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This is my second year growing my own garden. I have had success and failure both years. I am not nearly as good at this as my grandparents. I don’t know very many tricks of the trade. But I am learning new things each year.
You can use a 1:1 parts Epsom salt and water mixture to spray your bell pepper plants that bloom and bloom without every bearing fruit. Apparently this malady is caused by a lack of magnesium. Who knew?!
Cucumbers vines trellis really well but you have to look for new cucumbers nearly every day, otherwise they turn into orange or yellow monstrosities that are disgusting! I knew this already but I always had my mom reminding me to go look at them.
Place tomatoes on your counter stem side down. This slows the rotting process.
What great garden or vegetable tips do you have?
AnnaShortcakes 
Wow! Lovely! I wish I had a garden! What are the grey-ish-white-ish round veggies???
Darya, they are some sort of pepper. We got plants from the FFA (Future Farmers of America- a high school club) for 25 cents a piece. Some of them have been mislabeled but at that price who can complain? I haven’t tasted them yet but they sure are strange looking.
tip, my Mom uses the overly matured cucumbers to make “candied/Christmas pickles”; I purposely let enough cukes get at that stage of maturity so she could make these delicious, crunchy, cinnamon flavored pickles; I will give David and Kat a jar so you can taste them; takes about 5 easy steps (and 5 days) to make these; only one easy step per day; hope you enjoy!
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I love that older generations could squeeze food out of nearly nothing. They were way more efficient and resourceful. My generation has really lost that skill. I am trying to keep it little by little though. Thanks for the tip and for stopping by!
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YUM!!! And what a beautiful tree! I will admit, I’m jealous, I want to garden but couldn’t even decide where to start! Ill just watch you work your magic!
Gardening is so easy but it does take practice and failure to get better. If you want to try your hand at it, I would suggest starting with herbs. They are pretty hardy and there are so many great ways to use them!
That looks great!! Our garden this year has turned out to be less than stellar unfortunately. Usually we have tomatoes out our ears, but this year we only have had a handful.
Ours has been disappointing too. July was way too wet. At one point, I had standing water in my garden and I had to trench it so it would drain. Craziness! Our tomatoes are sad too. Thank goodness we have 8 plants instead of the usual 4.
I LOVE gardening… Although you wouldn’t know it with all my weeds this year! Your vegetables look delicious!
One thing I do is mix radish seeds in with other seeds I am direct sowing — especially carrots and other roots. Radishes start popping up after only 3 days (so you can see the line exactly and keep the weeds down!) and are done well before the companion veggie. Plus, it’s a very efficient use of space.
Haha my weeds are pretty impressive too. The radish idea is a great one! I am always looking for ways to maximize space because I have so little. This year was very wet here. Was it for you? I am so glad you are on here so we can keep in touch. I love looking at your blog!
It wasn’t terribly wet in terms of rain… humid though! It actually could have been an extremely fruitful year, but I just had too much else going on. I love reading your blog too!
I hear you. My cucumbers keep getting too big because I don’t go check them often enough.
Beautiful garden…..namaste. . . Anne
Thanks for commenting and stopping by my blog! I just checked out your blog. Seems like you have had a grand adventure.
I had a wonderful 4 months in incredible India and loved every minute except maybe not Delhi Belly!
Namaste. . . . . Anne
What a beautiful bounty!
I agree! And tasty too!
Hey girl!! Looks great I haven’t had much time for my garden this year. Maybe next season or planning some fall crops soon! Love kat
All of it I grew except the corn. Got it from my mother in law. There is always next season. Or greens this fall… Hope you are enjoying the home life!
Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate) is like a plant vitamin for just about everything that grows. No need to spray the blooms though. (Most blooming fruits and vegetables won’t sent fruit unless overnight temps drop to below 73F — thus is why we generally have spring and fall crops.) I tend to sprinkle about 2-3 TB of Epsom salt at the base of my tomatoes, peppers and eggplant, then water as usual. **Be careful using Epsom salt with Basil.** More than 1 tsp per gallon can be toxic! (I learned this when I was growing herbs at my nursery.)
Thanks for the information! I will try giving it to other stuff too. I bet you know tons about gardening from the nursery. I love learning about that kind of stuff. If only it was profitable too!
I can be quite a lucrative business. I just stunk at that part. 😉
Oh.. Magnesium sulfate does help with fruit quality an sugar content. It’s widely used in commercial operations these days.