Vegetable garden

The zucchini will not quit this year

This morning

Today’s picking

Looks like last of the garden for us

Today’s pickings

Just picked all this 😎

Just picked all this 😎

You got a great harvest this year.

Tonight’s harvest

I got a problem

I got a problem

do you actually eat all of that?

I gave up on vegetable gardens like 10-+ years ago. I can't eat all that they produce. I only had one tomato plant & one basil.

They produced so much stuff one day I ended up using it for target practice on squirrerls. I had a dozen or more tomatoes in the house. Had just picked another dozen & there was a bunch sitting on a table on the back porch ripening up.

I was like - This is ridculous.

Couple of squirrels running on the fence in the backyard. I used them for target practice.

I'm surrounded by farmstands. I need a tomato I just hop in the car & in 2 minutes buy one for 50 cents.

Couldn't even give 'em away. Everybody I knew had the same problem.
8-)

Just pulled three tomato plants out. This is what I did ended up with. Still have 6 more to pick

Just pulled three tomato plants out. This is what I did ended up with. Still have 6 more to pick

good grief

Farmers Market here, near to $4.00 lb… ya gotta set up a Tomato 🍅 Lemonade stand out front Chevy… cell…
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Just picked all these Cherry tomatoes

Okay, I have a stupid question for the horticulturists here.

Disclaimer: I suck at gardening, I don't eat tomatoes, so I wouldn't even have started this project on my own.

According to the tag that came with the nursery plants, these are Roma tomatoes. I just harvested the last viable tomato off these plants, and for the most part there's just duds and dead or dying leaves.

However, I have noted that there are new leaves and stems popping up on some of the old stems.

Since these are potted plants, and could be moved indoors, would they regenerate themselves and produce another crop next season, or are they just making a desperate gasp?

I'm going to bring the parsley and chives in, they should persist. I remember my parents had a hotbox which was effectively a mini greenhouse and we had parsley and chives all year long.

The Germainiums are about three years old now, and they persist. Although they're not so pretty anymore.

Some things do okay. Some are victims of the brown thumb.

Thanks for any help. I'd really hate to try to tend these things through the winter just to have them die anyway. If that's how this all ends anyway, I'm losing composting time.

Okay, I have a stupid question for the horticulturists here.

Disclaimer: I suck at gardening, I don't eat tomatoes, so I wouldn't even have started this project on my own.

According to the tag that came with the nursery plants, these are Roma tomatoes. I just harvested the last viable tomato off these plants, and for the most part there's just duds and dead or dying leaves.

However, I have noted that there are new leaves and stems popping up on some of the old stems.

Since these are potted plants, and could be moved indoors, would they regenerate themselves and produce another crop next season, or are they just making a desperate gasp?

I'm going to bring the parsley and chives in, they should persist. I remember my parents had a hotbox which was effectively a mini greenhouse and we had parsley and chives all year long.

The Germainiums are about three years old now, and they persist. Although they're not so pretty anymore.

Some things do okay. Some are victims of the brown thumb.

Thanks for any help. I'd really hate to try to tend these things through the winter just to have them die anyway. If that's how this all ends anyway, I'm losing composting time.

Tomatoes are done. Parsley can go in greenhouse. Chives come back every year so you can leave them out or put in greenhouse

Tomatoes are done. Parsley can go in greenhouse. Chives come back every year so you can leave them out or put in greenhouse

Thank you.

I expected the tomatoes were shot. I was just surprised to see them growing new leaves.

I have been finding through the years the items I plant with my own seeds do very well and most vegetable plants I purchase from nursery’s are labeled incorrectly producing types of peppers and tomato I was not targeting..

It’s hit or miss, I never had a harvest better of garden center zucchini plants ever but the cucumber that typically grows rampant, did not this year.

I need to scale back next year and do more fishin.

I have been finding through the years the items I plant with my own seeds do very well and most vegetable plants I purchase from nursery’s are labeled incorrectly producing types of peppers and tomato I was not targeting..

It’s hit or miss, I never had a harvest better of garden center zucchini plants ever but the cucumber that typically grows rampant, did not this year.

I need to scale back next year and do more fishin.

I’m with you on that 👍🎣

I have been finding through the years the items I plant with my own seeds do very well and most vegetable plants I purchase from nursery’s are labeled incorrectly producing types of peppers and tomato I was not targeting..

It’s hit or miss, I never had a harvest better of garden center zucchini plants ever but the cucumber that typically grows rampant, did not this year.

I need to scale back next year and do more fishin.

I got almost no cucumbers this year, a insect bored into almost every fruit 🥵