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Rainy day!

Category: Vegetable, Herbs, Grapes and other Fruit. | Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 1:45 pm

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Last year we had an extreme drought. It only rained four times here at my house last summer. However, this year we are getting so much rain, I hope my tomatoes don't start cracking. The Strawberries, Red onions, Garlic, yukon gold and red potatoes, peanuts, spinach, herbs, and lettuces are doing really well. I planted them during the fall.

Seascape Strawberry ( photo / image / picture from rick162iq's Garden )


Red Onions ( photo / image / picture from rick162iq's Garden )


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Yukon Gold Potatoes ( photo / image / picture from rick162iq's Garden )





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The Vineyard 9 Grapevines

Category: Vegetable, Herbs, Grapes and other Fruit. | Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 8:02 pm

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I planted 11 grape varieties 3 years ago I lost 2 of them. However, they are all doing very well. This first one is the black monukka grape.

Black Monukka grape ( photo / image / picture from rick162iq's Garden )
This next one is my Thompson grapes despite its small size it has 18 clusters on it already.

Thompson grapes ( photo / image / picture from rick162iq's Garden )
My Flame Red Grapes are my biggest producer. All my vines were pruned back 80 percent during the winter.

Flame Red Grapes ( photo / image / picture from rick162iq's Garden )
This next picture is Mars Grapes which have a blueish purple color. These were my favorite last year.

Mars Grapes ( photo / image / picture from rick162iq's Garden )
This next one is of Himrod Grapes

Himrod Grapes ( photo / image / picture from rick162iq's Garden )These are some pics of the other vines.

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Heirloom tomato experiment

Category: Vegetable, Herbs, Grapes and other Fruit. | Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:40 pm

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I have 21 types of Heirlooms in the ground so far this year. The first one to fruit is the Tomato Chello it has 8 tomatoes on it so far.
Tomato Chello ( photo / image / picture from rick162iq's Garden )
The birds have gotten 4 of them already. I draped some bird netting over them yesterday. I also have lots of fake snakes, a fake Owl, and reflective pinwheels. Any other suggestions?
Tomato garden ( photo / image / picture from rick162iq's Garden ) The second tomato to have fruit on it is my yellow pear, it has four tomatoes on it so far.
Yellow Pear Tomato ( photo / image / picture from rick162iq's Garden ) I'm sure my Early Girl and Stupice should be right behind them. My Mortgage lifter tomato is the biggest plant it has some flowers but no fruit yet. I also have red potatoes, radishes, carrots, celery, watermelon, cucumbers, and herbs all growing in this garden.

Celery, radishes, and red potatoes. ( photo / image / picture from rick162iq's Garden )





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My purple broccoli

Category: Vegetable, Herbs, Grapes and other Fruit. | Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 3:47 pm

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My purple broccoli was tasty although it only gave me one head. My cauliflower did the same thing it got huge but after I harvested the main flower, I never got any side flowers. My green broccoli on the other hand keeps giving me broccoli. I harvested every single head I could see on each plant and they keep coming back. I have had 5 good harvests from 4 plants. I always thought cauliflower had lots of side flowers.

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Harvesting some more big broccoli

Category: Vegetable, Herbs, Grapes and other Fruit. | Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 6:27 pm

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Me harvesting some more big broccoli. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxuT3kWLf9U


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Fall Garden is doing very well.

Category: Vegetable, Herbs, Grapes and other Fruit. | Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:58 pm

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Here is a new video of the fall garden.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR_MLEGmzlU



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Rutabagas Poem

Category: Vegetable, Herbs, Grapes and other Fruit. | Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 6:17 pm

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Rutabagas were new to me
when I first paired with Jean.
At Thanksgiving and Easter dinners
her grandpa Frank, her spinster cousin,
mom, dad, and a tribe of handsome
brothers dined in near silence
at a great green table
with fierce griffins underneath.
I would wonder if their quiet
was about secrets or something wrong
but now I think it was
just how they gathered.
Rutabagas were on the table.
I had to ask Jean what they were.
My first mouthful tasted
like something in a gunny sack;
nothing like a wine
from which an epicure, or would-be epicure,
might claim to read the soils
in which the grapes were grown.
She said she loved their dug-up texture,
the hint of dirt
that couldn't be baked away,
how they left the tongue
with a rumor of something
underground and dark.
Autumn vegetables suit her,
I think, and none more than rutabagas,
so reluctant to have left the ground.



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Broccoli Harvest

Category: Vegetable, Herbs, Grapes and other Fruit. | Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 2:48 am

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Just harvested some broccoli from the garden for dinner. Doesn't get any fresher than this!!


Broccoli ( photo / image / picture from rick162iq's Garden )






Broccoli. ( photo / image / picture from rick162iq's Garden )






Broccoli ( photo / image / picture from rick162iq's Garden )





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My Lettuce garden

Category: Vegetable, Herbs, Grapes and other Fruit. | Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 7:50 pm

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My buttercrunch lettuce was planted to early when it was hot it had an overpowering bitterness, I composted them. I now have 4 heads of red sails lettuce.


Red Sails Lettuce ( photo / image / picture from rick162iq's Garden )

Two heads of Flashy Trout back Lettuce. It is a romaine type and it makes a striking addition to a salad mix. These are still not mature I have just been picking leaves off the outside.

Flashy Troutback Lettuce ( photo / image / picture from rick162iq's Garden )

I also have romaine, gourmet salad bowl, grand rapids, and a red romaine called Outredgeous. They still have some growing to do.







Outredgeous Lettuce ( photo / image / picture from rick162iq's Garden )

I'm going to be making lots of salads, sandwiches, burgers, and lettuce wraps with them.



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Broccoli

Category: Vegetable, Herbs, Grapes and other Fruit. | Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 2:56 am

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I have my first little broccoli head. It is only about the size of a walnut. The Broccoli plant is doing very well it's about 3 ft tall and has huge leaves. The other broccoli plants are just about a week or two behind the other one.

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