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jrjo
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 Posted: 08/28/03 - 12:22 Post subject: The garden harvest
I know we had a good thread back in the spring with what all was getting planted. So how'd it turn out?
We've been eating tomatos like no tomorrow. I kid you not in saying I have to reach UP to pick some. They're like trees! The dinner table also has plenty of beets, peppers and brussel sprouts. There's also 8 nice pumpkins getting well beyond beach ball size and starting to orange up. That'll make some good autumn pies.... mmm-mmmm.
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robp
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 12:44 Post subject:
I don't plant a garden but the locals in this area are having a banner crop. Sweet corn right now is awesome, hard to find a bad ear of it.
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omega lambda
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 13:16 Post subject:
We had a most pathetic crop of tomatoes this year, but the sweet basil is taking over the yard. It is usually the other way around.
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AlaninTX
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 13:18 Post subject:
I am covered up in tomatoes.
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airehead
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 13:21 Post subject:
| AlaninTX wrote: | | I am covered up in tomatoes. |
That's an odd visual.... 
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omega lambda
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 13:25 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | | AlaninTX wrote: | | I am covered up in tomatoes. |
That's an odd visual.... |
But not unpleasant...
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airehead
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 13:26 Post subject:
| omega lambda wrote: | | airehead wrote: | | AlaninTX wrote: | | I am covered up in tomatoes. |
That's an odd visual.... |
But not unpleasant... |
no....
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AlaninTX
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 13:37 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | | omega lambda wrote: | | airehead wrote: | | AlaninTX wrote: | | I am covered up in tomatoes. |
That's an odd visual.... |
But not unpleasant... |
no.... |
ummmm...overrun, then? 
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Dancer
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 13:46 Post subject:
Lettuce came and went. Was very good but always a short crop.
Basil is still around and we're loving it.
Tomatoes are growing like weeds. The past few years we never had ripe tomatoes. Our black lab Nick would wait for them to be perfect and he'd sneak them off the vine and eat them. We would even put the basil around the tomatoes to make it hard for him and he still picked the tomatoes he just smelt like basil. Nick died in May so this year we have a full crop.  He never taught Sophie, our yellow lab, how to pick them.
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TimRuns
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 14:52 Post subject:
We had strawberries and cherries earlier this summer and now we are looking forward to a nice grape harvest.  Our apple, plum, and peach trees however are fruitless this year. 
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rolling rock
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Posted: 08/28/03 - 15:26 Post subject: Re: The garden harvest
| jrjo wrote: | I know we had a good thread back in the spring with what all was getting planted. So how'd it turn out?
We've been eating tomatos like no tomorrow. I kid you not in saying I have to reach UP to pick some. They're like trees! The dinner table also has plenty of beets, peppers and brussel sprouts. There's also 8 nice pumpkins getting well beyond beach ball size and starting to orange up. That'll make some good autumn pies.... mmm-mmmm. |
you had me at blueberry jrjo.
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