Garden updates.....let's hear yours!

[cookinmom]

What's your trick for drying herbs? I always ruin mine. I've tried
hanging them, paper bagging them, and the good old "leave them
on the kitchen counter" trick.

I don't know. I never done it before! There was an article in Countryside mag that said to put them on windowscreens and put them somewhere warm and dry, like in a barn. Not sure yet what method I'll use.

Cookinmom----set them up on some empty tuna or soup can with the bottoms cut out.

Thanks CoyoteMagic. I have them on styrofoam with holes in it, but they still get wet underneath. I'll try the cans!

The figs are almost baseball size, they usually get up to softball size.

Ed, what kind of figs are those? We had figs at our old house, but they got big as a golf ball max. There were jillions of them, but not very big.​

 

[Lunachick]

You southerners are getting stuff already? I have flowers on my tomatoes, the collards are only 4 inches high, same for the swiss chard. Pumkins are coming along so far. Everytime I try to grow pumpkins or cukes for that matter, I get powdery mildew on them and they drop their blossoms - argh!

Edbama - scuppernongs???????

 

[silkiechicken]

I'm still jealous of all you who have veggies already! I don't even have a single pea ready to eat!

 

[cookinmom]

Y'all want to get real jealous? Get this -- we can grow stuff of some sort, in the ground, without covers, ALL YEAR LONG!!!

Sorry, I had to do that!

It comes at a price though. We have a good 4 months of HOT to deal with, about 4 months of medium-hot, 2 months of pretty nice, and 2 months of what we call cold but you Yan.... oops, Northerners, would scoff at.

 

[edbama2]

Cookinmom, I have no idea what kind they are but, people around here talk about them. I am not really a fig eater unless it is a fig newton. The elderly couple that lived here before have the credit on these, the blueberries, strawberries,scuppernongs, and pecans. I just tend to them now. I haven't killed them yet in 3 years LOL!

 

[Whirlwind]

What are scuppernongs? I have never heard of that?

 

[edbama2]

They are a southern grape that is absolutely delicious. They can be eaten right off of the vine, made into wine or used to cook with. I too wondered what they were until I moved here from up North.

 

[ncflowerpower]

Our sugar snap peas and radishes are done and were yummy! Zuchinni, yellow squash, bush beans and cukes are coming out our ears. Tomatoes are doing good and should be ready real soon. Corn looks good, but we use this for decoration in the fall. Pumpkin vines are up and looking good, hoping for pumpkins this year, the bunnies always seem to get the vines before they make pumpkins

 

[Whirlwind]

Oh thanks edbama, sounds good. All my grapes look pittiful here. I think they drowned with all the rain. They may be too close to the creek. Which has flooded 4 times this year.

 

[SpottedCrow]

I finally finished putting my garden in about a week ago. My garden got over grown by the time I got ready to start though, so I hung things...
This is where my garden usually is...

My eggplants on a shepherd's hook.

Cukes on the end and Butternut Squash in the middle

My Pepper and two types of Tomatoes

I have 12 blossoms on the cukes and squash and 3 on the Mr. Stripy tomato.
Not bad considering I was so late planting.