What did you plant in your garden this year?

[Pelado]

Isn't that usually the result of too much nitrogen?

It is great for green leafy growth, but limits fruit productions.

Could be. My thumbs have never been accused of being particularly green.

[Northwestcoug]

The night temps here are at the point that tomotoes on the vine won't be ripening much longer. Many people are saying I need to salvage what I can, which is A LOT of green tomatoes. I have a tech at work who says they used to wrap green tomatoes in newspaper and keep them in boxes, checking on them every so often. She said they would have tomatoes until Christmas that way in Quebec.

I'm going to give it a go, rinsing them in vinegar and trying the newspaper hack. Others say add a banana or apple to the box to help them ripen. Is there anyone here with tried and true methods?IMG_9882.jpeg

[BigPiney]

I have let them ripen in my garage with some success. good luck.

[Northwestcoug]

I ended up with a lot of green tomatoes:
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This was from 8 plants.There's probably another 20 out there, that I'm going to try pulling the plant and hanging it upside down in my shed.

We filled 4 apple boxes 2 layers deep like this, each tomato wrapped in newspaper. I'm going to check on them every few days and see what happens. Some of them are REALLY green, so some salsa verde or fried green tomatoes might be in our future.
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[Northwestcoug]

This year I went kind of crazy. We're in a rural area with a ton of small farms. Early in the year there was a big seed sale from local growers. I thought 'cool, it'll be a good experience to start from seed to fruit', and proceeded to get a bunch of seeds, and not realizing that at least tomatoes and peppers require some TLC before going out to the garden. So I bought a grow light and followed this guy's strategy for the tomatoes and peppers:

And it worked quite well. A couple of seeds took a while to start germinating, but everything has survived the transplant to my garden (knock on wood). By the way, my current 'this may be the best evidence of a higher being' is how in the hell plants develop from seeds. Just amazing.

Anyways, here's the rundown:
12 tomato plants. A mix of San Marzano and different heirloom types, plus 2 cherry tomatoes.
8 peppers: bell, jalapeño, and assorted chiles.
3 tomatillos.
Couple of pounds of seed potatoes, which was too much in the raised bed that I planted them in.
Leeks, shallots, garlic, and red and white onions
Couple of rows of carrots.
Peas and beans
Arugula, kale, cabbage, chard, and assorted lettuces.

I can't take credit for the fruit that was already on the property, but we have sufficient blackberries and raspberries for our needs. And grapes also.

We have a solid plan for the tomatoes and peppers with canned salsa and frozen tomato sauce. It's easy to eat a lot of peas. Alliums, potatoes, and carrots will be OK to store for a while. But the leafy vegetables, man. It's hard to eat that much salad. We're going to need some new ideas.

[Pelado]

We've got carrots, roma tomatoes, sweet peppers, radishes, celery, green beans, peas (that didn't survive transplant) broccoli, cucumbers, corn, spaghetti squash, spinach, strawberries, and several herbs and spices, including the Simon & Garfunkel mix.

[Northwestcoug]

We've got carrots, roma tomatoes, sweet peppers, radishes, celery, green beans, peas (that didn't survive transplant) broccoli, cucumbers, corn, spaghetti squash, spinach, strawberries, and several herbs and spices, including the Simon & Garfunkel mix.

I had to look that up. For a minute I thought that Idaho had become very lax with its drug laws.

[USUC]

I had to look that up. For a minute I thought that Idaho had become very lax with its drug laws.

Nope, just stuff to be sold at Scarborough fair.

[Northwestcoug]

Nope, just stuff to be sold at Scarborough fair.

Shame. I was hoping Pelado was feeling groovy with his harvest.

[USUC]

Shame. I was hoping Pelado was feeling groovy with his harvest.

I was going to keep this going with something about Mrs Robinson but then I just started listening to Bridge Over Troubled Water (the whole album) instead. Paul Simon is such a great songwriter.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I wish we had space for a bigger garden. We do cucumbers, tomatoes, and a variety of herbs (basil, dill, chives, etc). We also have blackberries and 3 fruit trees (1 asian pear, 2 pluot). Our fruit got wiped out this year due to a hard late freeze.

Oh yeah. We also have a large and very productive goji berry plant.

[BigFatMeanie]

We've got carrots, roma tomatoes, sweet peppers, radishes, celery, green beans, peas (that didn't survive transplant) broccoli, cucumbers, corn, spaghetti squash, spinach, strawberries, and several herbs and spices, including the Simon & Garfunkel mix.

I’ve never heard of anyone transplanting peas. They can absorb a freeze and like cold weather so I’ve only ever heard of people direct-sowing them as early as February or March.

[Pelado]

I’ve never heard of anyone transplanting peas. They can absorb a freeze and like cold weather so I’ve only ever heard of people direct-sowing them as early as February or March.

We've rarely had much success with peas - mostly because of getting them planted too late. I don't really care about the peas but my wife always thinks she wants them.

[Northwestcoug]

We just put in one zucchini plant, Mrs. NWC insisted. After having so much squash and zucchini taking up space from last year and working hard to enjoy that (you can only make so much zucchini bread and find creative ways to eat squash), I wanted to quit all that.