Re: moved our beds

Marc Iverson Mon Sep 29, 2014 9:49 pm

They look nice. Do you eat the greens?

southern gardener Mon Sep 29, 2014 10:03 pm

we do sometimes, or juice them up in smoothies or compost them Smile

I offered them up to the neighbors and they were super excited to get some! Spreading the love!! They're good sized too! Some about like a softball!!

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Marc Iverson Mon Sep 29, 2014 10:08 pm

Wow, those are big. What kind are they?

southern gardener Mon Sep 29, 2014 10:15 pm

They're Chioggia Beets. They're red and white striped inside, kind of like a target! Super cool! Never grown beets as big as we're getting now! We also grew the "regular" red beets, and they were big like this too! I like the regular beets best Smile

FamilyGardening Tue Sep 30, 2014 5:18 am

Nice harvest SG!
hugs
rose

southern gardener Sun Oct 12, 2014 3:55 pm

Here are the Tromboncino we picked today!! Close to 120 lbs worth, with one more we can't get down...too big/heavy, need some more help! I wish we'd have weighed all of them for the year, unbelievable really! The biggest one here is close to 4 feet for reference! Thank you again to Judy for sending the seeds!!

Marc Iverson Sun Oct 12, 2014 5:16 pm

Jeez, what monsters! They look like they're all trying to swim away. It must have been fun to grow something so unusual and enormous.

I've gotta try growing those next year, even though my luck with squash is pretty iffy. But growing just a couple of those monsters would make up for a lot of lousy production elsewhere.

**camprn** Sun Oct 12, 2014 5:19 pm

Wowza!

**sanderson** Sun Oct 12, 2014 5:55 pm

The attack of the alien squash!

Are the necks solid? Seeds only in the bulbous?

Judy McConnell Sun Oct 12, 2014 6:20 pm

Glad the squash worked well for you.

Sanderson - the seeds are in the bulbs only.

southern gardener Mon Oct 13, 2014 2:29 am

they are crazy aren't they? haha! they are definitely the favorite when people come see our garden. I'm wondering if they'll produce flowers again since we got all the squash off? Hubby got the last one off, it had wound all through the wire into a "snake" looking thing! so fun. It weighed over 10 lbs! The necks are all "good squash" with seeds only being in the bulbs at the end. I'm sure the seeds are cross pollinated. We had all kinds of squashes and pumpkins and bees. I have a couple of seeds left from Judy, so will try again in the spring. These are a MUST do for sure! So easy to grow and produced like crazy, No PM issues and just grew very fast and easily!! God bless all!!

southern gardener Sun Oct 19, 2014 1:33 am

We picked this watermelon today...18 lbs!! SWEET as sugar and oh so juicy! Biggest one we've ever grown!

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water bottle for comparison size Smile

**sanderson** Sun Oct 19, 2014 2:51 am

Dang! That's big!

Marc Iverson Sun Oct 19, 2014 1:53 pm

SG, congrats on that monster! And on its being sweet!

I can't see the picture of the water bottle, only of the watermelon. Below that, a huge blank space.

Weird. I'm on Firefox, FWIW.

**sanderson** Sun Oct 19, 2014 2:12 pm

Weird. I'm on FF and I did see the bottle photo. ??

**llama momma** Sun Oct 19, 2014 3:12 pm

SG
Beautiful watermelon! !
I had some farmers mkt watermelon left over and froze it in ice cream scoop servings. Somebody on the Internet says it tastes fine. I'm looking forward to finding out for myself. What a Face

Marc Iverson Sun Oct 19, 2014 3:16 pm

llama momma wrote:SG
Beautiful watermelon! !
I had some farmers mkt watermelon left over and froze it in ice cream scoop servings. Somebody on the Internet says it tastes fine. I'm looking forward to finding out for myself.

That sounds like it would make a wonderful winter dessert. Light, and unexpected. Maybe with a mint leaf on top, or a little swirl of whipped cream? Or surrounded by a collar of blueberries?

FamilyGardening Sun Oct 19, 2014 4:48 pm

SG....... that watermelon looks cheers

FANTASTIC!

our son just ate the last of the watermelon we had.....

Happy gardening
rose

Marc Iverson Sun Oct 19, 2014 5:46 pm

FamilyGardening wrote:SG....... that watermelon looks FANTASTIC!

our son just ate the last of the watermelon we had.....

Yeah, sons will do that .... Very Happy

southern gardener Sun Oct 19, 2014 9:58 pm

llama momma wrote:SG
Beautiful watermelon! !
I had some farmers mkt watermelon left over and froze it in ice cream scoop servings. Somebody on the Internet says it tastes fine. I'm looking forward to finding out for myself.

thanks guys! We're so excited to get such a good one in addition to the others! GREAT idea LM!! we can put them in smoothies too! mmmmmmmmm.
The grandkids ate a bunch today, and loved it Smile

FamilyGardening Tue Oct 21, 2014 9:35 pm

LLM & SG keep us posted on how well the watermelon does and taste when frozen Very Happy

please.....

happy gardening
rose

southern gardener Fri Oct 31, 2014 12:13 am

welp...we ate the watermelon, none got frozen it was THAT good!! mmmmmmm...
Check out these bell peppers from today! There are five on this ONE stem! Each one will barely fit in the palm of my hand Smile

There are 5-6 more on the same plant. I was trying to move the branch, and it broke, no wonder!! Never had peppers grow like this!
Having stuffed bell peppers for SURE!
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**sanderson** Fri Oct 31, 2014 1:35 am

SG - real beauties Very Happy

**llama momma** Fri Oct 31, 2014 1:48 am

FamilyGardening wrote:LLM & SG keep us posted on how well the watermelon does and taste when frozen please.....

happy gardening
rose

Rose,
I just saw your message and I will be serving it this weekend, stay tuned!

has55 Fri Oct 31, 2014 9:49 am

SG-impressive peppers!

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