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Category: My Front Yard Garden | Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:25 pm

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Hello:

Here are some pictures and history of some of my past gardens in response to Gardenstew's question.

Gardenstew wrote on Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:19 pm:
Is this your first attempt at vegetable gardening?

Lets start with 2006 and work back. 2006 is easy to show because I apparently took NO pictures of the actual garden.

Now lets jump to the end of the season Last year I grew only seeds from heirloomseeds.com and these were some of their Giant Italian Paste tomatoes. I tracked the weight of 41 of these GIP maters and they weighed in at a total of 20.62 pounds with the biggest single one weighing 12.7 ounces.

Here is a couple more pictures of my harvest.



I took this batch of paste tomatoes and made and canned some sauce from them and here is a shot of the results.



I entered my canned goods from 2006 into the North Carolina state fair. I entered 5 items the tomato sauce as well as Strawberry Preserves, hot peppers, green beans and a spaghetti sauce with meat. The Tomato sauce is the second jar from the right.
I managed to pull three second place ribbons at the fair. All items (except the preserves) were just judged on appearance of proper canning processes and standards. They actually opened the preserves to check the taste and the consistency of the fruit and the jelly. I was pretty excited to get three red ribbons at the state fair, but now I have to defend my ribbons and try for blue ribbons this year.

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Well that was enough for 2006 garden now here are a bunch of shots of a group garden that I did a couple of years ago with my two best friends (one of which has also just started his own blog on gardenstew as well).



Tim Tilling the plot



trying to solarize the weed seeds.



young lettuce



picking greens



veggies galore



pea trellis



peas and horse



lettuce & carrots & potatoes & Peas & Beets



harvest



Lots of goodies

That was the spring garden and here are a couple of shots of the summer garden as it was first being planted.









I dont have any pictures of the community garden after this. The garden grew well and apparently we never took any more pictures.

That's all for now.

Seeya,

Uncle Jabba



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glendann wrote on Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:32 pm:

Oh WOW.Love those tomatoes and man those gardens look great you still haven't told us in what country or state you live in .If you live where you start gardens now it is not around here.

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pondlady wrote on Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:34 pm:

I am so very impressed!! What wonderful veggies and such handsome children.

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glendann wrote on Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:39 pm:

Well Uncle J.I am feeling pretty stupid about now Dah.If you won ribbons in North Carolina its safe to
assume you live there .

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reggaefan wrote on Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:10 pm:

Great vegetables the kids are not bad either.

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eileen wrote on Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:37 pm:

Thank you so much for posting all those great photographs Uncle J. Super sized tomatoes and really cute children go down very well here. I hope 2007 sees you winning all blue ribbons at the state fair.

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cajunbelle wrote on Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:01 am:

Thanks for the photos Uncle J. The kids are just too cute. They must be so healthy looking because of all those great veggies.

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jubabe296 wrote on Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:06 pm:

Uncle J. those veggies look soooo good!! I also hope you win blue ribbons at the state fair this year!! Good luck!! Thanks for posting the great pics for us!!

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jubabe296 wrote on Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:08 pm:

Ohh I forgot to put in my last post. I noticed you haven't posted in the forums yet. You should join us over there, everyone has a great time!!See ya there!

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