Photo below - Is that not alot of little Stupice tomatoes? Sheesh...We won't be growing that one next year, because a good way to use them fresh hasn't been identified yet. I just keep freezing them, and hope to use them for something such as stews or soups this winter..Those 5 green zebra sure are pretty, and most likely will be used for a green salsa later. Also, the jalapeno peppers in front were left a little bit too long before harvest, but were still stuffed with colby cheese, wrapped with bacon, then placed on the grill with other things being cooked. Although very good, they were pretty dang hot!!! They would go great with a few good cold beers, I bet...
Photo below - Here's the Pineapple tomato that grew really big, but shaped kinda weird. It measured 5" across at it's widest side, but i'm not sure about the weight. Although not ripe yet, I can't wait to try this baby sometime this week. Thanks again, Megan!
Photo below - Although not impressive in size, here's the 7 butternut squash and a couple of French Orange Canteloupe finally ready. Those canteloupe have been monitored daily for slip from the stem, then I finally found one laying on the ground the other morning. That's always a good indicator. Lol.
In other news, the ugly garden days are slowly arriving now - you know, when powdery mildew and other things set in? Anyway, the clock is ticking on getting the melons to maturity before all of the foliage on the vines die, and future fruitset will most likely be denied by my hand. I mean - why let one get established if you know that it won't turn out ok later? I'd rather have the currently growing melons receive all of the benefits of the photosynthesis remaining...
Take care, and happy gardening
EG
16 comments:
That looks like the same okra I'm growing this year. I like it.
Great haul on your tomatoes!
That's a pretty good harvest of tomato's to me! and those butternut squash looks darn good...we have ONE
trying to grow, I'm afraid to look at it, for fear it will get shy and stop growing.
EG - you have my sympathies. One thing I've learned this year is that I need to ensure a source of water close to my SWCs. Whereas I have a nice irrigation setup for my raised beds, I too have been hauling 5 gallon buckets to my SWCs that seem to go through water at a remarkable rate. I suspect it's a combination of the roots being in a confined space plus the fact that the containers get so darn hot in the sun.
I am having some success using the containers but not nearly so much as compared to my normal raised beds. Well, it's a learning year. Next year I will have the opportunity to try some new ideas and correct my mistakes from this year.
OMG, look at the tomatoes. Am I the only one with practically no tomatoes? Are the Stupice not a good flavored one?
Japanese Redneck - it's burgundy okra, and definitely our favorite.
Gingerbreadshouse7 - thanks, I was hoping for bigger butternut squash, but we can't have everything....
MediaOrganic - likewise, I prefer to use raised beds. But, due to the location being on top of the septic field, I had to have something mobile if needed.
Granny - I'm sure your bounty of tomatoes later will put this picture to shame. Stupice is just "ok", but would be great for juice or canning, I bet...
Very good harvest! Your garden is way ahead of mine...the nice part of living so far south huh?
All those tomatoes look gorgeous. I'd turn them into spaghetti sauce if they were in my kitchen. I've even made sauce from cherry tomatoes when I had too many (makes a weird sweet sauce which is good for spicy dishes). I really hope my counter looks like that in a month.
Boy, that's one mighty harvest EG! Everything looks great!
Wow, what a wonderful problem to have, figuring out what to do with all those tomatoes.... If you have a dehydrator, you could make "sun dried tomatoes", which are wonderful in pasta sauces... Or, you could make roasted tomatoes with olive oil and garlic, freeze the ones you don't eat right away, and add them to spaghetti sauce or chili later on. If you cook them before freezing, they will take up less space in the freezer. I roast tomatoes in the toaster oven because it doesn't give off much heat.
Those jalapeno peppers look nice. I bet they did have a bite to them since they were red. I tasted my first garden grown jalapeno tonight to see how hot it was and it set my mouth on fire. I will surely clean out all the seeds to remove the heat when I make poppers.
Great harvest this week, EG!! Okra isn't a crop that usually is grown in my area. What do you DO with it? My jalapenos usually run of of time and never reach the red stage. We enjoy them green mostly in salsa.
I am filling my SWCs every day and our temps have only been in the 90s. It must be quite a job to haul water to all of the SWCs that you have growing right now.
Grafixmuse - slice it, then fry it....really good stuff.
Hi, EG:
This is Chery, a/k/a Garden Goodies. A blast from the past, I know. Your garden is sooooo far ahead of mine. My melons are just now running and flowering, but I do have losts of green tomatoes. Anyway, I wonder if I can take you up on the offer to answer a techinical question. You can respond to me directly and leave this out of the comments. I remember a post you did a while ago about your air conditioner, and mine is the exact same brand as yours. I wanted to know do you know why it would just stop working? It was working fine, then stopped. I wiggled the wires in the circuit breaker box before I had somebody come look at it, and when they got here it was working. Since then it has stopped working again and wiggling the wire doesn't help. It was probably a coincidence that it started up after the wiggling, but I don't know. Is there a fuse or something that could have gone out and just need replacing? Any ideas would sure be appreciated.
Thanks, Cheryl, MoffettCSR@sbcglobal.net
WOW, EG. That's a lot of tomatoes! I think our season will be pretty short this year. We're still waiting on our first ripe slicer. Yours look amazing though.
Nice squash. How many butternut vines did you plant this year?
Thomas - thanks, it's been a good season for me.
Mark - I had two vines growing on the same trellis, and it worked out great.
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