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maybe i could suggest planting something to make you feel better
but
you have to know that if you plan on growing your own stuff..you are at the beck and call of
it when it's ready...the timeline is never a given

this week my five pounds of yukon gold and red chieftan potaoes turned into 50 pounds each
but we had to dig them and now clean and store them...but it's more than enough for the next year.. i keep downsizing cause i still have potatoes from two years ago

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the using onions  (sweet walla - wallas) are ready to be pulled..
that's the first two rows.. they only stay about 6/7 weeks
but the 3rd and 4th rows are copra..keeping onions..they will stay a whole year

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some pickles are already in crocks..we are eating some everyday..yummm
cukes-onions-dill  in sour cream..
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i already have 24 pints of tomato juice and looks like today i do the next batch
i really hate cleaning all those jars..sigh
those big cukes are for seed saving
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growing your own food gives you an appreciation for those who came before..as well as
the swelling of pride with the knowledge that you can make it...
is it easy...a big fat no
is it worth it... oh yeah...even getting older and  having a smaller garden
it is sooooooooooo worth it...

grow something.. you'll be surprize how it affects so many parts of you
and you won't have time to bitch and moan that the world is going to hell in a handbasket

What a beautiful harvest, Sky, You are an amazing farmer!:D

We grow some blue lake beans and snap peas, but down here in Tampa area we need a lot of care for good veg to thrive.

Now, I will say I grow some nice green onions though, and everything that grows underground does very well!

I may have to plant some potatoes this year, they look delicious!

Thanks for the inspiration!

Cheers
Dave

One of the biggest benefits of growing your own veggies, is that you get to know, and enjoy, what fresh vegetables are supposed to taste like. So much of our fresh veggies today have to be harvested before they are actually ripe. And that is mostly because of the time needed to get them into market at the grocery stores,

Because of that, many people don't even know what a "real tomato" is supposed to taste like. Store bought tomatoes may have the "look", but very few of them have the taste, unless you can buy at a "farmers market". And that pretty much is the same for most other fruits and vegetables.

Of course another problem is relative to the "engineering" that has been done on some of our fruits and vegs. Like strawberries for instance. Most of them in the stores today have been modified so much, they are huge. They look like giant strawberries, but have little of the real strawberry taste. The strawberries of the past were small, and when ripened, were so sweet and delicious, they hardly needed any sugar - just whipping cream!  ;)

So, you are right. Adding fruits and vegetables to your "gardening" can drastically increase the "enjoyment (and challenges) of gardening, and also produce results you can enjoy eating - - most people don't eat their "flowers"!! :))

Quote from: sky otter on July 26, 2012, 02:39:45 PM

maybe i could suggest planting something to make you feel better
but you have to know that if you plan on growing your own stuff..
you are at the beck and call of it when it's ready...the timeline is never a given

Sky, you an inspiration for me! I have so enjoyed your pics of all
of your garden, your efforts, and your harvests!

maybe i could suggest planting something to make you feel better

This is such an important truth!

I am so very thankful to have the opportunity to garden,
and grow our own fruit and veggies!

One year in particular I remember that our garden efforts had been
very weak for years, during years when...and as life often does, there
were a few curves.

We decided to till the garden area to get rid of the weeds, and
a blessing from above, it rained afterwards, creating the perfect
spring for seeds to sprout right from the left overs.

We had so many volunteer plants we could not keep up
with them! And, the gardening efforts were like therapy,
and even though the curves were still there life was
just better all around!

So, yes seeds give forth life, and bring us food from the earth,
and the food does indeed work for us!

I was so excited by our gift from the earth and Heaven, I took pictures
every so often of the growth from our "volunteers".

We had some most awesome eggplant!

Here, the volunteer plants...


And here, our first harvests.


We had Tomatillos, a forest of them!


I found some great recipies and here is one of the early batch
of Salsa. We had salsa and sauce, I had so many of these little
green gems I started giving away bags and buckets, and asked
my neighbors to come and pick them!  ;D


Then, I was so inspired by all of the volunteers, I had to plant some
companions for them!

Here, some cukes from that year too!

Work for Food?  AWESOME

I could use the help around here getting that garden going and have plenty of food to pay with

:P

Wow BTS are they Green Zebra's ?

They are now my offical fave tom :D

Quote from: Somamech on July 26, 2012, 09:05:38 PM
Wow BTS are they Green Zebra's ?

I think a Green Zebra is a tomato ( I love em too)

However these plants from my garden are Tomatillos,
fairly certain they are Toma Verde due to the height
of them...taller than me if I let them vine up.

http://myfolia.com/plants/21-tomatillo-physalis-ixocarpa/varieties/652-toma-verde

Ahh them looks nice mate ;)

Green Zebras...Grew one last year and suffered a really odd Tom disease along with odd weather here in Melbourne Oz. 

This year Green Zebra's are my go to crop oddly LOL

Such a damn nice tastingmato :D

Quotemaybe i could suggest planting something to make you feel better

But how do you grow beer in a bottle? That makes me feel good!

All you Green Thumbs have the gene for this, If I get near a plant it dies in a week.

Brown Thumb Deuem.

lol

deuem...beer in a bottle.. i don't know how to do that..and i don't think i'm going to try..
i did try making mead once..came out pretty good

you made me think of my dad..in his later years he thought he could make his own beer..and he did.. a lot..but the dang stuff never got to be beer cause every day he had to see how far alonge it was.. and by the time it should have been ready... it was all gone..hahahahahahahahah


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Quote from: deuem on July 27, 2012, 05:32:51 AM

But how do you grow beer in a bottle? That makes me feel good!

All you Green Thumbs have the gene for this, If I get near a plant it dies in a week.

Brown Thumb Deuem.

Well you could take all the rotting fruits and veggies and cook up some mash...

Won't make beer, but make ya feel better :P

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The Two-Dollar Crockpot Still (http://www.happymountain.net/moonshine%20still.html)

QuoteThose with an inclination toward distilling will readily see how this one works. If you aren't sure, my book The Alaskan Bootlegger's Bible explains it all in plain English. It is illegal to make your own whiskey in the US, or to possess a still without a permit. This is because Uncle Sam derives much money from taxing whiskey producers.

It is not illegal to know how to make whiskey and some countries do allow their citizens to make their own. A lot of Americans have made their own however, not only old time moonshiners and bootleggers, but their modern day counterparts who worked in Mid Eastern oil fields and actually printed underground manuals on how to do it.

In a meld of old and new, you'll learn how a variety of ingenious stills were built, operated and  recipes for everything for traditional corn "likker," to bathtub gin. (2 lbs. sugar per gallon of water, bakers yeast and a couple of juniper berries.) You'll also learn the hazards of distilling, to include poisoning, fires, scalding, explosions and jail.

Don't try this at home kids!

I have the cure for Fruit in Bottle :P

This Blows me away as I know in Japan and Taiwan they have done some silly things, which may seem silly... but thy sorta make sense in some odd way LOL

Best peach I have ever had was in Taiwan.. honestly nutz to taste... perfect peach so maybe the bottle the perfect peach aint such a bad idea LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sLC_yqDJCI

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i was real impressed with the square watermellons first time i saw them

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and in finding a pic for you..found some other interesting shapes...

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yummmmmmmm

Otterpop!  You make me want to turn my entire backyard into a veggie garden!  I think I will start small though, and do some container gardening.  Next week will be some small pots with the grandkids.  Try out some of those seeds you sent.

Shasta