Finally something to harvest!

[journey11]

I pulled up all my onions today. The tops were pretty well dried back, so I figured it was good timing. We've had a very dry spell for about a week, so they should cure well.

I'll get them weighed after they finish curing and finally have something to report for the Weigh-in! I got some decent size on most of them, despite putting them in a month late (like everything else this year )

Gonna chop some up along with some fresh fennel I harvested today and make some yummy rabbit (garden bunny!) stew in the crock-pot for tomorrow.

You know, I just remembered this time last year I took a 20 lb. homegrown watermelon to a friend's birthday party. Right now all my melons/pumpkins/squash/etc are like 4" tall. Feels weird to be so far behind. I'm hoping they make it... I should have enough DTM, but when this July heat starts up, seems like you can hardly get weeds to grow.

 

[thistlebloom]

Wow Journey, it seems like your stuff really made up for lost time. It seems like it wasn't all that long ago that you got it in!
So, that's what happens when a bunny visits your garden, eh? You invite them to dinner....

 

[Southern Gardener]

Yummy! I love rabbit stew from the crock pot. I'm glad you got a little something from your garden. My garden is just about done, but I'm still getting okra and peppers. My poor tomatoes are just about fried with the heat we are having.

 

[digitS']

If they are going to eat their fill of veggies, day in day out, maybe they can go in a pie. If they can learn their lesson (re: gardeners/rabbits) they could go home to chamomile tea.

I realize that my garden is behind not only WV but upstate NY with Lesa's reports. It is a good thing that the green beans were planted twice because the bunnies that hang out in the neighbor's raspberry jungle have sheared off the closest bed.

The cool-weather crops will peter out with the July heat. The idea that even weeds would have a hard time in July is almost a foreign notion . . ! With soil moisture, I am hoping for rapid growth. Days to maturity seldom means anything here with low temperature suppression early in the season and overnight right thru the hot days of summer.

I've been thru 108F in northern Idaho . . . it is a good thing places like Texas & Louisiana aren't proportionately more extreme despite being so much further south. Considering long-eared freebooters . . . maybe it is time to take another look at those plans for a solar oven and recipes for pie.

Steve

 

[lesa]

Congrats on your harvest! My onions are popped out of the ground-but the greens are still standing-so I guess I will wait awhile. That is some difference...a ripe watermelon vs vines! I hope we get a break and have a very late frost!!!

 

[journey11]

I'm going to have to have the bunnies over for dinner more often. We just had our lunch...and that was the most savory stew I've ever eaten. I can't believe I waited so long to try rabbit!

Just so we're clear--no groundhogs ever found their way to my table. I hear that some people do eat them, but that they are greasy....I wouldn't know!

Funny how much difference there is in timing from North to South. My okra is still pretty small, but it's one of the things that germinated very quickly once this heat hit. I've got some jalapenos and some other hot peppers that are nearly ready to pick now. But to me here, they seem to be a bit early this year? Now I'm considering what fall stuff to plant in the raised bed that the onions just came out of.

Once the days hit the 90's here and if there is no rain, my red clay becomes a cracked and parched desert landscape. If I get all the weeds under control before then (which this year I've done well ), the garden soil crusts over so hard that almost nothing can break through it to germinate. And whatever has already sprouted and established itself is nearly impossible to pull out. :tools

I saw a large black snake smushed in the road right in front of my house today. It's that time of year! :coolsun

 

[NwMtGardener]

Groundhogs ARE disgustingly greasy. I won't tell you why I know that, all i will say is that i did NOT eat one, and never will!!!