Our version of retirement: Living a childhood dream
- Thread starter Gary O'
- Start date
hearlady
Basic Member
- Location
- N Carolina
We're getting our first tomatoes. So good!
StarSong
Awkward is my Superpower
- Location
- Los Angeles Suburbs
Love your gardens, Gary! Does your wife can or preserve, or do you manage to use it up when it's ripe?
jujube
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As the old lady said, when asked what she did with all her garden produce: "We eat what we can and what we can't, we can."
RadishRose
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- Location
- Connecticut, USA
Nice garden!
Sliverfox
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Yeah, they're pretty maintenance free and zukes are so versatile in what you can do with them
I think most our plants are yellow crook neck this year
Our blue jays have been eyeballing the currants
Up at the cabin it was Jays, Robins, and Ravens
Good thing we had plenty of currants up there
They're wild currants
Zero taste
But, with enough sugar, makes a nice syrup or jam
palides2021
Well-known Member
- Location
- MidAtlantic, USA
Do you sell any at the market? I used to know a couple who grew their produce on a 1-acre lot of land and would be at the farmer's market each week selling something. Otherwise, kudos to you and your wife for a wonderful garden!
StarSong
Awkward is my Superpower
- Location
- Los Angeles Suburbs
So envy you folks with plenty of water. Summer squash gets down to 49¢/lb during high season, $.99/lb most of the year. I prefer homegrown organic, but with virtually zero rain here between April and November, I can't justify the water. We have a few tomato plants, some container herbs and a few citrus trees (orange, lemon and key lime).
Enjoy your summer bounty!
No.
Around here, what we grow, everybody else grows.
StarSong
Awkward is my Superpower
- Location
- Los Angeles Suburbs
C'mon down and I'll make you one!
Sliverfox
Well-known Member
Hubby went to our local Farmer's market this morning.
Asked him to get me a zucchini & maybe blueberries.
Not only did he buy strawberres & the things I asked for.
He came home with a bushel of peaches!
Didn't get the zucchini /blueberry quick bread made.
As I stepped out of the shower,, phone rang ,,our son letting me know they would be there in an hour!
Asked him to get me a zucchini & maybe blueberries.
Not only did he buy strawberres & the things I asked for.
He came home with a bushel of peaches!
Didn't get the zucchini /blueberry quick bread made.
As I stepped out of the shower,, phone rang ,,our son letting me know they would be there in an hour!
They're gone!!!
All gone!!
Our place is ours again!!!
Love 'em all, but.......NINE DAYS???!!
RadishRose
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- Location
- Connecticut, USA
Sounds like you guys are very much loved!
palides2021
Well-known Member
- Location
- MidAtlantic, USA
Love the photos! Enjoy your hike, @Gary O' !
With the company gone, I was able to finish the cedar gate project.
At first I was gonna take off the chain link gate
But my lady suggested just hanging the cedar gate on the existing one
Tried to argue that but couldn't
Next is a lower deck off what is now an enclosed porch
then........an arbor tween the shop and the house
Oh, and we've got more company coming tomorrow
(sigh)
At first I was gonna take off the chain link gate
But my lady suggested just hanging the cedar gate on the existing one
Tried to argue that but couldn't
Next is a lower deck off what is now an enclosed porch
then........an arbor tween the shop and the house
Oh, and we've got more company coming tomorrow
(sigh)
