Too much garden food...

[douglas]

I just can't keep up with it. I must have pulled
20 nana peppers
8 nice size green bells
squash
a bowl of cherry tomatoes
I have so many green tomatoes out there that I will have to give them away when they start turning.
some beets and still more to pull
I have two bowling ball size pumpkins on one vine and one will have to go
I found two watermelon on the vines
I found some musk melons doing well
What a great time of the year

[Laura]

It is a good year for the Garden..our's is behind your's Douglas..but when it goes it will all Be RIPE at the same time..I have lil bitty watermellon's out..nice sunshine squash, the acorn squash has a billizon flower's on them..lot's of flower's on the soybean's..some are on but not big eneough for us to eat..there's dozen's of tomato's out there none red yet..but when they turn it will be like last year..all at once..

[squashnut]

We can and freeze our extras. So far we have canned
14 quarts of chard.
31 pints beets
5 pints baby carrots
and have froze
4 gallon bags snow peas
8 gallon bags Broccolli
1 gallon baby carrots
2 gallons chopped onions
4 heads cabbage
It all helps to keep us outa the grocery store in the winter. Pulled the last of the spring beets this morning and looking for a place to plants some more for table use this fall,
My husbands favorite is home canned beef stew with our carrots potatoes and onions. The summer squash is best in frozen bake bread , relish and pickles with lots of Habenero peppers and onions.

I grow green onions very close together and don't thin, they mature small and look very good in pickle jars. late planted onions are also smal when they mature. Pickled with green beans and other veggies they go great with winter salads.
No dought this is the busiest time of the year.

[Bump]

looks like a good harvest there squashnut.......

[Songbird]

okay, I'm officially jealous!

[douglas]

Some days I haven't been out there but when I do I noticed I have to do some picking boy dem green bells sure do smell good

[Bump]

what are you having for supper Doug .......stuffed green peppers...... I know you always have a good garden brudda...

[Pharmer Phil]

I just realized I was Hungry!!!

[douglas]

Come on over and I'll cut a few open and fill dem wit goodies, I"m getting my camera back in the morning and I'll show a few pics
I'm making beets right now smelling up the house

[lilsparrow]

Gosh, I haven't had a garden in 18 years, y'all are making me miss it!! I used to make the best pickled beets! Oh, and the strawberry and raspberry jam...hmmmm, wonder if I'll be able to grow anything in AL with their clay soil?

[Songbird]

Sure ya will, DAP!! We have clay soil here.
I'm a big believer in layer mulching clay soil to break it down and build it up ( ) yes, really!!

[Bump]

if it's the "red" clay ...you'll have no problem DAP .... ...go ahead pull a plow through it and smell the goodness......

[jeanette]

i'm on the brink of a tomato explosion.. yesterday when i finally got around to pulling the grass around my honey dew melons there are a bunch of little melons hidding in there.. my peppers are doing great.. except the wind keep blowing them over,gotta get out there and tie them up.. getting ready to plant my second crop o peas and radishes...

[Songbird]

Isn't it too hot to give them a good start???
I was thinking of replanting beans and lettuce....maybe I should try peas too...

[squashnut]

I am starting beans and peas. And have lettuce growing under a shade tarp. My tomatoes finally have some nie green tomatoes. But as hot as it is I don't know how those plants are making it out there.
I love those Bannana peppers they always have some thing for me when the other peppers are just thinking about making peppers.

[douglas]

I must have found ten hot peppers on a plant one morning and pulled them, never did I see anything like this before

[Compost Pharmer]

DAP, the best thing I found to break up clay is compost. Every year, this is my 3rd year, I till in about 6 inches of compost. I do it in the fall, because it is not finished. It finishes decomposting over winter and in the spring the garden spot is ready to plant. Down here in Texas, we have to start our gardens in mid to late March do to the hot summers. My tomatoes are starting to dry up. I must have picked about 50 - 75 lbs from 6 plants. Even the neighbors are getting tired all the maters and cucs I have given them.

[Deleted]

No such thing as TOO much garden food.........LOL
Beans ,beans, beans..............
36 quarts canned.......6 gallon frozen......eat'em everyday..........neighbor's close the door when they see me commin........................
Don't ya just love it.....

[Laura]

Have to finish here then I will be blanching Bean's & freezing them..We have ZUKE'S comming out our ear's..

[douglas]

My beans are just starting to come in so it won't be long here in Michigan, three poles are enough for me

[mckenzygirl]

Y'alls gardens sound so wonderful!
Next year, I'm expanding my garden, and I'm planting more veggies! I only have cukes, re onions, and maters, and a few herbs. I went small cuz I didn't know if we'd have a summer like last year or if it would be warmer this summer. Last year I had nothing ripe, and then we had a frost , so that was the end of the garden.
Y'all have encouraged me to plant more next year!

[Songbird]

I was all ready to re-plant, expand and whatever, but now my soil and compost has this virus!!
Phil says I need to start a new compost hole, and that I need to cover the ground with plastic all winter to kill whatever is infesting it!

[deb65802]

someone will have to explain this concept to me. I have six mouths to feed. two grown daughters, hubby and 2 gkids. what is too much food?

I can, freeze, dry everything I can get my hands on. I have a huge freezer for veggies and another one for meat.

too much food pays the electric bill hehehe

[douglas]

It's when everything comes in the same time and the fridge is already full it was a great year last year and I can hardly wait to plant again