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06-23-2010, 07:59 PM
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Any Gardeners..
...in our midst? We have quite a large garden that we are harvesting from...corn, okra, green beans, yellow squash, zucchini, cukes, and potatoes. It keeps us busy for sure both outside and in the kitchen.
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06-24-2010, 07:48 AM
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06-24-2010, 02:34 PM
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You just reminded me of the power of the zucchini, Ione. When I was working at a place in Santa Rosa, I had a boss who planted the darn things. He kept bringing the things to the office for us. One fine day, he announced that that the things had finally stopped growing. Oh, how glad we were!
About a week later, he had gone out to the garden to get something. As he was relating this story to me, he looked as though he was shell shocked. He told me that he had found the mother of all zucchini. He said that the "Damn thing was at least 3 foot long." And no, he had the good grace not to bring the thing to the office. Anne
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06-25-2010, 12:35 PM
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Yes, those zukes do go crazy...but this year we haven't had much success. We think since our bee hive died there wasn't as much pollination on the zuke flowers. However, that didn't stop the yellow squash. My frig is full!
Raji...by the end of the summer I am quite tired of cooking, freezing, canning all the produce. But it's great to have over the winter months. Ione - not a huge okra fan but hubby is. I can do it deep fried dunked in ketchup. 
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06-25-2010, 01:33 PM
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Okra is great in gumbo. The slime actually thickens the broth and you don't even notice it, while the flesh adds just a bit of crunch. I can't make gumbo without it.
I'd love to have a garden but I'm such a woose about the heat of a Florida Summer. After May, you'll usually find me indoors. Maybe when we retire...
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06-25-2010, 02:42 PM
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06-25-2010, 09:35 PM
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We have a large patch for veggies. I have a greenhouse now with cucumber, egg plant and tomatoes all doing well. I planted a Melon for the first time, not sure how that is gonna pan out, but the chillies are amazing.....
We have awesome lettuce, peas, beans, runner beans, broad beans, beets carrots potatoes, garlic, corn, greens.....onions as well.... Infact the garden is looking really great now that we have most of the renovation work completed and the garden room is almost done. We are very busy hardly anytime to be in the house, the Summer so far has been incredibly warm and beautiful........all our soft fruits are coming on a treat as aer the fruit tress, cherries ready to munch.....
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06-26-2010, 12:58 AM
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I garden to feed my family- urban plots on less than a half acre.
Back yard is raised beds that produce everything from lettuce to tomatoes to beans to garlic. Along the perimeter of the yard fence we have fruit- ever bearing strawberries, raspberries ( right now coming in ), currants and grapes. My front yard garden has our squash running among flowers, basil and other herbs and I did potato bins this year too. I can feed about 50% of my yearly produce from my own yard now but it took several years to do this. Quite the learning curve to understand my growing zone, canning and drying foods. Our local farmers and market fill in the rest. My family is slowly going 100% seasonal fruits and veggies but giving up mangos and avocados will be my downfall. Read Animal Vegetable, Miracle by Kingsolver and One Hundred Mile Diet a few years back and it all started to come together after that. Truth be told though, I find tremendous peace and joy coming home and looking at my garden then planning dinner..... Next up- chickens?
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06-26-2010, 06:41 PM
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I'm so jealous of you all. With my knee messed up I can't garden. A friend got my garden spot all ready for planting, then my knee gave out. Rats!
Anne
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07-11-2010, 03:35 AM
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Raw! In salads.....? Wow! Is it whole or sliced?
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08-02-2010, 02:20 PM
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Hubby eats okra raw from garden. I tried a bite and it wasn't too bad!
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08-15-2010, 06:25 PM
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My poor flower garden is a wreck. It's been too hot for me to work in it at all (I don't sweat much, so get overheated quickly), and at both dawn and dusk, the mosquitoes take over. Even though it's been beastly hot this summer (100+ for days on end now), we still get some thunder showers now and then. No wide-spread steady rain--just these little bursts that move on quickly. I've let my grass go dormant; it will come back when the weather cools and we get some early autumn rains.
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08-17-2010, 02:19 PM
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I hear you...! Even though we had a plentiful harvest, the HOT weather did put a damper on some of our veggy growth. I'd love to have a flower garden/butterfly garden, but haven't endeavored into that realm of outside beautification.
Mosquitoes were bad here as well in the garden...sort of ruins the fun, doesn't it?
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08-17-2010, 10:17 PM
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