Sometimes good pictures are produced despite our casual attitudes....

I take all my veggie pictures on my back stoop. I guess how much sun or shade just depends on how the sun has come around and what time of day it is.

I was wrong about the lack of red tomatoes. I thought there were no red ones this morning but I just fed all my tomato plants with the Neptunes Liquid Fish/Seaweed Blend Fertilizer and found plenty of red tomatoes that must have been hiding.

Really I am just so pleased with my tomatoes this year. I am having record harvests and they just keep right on coming. I just can't get over the amounts I pick and pick and pick.

I always used to give neighbors and friends of tomatoes. But this year they all got more than ever.

I eat tomatoes every day but I could never eat them fast enough to keep up.

Yay! I am so jealous! Not really, you deaerve to have a great harvest. I just had a bad year. But if I lived closer I'd be coming over to get some of those tomatoes!

Arlene, you had more than a bad year for tomatoes. It seemed to me to be a total disaster. Next year hopefully will be a good year again for you.

Last year I had to fuss with them all year. Had to spray for the fungal diseases each week all season. This year I did spray early in the year to keep diseases away bit after a while I stopped and haven't sprayed with the Daconil for months. I just don't fuss with them this year. I do feed them but I do that each year as I want them to keep cranking out the tomatoes.

I wish I could zap tomatoes magically thru the computer to be able to share.

Look, first flower on my for fall planted cucumber plants. These things are doing really well, took off growing like weeds. And it poured this morning. Sun is out now. So the rain should make them grow even more.


I picked cucumbers again! Straight Eight first picture, Burpless in the second picture.



Tomatoes again.

I sure didn't have to water anything. It just poured this morning. Then cleared up and the sun was out but by later afternoon it was raining again. So cleared up now again but the garden sure did all get watered.

Beans again. I am getting lots of beans from the bean towers.


Here are some eggplants that I picked. And then some squash.

Everything looks great, especially the beans. Wax beans are my favorite.

Arlene, what are the main difference in taste between wax beans and green beans? I have never grown wax beans. Those colored varieties there are just fancy green beans.

I think they all taste pretty much the same but the wax beans are milder, kinda creamy, buttery, but then I do put butter on mine!

Sounds good. I might have to try some.

Oh, Rita, that's what the yelloe beans are. You HAVE tried some!

abhege said:Oh, Rita, that's what the yellow beans are. You HAVE tried some!

What? Wax beans and French Fillet Beans the same thing?

I love those yellow beans I am growing this year. They are the best beans out of any I have tried thru the years. Flavor, lots of flavor but mild and sweet and tender.

Yep, same. Just a filet bean. Regular ones are good as well.

Learned something new as I certainly did not know that! I am defiantly planning on growing those FRENCH GOLD beans next year. Love them. I am out there snacking on them raw each day.

That's it!!! I can't take it anymore! All this talk of tender and delicious beans...and I'm hungry...

...I'm building a fully enclosed (armor-plated ...I only wish! ) reverse rabbit cage for next year...with really small wire mesh! ...an' that's that. *Stomping foot quite firmly*...

I should be able to figure out a way to be able to drop the sides for weeding and such, right?

Rita where did you buy the towers you are using for beans? You are tempting me to maybe try some next year seems like the tall beans would be easier to pick. Will have to think about it and consider where I might plant them.

Chelle, then you will not want to hear that I just finished a nice plate of beans I made for late lunch stir fry. They were so yummy!

Yes, I think you defiantly need to build a rabbit proof place. If you have the room you could make a little total closed in space for growing beans and peas. Get going girl!

daylilydreams said:Rita where did you buy the towers you are using for beans? You are tempting me to maybe try some next year seems like the tall beans would be easier to pick. Will have to think about it and consider where I might plant them.

I know some people like bush beans but I have always much preferred pole beans. Fist off I hate stooping to pick all those bush beans. Second, bush beans produce all pretty much at once and then they are done. Pole beans just keep on going till cold weather sets in. And I like the fact that vertical gardening saves space.

The bean towers I bought at a local nursery in the spring. They are meant as tomato cages. Much taller and bigger and sturdier than the common tomato cages I usually see so I just knew as soon as I saw them I wanted them for beans.

But you could use any type of tomato cage really. The disadvantage is that ideally you want something taller than the common tomato cages.

You could also just buy two of the U Channel green metal fence posts at Home Depot and run garden twine between them and let the beans grow up them. Or get three posts and make a triangle. Really it's not difficult to figgure out something for beans to climb. They are not fussy.