing off my 2nd tomato sandwich I ponder what my choices would be if I was limited to only 3 of these wonderful things. A tough decision for sure, but I think this is what I’d do:
-Tomatoes
-Speckled Butter Beans
-Sweet Corn
What about you?
-Tomatoes
-Speckled Butter Beans
-Sweet Corn
What about you?
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Posted on 6/26/20 at 9:05 am to MobileJosh
Tomato
Purple Hull
Yellow squash
Purple Hull
Yellow squash
Posted on 6/26/20 at 9:18 am to MobileJosh
This makes me miss my mawmaw and pawpaws garden so much 
Cucumbers
Green beans
Cantaloupe
Cucumbers
Green beans
Cantaloupe
Posted on 6/26/20 at 11:09 am to madamsquirrel
Put a garden in my backyard. Cucumbers going fantastic. Yellow squah produced 1 squash and then died off due to rot. Eggplant has been looking good but no product. Tomato plants are grwoing but still waiting on product. Just planted some zucchini and looks like they will produce soon.
Posted on 6/26/20 at 11:52 am to MobileJosh
Tough choice. Glad I don't have to make it.
First two would be sweet corn and tomatoes. I'll go with fresh herbs third, I guess.
First two would be sweet corn and tomatoes. I'll go with fresh herbs third, I guess.
Posted on 6/26/20 at 12:06 pm to MobileJosh
You must be slightly farther north than I am, bc my tomatoes are about done (will pull up this weekend). Peas, beans looking good, but the sweet corn is long since over down here in Zone 9b.
I’ve got eggplants galore, though. ‘Bout to make some eggplant curry.
I’ve got eggplants galore, though. ‘Bout to make some eggplant curry.
Posted on 6/26/20 at 12:22 pm to hungryone
quote:
You must be slightly farther north than I am, bc my tomatoes are about done
Plant some heat tolerant ones in about 2 weeks. You should have some good production in latter SEPT.
Posted on 6/26/20 at 12:33 pm to 91TIGER
I’ve never had any luck with the heat tolerant varieties, despite trying many times.
Posted on 6/26/20 at 1:09 pm to MobileJosh
Cucumbers
Okra
Yard Long Beans
Okra
Yard Long Beans
Posted on 6/26/20 at 1:11 pm to pmacneworleans
quote:
Yellow squah produced 1 squash and then died off due to rot.
I'm betting if you would have pulled your plants and split open the vines you would have found Squash Vine Borers in the hollow stems eating them away to nothing, thus killing the plant.
I have that issue every time I plant summer squash and those damn things get to looking like giant maggots.
Posted on 6/26/20 at 1:47 pm to MobileJosh
banana peppers
tomatoes
cucumbers
tomatoes
cucumbers
Posted on 6/26/20 at 2:48 pm to gumbo2176
That sounds like it exactly - the stems were hollowed out. Next year I'll just avoid squash.
Posted on 6/26/20 at 3:00 pm to pmacneworleans
quote:
- the stems were hollowed out. Next year I'll just avoid squash.
Summer squash like yellow crook neck and zucchini do have hollow stems for the most part. It is just how the borers eat what's left there to begin with that kills the plants.
Next time, try growing more varieties of winter squash that have more sturdy stems to begin with. Several varieties of traditional winter squash will grow in the summer months.
Posted on 6/26/20 at 3:51 pm to MobileJosh
Out of my garden the top three would be
Tomatoes
Pole Green Beans
White Scalloped Squash
Tomatoes
Pole Green Beans
White Scalloped Squash
Posted on 6/26/20 at 5:16 pm to MobileJosh
My Choice:
Tomatoes
Butter Beans
Sweet Corn
The wife would choose:
Purple Hull Peas
Okra
Lady Peas
We would adopt and their choice would be:
Cucumbers
Yellow Squash
Green Beans
My Dog - who never learned how to count:
Cornbread
Eggplant
Peppers
Zucchini
Green Onions
Cauliflower
Broccoli
Carrots
Celery
Bell Pepper
Rutabaga
Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes
Acorn Squash
Spaghetti Squash
Turnips with roots
Collards
Mustard Greens
Beets
By this time, he was running around in circles so much I could not get him to stop and tell me any more.
You Know what - this is stoopid. Really Stoopid. Why would anyone choose to deny themselves all of their favorite foods except for three items. Just forget I shared anything here
Tomatoes
Butter Beans
Sweet Corn
The wife would choose:
Purple Hull Peas
Okra
Lady Peas
We would adopt and their choice would be:
Cucumbers
Yellow Squash
Green Beans
My Dog - who never learned how to count:
Cornbread
Eggplant
Peppers
Zucchini
Green Onions
Cauliflower
Broccoli
Carrots
Celery
Bell Pepper
Rutabaga
Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes
Acorn Squash
Spaghetti Squash
Turnips with roots
Collards
Mustard Greens
Beets
By this time, he was running around in circles so much I could not get him to stop and tell me any more.
You Know what - this is stoopid. Really Stoopid. Why would anyone choose to deny themselves all of their favorite foods except for three items. Just forget I shared anything here
This post was edited on 6/26/20 at 5:20 pm
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