We are still waiting on our paste tomatoes to turn red, but in the meantime, we are getting ripe beef tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, green beans, cucumbers etc. We have only gotten about 3 jalapenos so far. We are getting more Anaheim peppers (jokes on us). We'll take it, ha ha! These were planted in another garden area (they were marked as bell peppers at the green house). If you read about our hot pepper devastation, something ate the tops off all 80-some plants (possibly very small baby rabbits got into the fence). We located a few more plants, but definitely not enough to can cowboy candy, nor can pickled jalapenos, nor have enough for many other recipes we can, but a few is better than none. We are getting some kale, collards and swiss chard, but not in the amounts I had hoped for. I will plant them much earlier next year, but we plan to get busy with a fall planting too. Creamy Cucumber Salad. The recipe is from Real Food Dietitians (on...
Things we learned gardening: Yes, you can learn something new, even after years and years of planting a garden. I came up with an idea to keep cucumbers from spreading out all over the ground, making weeding a nightmare. Let me back up a minute. My husband insisted that we not plant anything whatsoever, that spreads out on a vine this year. Between the squash bugs last year, and the tiresome weeding with vine-type plants (that spread out on the ground like spaghetti squash, pumpkins etc.), he did not want to deal with it this year. Bent on having cucumbers from the garden, I suggested (and I came up with this on my own, not knowing it really is a way to grow these), that we use large tomato cages to grow our cucumbers. The plants climb up and not outward. I can't believe not one gardener suggested this to us in the last 20 some years. If they did, I did not pay attention. We already have a plan to build cucumber trellises...