I let mine ripen on the vine as long as the birds leave them alone and they are still nice and firm.

Noticed that I have a bunch of tiny ants in my garden. About half the size of firs ants. They are crawling all over the plants and blossoms.

Ay guesses about what type of ant? Will they damage the growths?

definitely some kind of new ant running around all over the place here. Little black crazy things and they are everywhere and I haven't figured out what to kill them with yet.

Mix 2 ounces of orange oil with one gallon of water and pour on the mound.

No mound that I can see. They just seem to be all over. Will that stuff hurt my plants? Im in a raised bed.

No. Howard Garrett recommends adding it to his Garrett Juice which is meant to be sprayed directly onto the plants.

Damn squirrels stole all my ripe plums

Good looking squash. I see that you went to srteightneck this year. What do you do with all your squash? I can only eat one a day, if I eat squash everyday.

Lete's see some recipes, or ar least cooking ideas from some of you gardeners. I have more than I can eat or put up. I gave away a basket of vegetables yesterday. I even gave a couple of my slicer tomatoes away.

I'm making a Frito salad with my steak tonight. It seems as if something comes out of home grown tomatoes to enhance the Catalina dressing on a Frito salad. You just make up a garden salad with iceberg lettuce, then add grated chadder, red kidney beans, crushed Frito, and then toss it with Catalina dressing.

Yesterday's harvest: 5 yellow squash, 3 zucchini squash, 5 Carmen peppers.




Today's harvest 2 Spanish Spice Peppers, 9 yellow squash, 11 Carmen Peppers, 19 Serrano Peppers.

I give away alot of the squash. I was bbqing today so I cut some in half and put of pepper & seasoning salt and cooked them with the sausage.

How many people do you feed?

I give away a lot of food also, it's just me and the dogs. They eat well for being dogs.

Payne, try this some time. Slice the zucchini just like you did. Brush on olive oil. Sprinkle dill and garlic salt on the squash and grill until there are grill marks. Yum.

I didn't have any zucc's or I would have mixed the two & onions and seasoned with salt, pepper and butter then wrap in aluminum foil then grill.

That's the go to for me but I'll try that next time. Thanks

I admire your prunning shears as much as I do your squash. I need a new pair. (I don't know why only one is called a pair) Do yours have a brand name?

Nice haul! This wind is really beating up my plants.

Fiskars

Nice harvest everyone!

This is Zoë and our neighbor Levi getting the first ones of the year.

Cute kid!

Looks good. We don't have anything close to harvesting yet. Looking last night we have 9 tomatoes growing and a couple of sweet peppers just starting to grow.

The bell peppers and jalapeno plants both look like they are about ready to blossom out.

Just some progress pics from yesterday. Not much to harvest yet, a few sweet peppers, few onions, and some green beans. All the jalapeno plants are blooming as well.



Green beans are starting to pole



Good guest



Beans look good, but I need to get some BT on the garden



Humming bird vines



Blackberries

A person should never underestimate his influence. I made one negative reply about yellow crooked-neck squash last year, and everyone this year seems to have gone to straight-neck yellow squash. They look great East.

Is was the way you said it Bill

looks good East

Looking good fellas! I need to take some more pics, I've picked a basket of tomatoes already....decided to start picking them at first blush. Corn, beans, squash, cucumbers, & watermelon is growing.....

Looking good everyone. Only thing I have harvested has been a few onions. I have several tomatoes that will ripen soon though & my peppers & Okra are starting to look pretty good now too.