we've been harvesting for about 3 weeks Pictures

[Charlie MV]

The manure hauler:



Pole beans:

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herb and flower garden:

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corn and okra:



Flower bed sewn today

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taters and sweet taters



today's pickin's

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pink eye purple hulls



okra and tomatoes

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potatoes, green and cherry tomatoes



cherry tomatoes and green peppers

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[SOB]

Looks fantastic! Quite the harvest for today...

Just curious, where are you located? Are those SC license plates?

[Charlie MV]

I took my location down due to a stalker from another sight. I'm in the south.

What is SOB?

[SOB]

What is SOB?

Without giving out too much personal info...my last name sounds like the "B" word so it stands for Son of a "B". Since my father is also a "B" I am, therefore, the son of a "B".

[DoubleDogFarm]

Very nice Charlie!

Looks like good eats.

Eric

[Green Mantis]

Lucky you, I haven't even been able to plant tomato plants, too wet and windy here for them. I love tomatoes too! Everything looks so good! Congrats on a great garden!

[Charlie MV]

Thanks for all the kind words.

SOB, speaking of sons, I'm a son of a son of a sailor on both sides of the family. I'm also the son in law of a sailor who was a son of a son of a sailor. I also happen to be a sailor both as a naval veteran and now just for the love of it. I've spent over 10 years at sea and/or on the water on my own boats..

Marlingardener, sweetie, you make me blush. I'm a gardening geezer. The stalker was disconcerting. I checked my credit report and removed quite a few sig lines from various sights I frequent. Now my sig lines are all fairly generic. Be careful out there.

I am very precise and neat in the yard and garden layout. It's a holdover from building cabinets for 30 years. My grass is laid out with radius corners so that the rider can mow without need of weed eating. It's aesthetically pleasing but fairly low maintenance as well. I've been using brown construction paper in the rows to hold down weeds. The paper comes in 28 and 36 inch widths so we can fold it in half for 18" pea rows. We cover that in 3 inches of compost.

I'm mainly setting up the garden for minimum amounts of weeding and other work because the heat is making us seriously consider whether we can do it any more. The pictures show about 1/3 to 1/2 of what we are actually gardening. The squash, tomatoes and pink eyes aren't shown. I have to paper and compost the tomato rows. We've ripped up squash and pink eye purple hull peas to plant a second harvest next week.

We'll be harvesting corn over the next 3 weeks and then we'll rip it up and plant more pink eyes.

Edit: This was our first effort at potatoes. We eat the skin. I asked my wife why she peeled the potatoes last night. She grinned at me and said
"I didn't". Those taters were wonderful. I don't think we can keep a year's worth like everything else but boy howdy aunt Bee we will enjoy them for a few months.