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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jun 26, 2021 10:36:45 GMT -5
I like to garden every year, primarily tomatoes, but I also have peppers, potatoes, onions, cucumbers and squash. I have been picking peppers for a week now and onions for a month. I am looking to pick my first cucumber today and am hoping to have cherry tomatoes by the 4th, fingers crossed on that.
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Post by hengest on Jun 26, 2021 18:58:24 GMT -5
I loved it with my mom as a kid. And I was afraid of all the vegetables. But I still liked turning the soil and growing them. Since I moved out I have never had a yard. Have been lazy or restricted to containers.
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jun 26, 2021 19:58:15 GMT -5
I loved it with my mom as a kid. And I was afraid of all the vegetables. But I still liked turning the soil and growing them. Since I moved out I have never had a yard. Have been lazy or restricted to containers. Mom would grow about 100 tomato plants and pick tomato's into 5 gallon buckets and I would carry them two buckets at a time, about 20 trips to a picking. Two buckets weighed more than I did when I first started doing it. Mom canned all summer long. I wish I had paid more attention to the growing part of gardening. |
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Post by hengest on Jun 26, 2021 20:58:16 GMT -5
I loved it with my mom as a kid. And I was afraid of all the vegetables. But I still liked turning the soil and growing them. Since I moved out I have never had a yard. Have been lazy or restricted to containers. Mom would grow about 100 tomato plants and pick tomato's into 5 gallon buckets and I would carry them two buckets at a time, about 20 trips to a picking. Two buckets weighed more than I did when I first started doing it. Mom canned all summer long. I wish I had paid more attention to the growing part of gardening. That's a fantastic practice. I think we had six tomato plants max, and the harvest was still more than we could eat. Your mom must have been canning left and right. We had the vegetables: tomato, cucumber, some peppers...maybe lettuce plants a couple years. These memories are a little dim now. And the flower border. Mostly annuals. Marigolds, pansies, also black-eyed susans (I think they came back some years) and daylilies. Columbine, I liked that one. Nothing on such a huge scale, but it felt worth doing. I remember liking plants a lot, going through phases of having heavy interest in them. As I recall now, working with them reduced feeling of anxiety, although I couldn't have said it that way at the time. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jun 26, 2021 23:08:18 GMT -5
Mom would grow about 100 tomato plants and pick tomato's into 5 gallon buckets and I would carry them two buckets at a time, about 20 trips to a picking. Two buckets weighed more than I did when I first started doing it. Mom canned all summer long. I wish I had paid more attention to the growing part of gardening. That's a fantastic practice. I think we had six tomato plants max, and the harvest was still more than we could eat. Your mom must have been canning left and right. We had the vegetables: tomato, cucumber, some peppers...maybe lettuce plants a couple years. These memories are a little dim now. And the flower border. Mostly annuals. Marigolds, pansies, also black-eyed susans (I think they came back some years) and daylilies. Columbine, I liked that one. Nothing on such a huge scale, but it felt worth doing. I remember liking plants a lot, going through phases of having heavy interest in them. As I recall now, working with them reduced feeling of anxiety, although I couldn't have said it that way at the time. She canned about 400 quarts of food each summer. Tomatoes, tomato juice, green beans, beans, pickles, spinach, mixed greens (Spinach, Kale, Mustard Greens and Collard Greens) sweet corn, vegetable beef soup and smaller amounts of other things(and homemade sauerkraut). When we butchered a steer most of the beef was frozen except what went into the soup. When we butchered a hog, most of the pork was frozen except that we always canned the sausage and we also rendered down the lard and canned it too. I think gardening is very relaxing. We also had red raspberries and strawberries in the garden and then black berries and black raspberries grew wild, apples, peaches and pears. We also had a gooseberry bush (lots of sharp thorns) and it was just let go and when I was about 12 I asked about it, what it was, so mom told me and said when it is ripe if you will pick it, I will make a pie, so as long as I was home to pick it we had a pie each summer. They were really, really good too! But man those thorns were sharp, I paid in blood for that pie every year. Mom liked wildflowers picked by Dad, but we had some flowers around the house. Roses, peonies, zinnias and other stuff I can't remember the names for. My one grandma had snow ball bushes, lilacs, rhododendron and some others outside and over a hundred flowers in her house. |
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Post by solfe on Jun 26, 2021 23:09:38 GMT -5
I've got a "gaming garden" going on. My idea was to make it the center point of all of my session recaps this summer. That has been put on hold since one of my players is off in Texas for Basic Training. We'll see what happens. I wanted it to look vague magical, so I purchases some hangers for the corners and some garden lights.  |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jun 26, 2021 23:39:02 GMT -5
Some people don't like them and I don't use them much, but I do like props. I have a couple of small treasure chests and if I could come up with enough fake gems and jewels and coins I would use them at the table sometime.
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Post by The Semi-Retired Gamer on Jun 28, 2021 18:29:30 GMT -5
I like to garden every year, primarily tomatoes, but I also have peppers, potatoes, onions, cucumbers and squash. I have been picking peppers for a week now and onions for a month. I am looking to pick my first cucumber today and am hoping to have cherry tomatoes by the 4th, fingers crossed on that. Mmmm.....cucumbers. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jun 28, 2021 22:59:52 GMT -5
I like to garden every year, primarily tomatoes, but I also have peppers, potatoes, onions, cucumbers and squash. I have been picking peppers for a week now and onions for a month. I am looking to pick my first cucumber today and am hoping to have cherry tomatoes by the 4th, fingers crossed on that. Mmmm.....cucumbers. Yeah, I have to have my tomatoes and my cucumbers and my onions. My wife used to make a tomato, cucumber and onion salad. Yummmmmmmmy!!! A lot of the special things she made, I could do, but it would be tough to get it right, but this one I am good at, so hopefully in a couple of weeks I can make one with cherry tomatoes. I have quite a few yellow summer squash almost two inches long, so it won't be long until those are ready to pick. |
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Post by Death Even XIII on Jun 30, 2021 18:58:10 GMT -5
I garden a little PD, mainly just tomatoes.
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Post by Death Even XIII on Jun 30, 2021 18:58:29 GMT -5
Yeah, I have to have my tomatoes and my cucumbers and my onions. My wife used to make a tomato, cucumber and onion salad. Yummmmmmmmy!!! A lot of the special things she made, I could do, but it would be tough to get it right, but this one I am good at, so hopefully in a couple of weeks I can make one with cherry tomatoes. I have quite a few yellow summer squash almost two inches long, so it won't be long until those are ready to pick. Looks like you do quite a lot of things. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jun 30, 2021 21:27:53 GMT -5
Yeah, I have to have my tomatoes and my cucumbers and my onions. My wife used to make a tomato, cucumber and onion salad. Yummmmmmmmy!!! A lot of the special things she made, I could do, but it would be tough to get it right, but this one I am good at, so hopefully in a couple of weeks I can make one with cherry tomatoes. I have quite a few yellow summer squash almost two inches long, so it won't be long until those are ready to pick. Looks like you do quite a lot of things. I try, I am really hoping I will be able to can at least 80-100 quarts of salsa and of vegetable soup in late summer. Along with what I eat this summer, if I can do that, I will make back a good chunk of what I have spent on the garden the last two years. |
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Post by hengest on Jul 1, 2021 14:24:24 GMT -5
Looks like you do quite a lot of things. I try, I am really hoping I will be able to can at least 80-100 quarts of salsa and of vegetable soup in late summer. Along with what I eat this summer, if I can do that, I will make back a good chunk of what I have spent on the garden the last two years. Now that's something I really like to hear! |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jul 5, 2021 11:05:04 GMT -5
Yesterday on the 4th I picked my first handful of yellow cherry tomatoes, IIRC they are called Sun Sugar, very sweet and delicious. Picked another cucumber and I have about 30 peppers that will be ready to pick in a few days. That will be the best harvest I've ever had on peppers and the rest of the summer to go. I dug up 11 pepper plants and overwintered them inside the house and 10 survived and right now 7 of them are productive and 6 of the new plants I set out are productive, so those are looking good. In a few days I will be picking my first summer squash. A few of the larger tomatoes are up to baseball size now.
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Post by True Black Raven on Jul 5, 2021 11:11:43 GMT -5
I try, I am really hoping I will be able to can at least 80-100 quarts of salsa and of vegetable soup in late summer. Along with what I eat this summer, if I can do that, I will make back a good chunk of what I have spent on the garden the last two years. Now that's something I really like to hear! Do you ship?  |
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Post by mao on Jul 15, 2021 4:02:24 GMT -5
I like to garden every year, primarily tomatoes, but I also have peppers, potatoes, onions, cucumbers and squash. I have been picking peppers for a week now and onions for a month. I am looking to pick my first cucumber today and am hoping to have cherry tomatoes by the 4th, fingers crossed on that. Mmmm.....cucumbers. you have excellent taste in veggies |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jul 15, 2021 11:31:58 GMT -5
Now that's something I really like to hear! Do you ship? No!  |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jul 15, 2021 11:35:23 GMT -5
you have excellent taste in veggies I am now picking cucumbers daily, have the best pepper harvest I've ever had and more to come. I'n also harvesting summer squash and dicing them into my salads and into scrambled eggs. Onions are bulbing up quite nicely. Still only cherry tomatoes, but I have some big tomatoes that have reached softball size. Fried green tomato time. Fried green tomatoes with fried summer squash is a sweet and sour combination. |
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Post by True Black Raven on Jul 24, 2021 23:04:41 GMT -5
 Foiled again!
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Post by mao on Jul 27, 2021 4:36:17 GMT -5
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jul 27, 2021 8:59:49 GMT -5
No! ? He was asking if I ship my garden produce and no there is no way I could do that. |
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Post by mao on Jul 29, 2021 13:54:23 GMT -5
I like to garden every year, primarily tomatoes, but I also have peppers, potatoes, onions, cucumbers and squash. I have been picking peppers for a week now and onions for a month. I am looking to pick my first cucumber today and am hoping to have cherry tomatoes by the 4th, fingers crossed on that. At one of my houses, was in high school, I had a huge black berry bush(one of my fav fruits) The birds always got the berries before I could get them, it took zero effort other than planting and picking. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jul 29, 2021 13:57:47 GMT -5
I like to garden every year, primarily tomatoes, but I also have peppers, potatoes, onions, cucumbers and squash. I have been picking peppers for a week now and onions for a month. I am looking to pick my first cucumber today and am hoping to have cherry tomatoes by the 4th, fingers crossed on that. At one of my houses, was in high school, I had a huge black berry bush(one of my fav fruits) The birds always got the berries before I could get them, it took zero effort other than planting and picking. Now you can buy a cloth to cover them with the keep the birds off. But when I was a kid that was a dream. Of course those are really tough for one person to apply. |
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Post by mao on Jul 29, 2021 14:05:14 GMT -5
At one of my houses, was in high school, I had a huge black berry bush(one of my fav fruits) The birds always got the berries before I could get them, it took zero effort other than planting and picking. Now you can buy a cloth to cover them with the keep the birds off. But when I was a kid that was a dream. Of course those are really tough for one person to apply. lived there for 3 or 4 years, never got one. BTW what do you think of the spells I just posted? only the 3rd L is new the other 3 are old ones I tweaked a little. |
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Post by The Perilous Dreamer on Jul 29, 2021 14:36:54 GMT -5
Now you can buy a cloth to cover them with the keep the birds off. But when I was a kid that was a dream. Of course those are really tough for one person to apply. lived there for 3 or 4 years, never got one. BTW what do you think of the spells I just posted? only the 3rd L is new the other 3 are old ones I tweaked a little. Go look at that thread, for the reply. I am not on here all the time, I pop on and off. |
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Post by Morose on Aug 6, 2021 0:42:13 GMT -5
I used to garden, but I can't any longer.
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Post by Death Even XIII on Aug 5, 2022 17:18:41 GMT -5
I used to garden, but I can't any longer. Sorry to hear that Morose. Why is that? |
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Post by Death Even XIII on Aug 5, 2022 17:19:16 GMT -5
Fellow gardeners, how are all of you doing this year (2022).
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Post by Slinger on Aug 5, 2022 18:15:49 GMT -5
I just have a few things in pots on the back patio.
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Post by Morose on Aug 6, 2022 22:02:22 GMT -5
I used to garden, but I can't any longer. Sorry to hear that Morose . Why is that? Too crippled up to do it anymore. |
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Foiled again!
