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We are getting cherry tomato plants next week.

Traceyjayne @Traceyjayne (11252) • United Kingdom 2 May

So, you may remember that a neighbour gave me some cherry tomato plants last year ....and the year before .....and we had so many that I was struggling to use them all. Many were eaten, by myself and my family, some were given...

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The last (I think)

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 11 May 11

Here's my last plant this year I planted, hopefully. It's a Roma tomato plant. This will be used specifically for salsa and tomato paste canning I may do this summer/fall. Do you can your own grown vegetables? What do you...

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They're heeeere!

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 11 May 11

Here's a photo of my Caesar lettuce which broke through the ground today May 11th. Now I need tomatoes, onions etc for a salad but seems the lettuce is ahead of everything. But it'll still be tasty alone etc. Do you eat lettuce by...

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A sampling

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 27 Aug 10

This photo shows a sampling of my pickings today, August 27th. I also picked, yellow and green zuchinnis, sweet corn, cucumbers, and some acorn squash. How's your garden doing this year? Grats and good luck...

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Growing your own potatoes!

coffeeshot @coffeeshot (3783) • Australia 1 Jul 10

I live out in the country and we have so much room for growing our own vegies here. However I'm a little low on cash so I want to know what vegetables I can grow without having to buy seeds. I have successfully grown my own...

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Eating my homegrown stuff already

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 29 Jun 10

This photo shows some onions I picked from my garden this past weekend. They were cut up and used in a huge bowl of tuna macaroni salad. Yummy! Have you started to harvest from your garden yet? [b]HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA...

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Salad, salad, salad

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 21 Jun 10

Yes I have gotten to like salad. Especially when almost everything in it is grown in my own garden. This photo shows some of the many green beans I have planted. I will can a lot again this year. I still have one quart left from...

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yet more......

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 9 Jun 10

Holy smokes. Oh gawd, I love the sunshine and rain and warm temperatures when it comes to my gardening. This is a photo of the start of my strawberry picking in my backyard this afternoon. I got almost 2 bowls filled today. I'll...

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Future Jam

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 4 Jun 10

The strawberries in the attatched photo were freshly picked Friday June 4th from my garden here in Minnesota. I have cleaned them and destemmed them in preparations for my wife to make Strawberry Jam Saturday. Shiould be enough...

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Frost On The Watermerlons

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 7 Oct 09

I had to go pick my watermelons Tuesday due to frost on them over night. This is the 2nd night of frost, and, the plants are TOO huge to try to cover. So anyhow here's a photo of the 2 largest I had out there. There's another...

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Frost and freezing temperatures

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 30 Sep 09

Yes, here in Minnesota, last night, I got down to 32 degrees and had frost on the ground. So this morning I had to pick my Honeycrisp Apples. I had picked nearly 100 last week and cooked them up and froze them for use later....

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Red,ripe,and juicy

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 17 Sep 09

This is a shot of one of the many Honeycrisp Apples on my tree this year here in Minnesota. There are water spots on it as I just finished watering the yard and graden a little while ago. My wife and I have eaten a lot already and...

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Yet More Apple Stuff Cooked

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 17 Sep 09

This shot shows filling/sauce that I made from my homegrown Haralred Apples this year. Cored; peeled; and sliced apples, butter, cinnamon, brown sugar, and nutmeg boiled until thick. This sauce/filling was tasty. I used it as a...

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Something New

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 17 Sep 09

This shot shows a new attempt at baking something from all my homegrown apples. This shot is from when they were about half done baking. My wife brought a box of Filo Dough home and I baked what tastes just like an apple turnopver...

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Homegrown and home made

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 17 Sep 09

This is a shot of the HUGE pan of Apple Crisp I baked recently from my homegrown Haralred Apples. Quick and easy to make. I made a lot of thinmgs from the apples and still have a 5 gallon pail of apples yet and looking for other...

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Getting Huge FAST!

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 25 Aug 09

Just 5 days ago I posted a discussion about my first try at growing watermelons in my Minnesdota garden. One was the size of a tennis ball. Now just 5 days later this is what it looks like. These things sure grow quickly once they...

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Getting large

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 21 Aug 09

This photo shows the average size of my Haralred Apples this year. I still have some worm damage but not on all the apples. They are starting to ripen now. Just a month and a half or so till I taste them and bake with them....

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A 1st for me

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 21 Aug 09

This photo shows a first for me. I had never tried growing watermelons in my garden. We bought a few plants at a decent price but it was late in the season. Now I am hoping they get to be a decent...

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Extra Large Zuchinni

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 19 Aug 09

This is a sample of some of the zuchinni I tend to forget about after a week or so of the sitting on the plant. These are the ones I give to my wifes restaraunt or I use for deeo frying. I tend to not see a lot of my veggies due...

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Yummy! A days pickings recently.

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 19 Aug 09

Here is a photo of a typical picking when I go to my garden as of late. These will be used in some of my wifes great home made vegetable beef soup she makes on weekends and for a salad as well. There's more to this pickings...

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