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Can you order potato seed from a company locally?

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Your garden is beautiful. It's too late for me to plant potatoes this year and no I couldn't find certified seeds anywhere. I waited too late. I'll know better from now on.

I've got so many cucumbers I might try making some pickles. We don't eat a lot of pickles so I'm not sure it's worth the time and effort. I do like bread and butter pickles but not enough to eat them every day.

Tonight for dinner we had squash, tomatoes, and cucumbers from the garden. Still waiting on the okra and beans to be ready. I love eating from the garden.



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We had some kale from the neighbor's garden. I put it in our salads tonight. We are not big fans but it is really good for a person.

I did put up a new tray bird feeder today. Then I added some tomato cages and also some clips to my tomatoes. Then I had to put some small mini fences as to seperate my sage from my basil.


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Junie do you make pesto with your basil? My sister loves kale and plants lots of it. She makes kale soup. We've tried it in salads and in soup and just don't like it. It is nutritious so we've tried lots but just can't do it.



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no, I do not make pesto. I cook spaghetti,and put a bit of butter, chopped up garlic, cut up tomatoes, and chopped up basil in it...makes a heart healthy meatless meal...that I usually have for lunch. Pretty tastee to my notion. I do not care for Kale either..we have a bit left and I will add it to a salad b/c as you say it is good for one,,but I would rather eat spinach.

I had my tomato today--it was wonderful.. I made a tomato sandwich.

Glad that you snuck in the photo of your garden Sunny. THAT is a wonderful site to behold...You have a very nice looking garden indeed.


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I picked blackberries (only found about a cup) this morning..then I cut out some one inch berry branches..they were in the way of Rod cutting grass. I also cut out some dead branches on my Azalea bush. The cutting of branches was tonight's chore but I was out so I just did it this morning.


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I waited until 8:00 PM to go to the garden so it would be cooler, It was 90° at 8:00 PM. I can't stand this.



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I picked some baby potato bugs...no matter how hard one tries, you always miss a batch being born.


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Squash flower with a chubby bee getting all the pollen



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Cucumbers. I have more than I can handle and there are a million more flowers.



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Pick them when they are small and make sweet gerkin like pickles.


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I agree...pickles, pickles and more pickles. I only planted pickling cucumbers this year....I need to trellis like you Sheri so that I have room for more varieties.


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Don't get trellis's like the ones pictures. The openings are too large and too far apart. I've used tomato cages in the past and will go back to those.



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I'll probably use chicken wire for my trellis when I make one Sheri, I already have extra on hand so I'll just need to make a frame to hold it. Maybe you can staple some to yours??


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Sunny that's my plan for next year.



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The black eyed peas are making pods without making flowers. Weird.



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Yes..my potatoes did that this year as well. Very weird indeed.


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Junie, these are Cherokee Purple and they do sort of look rotten but they taste real good.



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Thanks for showing me....perhaps mine were not rotten. Now I feel silly.


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Don't feel silly. You're not the only one. There are people who won't even taste them because of how they look but they're one of my favorites. I think the darker the tomato looks the sweeter it tastes. They do go bad faster than the all red ones though. You can't leave them in the bowl on the table for weeks smile



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Thanks for the picture..and thanks for the knowledge. I appreciate all of your help, Sheri. Happy eating !


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Last night I trimmed back my blackberry canes that bore this year. We have no place to get rid of the cuttings at so i scatter them around the back yard and Rod cuts them up with the mower. Yard looks a mess right now...


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Could you root them Junie?

You know how squash plants will lean over? Well this one decided to lean off the straw bale onto the ground and most of the squash has been molding. I tried to lift it up by putting straw under it. It’s so heavy so it’s not totally up. Hope it works.

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My husband wanted me to root them also. If I kept the ground wet I could root them now. I will try to root some next spring when it is wet outside. And I will not root what has already bore.

The best way is to bend a cane over, plant it in the ground and make sure it is wet most of the time. When it is well rooted, you cut the newly rooted part from the original plant. And now you have a new plant. Better than having to buy new plants. Plus it will be the same plant.

Good luck with your squash Sheri. And thanks for the picture. I always wondered how you planted in the hay bales, so to see them really helps.


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Sheri, get your DH to put a few sticks under the squash...it will allow air to flow.

Junie, are you allowed to rake and throw your debris out with the trash?

It has been so wet here that all I can do is look at the garden.


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No we are not allowed to do that. When I rake grass I put it under my berries...the other stuff either get taken to my SIL's burn pile or Rod cuts it up with the mower.


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I'd be in trouble because I'd be sneaking it into my trash lol


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I'd be in trouble because I'd be sneaking it into my trash lol

Oh I do, a bit here and there, but not much..Though I did it a lot back at home.


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I picked a few cucumbers...it has rained every single day though this week and will rain like that for the full week ahead. I can see that the cabbage moths have eaten all the cauliflower heads already so they are a loss.


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Sunny I tried growing cabbage twice and gave up. No matter how I tried the worms won.



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They won here as well Sheri, I had to pull them out and pick the worms out of the soil.


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Oh gosh I never thought about getting them out of the soil. My sister in West Virginia mostly keeps stuff covered in a greenhouse but they got in there too. It’s like they were waiting for her to open the greenhouse door so they could run in.



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Propping up the squash plant worked. Just needed a little air circulation.

I haven’t been able to get to the garden for three days so I thought it’d be scorched but no!



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Wow ! Bountiful harvest ! Yay for you, Sheri !

PS. My daughter said grated cucumbers make an amazing zucchini bread...You know, you take the zucchini bread recipe and you substitute grated cucumber


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I'll have to try that recipe because I've got so many cucumbers and my sister told me if they aren't pickling cucumbers they'll come out soft if I try pickling them. I've given lots away.



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I have never heard that about cucumbers Sheri.....I hope it is wrong. I think Valarie and her husband have pickled a lot of their cucumbers....any variety


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Those regular cukes make great relish Sheri.


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Last night I went out, dug up 2 volunteer tomatoes and replanted them much deeper than they originally came up. One us doing well, the larger one not as well. But this cooler weather and the rain should help them both.


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I hope you get a good crop from them.

I picked yellow bush beans yesterday, I cooked them for supper and ate until I was going to bust lol


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