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Dr. Richard E. Hawkins took a deep breath, sighed and spoke
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zxcvbob wrote:

Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote:

garden woes

My garden sucked this year too. Too wet spring, followed by a
drought that got really bad the week we were out of town. The few
tomatoes and peppers and (cukes and squash and peas) that I got were
mighty tasty, but not nearly enough to put up. I need to strip the
pepper plants and the remaining tomato plant today cuz it's going to
freeze hard tonight and tomorrow night.

did *anyplace* have a good year???


::: raising hand::: We had an excellent year here in the garden. I'm in the Puget Sound
area of Washington state. My tomatoes have produced like crazy. I don't think they'll
all ripen before frost, so I'm going to pick them this weekend while green and let them
ripen up in the house. Peppers did good, so did the green beans. We had an unusually
hot, dry summer. Not like last summer when the tomatoes were disappointing.



SW Louisiana chiming in. Garden was fairly good this year. Lots of
eggplant, last count was about 276 from 7 plants, fairly good amount of
tomatoes, fair amount of okra, goodly amount of green beans, small crop
of crowder peas, good crop of corn, and peppers are still producing.
About 8 gallons of hot and mild in the freezer in bags to make hot sauce
with in about another month.

Cabbage and broccoli plants were set out in mid-September but volunteer
canteloupe and some of Bob's squash have small squash on them now.

Today I stuffed a 4.5 lb pork loin with about 80 cloves of garlic,
dusted with black pepper and then dusted with crushed rosemary. Served
with fried eggplant, crowder peas, and a nice little loaf of crusty
bread. Ate a good meal and then sliced and vac bagged about 3.5 lbs of
loin to freeze for later use. I do love it when the supermarket has meat
sales at 99 cents a lb.

George
George