Show your produce!

[hendi_alex]

Earl K,

Nice looking pole beans. I don't know about you, but when the produce is just trickling in, it is all the more special to me. Savor that cuke and that tomato!

[Earl K]

Here is a picture of some peppers and tomatoes that my better half picked on tues.Kind of funny that I don't care for peppers that much.So we grow them for her mother.She pickles the green toms w/ jalepenos-wooo spicy hot.The other peppers are Anehiem,I will eat those.
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[Pypersmom]

Beautiful! I'm so jealous! My little guys are coming along slowly but surely!

[hendi_alex]

Green bean harvest is three two four times last batch. Planted at least three different times a few weeks apart and will plant another couple of time to extend the season. Bush beans are a great candidate for succession planting.

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[hendi_alex]

Tomatoes are defininite my favorite, must have garden item, but is anything more lovely than a ripe egg plant fruit on the bush.

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[hendi_alex]

Most things coming in just fast enough for our table. Have given away a bit, but have had a constant supply of cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, and now egg plant for a few weeks now. Will give away maybe half of these green beans.



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[Johnny & Nancy]

Here are some pictures of our produce, some ready some not. The pumpkins are taking over the garden.
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[hendi_alex]

Very nice garden, lots of lovely veggies, especially the bell pepper, cabbage, and those clusters of large tomatoes.

[Pebbles]

Johnny and Nancy - it is a joy to see such wonderful healthy vegetables. You obviously don't have any pest problems. - What times dinner

[Hydrogardener]

I am using a hydroponic drip ring system to grow peppers for the first time this year. Some of the peppers are approaching 10 inches in length. As it is only early June I am planning to let them ripen to red. I think they will taste better roasted if they are completely ripe.

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[melissawho44]

Johnny and Nancy!!!
BEAUTIFUL VEGGIES

Your tomatoes look excellent, as a matter of fact all of your produce looks great!!!

You have definatly got it going on!!!

[Pebbles]

Hydrogardener - I am sure they will certainly taste hotter if you let them turn red. Very nice looking pepper plants though.

[Johnny & Nancy]

Here are some pictures of our days harvest: green beans, summer squash, bell peppers, jalepeno peppers, cucumbers.
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[Earl K]

Great pics.Hope you enjoy eating your harvest.Keep up the good work

[hendi_alex]

Nice veggies and photos! Do you let any of your bell peppers ripen?

[tedln]

Here are some of ours. The photos were taken a few days apart.

This photo was taken a few days before the tomatoes started ripening.

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This photo was taken a few days later when the tomatoes were vine ripened.

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Ted

[hendi_alex]

I love it when tomatoes ripen uniformly all the way to the shoulders. Very nice produce! My veggies are still coming in fast enough to fill our needs. We are giving away lots of tomatoes and many more to come.

[wolfie]

wonderful pictures all! I got a late start, so not much other than peppers that I am picking daily!

Alex, I have always wanted to do garlic, is it hard? thanks!

[hendi_alex]

My garlic did just great this year. Was my first successful year growing garlic. It turned out to be very easy, when I picked the right varieties for this mild to hot weather climate. I highly recommend thegarlicstore.com as they have great organic garlic, but also have garlic grouped according to what does well in various regions. Also, I'm sure that you could call them for specific recommendations. If you order from them, better do it early as they will start to sell out of selections very soon.

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[tin gizel]

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[crobi13]

I have 3 Serrano peppers, 1 Jalapeno pepper & a carrot that I pulled to check their size. Not too bad for my first time

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[hendi_alex]

Tomatoes are coming in heavily. Have given five to fifteen pounds per day away for the past week or more. Plus, am keeping our stock full. Two egg plants are giving us adequate harvest for our needs plus giving away a few batchs. We have another three younger egg plants. Cucumbers have slowed, but younger plants are just about to begin production. We have kept a steady supply of green beans for the past month or longer, giving a few batches to friends. We have generally kept around three pounds in the refrigerator. Will plant another batch of green beans today or tomorrow as current beans will be finished in a week or two. Peppers are coming in slow but steady, generally enough for our needs, but would like to see them speed up a bit. Squash continue to trickle in from original vines, but have several replacement vines just now starting to produce both zucchini and crook neck.

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[hendi_alex]

Tin gizel, what a lovely head of broccoli!

[tedln]

Alex,

I noticed in some of your pics, you have some cherry tomatoes. They sure look like my little "Juliet" variety. I've never enjoyed growing cherry tomatoes. They always under produced, produced every thing on the same day, or simply didn't taste good.

This year, I accidently planted some Juliet thinking they were a full size variety. They have been great. Early producer, heavy producer, indeterminate, great taste. Since we have so many regular sized tomatoes, the Juliet simply stay on the vines and I have something to snack on when I am in the garden. I will bring some in occasionally to add to the salad. My labrador retriever also recommends them highly. He thinks they are almost as good as an overgrown cucumber.

Ted

[wolfie]

Hey Alex, I am in virginia, we have about the same weather. Do you think I can still plant some beans? I have never tried them but willing to give a shot. What variety to you suggest? thanks!

[Earl K]

Alex,Great looking produce You say your beans are almost finished,What exactly do you mean by that?Do we only get so many harvests off of them Remember I'm a first timer

[hendi_alex]

Ted, I've been growing Juliet for several years. IMO they are one of the tastiest and most reliable heavy producers of small fruited tomatoes. Although I generally prefer medium sized to larger tomatoes, we always plant at least two Juliet vines as they always ensure an early and long season of tasty fruits.

Wolfie, I would expect that you could still get a good crop of green beans. I've never planted this late into the heat of summer before so will have to make sure the plants stay watered and get some afternoon shade. I like the blue lake type of varieties including 'early contender' and also like the wonderful flat varieties. This year I mostly planted 'early contender' and 'roma II'.

Earl, I only plant bush beans, which generally give a heavy harvest over a relatively short period of maybe two or three weeks. Some people tell me that they will often give a second bloom followed by another crop, but my vines start to look weak and spent, so I just pull them and plant another succession planting. Healthy climbing beans should give a good crop over a very long season, but then planting climbers presents a whole different set of problems. I find the bush beans to be the simpler option and like to plant as many as four plantings during the growing season.

[Hydrogardener]

These were grown in a hydroponic drip ring system started February 14th. and harvested on July 7, 2009.

Corno di Toro Red
Italian 'bull's horn' colorful sweet peppers are 8 to 10 inches long and curved like a bull's horn. Ripen to deep red or bright yellow and are delicious fresh in salads, but more often are sauted or grilled.

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[tedln]

Alex,

A lady clued me in on a good idea for those Juliet tomatoes. She picks them ripe, washes them, then fills quart size freezer bags with them. Through the winter, when a recipe like pasta primavera calls for tomatoes, she gets out a bag of frozen Juliets and tosses a few in the pan.

I already have a couple of bags frozen just waiting for winter.

Ted

[petalfuzz]

Yes! I can finally post here, as we got 3 zucchini this week:
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[starflare]

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what the others are.

[hendi_alex]

Garden is still producing more tomatoes, squash and eggplant than we can eat. Cucumbers are between crops but should pick back up soon. Pepper plants are steadily producing, but not as much as we would wish. Replacement zucchini plants are just starting to produce. Here is a photo of our first ripe red bell pepper. It is quite a beauty!

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[tedln]

Alex,

I had some beautiful bell peppers early in the season. I had to pick them green because as the season progresses, the sun and the heat from the sun burns my peppers. The side exposed to the sun changes color, softens, and becomes mushy. Do you do anything to protect your peppers from the sun?

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[hendi_alex]

Your plants are quite beautiful. Mine are not doing very much, especially not the bell pepper plants. Our plants were mostly bought late in the spring/early summer, kind of an afterthough, so manybe thay will pick up soon. I do move my peppers to morning only sun after the days get hotter, and they rarely have a problem with sun scald on the fruit. Alternatively, you could use something like 40% shade cloth to shade the plants from the afternoon sun. If the fruits are growing under a dense canopy of leaves then sun scald is usually not a problem, but bell peppers are very sensitive. Just ratating a container plant can cause the leaves and fruit to get burned.

[slengteng82]

here is some of my harvest from this morning...
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first time growing artichoke. happy with the results
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[wolfie]

were the artichokes hard? how long did they take from seed to picking?

[slengteng82]

the artichokes were not super hard!
I just ate one and it was amazing.
smaller fruit than you see in the store
but it is au natural organic and tasty too..
I planted a small starter from a nursery in
may sometime. it has
been in ground around 75-80 days..

[tedln]

Beautiful produce!

The artichoke amaze me. I've never known anyone who grew artichoke in a home garden. I thought they required more of a misty, cool, moist, climate to do well. I wasn't aware they grew as far south as Orange County. The only commercial artichokes I have seen are in the sierra foothills east of Monterrey or San Jose. They get that foggy, misty air off the bay almost every evening.

In the first photo, the tomatoes appear to have ribs like some varieties of heirloom tomatoes. I'm pretty sure the tomatoes are the same in the second photo as in the first photo, but they look more like Better Boy or Early Girl. Very Nice.
Ted

[Charlie MV]

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[ARose4Heaven]

Hey, my first time here on the forum. I spend most of my time out weeding or on the Backyardchicken forum. This is just my second year out of CRP, so I am still fighting the weeds nonstop. Those nice clean corn rows are just a dream this year.

All Ya'll southern folk with your tomatoes and beans make me jealous. I haven't any red tomatoes or Pole beans yet.

But my onions got just huge, and the carrots have done well. Sold some red carrots at farmer's market last week. I should have planted more of those. People had never seen a red carrot! Wish I had my camera working! I have a vine crop patch that is just going wild!

My biggest problem this year as been the tomato, squash, corn eating yellow lab my hubby keeps. Finally put up electric fence. That stopped him.