Marc's vegetables: a few pictures

[Marc]

I started a gardening thread at the beginning of the summer, and it being harvest time, I thought I'd share some of the fruits of my labor. So here they are:

Some onions, first potatoes, black beans (still attached to the plants), butternut squash, and a few tomatoes.

My tomatoes did amazing despite the dry weather. They had deep roots, apparently. I'll have enough to make a lot of pasta sauce!

Where the green beans were, you can see some dry potato vines, and the butternut squash vines that took over everything!

I used a fencing system to grow my tomatoes which worked quite well. If I just had the tomatoes you could see from afar I'd be ahead of the game, but when you pull the foliage back, you get the full picture:

Nice looking squash:

Garden wildlife:

A few tomatoes harvested... I had to offload some out of that crate, which weighed initially around 60 lbs:

Someone curious about all the vegetables:

 

[Grassi21]

Good work out of you man. We have some nice soil in my parts. Next season will be my first attempt at growing.

 

[snoseek]

very nice!

 

[severine]

Any idea what kind of spider that is? I think one of those creeped up on our blanket at the playground last week!

Nice garden! You're far more ambitious than I am in that arena!

 

[Marc]

Any idea what kind of spider that is? I think one of those creeped up on our blanket at the playground last week!

Nice garden! You're far more ambitious than I am in that arena!

Just a common garden spider. Their venom is very weak and they keep the other insects down in the garden, so I liked seeing it in my tomatoes. Plus they make a very neat, geometric web.

 

[Sky]

Egad, that spider is right out of a nightmare.

re: your dried potatoe vines...my first attempt to grow potatoes was in Kentucky years ago. The vines got eaten and/or dried up and I thought I had lost the whole crop. When I went to turn the soil...there were the potatoes! Tasty! Those home-grown potatoes were the absolute best ever.

Nice work!

 

[MRGisevil]

Marc's got nice looking squash *tee hee*

 

[Marc]

Marc's got nice looking squash *tee hee*

Dirty, dirty girl.



More evidence that girls only want to touch my squash.

 

[ctenidae]

Dirty, dirty girl.



More evidence that girls only want to touch my squash.

Or squash your toosh?



Sorry. That was awful.

 

[Marc]

Or squash your toosh?



Sorry. That was awful.

I very nearly ended up with little chunks of chicken parmesan on my screen after reading that.

 

[ajl50]

That looks awesome-- I can't wait to get a garden...

 

[Marc]

That looks awesome-- I can't wait to get a garden...

Glad I could provide inspiration

It was definitely worth the work.

 

[Marc]

I dug my potatoes yesterday, picked squash and more tomatoes. It was a good day to be outside.

I got about 60 lbs of potatoes, and started with 12 lbs of seed potatoes, so not a bad yield. 5 to 1. I need to weigh them to be sure though.

I got a wooden crate full of butter nut squash too, I need to count those and see how many I have. I did pretty well with those, although they would have probably benefited from more room...

Well, I know what I'll need for next year.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I dug my potatoes yesterday, picked squash and more tomatoes. It was a good day to be outside.

I got about 60 lbs of potatoes, and started with 12 lbs of seed potatoes, so not a bad yield. 5 to 1. I need to weigh them to be sure though.

I got a wooden crate full of butter nut squash too, I need to count those and see how many I have. I did pretty well with those, although they would have probably benefited from more room...

Well, I know what I'll need for next year.

60 pounds of Potatoes is going to last you a few months..nice..how much would that cost at the grocery store?

 

[ctenidae]

60 pounds of Potatoes is going to last you a few months..nice..how much would that cost at the grocery store?

About tree fitty.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

About tree fitty.

the same price as a slurpee on the moon..hahahaha