Posted on 07/08/2011 5:13:39 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good morning gardeners. I have been planting 2 zucchini plants every year I have had a garden and this year is the first year they have produced more than my wife and I can use. I think their production is due to the four-foot spacing between plants I gave them. I may be able to participate in the annual leave a zucchini on your neighbors porch day this year. It is on August 8th.
I should be getting some ripe tomatoes soon; a few are developing a slight blush. Some netting will have to put up to protect them from the birds; I cant afford to lose any this year. The jalapeno, pimento and bell pepper plants are doing great. There are some nice large pimentos and I am just waiting for them to turn red.
I hope all your gardens are flourishing.
Personally; I can never get enough zucchini bread...
I wish I lived near you because I would take some of your extra zuchini. I love it steamed with onion and a sprinkle of Italian seasoning. My neighbor boils it first till relatively soft and then adds tomato sauce with a lot of garlic and spices. She serves it on top of mashed potatoes. I have a recipe at home if you would like it (I am at the beach for two days and don’t have my recipe books). It is a casserole that uses squash, onion, grated carrot, sour cream, a cream of something soup and stuffing mix. You add cheese as well. It is more of a “Fall or Winter” casserole (it does stick to your ribs and fills you) but very good.
I know many people feel for Texas during the drought, but it’s not the first and won’t be the last. I just hate the 100+ temps every day.
Lady Bender needed a few new potatoes for her Famous Potato Salad so we did a little grouping in the Red Gold patch and came up with these yesterday. The were planted on May 12th with tubers from last years crop....
Total from 3 hills was 28 spuds not counting a few babies...
This is a volunteer that is growing under the fence and into a compost bin...
Wow...Potatoes growing as volunteers. How cool is that. Tough in dry Texas to even get a spud to sprout. :)
Looks like you might be a tad older than me. But I can stay with a fact, that I have never seen it this dry before. (in SE Texas)
We went to my wife's BFF's family get together about two weeks ago, and besides all the good times, everyone there went home with cukes and zukes from one of the family memebers.
I hate it when one of my zukes gets that big. They are good at hiding and I will miss picking one or two at that size they are only good for the compost pile.
Oh yes! The recipe would be most welcome!
I enjoy listing to gardening shows on the radio, especially on Saturdays.
In the Atlanta area, I can listen from 6 AM to noon. Lately I have been listening via the web. I catch Cisco and various others. I have even found one in Australia. Does anyone have a favorite that they could share?
I just got in from the garden just a couple of zukes were ready to pick. I also put up some bird netting all around my surviving tomato plants. That stuff (netting) is a big pain for one person to handle and work with - hard to see it and cut it in the right places. I had trapped a bumble bee inside the netting with the tomato plants. He flew around inspecting the net and finally found his way out at a gap I had left.
Wrong! Grate it and freeze it in 1 cup baggies. Use it for zucchini bread in the winter. M-m-m-m
If the 1957 indicates your birth year, that was the year Texas started coming out of the 56 - 58 drought. I remember the crops in the field and the corn stalks were only about 3 - 4 feet tall and nothing but nubbins instead of ears. Most stock tanks went totally dry.
Did you SEE the wave that just came off Africa? It’s already bigger than Texas!
built one clay pot reservoir for my tomato plants the other day...only 9 more to build now. I even dug a hole and planted it next to a tomato plant. There’s not much room in a 5 gallon bucket for one of those and a tomato plant at the same time. Good thing I planted the tomatoes at the edge of their buckets...
The produce from the Bender Estate could have saved the land of Erin all on its own. Those pictures are just beautiful.
I’m stumped. It’s not a lupine, lobelia, or vervain. Closest I could come to was a hedge nettle. Even looked in Michigan plant databases.
Pictures, please.
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