[BipolarBob]

I am picking squash, tomatoes and peppers. My first year of picking tomatoes before the 4th of July (raised from seed). Buying tomatoes from the store with tomatoes on them already is cheating in my book. YMMV. My raised beds are enclosed with plastic fencing and yesterday I found a 4 foot water snake ensnared in it (dead). yucko. I have about 50 tomato plants and they are coming on meaning their will be some canning in my immediate future. They are mostly yellow and orange for low acid. We generally make salsa with it.

[GaltAdonis]

"My first year of picking tomatoes before the 4th of July..."

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Good job!

Decades ago my grandfather and great uncle would compete each
year at exactly that - who could harvest the biggest & ripest tomatoes
before the 4th.

Grandad usually won.

Me, this year - I got a late start - I'm still just looking at large acorn sized...

[wita]

We could be two or three States North of your location. So cheating is fairly common here. Not to mention that we have gone through two of the largest hail storms we have ever experienced in over forty years in South Dakota. Fortunately our two grape plants and one tomato were under the eve of the house and protected. The trees weren’t stripped but enough to fill the gutters with leaf and shingle gravel.

I would be interested to know if your raised beds are built by you and the composition and depth of them.

Lastly your home page is an indicator of just how active and fertile your mind is. Reality left behind. I couldn’t begin to compete, buy I can appreciate the effort. Certainly no relationship to your screen name.

[Psalm 73]

"I am picking squash, tomatoes and peppers."

Man, you guys are harvesting already? Must be sweet living in God's country.

We did pull our garlic last week, sub-par harvest, but hey - garlic!
Strawberries are done, too - only got a couple of gallons this year - but a bumper crop of raspberries is still coming off of the bushes, so that's pretty sweet.

Also, I didn't get seed potatoes in time, (bummed) - but as I walked past the upper garden - tons of potato plants - I must have done a lousy job of harvesting last year. So it's just a matter of tossing soil on them every week or so.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

BB Interesting home page! PBS level traditional stream of consiousness folk brag! :0

What do they say Pollard? Never new what Missoury was till I hit ole Arkansas! (My brother lives in Mtn. Home! I need to call him. )

50 tomatoes = serious gardening, serious canning.

Off to do stuff!