Lookin good lookin good Ms Maggie!

Thanks, guys. Taking out the English pea vines and the onion patch this week. Peas are done & that dang onion patch was a disappointment this year. Onions got beat up during several storms just after planting and never fully recovered. Flowers going in the onion patch and I have not decided what I will put in the bed where peas were planted.

Found my first watermelon on the vine!!! Have to get out and tie up tomatoes too. Happy gardening!

English peas are gone as well as the onion patch at the house; still have two onion beds at the cabin. Have planted flowers where the onion patch was located at the house and am planting dwarf okra where the English peas were planted. My tomatoe plants are doing great and have tomatoes all over them. I have picked three messes of green beans with more to come. So far I have picked about a dozen cucumbers and made pickles once. We have eaten carrots three times, thinning them out so some can get larger. My corn is looking mighty fine for a small block of corn, and I have two ears to the stalk. So far this year, things are going gang busters....and those watermelons in the coop!! Yowza!!!

Looks like you did very well with your garden! Very nice.

Ate my first mater's this week from my little raised bed. BLT is hard to beat with home growns.

Thanks, Reloader79. Took out the green bean plants day before yesterday. Pulled three quarts of beans off as I pulled the vines. I may plant some more of those.Thinking I will be harvesting corn the end of the week.

You are so right alhawk!! Love a BLT!!

Harvested corn today. My corn patch was in a low bed 8’x3’ planted in a block. All in all, I got right at 90 ears of corn!! Picked several times and then harvested the last 62 ears this morning. Did not find the first worm!! Truly pleased with that amount of corn from such a small patch.

That’s very impressive for a small patch!! I’m at 324 ears so far in my patch. The last ears are just a few days from being read. I should hit 400 ears easily.

My corn was good...pulled all the stalks this morning and will plant some Arkansas Travler tomato plants in that bed now for a late crop.


Peach jam; done! Strawberry jam done too and in the pantry! Will make fig preserves and muscadine jelly when those come in.


First dill pickles. Bread and Butter pickles are in the pantry but I will make more of both. Pickled Hot Dilly beans are made and in the pantry too.


My first sugar-baby!


This morning's harvest...lettuce, tomatoes, garlic, jalapeno peppers, cayenne peppers, cucumbers, carrots and parsnips.

Maggie all those vegetables on that table are beautiful. I’ve never seen Alabama carrots that look that nice. What do you do with the parsnips?

My HERO does it again. That’s just beautiful.

You are both too kind; thank you. Parsnips can be boiled and mashed like creamed potatoes, roasted with a bit of olive oil, S&P or cooked just about any way you would cook a carrot. They are very similar. For clarification, these veggies were grown in my raised beds at our house in Mississippi. Growing carrots in raised beds with good loose soil is easy and they are so much better than what we buy at the grocery store.

I was proud to see bunches of earth worms in my beds when I dug my garlic too!! Several years ago I ordered 2000 red wigglers and distributed them in my raised beds to help keep the soil from compacting. They have done their job very well and seem to have flourished....I have fish bait anytime I want it!! LOL!!!

Thanks again and yall have a great weekend. Oh, Marsh how many ears of corn did you wind up with? Curious minds and all......

Canned tomatoes this past weekend; 30 quarts and 1 pint. Color me done...These are my tomatoes and tomatoes I bough from an old gal I buy from every summer to hep her out.

nice, Maggie, very nice.

Thanks!

Garden goodness picked this morning & afterwards: Bread and Butter pickles; five pints in back, cayenne pepper sauce; one pint left middle, jalapeños one pint in middle, dill pickles; three pints front right & middle and one behind in middle pn end & one quart garlic dills, front left.

My tomatoes are coming in gangbusters and going down FAST!!! Gotta get those other plants in the ground!

After picking this morning, I had to do something with tomatoes..did not need any more canned so, salsa it was!





Lot of work for seven pints of salsa...whew



My calico, BayBay, is not at all happy with the canned goods on the table...photo bomb to show her displeasure!

My tomato vines are going down fast!!! Maybe one or two more pickings from these vines but boy howdy have they produced!!! Arkansas Travlers going in in a day or two for my late tomato crop.

Now that’s how you decorate table. That’s got to be the prettiest table I have ever seen. I got 35 young tomato plants in the ground and in pots. I’m hoping I can make some good tomatoes this fall. Dang storm killed all my spring plants just as they started to produce. You’re awesome Mrs. Maggie!!

Pretty incredible spread and congratulations. Your hard work paid off.
I agree with you on the salsa. We used to get leftovers from Oneonta after season by the case. We made salsa for a few years and finally decided it was more trouble than we wanted

I hope my tomatoes make half as good as yours. Very well done!
They are just starting to ripen. We planted a few varieties of sweet corn, the row on the left is really short and made ears first. The other rows are starting to fill out the ears.
And we have some late corn we planted about 4 weeks after the first.

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