The Harvest Begins

Just out checkin' the garden today , and we have green beans ready to pick . I've already picked a nice zucchini and one summer squash , the green onions are ready , and this morning I picked a quart of wild blackberries . When the tomatoes start to ripen , we'll be buried ... and that's only a matter of a few days now . All my work the last few months is coming to fruition ... pun intended .

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Terry Coombs
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Harvested my soft-neck garlic a little early, July 5, but they cleaned up real nice (if a bit small, no surprise hard winter and delayed spring). Last year I was a bit late, the weather had been wet, and the bulbs turned out ugly and they weren't 'well wrapped' so I had more than the normal loss during storage.

May have trouble with the hard necks. It's been thundering the last two days, and I have not been doing much outdoors. We shall see.

The winter squash is starting to run and the first sweet corn is showing silks and the tassels have popped up.

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Pat Kiewicz

I've been wondering , just when is the "right" time to plant garlic ? I bought a large package of the stuff we like from WM , with the intent to plant some this summer , I just ain't sure when to plant .

I just planted about a hundred more green onions , they grow well here and we like 'em .

I've been out in the garden all morning . We've got pumpkins , acorn and early summer squashes , zucchini , and cucumbers all on the vines now . Some of the tomatoes are getting larger than baseballs , and the green beans have started producing . The 14 strawberries I planted early are now more like 50 plants , runnin' all over . I've already harvested BokChoi seed for a late summer planting , and the Romaine,Iceberg , and spinach have all bolted - will be saving seed from all of them . Oh , and the Cayennes are loaded with blossoms and fruit , eggplants are blooming , and the okra has decided to jump right up and get growin' now too . The wife's gonna have some canning to do ...

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Terry Coombs

Thank you . It looks like we'll eat this bag and I'll get another come planting time . Garlic is one of 's greatest gifts to mankind . I just used a few cloves to make some garlic oil to sear the pork steaks and squash parmesan in before going in the oven to finish .

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Terry Coombs

Late October through mid November.

For harvest right about now.

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phorbin

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