Looking good, Eric. This year has not been so good for me with eggplant. For some reason the plants looked good but little fruit. However, I planted some of the same plants in my Mom's garden and she is getting an abundant crop (plants from the same seed). We do not eat a lot of eggplant but I think it is one of the prettiest fruits, such a rich color.DoubleDogFarm wrote:August 7th 2011 First Millionaire Eggplant for the year. I have a few eggplants growing in the greenhouse.
Eric
You keep dreaming!DoubleDog I envy your garden and the veggies that come out of it However, I know someday mine will look like that too
I'm kidding. You know I'm kidding right? Why doesn't anyone believe me. 
). I would go ahead and add the tomatoes and basil (also green onions for more green) at the very end-- just enough for the tomato skins to slip and green onions and basil to wilt. I think I prefer Japanese miso or Chinese Ten Men Djan (black bean) but you could go with Tobanjan (hot pepper paste) if you like hot/spicy.
Grid like pattern. https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=192848#192848garden5 wrote:Great pics, Eric....you're onions look fit for the cover of a magazine. I got a decent onion harvest this year, but they were smaller than usual. I'm thinking this is either due to planting them too close in a grid-like formation, or else it's because they were planted in sandy, marginal soil.
Anyway, I didn't know you had peach trees as well! Do you grow any pawpaws?
How have your blueberries done this year?
Wow, those look great. I have always favored the Sweet 100s but may have to venture out a bit in the future. Great pictures of all your harvest. Thanks for sharing with us, and making us folks down this way remember when.....It is has been too hot for anything other than okra, eggplant and pepper...But, hey, those are pretty good too.DoubleDogFarm wrote:and here are some of the Golden Nugget tomatoes.
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They are like candy.
.. .Well, peaches are a June/July thing down here and we have some good ones in Chilton County, Ala. My favorite recipes go something like this:DoubleDogFarm wrote:Any favorite peach recipes. Nom Nom
Eric
soil, I'm wonder if you mixed coffee grounds into the bed, that would deter them.soil wrote:very nice, I wish I could plant onions. they are gopher food #1 here. planted about 500 a couple years ago. I ended up with 3 and a patch nicely tilled by the gopher.
Gophers are good for something.they do loosen up my real hard clay soil though, I plant in the pockets of soil they pop up to cover the holes they make as its real loose and well drained.
This side of the garden had horse manure tilled in in fall 2009. During this summer 2011 I sprayed the whole garden with one bottle of hydrolyzed fish fertilizer. This bottle made one garbage can full. I mixed and sprayed using a submersible pump, 50ft hose with a ball valve on the end. Two other times I watered with algae water from the duck pond.DDF, great onion harvest!!
Wow, all that from only a 3x8 space? I'm impressed. I guess, looking at your onions I should really space mine farther apart next year. Also, growing them in sandy soil probably didn't help much either.
Do you use any fertilizer on your onions?
DoubleDogFarm wrote:j3703,
Welcome to the forum. Where in SW Washington are you? I was born In Longview and moved to Auburn in 1969.
I tried 3 in 1 and even grafted some of my own 2 in 1. I have to say, I don't like them. One variety always seems to try to out grow the others. One is usually more accessible to diseases and affects the others.
The green tint on my Frost Peach is my fault. I should be more selective while picking. If they are too ripe, they bruise very easy.
Eric
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Good question. I think it has a lot to do with your relative humidity. The ability of onions to keep in storage also is dependent to some extent on your relative humidity. Here with our relative humidity around 20% much of the time, a week of drying the onions is enough. They will also keep all winter hung in an onion bag down the basement.I've got mine in a single layer on 10/20 flats, but I'm not sure how long the let them "air out" for. 2 weeks maybe?
Gopher with onion breath!