Marilyn

Hey, Marilyn!!!

Nyrita, what did you mean by having the melons 'slip'? I haven't heard that term before.

Jennifer, I don't know why people let the zucchini get so over large before picking. You can use that one as a baseball bat! Honestly they taste so much better picked small.

Great looking tomatoes!

Jan, when you grown cantaloupe type melons most of them slip when ripe. I grow all my melons trellised so that keeps the fruit away from critters and off the ground. So to check ripeness I go and put my hand under any I think are ready and just touch them. Ready ones drop off into your hand. Melons "slip" off the vine when ripe.

Not watermelons of course. So if you grow melons you need to know which varieties slip and which do not.

Cucumbers. Straight Eight, Green Fingers and then Suyo Long.





Then I also picked Juliet Grape tomatoes and Sweet Million cherry tomatoes.

Here are some Sugar Lace II snap peas I am growing in pots.


And also growing Tatsoi, an Asian green, in pots.

The squash plants on the driveway farm are looking ratty because of the powdery mildew.


But the eggplant plants look marvelous!


Bean towers keep on pumping out the beans.

Hi All.....Happy to be with you! Thanks for the suggestions, Rita. I do spread composted manure & lime on the garden in the spring before I plant.....I'd say too much rain & cool nights. Never had tomatoes that didn't soften...they remind me of winter toms. The apple tree my Dad gave me 30 years ago has had apples for the first time ever....he bought a Macoun, but these are Macs......I see lots of applesauce in my plans.......

This is the place for veggie garden news for our region. And we want every one to grow veggies. At least I do!

Well they have an excuse they were in MA taking care of their daughter who just had surgery

I want to grow more melons next year than I am doing this year.

Here is one of the melon varieties I have in my shopping cart at Johnny's Seeds.

http://www.johnnyseeds.com/sho...

It is a Charentais called Savor.

Thanks, nyrita, that's kind of what I was thinking. Heehee.

Macs are my favorite apple, RD!!!

I really love talking about the veggie garden. And really lots of us are much closer geographically so this is very good.

Newyorkrita said:I want to grow more melons next year than I am doing this year.

Here is one of the melon varieties I have in my shopping cart at Johnny's Seeds.

http://www.johnnyseeds.com/sho...

It is a Charentais called Savor.

I researched after I posted and apparently this melon gets bad reviews from growers. As in almost impossible to get ripe melons. Maybe if you are in the California deserts but not here in the rainy northeast. So I have decided against it.

So I realized I had something better already.
And look at this one. French Orange.
http://www.harrisseeds.com/sto......

I have seeds of this one already as I bought it from Park Seeds. But it is a Charentais cross which is what I feel that I would rather grow than the Charentais Savor I was looking at yesterday at Johhnys and then decided against because of all the negative reviews on growing them.

And at High Mowing seeds I should get these two varieties. Deffinatly going with Magnifienza which I already have seeds and then these two I was looking at yesterday.

Caribbean Gold
http://www.highmowingseeds.com......

Sivan CHARENTAIS with reliable fruit set (so they say).
http://www.highmowingseeds.com......

Finally getting sweet peppers.

Cantaloupe



Mystery Melon


Yellow Squash

Karen, your squash looks so good. Mine is a mess, covered in powdery mildew. Yumm on the sweet peppers. I just picked some of mine yesterday.

And I wonder what your mystery melon is? What variety of cantaloupe are you growing this year? I am growing a nice one from Burpee called Sugar Cube.

I am getting frustrated with all the summer squash. As if that ratty powdery mildew was not bad enough they just aren't producing squash. Covered and covered in male blossoms so that it is a very big deal when a female blossom appears. All these plants are all different ages in that I have started seed and new plants at various times during the summer. Just want them to put out the female blossoms already again.

Rita unknown on the type of melons as they are volunteer plants I took from the compost. (I run a High School Kitchen and bring home all the veggie and fruit kitchen scrap from Sept. to June.) I've already picked 3 other Cantaloupe but they where much smaller but oh so sweet. I'm assuming the mystery melon is a Honey Dew. Both of the Melons on the vines smell so sweet. Might pick the cantaloupe one tomorrow. Been busy getting my school kitchen set up this week so haven't had time other than to pick tomatoes, cucumbers and yellow squash.

I just love home grown melons. No comparison to the ones bought green and unripe in the stores. In fact next year I plan on growing a lot more types than I did this year.

You melons sound great being nice and sweet.

Lunch was a home grown cantaloupe and red sweet peppers that I sliced and just mulched on plain as they tasted really good.

Well, I see that I messed up some of those links for melons I tried to post so I am going to try it again.

Caribbean Gold
http://www.highmowingseeds.com...

Sivan CHARENTAIS with reliable fruit set (so they say).
http://www.highmowingseeds.com...


French Orange
http://www.harrisseeds.com/sto...