You gotta love July for the garden produce.

[DoubleDogFarm]

Desert King is the variety I have. Looks like I will have a few root suckers. What do you have in trade.

Eric

[Ohio Tiller]

Digging potatoes in the morning they are all done top side so it is time to see what the bottom side looks like.

[jal_ut]

Just picked corn, beans, broccoli, cukes, onions and squash for the market tomorrow morning. I am gonna have a truck load.

[jal_ut]

[Ohio Tiller]

Well I am tired we dug 4 wheel barrels full of these!

Had a pretty good day picking. The tomatoes are finally turning yellow and red. but I still have hundreds that are green! The raccoons found my corn last night and I lost maybe 2/3s of it!

[jal_ut]

Wow! Mighty nice taters.

Aw, too bad about the corn. Darned critters anyway.

[rainbowgardener]

Yup, back when I used to have room to grow corn, I gave up on it, because every critter loves corn, including especially raccoons and deer.

As an herbalist, a lot of my harvest is small. Today I hung a bunch of basil and mint to dry, oven dried and cleaned enough thyme to make a half cup of teeny-tiny leaves, made up and froze 5 dinner size baggies of pesto, distilled 2 one ounce vials of oil of thyme, and made 6 jars of purple basil jelly.

[jal_ut]

Punkin Patch

[Ohio Tiller]

[quote="jal_ut"]Punkin Patch


I am putting in a seperate patch next year for mellons they spread out so badly that I had to stop tilling for weeds way to soon between rows. Those things are at least 25 to 30 foot around.

[jal_ut]

Just got my first ripe cantaloupes. Also got a ripe watermelon.

[JayPoc]

Just did a little picking myself....

[DoubleDogFarm]

Alright, Glue those green bell peppers back on. I like them when they are ripe. Red, Yellow, Orange or white. Much sweeter.


Your harvest looks good

Eric

[DoubleDogFarm]

HEY! My eyes are up here.







Eric

[JayPoc]

Alright, Glue those green bell peppers back on. I like them when they are ripe. Red, Yellow, Orange or white. Much sweeter.


Your harvest looks good

Eric

Agreed....but these ones were destined for a batch of my wife's green pepper jelly. I'm pretty excited about the giant jalapenos though...always only grew the regular ones. The bigguns should be good for stuffing....

[tomf]

It all looks good! Ohio-tiller that is a lot of potatoes. I have been to busy to plant much of a veggie garden but next year I plan to. There are lots of fresh vegetables grown around me, and I even have been given some by my wonderful neighbors. But nevertheless I am green with envy.

[tomf]

HEY! My eyes are up here.







Eric

Nice melons!

[Ohio Tiller]

Picked 26 gallons of these yesterday morning

and I am guessing around 40 tomatoes! 1 watermelon amd 2 cooking pumpkins!

[mattie g]

Alright, Glue those green bell peppers back on. I like them when they are ripe. Red, Yellow, Orange or white. Much sweeter.

Your harvest looks good

Eric

Agreed - I always let them get their color. I often do the same with jalapenos - they get a bit hotter, but develop a sweetness to them as well. Green peppers of any sort seem to have a bitterness that just doesn't go over well with me. I'll use green jalapenos for color contrast though.

Jay...I make my pepper jelley with red jalapenos and red bells (and dried apricots). Similar idea as the green jelly, I'd imagine, but with a little different taste.

[DoubleDogFarm]

HEY! My eyes are up here.







Eric

Nice melons!

They're Synthetic.

Eric

[bryce d]

Last time I had jalapeno jelly, it was like getting hit by a MACK truck.

[jal_ut]

Ohio Tiller, O'migosh, that is a lot of beans. Hope you had sale for them and didn't have to can them.

[JayPoc]

Tomatoes are winding down....including my "mystery potato leaf volunteer" (there's a thread about them on the tomato boards, here: https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/vi ... 78&t=54244

Anyway....just a couple pics....


some of the previously mentioned mystery potato leafs


and some cukes. The vines look like hell, with the vast majority of the leaves looking like some sort of shriveled up mummified mess. Still producing fruit though. I only had 4 plants total, and have gotten great production. I've done 2 big batches of pickles this year along with countless mater and cuke salads....

[Ohio Tiller]

Ohio Tiller, O'migosh, that is a lot of beans. Hope you had sale for them and didn't have to can them.

Nope only canned 26 quarts of this bunch and that did it for me on beans for the year. I gave the rest away to the folks at work and my neighbors. I have never sold a single thing from my gardens as of yet. The In-laws went up and picked 20 gallons yesterday and that’s still not the end of them in I say about 2 weeks I will have that many again. The beans have gone crazy this year!