Almost there! Yikes, what am I going to do with all these raspberry canes?
I wonder just how tall those raspberry canes are now. That's a 6' fence behind them. I'll bet they're nearly 10 feet high.Since it was too wet around the raspberries, I grabbed a colander and headed for the bean patch. It had been two days since I'd picked, so some of the beans got pretty big. They'll either get used as shelly beans, or cooked for the dogs to eat. My dogs love their green beans!
While I was picking the beans, I noticed a few tomatoes on the little Minigold, so I used the front of my shirt to hold those.
While I weighed....
Otto watched. I think Annie was in the house keeping cool.Speaking of tomatoes, those Cherokee Purples are something else! While many of my plants only have blossoms or a few small fruits, I counted over 50 tomatoes on the one CP that's planted in a bucket! The two that are planted in the ground don't seem to be nearly so prolific.
The Cherokee Purple and its neighboring plants got a bit out of bounds. I had to tie them up with cotton clothesline!
The Cherokee Purple and its neighboring plants got a bit out of bounds. I had to tie them up with cotton clothesline!
Shirt gardening - me too! LOL, inflicting zuchhini on the neighbors, that had me laughing, my version is "ding, dong-ditch"!!
ReplyDeleteErin, LOL....I won't be able to give her the zukes for long, I planted two hills of them in her yard, and they are just now blooming! Before long, the two of us will be leaving them on doorsteps in the middle of the night ;-)
ReplyDeleteThere's a joke around here that we live in an area where you don't dare leave your car unlocked for fear of returning to the front seat loaded with zucchini! Gotta love this time of year!
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Okay, another newbie question for you. What are shelly beans, and do they need to be cooked any differently compared to regular green beans?
ReplyDeleteThat is just too funny about the sprinkler thru the window! I am sure you weren't thinking that at the time though!
ReplyDeleteDirt Lover, I'm not usually that good at growing zucchini for some reason. I've already picked half as much this week as I did all of last year! I see a chocolate zucchini cake in my near future ;-)
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Thyme2garden, they are the immature beans in green beans. You know, when the big ones hide from you, and they get actual beans inside...they just get popped out of the pod and into the pan to cook with the green beans. I love them. You can actually buy shelly beans in cans at the grocery store.
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Shawn Ann, I have to give Pat bad time. If it isn't her house alarm going off at 6:30 a.m., it's her sprinkler giving me a shower at 5! She's a character, she'll get a kick out of it, and say "Are you mad at me?" and I'll say "Yes", and then we'll laugh about it.
If it is that hot, maybe you should thank her and your other neighbor for cooling you off? A cool shower seems real nice on a hot day. And BTW bananas actually sound good in jello. I don't think I've every seen anyone do that though.
ReplyDeleteDaphne, cool showers are nice if you're expecting them! Not so much when you're not.
ReplyDeleteIf you put bananas in Jell-O, be sure to push them under so they're coated, and plan to eat it all in one day, 'cause the bananas will turn dark. Bananas, with a layer of miniature marshmallows on top...nummy!
I would think the neighbor's sprinkler would be quite exhilirating during the sweltering heat....Maybe even conduct your own wet t-shirt contest. Haha!
ReplyDeleteEven at 95 a cold shower would be nice :-) Those CP tomatoes are the best, always one of the first big tomatoes to fruit and lots of them. Last year with the cold weather & blight they were the only plant to produce well in my garden.
ReplyDeleteDan, I can hardly wait for them! If they taste as good as they perform, they will probably be the main tomato in my garden next year.
ReplyDeleteEG, if I had a wet T-shirt in the garden, the veggies would probably keel over and die from laughing.
ReplyDeleteI've done the hold-produce-in-front-of-shirt trick. ;)
ReplyDeleteOtto has such soulful eyes. I'm in puppy love just from that sweet photo!
Good news about your Cherokee Purple. Fifty! And grown in a bucket! We don't have any that prolific. I'm impressed.
Meredith, I have never ending puppy love for Otto and Annie. Two of the sweetest dogs alive, even though they do bark, bark, bark and get on Gran's nerves! At least they are sweet and well mannered about 95% of the time.
ReplyDeleteThat CP is in a bottomless bucket. It's getting the best of both worlds.
Granny, I kinda choked with laughter as I imagined waking to water coming through the window. What a way to start the day!!! Sounds like you have a neat neighbor to be able to laugh over craziness together.
ReplyDeleteI can hardly wait to plant CPs after reading from everyone about how good they taste. I wonder if it is too late to plant them in my zone 7B.
Debiclegg, I would think it might be too late. I've never tasted them, so I'm anxious to do so. If they are as good as their reputation, I'll sure be saving some seeds. You can get an early start next year.
ReplyDeleteThose tomatoes are really yummy! I love these kinds of tomatoes. Especially the cherry tomatoes! I love using them for my recipes! This post made me excited to get my next harvest.
ReplyDeleteRose Gold, I'm anxious for my large heirlooms to ripen. I still haven't tasted this year's "perfect" tomato!
ReplyDeleteYour garden is great! The raspberry canes can be mix with your kitchen garbage, animal manure and dried plants or leaves. You can make fertilizer out of it. Just make a pit with a depth that you prefer. Then put your garbage, manure, and dried or fresh leaves and then cover it with soil. Repeat the second procedure until it will be come layers of garbage and soil. After that, you can just wait until all of the materials are rot. This is a long procedure but it is really effective to make your soil richer than an ordinary soil.
ReplyDeleteCrystal Small, trench composting s an excellent way to go if you have enough space to do it. However, I have such a small garden area, every square foot is taken for planting. There is honestly not an area left that is large enough to dig a compost pit! It is my preferred method, and the way my grandmother enriched her garden soil. Most of my garden is in raised beds, as they are where a large maple tree was removed two years ago, and the remaining roots make it impossible to dig up the area. Even my compost barrel sits on ground that has too many old roots to get a shovel into it.
ReplyDeleteAs my beds are cleared out for winter, those that will not be replanted right away will have the unfinished compost from the barrel placed into trenches in them.