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Tips, Tricks & Just Good Advice! => Good to Know! - A collection of How-To's & Sage Advice => Garden to Table - Growing Your Own! => Topic started by: Smokin Don on May 17, 2013, 02:02:24 AM
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I finally got my small garden in today, a raised bed 4X8 feet by 10 inches. I have some Kentucky Wonder pole beans along the fence, 5 tomato plants and pickler cucumbers planted among the tomatoes. I am hoping the cukes will help keep down the weeds and give me some cukes to make dill pickles.
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Here are some chives blooming and I just planted some fern leaf dill in the square tile. When the chives flowers die I will cut them down and they will bloom one more time. I have the same on the other corner of the shed with sweet basil in the square tile.
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Smokin Don
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Can't wait to see things start coming up.
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That's what she said too <lol>
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Inspiration - looking forward to getting my garden in this weekend!
David
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After only a little over two weeks my garden is doing fine. Green beans are along the fence, planted from seeds. In the front left corner is a cucumber plant and to it's right is some cukes started from seeds so should have two crops a few weeks apart to make dill pickles. My tomato plants are blooming. Smokin Don
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fantastic SD. what are you feeding your plants. good growth on them. I grow stuff too. ;)
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fantastic SD. what are you feeding your plants. good growth on them. I grow stuff too. ;)
When I set my plants I use miracle grow about half strength to water. Since then just water, we have had some nice rains. I had added some lime to the soil earlier. The rest of the growing season if I need to water will use miracle grow a few times. Don
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Well my pole beans looked like a bumper crop but just got one mess off of them. My cukes didn't fare much better just got enough for a quart of dill pickles. I tore both out since they were choking my tomato plants. I have had nice tomatoes but cooler weather came in and they slowed down. I just got these yesterday. Next year I am just doing tomatoes and maybe some early lettuce. Don
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Lookin' good, Smokin Don; we were able to pick some of out tomatoes yesterday, and made a salad of cubed zucchini and tomato, feta cheese, and a dressing made from olive oil, red wine vinegar, spicy brown mustard, salt, pepper. Wrapped in romaine lettuce leaves, it made a cool and healthy dinner. ;)
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Nice looking mators Don!! We have a mator plant still waiting to yield :)
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nice tomatoes buddy. really big and good color to them. :)
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Nothing like a backyard victory garden......
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Nice looking tomatoes. Bet they taste great!
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SD, beautiful tomatoes.
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Those are some beautiful looking tomatoes!
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They looks like they're going to taste great!
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There's a lot of toasted Ts there
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My tomatoes slowed up a few week ago with cooler weather. After a couple of 80+deg. days I had a bunch and not wanting to waste them I decided to try to dry some. Reading Ahrons, africanmeats, method and searching the net I tried some in the oven and some in my smoker.
I did them both at 200 deg. for six hours. The one sin the oven dried pretty well but the ones in the smoker, being thicker did not dry. I will use them to make some smoky chili.
The ones for the oven
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Oven on the left and smoker on the right
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Smokin Don
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Looks mighty tasty, Don.
I'm using Ahron's method as well - the tomato flavor is so intense I can eat those babies like savory candy.
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Don, I did like you. Last year we had an abundance of Romas so we dried some in the kitchen oven and they were great. So I thought I'd do the next batch in my Bradley and save a little energy. I put 8 loaded racks in and after a few hours the black nasties were all over the toms. It was just too much moisture for the OBS to handle. I'll stick with the kitchen oven on this one since I don't have a wood-fired pizza oven like some here. ;)
Those were awesome looking toms, way better than ours.
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Nice looking tomatoes! I like having a variety of ways to prepare / preserve and use them! This is great.
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Nice toms Don,did you get this years garden in? Im in same boat,tomatoes my best crop for sure.