Vegetable Garden

Who's got one ? what are you growing ? and how's it coming along? Mine consists of sweet corn , cabbage , brussel sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli ,cucumbers, zucchini, peas, tomatoes , peppers , acorn squash, pumpkins, and assorted spices. The cold wet weather hasn't been very conducive to good growth so far for me. But with warmer weather in the forecast things should turn out. I hope those of you growing fair better.

Best year ever for tomatoes. Put them in the ground at the end of May when the forecast was two weeks of 80° temps. Got the first ripe ones mid July. 4 cherry tomato plants topped out at 8'. Easily picked half an ice cream bucket each time. Had 4 Roma and 8 Celebrity plants. Picked over 500 tomatoes off of them so far. Wife cans stewed tomatoes and lots of salsa. Dehydrating them now.

My tomatoes are taking forever to ripen. Cherry tomatoes were dark green on Sunday and Monday they were turning orange. Hope the bigger ones start to do the same. Got 4/10s of rain Tuesday and a half inch very early this morning. The carrots I planted 3 weeks ago are starting to come up, The stuff I planted Monday should start coming up in a few days.

Worked in the garden for about an hour today. Planted lettuce, spinach, and radishes. Done with fall planting except for maybe garlic.

Yum!

Finally got lettuce and tomatoes ready at the same time

6 hour cold smoke, going to be some ​delicious ​seasoning for my pulled pork this winter! This is the third batch, probably only one or two more and calling it good for the year.

Brandywines and Abe Lincolns

After the first planting was wiped out by a hailstorm the second has taken off like gangbusters. Never seen so many blossoms and cukes. Tomatoes coming on strong. Could be a very good year afterall

Pool 8 I use that same one.  Love it!

Vegetable strainer works great.

Started sauce. 

I don't even know where to begin with updates, it's been awhile. We are just trying to stay afloat. It's a bumper crop year across the board, all that early rain and dry summer really kept the wilt and fungal diseases down. Things just continue to thrive. Our freezer is full, we got another one because things aren't slowing down any time soon. I'd guess I've harvested around 75# of carrots and if that is 1/5 of what I have planted I would be surprised. Tomatoes we are keeping up on by making a big batch weekly, use enough for a meal that night and then freeze or can the rest. Have probably 10 quarts of sauce currently. Still have 3 more rows of corn to ripen, we haven't froze any yet so that's the goal with that. 
Just picking away day by day! Chickens now have free access to the garden prepping for next season, so cukes, zucchini, things like that will get pecked apart going forward. Still getting broccoli regularly and peppers just started picking up in the last 2 weeks. 

Beans, finally!!!  Bush beans, planted almost a month later than the pole beans are almost ready to pick.  Quite a few on the vines too! The pole beans are now producing quite a few, which is great.  I now prefer the pole beans over bush beans cause I don't have to bend over to pick them!  Key to picking most pole beans though is to pick them before they mature.  They get pretty woody and stringy if you wait to pick them.  But you get WAY more beans off them!  Last pic, my cucumbers.  Still getting a few and there are still flowers but it's slowing down.  That's alright far as I'm concerned for pickling.  But I'd still love to get an eater or two a day as long as I can.

Must have really poured last night. I checked the rain gauge and had about an inch. The radishes that I planted 2 weeks ago were flattened out. They should come back when it dries out.

While I was fixing my house from the tree falling into my bedroom my tomatoe plants grew through the upper section of wire mesh, so they didn't get as tall as they could have. 
I caught two chipmunks in the rat traps and stopped finding half eaten tomatoes, so I think it was them.