So far nada but these little guys!!

To protect strawberries, you can use clothespins to clip the netting to the posts or stakes. Easier to remove and replace when picking.

I just posted on Market Gardener - the netting has worked fine until this week when the squirrels discovered the berries (something had been eating the ones along the edges, and I didn't know what it was until I saw a squirrel there Tuesday night). There's enough give that they can push (today 1 was sitting on top! There were 4 out there just now!) and get at the berries even if they're tucked away inside the row. They're eating the green berries now!

Here is my first golden zucchini of the season, and my super cute baby girl :)

Last lettuce

First cabbage

Nice cabbage... Its crazy how different growing seasons are up in zone 5 vs where I am. I was harvesting cabbage heads like that in March down here in TX. The remaining plants are hanging on for dear life in the 100 degree heat today!

I found a scary cucumber! I thought I was reaching for a yellowed leaf. Imagine my surprise to pull out that horrible cuke! What a monster. What I thought I planted was the long dark green thin skinned English cucumbers and what I got looks like a pickling cuke with black thorny things. I know the Asian cucumbers are thorny but I grew up with those. I'm used to them.

My first ever tomatillos. I went to pinch one and it along with a second one fell right off so I figured they were ripe. :)

The alpine berries went on some homemade blueberry ice cream.

I raspberry. 2 white alpine berries. The tomatoes off to the side were picked yesterday.

I loved seeing the children with the pumpkins and squashes!!! They are SO cute!

Ltilton-I'm envious of your lettuce. Mine is long gone. That cabbage is gorgeous! I'm going to try one or two in the fall.

ill_gardener...those radishes are beautiful. How did they taste?

Woohooman...hot enough for you today? :). I was actually happy to be at work where there's air conditioning. Wow!

Nice harvest reports. Enjoy all.

I have been so far, just into cold crops ;: arugula, bok choy, radish, garden cress, lettuce, leeks, peas, chives, chards, parsley, cilantro, fenugreek.(that's 12 items)

My tomatoes are still green and squashes are getting ready to set blooms. The cabbages are good size but not harvest ready yet. Hopefully it will warm up around PNW a bit soon. So the next time I will have some pictures.

Last of the Romaine for the season, and first harvest of beets

It's been a bit cold and rainy here in MD. I've been waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting...and FINALLY my plants are starting to get some little bulbs of fruit! Hopefully I can share some pics with you guys soon!

Scary cucumber indeed!! LOL

Nice last couple days pics everybody!

HeyJude: Nice little harvest there! It was definitely warm -- yes, the valley's really supposed to heat up the next few days though. It's ok though -- Everything is heavily mulched and deeply watered, brought some of my container peppers under the patio for now and have sheets ready for the rest of them, tomatoes get some relief in the afternoon. It's my potted seedlings of beneficial herbs and flowers on the patio that's my main concern. Our summer is definitely here early.

Kevin

First carrots

Strawberries, lettuce, some broccoli, some blueberries. Squirrel seen to be enjoying strawberries yesterday. :-(

This is my very first harvest ever. This is my first time gardening ever. I never thought that I would ever grow anything actually edible!

I finally harvested a few things. A Napa cabbage, 3 Serano Peppers, 3 Sweet Pickle Peppers, I (smallish) Bell Pepper, 8 Snow Peas, 6 bunching onions, a handfull of Basil, a few snippings of garlic chives, and an eggplant.

Cooked them up and ate them for lunch!

This mornings breakfast along side eggs and toast :)

Here is our largest one day picking of tomatoes. They are just getting started. We had about 120 pounds last week. The are Cherokee Purple, Big Beef, Polbig, Taxi and Mountain Magic.

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Got my Garlic pulled last week and finally all strung up in the shed to dry. Here it is all piled up before we strung it up. About 1100 bulbs.

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We have been picking bell peppers 20-30 a week like this.
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We have been harvesting hundreds of pounds of zucchini and cucumbers for the last 4 weeks. Sorry no picture!

Jay

Jay - were those peppers inside the tunnel? When did you set them out? I never can get bells to grow that big even when I set out in May and harvest in Sept!

I did pick 15 radishes last night - all that bulbed up - the rest just look like stems. Same with the carrots. My 2nd year growing carrots, don't know why roots aren't getting bigger? Didn't manure or compost that bed, so shouldn't be too much N. Rain?

Still the protector of my garden!
R.I.P. - Sullivan

Yes they are in one of my high tunnels. They were transplanted on May 12th into black plastic.

Jay

First time gardener. Very happy with the way things are growing. Thanks mainly to this site and forum.

Regards
G

Its so worth all the hard work

Sorry it is all been processed together, but that's a salad of red romaine, still holding well in the fridge a couple of weeks after harvest, and fresh carrot, turnips, and cherry tomatoes and sweet onions. Plus the dressing was made with homemade tarragon vinegar and fresh corriander seed, oh and fresh garlic. I think all my other good pictures are on my phone.

Jay, I want to see a picture of your garlic all strung up! The picture of the huge pile made me giggle, thinking what my husband would say if I presented him with that much garlic. He loves to eat it but always worries about the smell when it is curing.

Finally getting some real sun here in Maryland and my peppers are finally growing! I came back from vacation with these jalapenos ready to be picked!

Getting lots of Ichibans and my first peppers. :)

2 heads of romaine lettuce, some mixed green lettuce, and 2 very large broccoli heads (and some smaller florets from side shoots). We've already picked a lot of lettuce, as well as 2 peppers!

Here's my garlic that I pulled today. Shallots will be next...

Gosh everything picked all looks so good! Yumm, yumm.

I picked some for a stir fry.

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Grape and cherry tomatoes
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Green and yellow zucchinis
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My 1st harvest of summer veggies! Raven zucchini (48 DTM) and Early Prolific straightneck squash (had another but we ate it last night, 50 DTM), Picklebush cuke (52 DTM) all direct seeded 5/20. I still have mixed greens picked 7/3 in the fridge, we've been making do with store-bought cherry tomatoes but finally get to have a cuke in our salad!

Little Leaf cukes seem to be dropping blossoms, no fruit yet on those or de Bourbonne but there are a few on Bush Champion and Picklebush. My dill is starting to flower so I'm hoping to make pickles soon!

I don't know what the tiny scars on the zuke are - have puncture wounds on stems too (posted pic earlier), maybe squash bug damage?

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Looks great, probably some bug damage but not affecting the taste I am sure.

Some tomatoes and some squash.
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The marks on the zuke are scars, not open wounds but I'd really like to figure out what made them so I can control the pest. Hard to market produce that isn't perfect, people want organic but want things to look pretty, be as large (at least berries - not sure about zukes!) and be as cheap as the conventionally grown stuff in the grocery store.

Heck, if the bugs won't eat it I don't think I want to (or have my kids) eat it either!

Goodies from the garden.

Try Vertina or Excellsior (sp), instead of the H-19 Little Leaf, both are from Johnny's. While Little leaf is good, I have much better luck selling the other two. Vertina is earlier producing and heavier producing that Little Leaf. Just my observations.

Jay

I'm really loving seeing what everyone has!
Here we're still living in the land of bountiful kale, pak choi, and lettuce. Only one zuch so far...but it's hard to tire of leaves; they are soooo gorgeous!

BAM! Having a great season here in So. Cal.

I'm not a gardener, I just stayed at the Holiday Inn last night!

The plants are thriving in spite of me!

Here is a link that might be useful: The Kitchen Coven: I'm Not a Gardener...

I've picked a few more zukes since Friday's first harvest, got a few more on the vines, 1 got pretty big yesterday so I'm leaving it until tomorrow since DS is coming home late tonight and he likes it grilled.

Picklebush cukes seem to be growing pointed on the ends - the 1 I left to fill out got kind of big, I think I'm going to slice these all up and make bread and butter pickles for my dad, I don't have any left from last year.

It has been a very disappointing year, I've been to market twice since it started a month ago and haven't had much to bring except for jams and jellies (and tomato plants, strawberries 1 week, haven't gone with blueberries since we had a heat wave right after I picked a lot and market is in a parking lot, forecast was 99 degrees that day so I just froze them). Veggies are really slow, though the oregano that overwintered is in flower, the basil (seeded this year) is finally getting big enough to cut (I should have planted more), the dill looks great, and the volunteer cilantro has bolted and is starting to form seeds (yeah!!).

I haven't checked the beans or tomatoes out back since I watered them Sunday - beans were flowering but no beans yet, some fruit set on tomatoes but even the cherries aren't full-sized yet, they're going to take a while to ripen.

The blackberries were starting to really turn color, I might have wild blackberries before an veggies (other than these squash and cukes)!

Candy onions

Golden egg summer squash, tomatoes and eggplant.

Those golden egg summer squash look gorgeous!

I really like the Golden Egg variety. Got it from Burpee. Really well named, really do look like golden eggs.

First eggplant

Carnival Carrots

You all have wonderful lookin produce, mine is not quite a pretty but tasty as heck!

I started a bit late so am just starting to reap my harvest here in St.Louis MO, plus its been the coolest summer I can remember in... forever really!

Planted my Eggplant and red pepper seeds 12 weeks ago and this is as far as Ive gotten! These pics were take last night, cruddy qual...

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Come on flowers!!!

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But I have these to comfort me for the time being with quite a bit more nearing harvest!

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Old German

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Straight 8 cukes

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Nice recent harvests everybody! Great pics!

If you want to take a look at my most recent pepper pics, click on the link below.

Thanks.

Kevin

Here is a link that might be useful: Link to my post in the hot pepper forum

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Tom, eggplant and carrots look very good.

bsmith, those tomatoes look yummy and cukes look good too.