local grown and from my own garden!

2Bgoddess
2Bgoddess Posts: 1,096 Member
edited October 2024 in Food and Nutrition
i used to strongly dislike autumn. partly because the summer is over and I return to work. i love to be in my gardens, and have been trying to grow veggies for years. last fall hubby and I finally built a proper two-tiered garden (we are close to the lake, we need built up gardens for best drainage results.)

anyway! my veggies are all doing so well, we've been getting more than enough tomatoes cucumbers and peas, and now it looks like my carrots are ready, pulled one to see, and it it is thick and nearly 9 inches long! time to harvest!

I am making strawberry jam, peach jam, apple sauce, apple pie(low fat of course) and freezing my veggies. the flavours are so fabulous you don't need hardly any sugar in the fruits!

riding my bike is easier now, i have lost a little, and being less hot i can peddle harder in the cooler air without feeling exhausted. I am enjoying autumn (even though it doesn't start for a few more days) more than I ever have. just wanted to share. :flowerforyou:

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  • TubbsMcGee
    TubbsMcGee Posts: 1,058 Member
    Wonderful!!!
    I'm planning on starting a garden next year, too. We have poor soil quality in my city, so I'm trying to figure out how to build the beds up and keep the critters out.

    This past Spring we started raising backyard hens. It's pretty neat to have fresh free-run eggs every day!
  • Giraffe33991
    Giraffe33991 Posts: 430 Member
    Oh I am so jealous! I am a beginning gardener & most of my veggies were nibbled to death by something. The only thing that survived were my jalepenos, basil and rosemary.
  • trud72
    trud72 Posts: 1,912 Member
    i grow alot in my garden also and have become a dab hand at foraging and doing the jams,pies and yes even the wines lol(not that i drink very often)lol
    it is such a great feeling when harvest time comes around again! now all you have to do is get those carrotts planted a couple of months earlier and keep planting them until you have them coming in solid for about 5 months of the year! we started harvesting our carrotts and parsnips from about july....and still will be till about dec :)
    good luck with the garden and move where you put the carrotts next year too! and always try to plant them near to onions!
  • Strive2BLean
    Strive2BLean Posts: 300 Member
    We have been gardening for years now and love all the fresh veggies. I have been eating grilled eggplant and peppers from the garden all summer. It's so good and good for you. Everything's organic of course. I've made 4 pints of fig jam already from my tree and am waiting for the rest to ripen. We had a little hornet problem earlier and couldn't get to them. Damn hornets. lol
  • Javajunkie67
    Javajunkie67 Posts: 167 Member
    Congrats on a wonderful harvest this year! Do you need some neighbors?? ; )

    Since I don't have room to grow that kind of garden, I've been hitting all the local stands the farmers put up. Corn, melons of all kinds, peaches, onions, squash....oh my goodness! I love this time of year! I even made my own frozen peach yogurt. Yummy!
  • sarahsmom1
    sarahsmom1 Posts: 1,501 Member
    I love my garden to I have bell peppers, tomatoes strawberries they are doing well SNAILS ate a lot of the other. In the fruit tree dept, i have lemon, grapefruit, 3 kinds of apples, 3 kinds of pears, apricot, blood orange and plum. I do get bananas but they freeze every year but they sure are cute. I also have grapes. My neighbors have asian peaches, white and yellow peaches,clementines, grapes and lots of different veggies we all share and trade Love it
  • sarahsmom1
    sarahsmom1 Posts: 1,501 Member
    Congrats on a wonderful harvest this year! Do you need some neighbors?? ; )

    Since I don't have room to grow that kind of garden, I've been hitting all the local stands the farmers put up. Corn, melons of all kinds, peaches, onions, squash....oh my goodness! I love this time of year! I even made my own frozen peach yogurt. Yummy!
    most you can grow in pots if you have room
  • fteale
    fteale Posts: 5,310 Member
    That's great! I am the worse gardener I know. I can't grow anything. I can't even grow tomatoes and potatoes, and I have tried everything, hanging baskets, raised beds, grow bags...... the slugs get everything.

    But I have had success with cavolo nero and courgettes this year.
  • sarahsmom1
    sarahsmom1 Posts: 1,501 Member
    i grow alot in my garden also and have become a dab hand at foraging and doing the jams,pies and yes even the wines lol(not that i drink very often)lol
    it is such a great feeling when harvest time comes around again! now all you have to do is get those carrotts planted a couple of months earlier and keep planting them until you have them coming in solid for about 5 months of the year! we started harvesting our carrotts and parsnips from about july....and still will be till about dec :)
    good luck with the garden and move where you put the carrotts next year too! and always try to plant them near to onions!
    my Uncle from Denmark made tomato wine
  • hewhoiscd
    hewhoiscd Posts: 1,029 Member
    Cool :)
  • 2Bgoddess
    2Bgoddess Posts: 1,096 Member
    That's great! I am the worse gardener I know. I can't grow anything. I can't even grow tomatoes and potatoes, and I have tried everything, hanging baskets, raised beds, grow bags...... the slugs get everything.

    But I have had success with cavolo nero and courgettes this year.

    well, you are one up on me, i have never heard of these things!
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