How Does Your Garden Grow?

[rareboy]

Since spring, I have written about tomatoes and the coming on of various vegetables....

We are now going into the last half of the growing season....and have had beets the size of turnips, beans, beans, beans and beans...peas, tons of lettuces, sweet banana peppers. collards and chard.

Half the garden has now been emptied (sad) and turned over, we just made crabapple jalepeno jellies to give away at Christmas and are now looking at absurd quantities of sauce tomatoes ripening along with the leeks.

After a wicked dry start, the rest of the season has been one of the best in years, which was nice because some years....the season has been shit.

For the gardeners (if you did it this year), what have been the best fruits of your labours this year?

 

[Charon]

Thought this thread was going to be about pubic hair.

 

[rareboy]

Well sure.

Let's hear about that too.

 

[Cormac135]

Weeds for me.

Just half killed myself moving and chopping everything back a couple of weeks ago, it's half way back to the ruin now.

Next house it's artificial grass or concrete slabs.

 

[Peloso]

Well sure.

Let's hear about that too.

 

[ShadowCat]

It didn't everything we planted is dead!

 

[Peloso]

It didn't everything we planted is dead!

You seem to be confusing plants with bodies.

 

[Kahaih]

I'd be able to say wonderfully, if I had planted all this moss and algae.

But the bugs and slugs and little beasties of all sorts are having a terrific swampy summer.

 

[Araucaria]

I have had some very successful fruit crops this year. The high point is always my mangos from the three trees in my backyard. This year I had hundreds of fruit from April through June. The mango season used to run mainly from June to July, but climate change has moved the fruit bearing season up considerably.

I also have some fruit trees that do well in the subtropical climate, which most of you are probably unfamiliar with. I'll put the Latin names in parentheses, in case anyone wants to look them up. My Barbados cherry (Malpighia glabra) bore a huge crop around May, and has been producing a smaller but steady crop since then. My carambola/starfruit (Averrhoa carambola) has been producing like crazy since July, and judging from last year, will probably continue through March. The texture is somewhat crisp, though not as much as an apple, and it tastes somewhat like a grape or apple, with a touch of lemon juice. My sugar apple/sweetsop (Annona squamosa) has also been bearing since July. It is a very unusual fruit, tasting like a scalded milk or custard, with pineapple, banana, lemon juice, watermelon, and other flavors mixed in.

I'm not really growing any vegetable crops, but I'd like to try my hand with them. One thing that is commonly planted and does well here is pigeon peas. Many people grow them, especially people from the Caribbean Islands and the Bahamas. My ex's grandmother used to grow them and serve them to us.

 

[ShadowCat]

You seem to be confusing plants with bodies.

If I was my begonias would be coming up better! Dead people make the best fertilizer! As we get closer to Halloween my humor gets darker!