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08-26-2020 01:10 PM
Our tomatoes are getting ripe as we've had an ample supply of sunlight in central midwest.
08-26-2020 01:23 PM
I would love to have the benefits of a garden, but I don't care for yard work with my pockets full of tissues because of allergies.
Also, we live with quite a lot of trees close in around us. We don't get a lot of sun, and my only color is perriwinkle growing as a ground cover. The rest is hosta and fern.
08-26-2020 01:36 PM
Absolutely we do! I've been working with stewed tomatoes, tomato puree, and tomato powder. I've been chopping peppers for the freezer. We just got our first sweet potatoes from the garden the other day. I canned 11 pints of sweet zucchini relish. We have a good two dozen butternut squashes resting in slings on the fence around the garden. We enjoyed freshly asparagus, tons of green and wax beans, a glorious amount of fresh strawberries and even a few ears of corn.
Gardening is good exercise and it's a good place for DH's "me time". He loves working in his garden. And I love preparing the bounty. I always say, "This is why I retired! To spend time in my kitchen! I'm happy here!" And it's true. I am happy in my kitchen.
DH is 69 and I am 65. His grandfather had a truck patch until well into his 80s.
I realize that I'm in the minority and that's OK with me. I love staying busy and I love playing in the kitchen. And I love the idea that when I take a quart of stewed tomatoes out of the freezer or the pantry, they're my tomatoes (Ok, mine and DH's tomatoes)..
With the way things are going in the US today, it's a good time to have a garden. I'm still baking my own breads and rolls. I'm still playing with my sourdough starter. I'm still making my own pasta. We may not be too thin or too rich, but we will always be well-fed.
08-26-2020 02:09 PM
No. The deer eat everything. Also it's usually too hot to work outside taking care of a garden. Buy my vegetables from the farm. They can do the work.
08-26-2020 04:16 PM
Not a garden per se. I put a tomato plant and a cucumber plant in the flower bed on the side of the house. That cucumber is very productive and quite frankly, I don't want any more. I put a zucchini in a spot next to the garage and it's growing like crazy. I put a cherry tomato in a spot next to the shed in the back and it's doing well. Then I put a banana squash in the back corner of the yard. Yikes! That thing goes 20 ft in both directions and has gone through the chain link fence into the neighbor's yard.
I planted some carrot seeds in a large pot and only got one 1 1/2 inch carrot that tasted nasty. I put some pickling cukes in another big pot and that's not going well either. So no more pot veggies for me. The basil and dill in pots didn't work out either.
I just have to have tomatoes because that's what I exist on during the summer. So I plant them wherever I have a spot of bare dirt, garden or not.
08-26-2020 04:54 PM
I used to do tomatoes and iris in the same bed. By the time the iris died off the tomatoes were doing well. Now that DH is retired, he does squash, tomatoes, green pepper, beets and some type of melon we haven't identified yet. I gave up my canning stuff years ago when I used to be able to buy canned veggies for a quarter a can in a big fall sale at Meijers. Those days are over, but I'm not canning again.
08-26-2020 05:09 PM - edited 08-26-2020 05:11 PM
@colleena --I'm in Woodinville and the cherry toms are starting to ripen, the early girl and patio ones are still green---just a cruddy year for toms I think. they need the warmth of the sun more than just the sunshine---and its been kind of chilly in the a.m. areound here too--in the low 50's--that may have something to do with it too.
08-26-2020 05:26 PM
@CrazyKittyLvr2 When I was growing up, we had a 1/4 acre truck patch. Mom and Dad sold strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and corn. In the fall, they sold apples. They also grew green beans, Lima beans, tomatoes and other things. When dad came home from work, he would put us to work planting and weeding in the garden. Mom and dad worked in the garden after work every day and on Saturdays. It was difficult to move to a house on a quarter acre lot when I got married. However, we planted a 20' by 40' garden. Only recently did we plow it in because we're getting ready to sell. We now have tomatoes and herbs in pots on the patio and a small bed of mint tea. They did well this year.
08-26-2020 05:46 PM
@wagirl Thanks, guess I just need to be patient.
08-26-2020 05:51 PM
Just cherry tomatoes and a green pepper.
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