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    Gardening-for flavor!

    I’ve pretty much been obsessed with herbs since my 20s. Now, I just love trying different tomatoes to find the best tasting ones (subjective, I know). Since we have blight here, I grow in containers or straw bales. Tomatoes I like (never to be found at home centers/greenhouses/farm stands): Sweet Seedless, Super Sauce, Fresh Salsa, Rutgers, Big Daddy, Steak Sandwich, Super Steak, and Jelly Bean (grape). All but Jelly Bean are Burpee’s (no affiliation).

    Three bell peppers I like because they all are thick-walled and they dice and freeze very well: Great Stuff, Golden Giant II, and Candy Apple.

    I have a little room in the SE corner of the barn that costs $20 more in electricity to heat/light for the short time it takes to get the seeds started.

    When we go away for extended periods, the plants are watered on a drip system that has been permanently installed around the deck perimeter.

    Basil is not an herb, it’s a CROP!!!
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    Making me hungry!




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    [QUOTE=DaveMatthewsBand;231177]Making me hungry!


    Ha!
    Used to belong to a gardening forum. One tomato grower had a sig line that made my mouth water:

    “Nuthin’ like a kitchen sink ‘mater sammich”

    indeed
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    Nothing better than "fresh from the garden" yummies. I'll eat just about everything while I am picking the fruits of labor from our garden.
    Not a big fan of tomatoes but I will eat them occasionally. Green beans , cantaloupe , sweet tators , cabbage, sweet peppers and hot, cuke's , watermelon , are some of our must haves.

    Brian

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    Quote Originally Posted by Country Campers View Post
    Nothing better than "fresh from the garden" yummies. I'll eat just about everything while I am picking the fruits of labor from our garden.
    Not a big fan of tomatoes but I will eat them occasionally. Green beans , cantaloupe , sweet tators , cabbage, sweet peppers and hot, cuke's , watermelon , are some of our must haves.

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    What do you do with your garden while on a trip with your trailer?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Houndbb View Post
    What do you do with your garden while on a trip with your trailer?
    Its heavily guarded , 8 dogs , 14 security cameras , 3 neighbors , and my mom , so don't get any ideas.

    We plan when we plant the beans , they always seem to be ready when we are going on our July trips.

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    Carol and I have been making our own Salsa for a few decades. The demand has grown so great with friends and family that our garden has been growing only tomatoes and various varieties of peppers for a few years. We used to grow a yearly rotating mix of 1/2 dozen or so different herbs (we love Italian food) along with potatoes, corn, green beans, onions, peas, etc.

    When we built our home we set aside space (30ish feet X 10ish feet) for the garden complete with it's own irrigation system so it can be watered while we are away.
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    Brian,
    Can’t find a bean variety that I like enough to go to battle with the groundhogs over them. They climb right on the deck, set off the motion lights and gnaw on each and every one!

    Dan, Excellent use of chicken wire (my blueberries are surrounded with it). If you start your own seeds, the Fresh Salsa or Super Sauce varieties are excellent. Salsa has looong vine life, very rich dark color and few seeds, very firm-stands up to the water bath. Super is just that- super sized like a Roma on steroids. Good flavor, few seeds.
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    We are under a freeze warning tonight . I have the garden ready but I think I will wait a couple of more weeks. I really like homemade salsa and hot sauce. I have 6 Ghost pepper plants, 2 Tabasco, 2 Garden Salsa, 1 Habenero, and 2 Jalapeno. I have a 18' x 24' greenhouse that extends the growing season by one month at each end resulting in about 7 months growing time VS 5.
    For a few years I brought some of the plants indoors like my peppers as they will grow 4-5 years if kept under the right conditions. I got tired of the mess they made and the work it took. Here are a few pictures from this weekend.

    Regards,
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    From 2017
    Yes those are pineapples growing in the center back They were grown from the tops that were cut off from store bought ones.
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    @kevinpo
    I am jealous , wish I could grow pineapples.
    Great set up you have there.

    Brian

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