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mousiegirl · ‎03-09-2010

Yesterday, I collected three bunches of my cash crop, basil, from the garden, and processed five containers of basil for the freezer, which makes sixteen to date, and more to come. I always aim for a year's supply, so that it lasts until the next year's harvest.

My other cash crop is many varieties of chilies, which I also freeze to use throughout a year. I slice, freeze on a tray, then put them in freezer baggies, and this year, I am hoping to have enough Purple Beauty bell peppers for the freezer as I like to saute them for tacos here and there. The yellow peppers are still green but nice and big now, and I have one large eggplant so will cook that soon. I grill it, then drizzle a vinaigrette over, so yummy. Because the heat isn't as hot as it should be for the heat loving veges, they are not growing as rapidly, except for basil.

My third cash crop is tomatillos, have three plants going. I made three containers of salsa verde for the freezer yesterday, though we used one last night in chicken and zucchini quesadillas.

I have collected yellow and green flat beans, blanched, and frozen about five baggies. I was hoping for a ton, but again, I think it is the weather. I am thinking I may plant more soon, as they should will flourish in the September heat.

I collect about five raspberries every other day, need more heat! The blackberry plants are preparing for the next flush soon, so looking forward to that.

My favorite tomato this year is Big Rainbow, which seeds I bought at Gurney's, huge yellow/red, mostly yellow, and a red one I bought from Cottage Farms through zulily, a set of six different tomatoes, but we are eating all.

I grow everything from seed except the Cottage Farm plants.

I am getting a few cucumbers here and there, but now lots of flowers so am hoping for a nice bumper crop, and my zucchini plants give a few every two-three days, Contender is the variety, just produce forever, with feeding.

1905salad · ‎08-28-2016

Wow mousiegirl! That is so wondeful to grow all that and have such an abundance of fresh fruits and vegetable that you can enjoy all year long. Your garden must be huge.

pooky1 I hope Maria is feeling better, she's really had a rough go of it. I hope youre doing well also. It's hard when your loved one is so sick.

Winifred, It's so hot there, I'm surprised it's still so hot in late August.

I have not really cooked much as my husband was traveling and I only had to cook for myself. I did visit my parents and got to eat at my favorite restaurant, the one that serves 1905 salad. I can make it myself, and I do eat it often but it tastes so much better when they make it. This is my last day of summer vacation. I had a wonderful summer and now it's back to real life. Have a great day everyone.

Pooky1 · ‎12-23-2015

thank you 1905salad. hope everyone has a great day. maria got a phone call last night from place that comes out and draws blood and manages her iv line. they told her to stop iv meds and there coming out to take out her iv out of her arm and to eat somes bananas and to drink gadaer aid .doctor told them to have her stop meds but didnt say why. she was freaking out because they had said the meds can be very rought on kidneys. so shes wondering if nows theres a problem with her kidneys so today shes calling doctor to find out whats going on.

mousiegirl · ‎03-09-2010

@1905salad wrote:
Wow mousiegirl! That is so wondeful to grow all that and have such an abundance of fresh fruits and vegetable that you can enjoy all year long. Your garden must be huge.

pooky1 I hope Maria is feeling better, she's really had a rough go of it. I hope youre doing well also. It's hard when your loved one is so sick.

Winifred, It's so hot there, I'm surprised it's still so hot in late August.

I have not really cooked much as my husband was traveling and I only had to cook for myself. I did visit my parents and got to eat at my favorite restaurant, the one that serves 1905 salad. I can make it myself, and I do eat it often but it tastes so much better when they make it. This is my last day of summer vacation. I had a wonderful summer and now it's back to real life. Have a great day everyone.

@1905salad My vege garden is not large. I grow almost everything in pots and two large tall boxes that DH built. I grow tomatoes, eggplant, and tomatillos in fifteen gallon black pots left from trees that we have bought. I grow bush beans, peppers and basil in either clay pots or grow bags, that I bought on zulily, very inexpensive. I am also growing four potato grow bags of Yukon gold.

I bought a truckload of vege mix from a garden company which sells everything you could think of for garden and landscape, also buy truckloads of compost, but the vege mix doesn't have to be bought every year. I also use kitchen compost that we have in a large wood box with a door for easy removal with a shovel, for the veges, and I use organic fertilizer.

The pole beans and cucumbers are growing in the ground, and the blackberries also, though for two years, I grew two blackberry, thornless, plants in fifteen gallon pots and they did better in the pots than they are doing in the ground, but we just planted them about four months ago, so probably need time to really get going. The raspberries are in one of the wooden boxes.

If I had a large vege garden, I could grow in the ground and so much more than I do now such as melons, etc., but I chose to have multiple flower and plant gardens so those take up most of the garden.

I am eyeing another area that could work for melons IF I remove all of the Irises, and I am so fed up with the sporadic blooming, if at all, that I am just about ready to toss them, except for the few that bloom every year, don't understand why they are not blooming as I have been growing them for decades, so know what I am doing is correct, so will give them until next Spring, then out they go if no blooms, lol.