We have blueberries! How is your gardening going?

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It looks like I'll be picking blueberries in about a week. I'm so glad I did the straw bales this year and made room in the regular garden for a second blueberry bush. Next year we may even have enough to freeze some. Last year we ate them all while they were fresh (cobbler, anyone?).

All the veggies have blooms. It shouldn't be long now until we're eating lots of fresh home grown goodies.

And I noticed some of the markets have watermelons this week for 3.99. I love summer eating. 

How's your garden doing?

[allikat]

I love summer fruits and veges too but I live on a Oak tree shaded lot so gardening has been dismal for us. Friends of our started an organic farm and they did a CSA this year where you buy a share and pick up a box of whatever is producing each week. Starts next Thursday and I am excited, it is about 8 to 10+ pounds of produce (fruits, veges, herbs, etc.) and it is $15 a week for 20 weeks, I only purchased a half share this year to see how it goes. My guys are not big produce eaters but I always work the veges in to the meals so they get their vitamins but just don't realize it.

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That's a good deal. I spent at least $10 on produce this morning just for dinner tonight, and some grapes for snacking. We had some salad left over that I'll add chicken or tuna to for lunch tomorrow and by then it will all be gone.

[allikat]

Here is the expected schedule of goods. I thought it was a really good deal too.

www.twinhillsfarmurbana.com/schedule.html

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That's a nice variety. We grown most of the vegetables, but I'd love to get a deal like that with fruit. Blueberries are the only fruit we grow. We talk about growing strawberries all the time because we go to the U-pick farm at least 2 X during the peak of the season, and still wish we had more. We've tried growing watermelons without much luck - we got fruit, but they didn't grow very big. But I know good watermelons can be grown here because we get them at the farmer's market.

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I'm so jealous. I love blueberries and want to plant them but have no land. One of these years I'm going to try the bush/dwarf ones I think can be grown in a pot.

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We also have some cherry tomatoes. Just a little bigger than the size of a pea.

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May 31, 2015 16:05:03 GMT @elly said:

We also have some cherry tomatoes. Just a little bigger than the size of a pea.

You just reminded me--I forgot to buy a tomato plant.  I've got beets coming up and romaine lettuce but with all this rain and cold I completely forgot to run out and get a cherry tomato plant.  I hope they'll be bigger than peas.   They're not ripe are they?  RIPE and only the size of peas?  

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Completely green. They were just blooms last week.

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Jun 3, 2015 2:28:51 GMT @elly said:

Completely green. They were just blooms last week.

Well that's a good thing.  Next  thing you know they'll be bigger and RED.   Lucky you!   

[denise15601]

Well, I had my 2 stalks of asparagus....

But eating my green onions. Lettuce is doing well, but only about 4' high , and I have little beanlets, growing from seeds.

Will have to check the blueberry bushes tomorrow when DGS3 is here. He loves to go for a J. Deere tractor ride, and the bushes are about 100 yards away-at my former MIL's house.

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We didn't do a garden, but we have ripe cherries on our cherry tree we planted a couple of years ago, picked some the other day and have more ready to pick probably tomorrow. We also have one (yes one) peach on the peach tree but it's not ready yet. Apple trees didn't produce at all this year.

[mupcycledcouture]

My tomatoes just left the greenhouse for the ground. And then it hailed last night. I was running around trying to get tarps put up. Luckily I succeeded before the hail came.

I just placed an order for 20 lbs of Palisade peaches. They will be in on August 7th. Canned peaches and pie filling, yummy! I am going to dry some too.

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Ohhhh...you will be so happy to have that fruit in the winter. I make pie filling with our blueberries. I thin some of it out for pancakes/waffle/ice cream topping. I love being able to eat from our summer bounty all year round.

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Nothing can compare to blueberries. Blueberry pancakes + real maple syrup=YUM!

Tiny space here but I finally bought a cherry tomato plant. It's been very cold, in the 50s--too cold for tomatoes. I put in a third row of beets and they are starting to come up. I've been eating the greens, steamed or in soups. My romaine is fine--anything that does well in cool weather.

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We have gooseberries coming in, never had them. The bf is excited about them. Our mulberry tree is doing well, which makes the chickens happy. They'll spend most of the summer eating mulberries.

We planted blueberries and strawberries this year. Hopefully, they'll do well.

We let the asparagus patch go to seed and holy cow is it getting big! We'll definitely be freezing some next year.

I saw some blossoms on some of the squash plants the other day and the tomato plants are looking really good. I love fresh tomatoes and summer squash.

[allikat]

Got my first CSA basket on Thursday, it is almost all gone already. I made kale chips, ate all the tart cherries, squash, onion, spinach and the birds have been snacking on the cilantro, they all smell like little stink bugs now, lol. I have chocolate mint, salad greens and turnip greens left. They also gave us home grown popcorn and butter oils from a local business which has yet to be tried. I am very happy with the quantity and quality of what I received. I am going to purchase more tart cherries when I go to pick up next basket on Thursday if they are still available.

[Shirley U Geste]

My first lemon cherry tomato will be ready to pick tomorrow.

WooHoo   I is a farmer!!   

There are about 12-15 more that will be ripe soon. Plus my Purple Cherokee has one that is the size of a golf ball and lots of blossoms. So I'm going to be rolling in tomatoes soon. 

[denise15601]

Well, I won't have to worry about freezing my 2 whole asparagus stalks....

Yesterday, I made a little salad for grandson Jaxson and me with my mesclun lettuce and green onions. He liked it! and he loved that he helped me to pick the stuff for it.

Our blueberries are still green.

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We have tomatoes. Cherry tomatoes and two slicers. And one hot pepper. Lots of blooms on everything else. The slicers that are nearly ready to pick are a hybrid. The heirlooms are lagging behind. Plenty of blossoms, but only two fruits have set and one isn't looking good already. I think I'm either going to have to try to hand pollinate or pinch off the suckers.

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My cherry tomato just got its second set of leaves, woot woot :-)

I used those seed pod things this year and got a late start (3rd week in May, should have started them inside) so I may or may not ever get any tomatoes this year. The basil is shaping up, the cucumber is bigger than the plants I saw earlier this week at HD and the spinach is doing next to nothing (I think it is too hot now for it). Oh, and the catnip has tons of tiny sprouts.

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