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Pickin lots of tomatoes and enjoying them besides giving away to family and friends. Eggplant made into a few favorite recipes besides parm.

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^^^^It's winding down for me tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumbers are done. Peas & okra still doing ok. The heat and drought is not helping that's for sure. Starting to get things ready for fall will be planting cabbage, turnip rutabagas and whatever wife wants to add.

Picked about 30 lbs of boysenberries, slowing down now for them. Tomatoes starting to ripen, along with cucumbers, zucchini and the second planting of green beans. Trying some savoy cabbage this year, heads are just starting to form now.

Sheesh, only grape tomatoes & lettuce, for us so far !!

Everything is growing well, just a late start, due to frosts.

Paul, I have some general purpose fertilizer, I should give you some.

Deer, coons and squirrels in abundence. Neighbor has a small garden, looks like a prison yard, two layers of hight fence and an electric fence...
3 miles down the road is a "you pick it" farm so I just stop by and pick up what I need. Found the convienence out weighs the previous wars with the critters over "their" food. Deer will eat an entire garden in one night, right down to the dirt

Yep the critters can be a problem.

Dug the taters, on Sunday.

Every other day

Remind me Paul, I'll give you some fertilizer.

1 row dug 😰3 more to go

Good harvest earlybrd. My turnip, rutabaga about 1-2" tall and cabbage are transplants with the cooler weather they should take off if we could just get some needed rain.

Red leaf lettuce, tomatoes, onions , garlic and peppers were stellar this year. Everything has been harvested with the exception of a few Cherry peppers, basil and Italian parsley. Next years garlic will be in the ground in a week or two.

Still have carrots and Savoy cabbage in the garden. Picked a couple cabbage last night for some coleslaw at the family gathering today!
Surprise producers this year was boysenberry plants and Borghese tomatoes. Transplanted (gently) all but one boysenberry plant in early spring and they still produced decently with maybe 30 lbs in the freezer. Borghese tomatoes (roma type) were outstanding in taste and early production, about 3 weeks ahead of the traditional Roma plants.

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