Today's harvest
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Wow, Cathy, how large is your garden? My total size is something like 13 x 20, so not room for a lot. Then this year I only did about half of it.
I got one more yellow tomato today and have one more almost ripe. Have a Cherokee that will be good next week if it doesn't get killed by frost (high the end of the week is supposed to be in the 50s and we drop 20-30 degrees at night usually. No more red tomatoes will get anywhere close to ripe. My other spaghetti squash has a ways to go, too.
My friends got a lot of tomatoes and had help picking them last week. The grandchildren enjoyed that quite a bit. Nobody in their family likes tomatoes, though, so Anne and Mark still have all of them and Anne can't eat many of them. They are going to modify their garden next year and tomatoes and cucumbers won't be in it.1 -
40 x 60. We rent plots from the park district. Each is 20 x 30 and we rent 4. We used to rent 8 plots for many years (our highest number of plots was 12 - gluttons for punishment), but have pared it down the last couple of years. It's possible we might go back up to 6 plots, so we can grow a greater variety of veggies (we've grown bell peppers, hot peppers, eggplant, carrots, garlic, onions, sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, cucumbers, and butternut squash in the past, but not enough room for all of them with just 4 plots).
A friend gave us some tomato plants called "dinner plate". We can see why it was named that - we got some really huge ones! We also grew big rainbow, black from tula, and cherokee purple. Will have to make sure I start my own plants next year, as I really miss my kentucky beefsteak (an orange variety), Box Car Willie (red, great flavor), and mortgage lifter varieties. I've also grown green zebra, Aunt Ruby's German green, white potato leaf, and some other colorful varieties in the past that I really liked too.
My grandson loved helping us harvest the pumpkins this year, and even helped harvest other veggies like the tomatoes and green beans! He used to be terrified of bugs, but fortunately he's so busy helping that he usually doesn't notice the bugs (most of the time. He wasn't fond of the cucumber beetles or squash bugs that he did see).
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Next years goal.. is to give each plant the spacing it needs.. Not to over plant so many darn tomatoes.. by the end of preserving season, I am so over tomato and the pigs make out as I toss them. LOL Already starting plans in my mind for next year..0