What’s in your garden ?

[TommyGavin 790]

This morning brought in some tomatoes and Jalapeños- Basil looking good. Cilantro  was a bust (so far). Couple others herbs my son put in there.  Tomatillos looking promising as well. 

[GutterBoy 2,898]

Got lettuce, cucumbers came in this weekend, had one today.  The rabbits ate the green beans so only got a handful.  Waiting on tomatoes and zuchini

[BeenHereBefore 1,491]

Party.

[Alias Detective 1,390]

Cucumbers, green beans, tomatoes, hot banana peppers, green bell peppers, jalepenos, potatoes and carrots.  The brussel sprouts got bug infested and I pulled them.

Chives, basil, mint, oregano, rosemary and a host of other herbs too.

[posty 2,643]

Don't have a garden...

[TommyGavin 790]

2 minutes ago, posty said:

Don't have a garden...

Of course you don’t. 

[posty 2,643]

Just now, TommyGavin said:

Of course you don’t. 

Too much work involved...  Have better things to do...

[supermike80 1,851]

Beefsteak tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, orange, green, red and hot banana peppers.   Also have a put with thyme, rosemary and a pot for basil.  The basil started awesome and is now starting to look like crap.   The cherry tomato pot got blown over by a storm, twice, so that's gonna suck.   Generally I'm sick of pots..except my very large one I am growing the beefsteaks in.  I bought a little metal box thingy to grow in and my peppers there look awesome.

[Alias Detective 1,390]

13 minutes ago, supermike80 said:

Beefsteak tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, orange, green, red and hot banana peppers.   Also have a put with thyme, rosemary and a pot for basil.  The basil started awesome and is now starting to look like crap.   The cherry tomato pot got blown over by a storm, twice, so that's gonna suck.   Generally I'm sick of pots..except my very large one I am growing the beefsteaks in.  I bought a little metal box thingy to grow in and my peppers there look awesome.

Do you live on concrete?

[RogerDodger 797]

Herbs don't count, too many to list.

Already dug up most of the Potatoes and put in storage.  Lettuce and kale eaten/done.  Ate most of the peas.

Onions, carrots, garlic, beats, cucumbers, zucchini, artichoke, peppers  - all getting really close.

Still waiting on the tomatoes, slow start this year.  Only planted about 10 plants this year from seed.

Pumpkins and squash later.

 

 

 

[supermike80 1,851]

4 minutes ago, Alias Detective said:

Do you live on concrete?

No

[Mike Honcho 5,202]

Gladiolus, day lilies and 2 dead hookers. 

[Reality 3,120]

Nothing better than a homegrown tomato.

Have peppers, onions, & some herbs as well.

[Hawkeye21 2,388]

Just tomatoes.  I use to grow peppers too but they never produced very much.  I also have asparagus that regrows every spring and some wild onions.  That's pretty much it in my garden but I have wild edibles all over my acreage.  The wild blackberries just finished up and now the wild grapes are getting ripe.  I had some mulberries and gooseberries growing this year.

[TommyGavin 790]

1 hour ago, posty said:

Too much work involved...  Have better things to do...

It’s pretty satisfying making salsa from ingredients from your backyard- just saying. 

[Hawkeye21 2,388]

4 minutes ago, TommyGavin said:

It’s pretty satisfying making salsa from ingredients from your backyard- just saying. 

Absolutely.  I love making fresh salsa.  It also hard to beat eating a cherry tomato right off the vine or slicing up a big tomato and putting a little salt on it.  Yum!

[posty 2,643]

6 minutes ago, TommyGavin said:

It’s pretty satisfying making salsa from ingredients from your backyard- just saying. 

Maybe, but still too much damn work IMO...

[Hawkeye21 2,388]

Just now, posty said:

Maybe, but still too much damn work IMO...

What's so hard about growing tomatoes?  Plant them and wait.  If it's dry for a long period of time you have to water them.  You can spend a lot of time on them but it can be as simple as that.  I check on my garden a couple times a week and might spend 5 minutes at the most doing it.

[easilyscan 899]

As a result of laziness, nothing but dirt!

[Drizzay 708]

Cherry tomatoes - they are growing like crazy.  We probably have close to 60 that are still green

Brussel Sprouts - They are just starting to form on the stalk

Green beans - we've picked at least 4 dozen, with a bunch more growing

strawberries - this plant never took off.  We've maybe gotten 5 or 6

Salsa Peppers - have picked about a dozen and have 3-times that much growing;  they are nice and hot

Jalapenos - they are just starting to get big;  there a bunch of them

Basil - growing like crazy

Thyme - growing like crazy

Rosemary - growing like crazy

Yellow Onion - starting to get nice and fat.  Already had to replant them deeper/farther apart.

 

[TommyGavin 790]

30 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

Absolutely.  I love making fresh salsa.  It also hard to beat eating a cherry tomato right off the vine or slicing up a big tomato and putting a little salt on it.  Yum!

We did just that today. Salt and a little balsamic vinegar- double yum. 

[TommyGavin 790]

33 minutes ago, posty said:

Maybe, but still too much damn work IMO...

It’s really not. Just add garden to the list of things Posty does not do. 

[Fireballer 2,640]

Maters, cukes, snap beans, squash, sweet corn, variety of peppers.

[HTH 95]

I never had any luck growing Dill.

[Mookz 1,338]

Maybe I don't really want to know how your garden grows.

[jerryskids 6,630]

1 hour ago, TommyGavin said:

It’s pretty satisfying making salsa from ingredients from your backyard- just saying. 

Indeed.  We have lots of jalapenos and serranos; wife makes salsa all of the time.  That's really all we have though, besides basil and parsley (basil grows remarkably well here).  It's just a few plants my wife stuck up in a planter; I haven't shown the interest to expand it, nor has she.  Maybe this winter I'll look into it. 

[Strike 5,314]

2 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

Indeed.  We have lots of jalapenos and serranos; wife makes salsa all of the time.  That's really all we have though, besides basil and parsley (basil grows remarkably well here).  It's just a few plants my wife stuck up in a planter; I haven't shown the interest to expand it, nor has she.  Maybe this winter I'll look into it. 

I thought only cactus grew in 115 degree heat

[Hawkeye21 2,388]

1 hour ago, TommyGavin said:

We did just that today. Salt and a little balsamic vinegar- double yum. 

Tomato, mozzarella, basil and balsamic vinegar.  Delicious.

[Hawkeye21 2,388]

I forgot that I have some sweet corn growing in my field.  I didn't plant it though, another family member did.

[BeenHereBefore 1,491]

My Secret Garden

 

[posty 2,643]

1 hour ago, TommyGavin said:

It’s really not. Just add garden to the list of things Posty does not do. 

Farmer's markets, that is the smartest thing to do...  Support them...

[supermike80 1,851]

1 hour ago, Hawkeye21 said:

Absolutely.  I love making fresh salsa.  It also hard to beat eating a cherry tomato right off the vine or slicing up a big tomato and putting a little salt on it.  Yum!

My mother in law used to grow sweet millions.  She'd bring us gallon sized zip lock bags of them. Ate them like candy 

[jerryskids 6,630]

1 hour ago, Strike said:

I thought only cactus grew in 115 degree heat

Technically, the Sonoran desert has many plants and trees which survive the heat.  Obviously the plants you tend to get in Mexican food are among them, including peppers, onions, certain legumes.  In fact I believe that all trees in our desert are legumes, which uniquely generate their own nitrogen:

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In legumes and a few other plants, the bacteria live in small growths on the roots called nodules. Within these nodules, nitrogen fixation is done by the bacteria, and the NH₃ they produce is absorbed by the plant. Nitrogen fixation by legumes is a partnership between a bacterium and a plant.

We usually get monsoon storms this time of year, but we've gotten none to go with the killer heat.  Something about the high pressure being in the wrong place to create the monsoon effect.  We are close to trying a rain dance to see if it helps.   

[Kopy 561]

Definitely not broccoli and cauliflower. 3rd year in a row I've had a bad crop. Probably won't even do them next year. Everything else doing good though.