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My garden is in serious trouble! I don't know what I am going to do! It's being taken over by 2 strange plants that are growing about a foot a day in all directions! Seriously, I may have to start cutting back my Tromboncino plants before they start shading out other plants. It's not only a fast...

Yep, great for gouging out pickle worms and vine borers.

Wish I could get DW to fry anything!

Thanks Larissa, I'm on an iPad, tried this and Made it work! Today's harvest, I guess I really don't need but a couple of eggplants since the only way I know to fix them is on the grill and they sure don't last long on the counter. Eggplant, cukes, and squash are all prolific and it's going...

My eggplants are starting to come in and we like them grilled, but need some variety because they don't keep well, how do you preserve all those? You have a Beautiful garden with great production!

Thursday harvest, pulled some green tomatoes to see how they ripen inside. With all the heat and no rain, they are just sitting there. Anxious to try the Costata Romanesco zucchini, supposedly one of the best tasting zucchini's. Can't figure out how to put pics in a post where I want them...

Major, I've been watching the radar and all the storms going down the middle of North Carolina while we are under drought conditions here in upstate SC. They just never quite get here, so close yet so far You are getting great harvests!

I think it's that way everywhere, really getting crowded down here!

I use the pics from my iPhone in "notes", as part of my Garden Journal, just figured out I could do that!

Thanks Debbie, it might be a good pic if my fat finger wasn't covering the corner, didn't notice until I posted. Also, avatar pic shows I had waaay more ripe tomatoes last year than when I got back from vacation this year, last summer here was much more temperate. This pic is from this year...

Hot as hades here with highs 95* and up, for the last three weeks, also pretty dry. Researched how heat affects tomatoes and found that warm night time temps of 75-80* delays tomato ripening? I pick mine usually when they start showing color, but some of what I read suggested to pick when they...

Thanks Thistle! Harvest a bit unusual today, 7 different kinds of squash! On the left, Dostal Cucumber, a winter squash, from Seed Savers Exchange, the round yellow are Desi summer squash, below them is a Table King acorn bush winter squash, regular zucchini and yellow squash, a Tromboncino...

Couple of pics from the garden this week. It's 65'x40', no till and organic, heavy mulch. I use grass clippings, straw, leaves, and coffee grounds from a local shop. I trade her produce in season for pure grounds with no filters. I have 6 trellis made from cattle panels and tposts, 32'' long by...

I think red Norlund and Purple Vikng did best for me, red Pontiac had the lowest yield. And, 20 lbs for every lb planted, WOW!

Dug about 50lbs of potatoes from my March planting. 35 lbs planted and I previously harvested about 30 lbs. So, 80 lbs. total, gives about a 21/2:1 lb. planted return. I've heard that 4-5 lbs harvest to 1 lb planted was average, so I guess I'm disappointed. More research on southern varieties is...

Thursday and Friday harvest, I can't seem to stay on top of the okra, my variety is "Cajun Jewel", only gets about 5' tall. Only about 1/3 of my plants are producing right now because I had poor germination from the first planting. With 2 30' rows, I've got to figure out the best way to preserve...

@baymule, keep piling on the mulch, I will usually have 18" of leaves and grass clippings by late fall and by spring it's down to only 4-5". I also started getting 15 gallons of coffee grounds from a local coffee shop each week back in February. I just spread them directly on the garden for...

Baymule, thanks, third year for me! It really is amazing to think that heavy mulch can produce the results I'm getting. Lots of grass clippings, leaves and straw.

Heavy mulch and no till has been amazing, I'm converted!

A moth from Florida that migrates north, lays eggs that bore into cucurbits. Usually get here in July, today is two weeks earlier than normal. I found my first one today and sprayed all my fruits with Bt. Especially bad on winter squash you are trying to keep. Summer squash you can cut them out...