Gardens

The Sandbox General
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Our berries are getting out of hand. Very tasty, but those prickly vines are getting tangled up with everything else.

Our apricot tree used to put out hundreds every year. Got nothing the last couple of years. Thought the tree was about to die, but now this year we have one (1!!!) apricot. Hope we can keep the birds away from it until it ripens.

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I have a raised bed plot about 4X8 freedom units planted all in beans. Beans will be done likely this week. I think I have enough time to get another crop inā€¦but what? Beets maybe? Another crop of beans?

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Maybe snap peas? Those are tasty

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Good idea. Last time I planted peas, someone walking down the street asked if the could score some. They were the only thing they could get their kid to eat.

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Purple carrots. Anthocyanins are antiaging.

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I have one pea plant this year. Tasty.

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I got one malformed cucumber out of a whole lot of plants this year. However I should have about 20-30 pie pumpkins to process shortly.

And I dont know what Iā€™m going to do with all the carrots Iā€™ve got.

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Paging @Breadmaker

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I compost a lot of stuff into my garden. So I get random stuff growing every year. Couple years ago pumpkins. Potatoes most years. This yearā€¦Roma tomatoes. Iā€™ve got a few plants that are producing like crazy that showed up after I pulled out all the bean plants. Currently making some tomato sauce.

The ironic part is, we plant tomatoes every year, and get pretty much nothing. My spouse pulled all the tomato plants a month ago and swore no more tomatoes. And here we are just a month later.

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I had a fair amount of jalapenos this year. Occasionally when I had a bunch ready at the same time, I left a couple on the plant until they turned red. The flavor of the red ones is slightly different. Itā€™s a little sweeter and a little hotter than the green ones. I think I may let more go red before harvest next time I grow them.

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