You Reap What You Sow (Garden Harvests)

[Chief Grey Bear]

cobblers/pies

[Feathers and Fins]

Nothing beats fresh from your own garden and its very addictive and fun. Ours is starting to really pop and produce right now.

Peppers are about a week out on the Jalapenos, Anaheim's, Bananas, Sweet, and Cayenne. The Bells are about 2 weeks out. Carrots about a week maybe 2. Green beans we picked some tonight and they were great with the steak and taters. The tomatoes are probably 3 weeks at most on the Goliath and Beafsteak the cherries are maybe a week and a half.

I really want the Jalapeños to hurry up I got Crappie, Goose and Duck that need to be made in to poppers, yes I said crappie I tried it last year and it was like heaven in your mouth.

Here are a few of my garden today

[ness]

cobblers/pies

Gotcha. I'm only on year two with a decent harvest of gooseberries. Did a freezer jam with gooseberries and strawberries last year so I didn't cook them much. I did go to the trouble of taking off the stems.

[Quillback]

I planted my first garden this year. I already have a ton of bell and banana peppers and my first ripe tomato. Pretty sure I'm hooked on yet another hobby.

You're doing good, I don't have any tomatoes that are even close yet.

[Wayne SW/MO]

I'm envious. Between starting late, the cloudy days and Bambi we don't have anything close.

[ness]

I don't have any peppers or beans close.

I planted collards for the first time this year, and they are being eaten alive by the bugs, even though I've sprayed several times. The plants are way bigger than I wanted too. I think I'll probably pull them out this weekend and give more space for the bush beans and cabbage nearby.

[tippet7]

We have some peppers that we picked, (hot hot) snap peas, okra, blueberries. Tomatoes are coming along great, cucumbers survived the storm as did the beans. We got a late start planting, but things are looking good. A little disappointed in the bell peppers, we had one small one and nothing else. One of eggplants taken a couple of weeks ago. We a several of them now and getting big

[Seth]

Our garden is way behind everybody else it seems. That late frost took out our tomato plants and I had to get new transplants and start over. They are about 3' tall right now and starting to get little green tomatoes right now. I just got done weeding the garden and need to get some hay or straw and mulch it good so I don't have to do it again. I DESPISE weeding! We have a few raised beds for peppers and tomatoes and they are so much easier to take care of when it comes to weeds. For this year, we did 10' of pickling cucumbers, slicing cucumbers and okra; 20' of bush beans; two zucchini; 15' of sweet corn, 8 bell pepper plants (two varieties but forgot the names), and 8 heirloom tomatoes (2 mortgage lifter, 2 german queen, 4 big beef).

When do you all plant your stuff? We didn't plant till almost June last year and this year. Our garden did well last year since it wasn't an overly hot summer.

[Feathers and Fins]

Ness, Sevendust is your friend it works to keep the bugs in check.

[ness]

I've been using Sevin spray, need to get more dust.

Seth -- I start as much of my own stuff as I can inside. Usually maters, peppers, onions and herbs in January, other things later. Stuff gets transplanted or planted according to its particular needs. Onion and lettuce transplants in March. Pea, beet, radish, spinach seeds in mid-March. Average last frost date here is Tax Day, so maters and peppers are transplanted out no earlier than that. Actual day depends on how much hardening off I've been able to do and what the short-term forecast says. This year they went out April 27, and I planted beans and some other stuff then too. We got a late light frost 5/18 but it wasn't too bad.

But, hey -- I'm not harvesting beans and peppers, so what do I know??