Cooking from the Garden, Part II Caution: 9 photos

[Hanta Yo]

Here we go, garden is like a jungle with Sunflowers, the melon plants have almost covered the black plastic. It's getting hard to find the ends of my soaker hoses to water the garden

Pumpkins




Nest of Honeydews


Luffa Plants - Hope we get some-only a little over a month to go and I can't find one yet...just some blooms




Green Peppers...better get to work



I have lots of dill, but not making anything dill this year



Nice big Crenshaw, not ready, though



Corn



Cherry tomatoes, this bunch not quite ripe. They are sure sweet



Watermelons, the big one is almost ready to pick..YUMMMM!

[ranchwife]

DO NOT PANIC!!! The gold-toned chevy with the really, really big trailer is just me coming to pick through the goodies!!!!

[Ranchy]

Your garden looks great, Hanta!!!!!!! Bet that it keeps MCG busy, with the weeding and such......

Ya can send any excess produce down our way, if ya want........

[montana cowgurl]

haha weeding, keeping me busy??? i havent helped weed since before 4h fair. and dont be givin sw and hanta any idears now...

[Mrs.Greg]

WOW,beautiful garden Hanta...greg had to plow mine under,somehow we got infested with pig weed. So trying to get that all cleaned out....hmmm could it have been from the manure greg put in my garden this year,or our new second hand tiller,not sure but not happy either.

[nr]

Isn't it exciting watching veggies burst into productive mode!? Your beautiful garden is proof you aren't just playing in the mud, Hanta.
What do you do with all the luffas when they arrive?

[sw]

Bad news, one of the watermelons and one of the honey dews met their fate due to my own two hands. Terrible tragedy as I watched them dripping juice onto the kitchen floor. If only they could have lived out the rest of their natural lives quietly undisturbed in their garden of weedin, and lived on to replicate their own kind. NOT. man they are good, especially for breakfast.

[Big Muddy rancher]

Geez sw I thought you were going to tell us that there was to much gardening and not enough cooking. Hope the flys don't buzz around the front of your shirt where all that juice dripped.

[katrina]

Hanta, Your garden has really flurished since I was there. Question. What is crenshaw?? sw, I hope you don't get a belly ache from eating all them watermelons.

[sw]

nr, those luffas seem to be nothing but vine, her plan is to make up a bunch of sponges, you peel them and dry them i guess.
Katrina, Crenshaws are green melons that are orange on the inside and are alot like cantelope only more flavor. they get about 4-5 pounds big. We were told they are difficult to grow, they grow really good for us, they are just about ripe as are the cantelope. Once you have eaten vine ripened stuff, that junk in the store isn't very good at all. honeydews especially, better go change my shirt, that watermelon is really juicy.

[Hanta Yo]

[Hanta Yo]