how does your garden grow?

[Maggot]

A couple garden plots I have growing around the yard.



My watering invention, a drop light hooked to a garden nozzle



6 tomatoes and a bunch of sunflowers



A couple other boxes



My sweet pea trellis and some squash and cucumbers I'm plating scallions Saturday.



Hot peppers and some lettuce the straw berries are all over the place, on the other side of the fence there's a 4x8 ft pile of them all around the propane tank.

This year was light but that's OK.

[Duchess]

What is that little building directly behind the fence. I like the shape, what I can see of it anyway.

I know you live in town yet I'm always surprised to see pix that verify that. I picture you in the countryside on several acres in an old Victorian with a wrap around porch. There are quite a few outbuildings, one is a big barn where you store all your "finds". I even see a feedbag hanging from a hook, it's full of pot. I can hear an old phonograph playing, the scratchy-ness of it makes me smile and I laugh out loud when I hear you break into song.

Now I'm wondering what became of LC's groundhog.

[Maggot]

That's my kids swingset next spring I want to move to a different town with a few more acres. I've got my eye on a 10 acre plot with a house and a bigger barn. My cousins girlfriend is in real estate and thinks I could do an even swap.

[Duchess]

Sally, I'm putting your cool garden pix in here too.

Did I see you say you have herbs too?

I like how neat & tidy it looks. I've seen gardens that aren't as clean.

[sally]

I was going to put it in here, but then I figured I was already talking about it in the other thread.

I have cilantro and basil in pots. I also have blueberries in pots, but I failed to read the instructions and see that they must be cross pollinated with another type of blueberry in order to produce fruit. I need to do some studying on gardening.

[sally]

Here's what it has grown into now. The radishes and cukes are doing the best. The peppers aren't looking so hot, which I don't know why because that's what I had the most luck with the last time I did a garden. I have radishes out the ass though.

[Duchess]

I'm most impressed with your radishes. In Florida! Ah-mazing.

[Maggot]

You need to thin that bush. The squash will over run that box though, maybe put some nails in the fence and train them to climb. But thats some fast growing stuff right there.

[Duchess]

I had a renegade pumpkin come up by my back door and I trained it in the opposite direction and just let it go. It was covered in flowers so I thought I'd have a shit ton of pumpkins. I was checking that monster everyday and finally just found a walnut sized pumpkin. I said pull that bitch up, she was all talk and no production. Beautiful, healthy vine though. The past few days everyone who uses the back door has asked about it.

[Carsman]

Here's what it has grown into now. The radishes and cukes are doing the best. The peppers aren't looking so hot, which I don't know why because that's what I had the most luck with the last time I did a garden. I have radishes out the ass though.

Wow, SNAKE's pooping their fertilizer on those plants (I HATE SNAKES) sure is making them sprout up fast!

[sally]

You need to thin that bush. The squash will over run that box though, maybe put some nails in the fence and train them to climb. But thats some fast growing stuff right there.

That bush is the cucumbers. It is starting to take over so I'm going to try to train it to climb the fence. I should have got a trellis for it a long time ago, but I didn't plan on it growing that fast.

[sally]

I had a renegade pumpkin come up by my back door and I trained it in the opposite direction and just let it go. It was covered in flowers so I thought I'd have a shit ton of pumpkins. I was checking that monster everyday and finally just found a walnut sized pumpkin. I said pull that bitch up, she was all talk and no production. Beautiful, healthy vine though. The past few days everyone who uses the back door has asked about it.

That happened when I tried to grow summer squash once. The plant grew huge, but it never produced anything until one day I looked in there and found the biggest, perfectly shaped yellow squash I've ever seen. I could have won a blue ribbon for that squash. But that was it, the plant died after that.

[Duchess]

That happened when I tried to grow summer squash once. The plant grew huge, but it never produced anything until one day I looked in there and found the biggest, perfectly shaped yellow squash I've ever seen. I could have won a blue ribbon for that squash. But that was it, the plant died after that.

I don't have anyone to do this for but I saw a very cool teepee that was covered in vines, whatever kind you'd like, sunflowers too. You build the frame and then let the vines cover it. The baby might like that. Now I'm thinking I should try it anyway, no matter that I'm the only one who would enjoy looking at it.

[sally]

I love that, although I'm not sure I could keep anything growing on it other than weeds. That big ass cucumber plant I had going died. I did get three of the best tasting cucumbers I've ever eaten off of it though. They were nothing like you get at the grocery store, you could eat it whole like an apple. They were so good and juicy and crunchy.

[BigMark]

Did they buy you some sunglasses?

[Maggot]

I just took the last peppers and the last green tomato's off the bush. Time to mulch and spread some rye grass then set up the mulch pit for the winter. I'm more ready for winter this year than I was last year and am ahead of schedule.

[Duchess]

Have you ever had fried green tomatoes?

[Maggot]

Have you ever had fried green tomatoes?

Nope, I'm not that daring, but on a side note I felt like Dorothy stepping into OZ a few seconds ago. The sky is more yellow than I've ever seen it and the tree's colors are extra bright because of it. Extremely colorful just like OZ. Very strange and surreal.

Anyways, what do you do just put butter in a pan slice them up and fry them?

[Duchess]

Anyways, what do you do just put butter in a pan slice them up and fry them?

I've never done it myself but I've seen it done many times and it looks like the steps are similar to what people use to fry chicken. Egg bath, toss in seasoned flour to coat and then fry. I think a bit of oil is used rather than butter because it gets hotter without burning.

[BigMark]

They must be out of chicken, poor bastards.