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Memorial Day harvest...

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Here we grow again...

2014 Garden

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2013 Tomatoes .... Here we GROW!!!!!!

Squash enough for all.... 2013

Spearmint crop for this year....2013

Blackberries are back... 2013

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“BEST EVER” SALSA
 (Moderate heat)

Follow these instructions for the best salsa you will ever eat… Serve it once and friends will be begging for the recipe.

Ingredients:

2 (14.5 oz) cans of stewed tomatoes (original)

¼ med.  white onion

¼ cup cilantro (fresh)

1 teaspoon onion powder

1 teaspoon garlic powder

¼ cup pickled jalapeños slices (less for more mild and more for hot)

Directions:

Place onion, cilantro and jalapeños into a food processor. Hit pulse a few times. Now add tomatoes, onion powder and garlic powder and hit a few more times to mix or once for approx. 3 sec.  Makes 1 quart of that most amazing salsa you will ever taste.

Suggestion:

Eat with Frito’s Scoops

The small tomatoes are Black Cherry tomatoes. This is the first year I have raised them.

This years crop is coming on slowly. However, so far no spider mites. I have used organic sprays this year.

They just keep getting bigger and bigger. This one came out of the garden at 45.80 oz. I swear we think we are seeing all of them and then we run across a monster like this and wonder, "How long have you been hiding?"

"Mega-Cucumber"  This is what happens when you over look a cucumber for a few days. Yes! the scale is correct, 36.70 oz.  Thats over 2 1/4 lbs of future pickle, LOL.

Celebrity tomato plants are making reasonable sized tomatoes this year. Great flavor and large production.

Looking out the kitchen window provides this view of our garden. "2012"

Cucumber Straight Eight from this year's garden.

Black Cherry Tomatoes viewed from the top down.

European Burpless Cucumbers are my favorite. Enjoy growing them also.

We are eating squash already out of this year's garden. 05/12/12

Following a loving rainstorm.  Loaded with large tomatoes. I have picked 3 already. 05/12/12

Cucumber

We have really enjoyed the cucumbers this year. Very tasty!

Zucchini

People say these are too large to eat. They are wrong. Cut in half and rake out the seeds. Bake in oven after coating with olive oil. Cook ground beef in taco seasoning on top of stove. When squash is tender to the fork take out add the ground beef and top with cheese. Return to oven for a few minutes. Take out and enjoy.

Tomatoes etc...

Again, not as large as last year's crop.

Tomatoes 2011

Tomatoes are coming in a little smaller than last year.

Harvest June 18,2011

Although it is hot and dry, the rainwater I am putting on my garden is working.

Bountiful Harvest

The joys of a producing garden. Plenty for ourselves, friends, neighbors and strangers alike.

Tomatoes are in!!!

Tomatoes are coming in daily now. No bottom rot this year. Two attacks by spider mites. No other problems to date.

Squash blossom

Loads of blossoms, many bees and tons of squash.

Squash & cucumber basket

Four types of squash and one lone cucumber somewhere in the pile. Garden is doing GREAT so far!!!!

TOMATO

A good guess about the weight of the larger of these would be over 16 oz. The Bonnie Select came in large last year and they are doing the same this year. One difference I am seeing is the plants seem smaller than usual. We'll have to see how they grow as the summer heats up.

Monster tomatoes 6/4/11

June 4, 2011

Tomatoes are coming in LARGE this year again.

June 4th, 2011

Plants doing well following the spider mite attack. No bottom rot this year. Still watering with rain water.

2011 Garden

Smaller garden this year. Ten (10) tomato plants, ten (10) squash plants, four (4) okra plants and two (2) cucumber plants.

The raised beds are doing their job. The heavy rains have not effected them at all. Also they remain 98% weed-free. The squash and cucumber plants are producing large harvest already.

Tomato plants are heavy with large green tomatoes. Only the Early Girls are ripe and red on the vine to date. I had an attack of spider mites but caught them before they could do too much damage. The brown leaves are due to their attack.

May 29, 2011

Tomatoes, cucumbers and squash are all coming in now. We have been eating out of the garden for about 2 weeks. Early Girls are the only tomatoes ripe, however.