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We've been so tied up with moving my parents that I hadn't been out there for a few days -- I picked a number of cucumbers (some might be past their prime), a bowl full of tomatoes -- grape and regular, and a couple of jalepenos. I pinched one basil plant back, and now my hands smell of tomatoes and basil. I am still totally brain dead when it comes to wanting to cook dinner (but I don't want any more fast food or pizza), but this helps. I could just sit and sniff..... ;) :)
Now, what was it I couldn't wait to have basil and tomatoes to make again this summer.
Canice
06-08-2005, 03:47 PM
Gorgeous, Beth! Sounds like you're well on your way to a lovely, refreshing salad or salsa! :)
Alethea
06-08-2005, 05:22 PM
I'm so envious. We're so far away from basil or tomatoes here in NE. But I could practically smell them when I read your post. Just brushing my hand against either of those plants, tomatoes in particular, triggers some kind of Proustian sensation or memory in me. I swear there's no other smell like it. :) Enjoy your meal!
Cookin4Love
06-08-2005, 05:24 PM
I think you wanted to make bruschetta. :)
Originally posted by Cookin4Love
I think you wanted to make bruschetta. :)
That was what DH and I decided as I talked to him from my cell on the way to the store. We're going to grill fish, make brushetta, probably some rice and maybe a melon salad. My feet are just too tireed to get in their right now. I'm letting DH start the chopping. I'll try to send a waft your way....
Not only did we enjoy our bruschetta, but we enjoyed it so much that we decided to hold the gorgeously fresh fish until tomorrow. I think that makes it official -- summer is here! ;)
Canice
06-09-2005, 01:36 AM
:) :)
I hope better days are coming, Beth! Sounds like summer arrived just in time..
jillybean03
06-09-2005, 05:42 AM
I'm so jealous. My tomato plants just went in the ground 2 weeks ago, and aren't even a foot high yet! July... maybe.... August... WATCH OUT!!!
Lucky you!!! Enjoy them. :)
My grape tomato plant is doing wonderfully!!! However, my 5 other tomato plants are producing a little, but the poor leaves are all eaten up by bugs. :( I'm soooo bummed, they look pitiful. My herbs are amazing, oregano out the wazoooo! My dill just got eaten up by these very strange looking white critters. It was doing so well for a while. But we are enjoying all the grape tomatoes, chives, oregano, basil, parsley, rosemary, etc.....
Michelle
Wendy w
06-09-2005, 09:06 AM
Good for you, Beth. I don't think I'll get around to tomatoes this year, and something is eating my basil. :mad:
dcollier
06-09-2005, 10:00 AM
In the last two weeks, we've gotten new potatoes, onions, squash, zucchini, beets and tons of herbs from our garden. We have 25 tomato plants and most of them have tomatoes now, but they're still green. We have so many squash and zucchini, we're selling them at our (very small) farmers market, along with our organic eggs. My husband has been making lots of herb breads and selling them at the farmers market as well. The summers here are hot, but we have a wonderful, very abundant garden every year. In fact, we usually have tomatoes and peppers until the first frost, which is normally around the end of October.
It is so fun to hear about everyone else's gardens - thank you all for sharing. My garden is a long way from production mode but I have been picking salad greens for a couple weeks. I hope to start getting broccoli and cauliflower by mid-July. I was really dreaming this spring and planted a couple tomatoe plants - never worked very well yet but ya have to keep hoping.
Gracie
06-09-2005, 02:24 PM
I also like to hear about others' gardens. We tried to grow broccoli 2 years ago and it failed miserably. We also tried spaghetti squash last year and we got a huge plant with tons of flowers (I was envisioning zillions of spaghetti squashes) but there weren't any flowers that turned into squashes.
This year we have plum and beefsteak tomatoes, green beans, basil, cilantro, zucchini, summer squash and are re-trying spaghetti squash but this time from a plant, not from seeds so we have our fingers crossed.
Loren
emily
06-09-2005, 02:39 PM
My tomato plants, started from seed, are beginning to show promise. I have rosemary shrubs and a huge sage and my pea plants are beginning to make peas! In fact I just went and snacked on a few peas and a small handful of raspberries. Yeah summer :)
em
Spaghetti squash sounds like fun. We have patty pan, yellow crookneck and zuchini planted -- nothing but hopeful blooms so far. They are in the bed that we added a few weeks after the other plants went in.
rburganmckinley
06-10-2005, 10:39 AM
Originally posted by Gracie
I also like to hear about others' gardens. We tried to grow broccoli 2 years ago and it failed miserably. We also tried spaghetti squash last year and we got a huge plant with tons of flowers (I was envisioning zillions of spaghetti squashes) but there weren't any flowers that turned into squashes.
This year we have plum and beefsteak tomatoes, green beans, basil, cilantro, zucchini, summer squash and are re-trying spaghetti squash but this time from a plant, not from seeds so we have our fingers crossed.
Loren
Winter squashes are trickey for me too. To gaurentee polination take a cotton swab or your finger and rub it inside each flower, making sure you do both the males and the females. The other thing I've heard recommended it to plant a flower that bees like such as cosmos nearby. It takes 8-10 visits from a bee to polinate a pumpkin to fruit, I would assume it to be simmilar for other winter squash. I've given up on all winter suash but pumpkins, they just take up too much room for the amount they produce for me!
Gracie
06-10-2005, 11:39 AM
Originally posted by rburganmckinley
Winter squashes are trickey for me too. To gaurentee polination take a cotton swab or your finger and rub it inside each flower, making sure you do both the males and the females. The other thing I've heard recommended it to plant a flower that bees like such as cosmos nearby. It takes 8-10 visits from a bee to polinate a pumpkin to fruit, I would assume it to be simmilar for other winter squash. I've given up on all winter suash but pumpkins, they just take up too much room for the amount they produce for me!
Ummm, how do I tell the difference between a male and female flower? I'm very willing to try this but I have to say it sounds like what Bethany is going through with her tiny kittens!! :o
I was so disappointed to not have gotten squashes last year that I'll try anything!
TIA!
Loren :)
The female flowers have what looks like the beginning of a tiny squash behind the bloom and the male ones do not.
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