How does your garden grow?

[celiacmaine-iac]

Just wondering what everyone is harvesting right now? Our garden is coming along pretty nicely. We are currently picking cukes, green beans, swiss chard, and summer squash should be coming on any day now. A moose (actually 2 -does that make them meese?) ate most of my cabbages. All our corn went over the day we had tornado watches here, but we stood it back up and it seems OK.

I put up 29 pints of raspberry jam from our patch. Plus I've made several pints of raspberry sauce....quite a bit of it went on ice cream. Chocolate ice cream and raspberry sauce. Food for the gods!

Today my hands and fingernails are purple. I've been sorting blueberries all day, and will make jam tomorrow. Took what was left over and cooked it down to make blueberry syrup with.
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Steph

[lorka]

Unfortunately, we've had the wettest summer and most rain ever in history (literally!) complete with winds and hail. My garden is struggling, but it's still early! We've had a couple of zucchini and a handful or two of beans.

Enjoy your preserves! Yum.
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[forinajoy]

Well, here we have had over 20 straight days of over 100 degree weather....sooo....my garden is "deader'n a hammer" as my husband would say....honestly around here, even in the milder summers (lol), gardens are finished by mid July...it has been so hot and dry all summer that my garden didn't do as well as usual....water from the hose just doesn't compare to rain...I did get a few zucchini, cherry tomatoes, banana peppers and three gallon ziploc bags of green beans, but this was back in late April and early May......
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Connie, mom to Ina, 14 y/o with CD

[celiacmaine-iac]

[lorka]

[Lizbuppers]

I've gotten alot of spinach (finally gave the last few straggly plants a decent send-off last week), chard, and lettuce lettuce lettuce!!! We have a squash plant that has taken over the garden but has just developed a few flowers, seem to have a few carrots (usually they only grow to about an inch, so I'm not holding out much hope) and our pea and bean plants are doing well, though not producing anything yet. And grass. I grow a mean patch of grass. Anyone want some???
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[celiacmaine-iac]

[nancw]

My lettuces and spinach bolted as soon as the 90+ temps began about a month ago. We have set a record for days over 90, and it's 103-ish today. I haven't seen any real rain in over two months.
My winter squash is growing prolifically since I dumped a bunch of homemade compost on it. Looks to be a record year for grapes.
I'll plant another round of lettuce and spinach to get us through to frost. The seed mix I am using this year has kale in it too, so I am looking forward to not buying greens (again).
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Nance

gluten, dairy, soy, rice, yeast and 99% grain-free

[Mom2BoyzOnly]

I have been successful in keeping the weeds out of my flower beds. However, we went camping one weekend, and the weeds literally took over my tomato plants! I think they're beyond weeding at this point, but I am getting some tomatoes. We also planted watermelon radishes. Never tried these before, but they were hard as rocks and extremely hot!@!!
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Robin
Diagnosed approx 13 yrs ago
Seriously GF past 4 yrs

[Fidissimus]

I didn't plant any food crops to speak of this year but all the flowers are delightful!


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[celiacmaine-iac]

[aklap]

Here's our wonderful garden. Isn't it great??!
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Al

“We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

[cruelshoes]

The peas and strawberries are done. We ate so many of the strawberries, I was only able to freeze one galon-sized zipper bag. We have sunflowers that are blooming, and one lonely little sweet pea that is still flowering and putting out the strongest, sweetest smell. The raspbetrry bushes have been going at warp 9 since early July, and show no signs of stopping. I have 15 quart-sized bags in the freezer, and will probably get at least that many more. I usually make my jam around Christmas time. The kids both planted carrots - rainbow and regular - and those have been delicious.

Our pumpkins are growing, but they are only about the size of oranges so far. We have both white and yellow ones. Because it has been so cool here, my tomato plants have been slow to produce, but I am starting to see little green tomatoes on them. These are all heirlooms I have saved from seed, so it makes them doubly interesting to watch. Our apple tree has 34 little apples on it. We planted it about 5 years ago, and this is the first year it is producing a crop to speak of. Those won't be ready for another month or so, though. The blueberry bushes we planted this year have a few plump, blue berries on them. Might have to pick them and make the worlds smallets batch of blueberry muffins. They should really start to produce year after next.
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-Colleen

Where are we going, and what am I doing in this handcart?

[celiacmaine-iac]

Verrrry funny Al!!!! Splat... Sound of Steph throwing squished blueberry puree at Al.
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Steph

[isto]

Our garden went in late because of all the rain we have had. But we are just starting to have cukes, pickles, zucchini, and yellow squash. We have green tomatoes which I can't wait to fry and eat - they don't make me sick like red tomatoes. Our sunflowers are about 3 feet high. And our cantaloupes are just beginning to form - they are about the size of a baseball. Can't wait - nothing better than vine-ripened melons!!

We are wondering what will come first - red tomatoes or the baby. We all say the baby except my husband. He thinks the tomatoes will ripen first.