Gardening Gardening

Garlic scapes

 

Anyone ever grow/cook Magda squash? They're the three to the right of the traditional zucchini in the picture. I've heard them referred to as either a summer squash or a type of zucchini (but with a nuttier flavor than traditional zucchini). Just picked my first ones this morning so haven't tried any yet. Weird for squash as they are supposed to be picked when only 3-4 inches.

Diced up a traditional zucchini last night and made a black bear sausage (homemade of course), potato and zucchini hash. Had it in burritos with some cheese and a splash of hot salsa and it was awesome. Having some leftover hash with eggs this morning for breakfast. Home-grown and home-harvested/processed food!

Garden is doing great overall this season, other than the string beans. Need to do some trimming on the tomato and zucchini plants.

 

Beautiful Garden SGT!

 

Really like the raised beds. So much easier on the back.

 

Never had that type of squash before.

Garden looks good!

Has rain been steady up there?

 

We had a lot of rain (too much) at the beginning of the growing season, but it finally tapered off to a typical rain every few days. It's unfortunately been rather dry the last couple weeks.

 

X2!

 

Some amazing setups as usual! Thanks for sharing.

Our garden in CT is doing well this year.

Zukes and Cukes:





Variety bed: Shichito Peppers, Garlic, Bell Pepper, Eggplants and Basil:


The tomatoes are doing excellent! Probably from all the heat this year, Beefsteak, Roma, Plum, Cherry. Radom: Planted a Marigold in each bed to hopefully help our pollinator friends.

 

Looks great! This is the first year I'm trying the marigold trick. Planted several in each of the three beds with tomatoes. I also planted some alyssum in several other beds to try and attract pollinators.

 

Greta looking garden

 

Thanks guys! Such a great time of year when you can have such fresh vegetables.

 

Garlic harvest at the cabin is a good one. Shown are 102 of 120 total lined up. It took my wife and I about 40 minutes to pull both the garlic and the weeds in the bed.


The rest of the garden looks pretty good for us not being there to tend to it for a month.

 

It amazes me that the deer didn't strip and clean everything out while you were gone.

 

There have not been many deer around here since 2018. We are on the northern boundary of good whitetail country. Our deer herd can be cut in half during a severe winter with deep snow due to wolf predation.

Picture from my neighbors trail camera about 400 yards from our garden.

 

Saving seeds year to year, I get an occasional hybrid tomato or pepper. This year one of my jalapeño plants is producing elongated peppers. The only thing I can think of that it got crossed with is a Thai hot pepper from a previous growing season.

This was supposed to be a ghost but it got crossed with some kind of round pepper. My best guess is a small but potent Peruvian pepper called Aji Charapita.

I’ll post updated pictures when they start ripening in a few more weeks.