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05/18/12, 07:46 PM
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Todays take from the garden
This was todays take. First potatoes we have harvested, stil a lot more out there.
And here's my good woman out shredding while my back was out. She's a farm girl now!
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05/18/12, 07:55 PM
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nice take-- so far I've only been harvesting lettuce, spinach, chard, strawberries, kale and garlic scapes from the garden though this morning I harvested the potato I've been growing in a pot that I started inside during the winter just for giggles. That one spud I planted gave me 25 usable potatos! I was expecting only a few but I was amazed how many there were, there were also tiny ones that I could of counted but they were really too small to bother with so I didn't add them to the count. We are in Northwest Indiana.
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05/18/12, 07:56 PM
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Beautiful pics!!!! Too early for produce in Indiana but we did pick 3 qts of strawberries!
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05/18/12, 08:27 PM
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Wow, nice. I am only getting lettuce and spinach. Next year I will plant more. I'd like to be where you are, produce-wise.
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05/18/12, 08:41 PM
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LOL !! I just planted my potatoes yesterday !! We are getting asparagus and rhubarb now.
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05/18/12, 11:08 PM
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What the? How? Stupid zone 5! Lol. Congrats, Nathan!
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05/19/12, 05:32 AM
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Nice looking veggies & family, wish I could pick my own homegrown veggies this early but I haven't even got my garden in yet. I think about 1 more week. Usually I wait until Memorial day & have still lost it to frost after that before so I'm always hesitant to plant it too early.
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05/19/12, 10:18 AM
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Nice nathan104---great looking veggies and family and my DH has tractor envy!
We're just like Backfourty,MI and have only just planted.
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05/19/12, 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Raven12
What the? How? Stupid zone 5! Lol.
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My thoughts exactly. This weekend is the official last frost date/beginning of gardening in earnest. With the exception of potatoes, which have been in the ground for a couple of weeks, I'm just now planting all the things Nathan is harvesting!
Today I harvested 3 green onions, and was very happy to do so. Sad little harvest compared to that picture.
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05/19/12, 06:54 PM
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I found this in the garden. I was not expecting a pumpkin until fall but here we are the week before Memorial Day. I'll have to plant more in the middle of summer. Here is South Texas, we can start planting early. We actually got a late start and planted the middle of March. I got my first red tomato today too. We are eating squash, corn, peppers, eggplant, swiss chard, lettuce, okra, and cantelope. Most of them will burn out my July but we start planting again the end of August and eat on that all winter.
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05/19/12, 09:14 PM
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Thats a nice lookin pumpkin! We planted a pumpkin patch and none of them started. May have gotten a hold of some old seeds. Planning on trying again.
This is our firsst year planting potatoes. Its pretty cool to dig potatoes out of the ground. Our corn is almost ready. We got our veery first red tomatoe today as well! Weve already harvested all of our cauliflour and brocolli. Getting plenty of lettuce and peppers. Took our first bell pepper today and had it with dinner. Planted an acorn squash plant for the first time and waiting on them to ripen, never had it before.
There are a lot of nights for dinner that everything we are eating has come from here on our farm. We put our own pork, beef, chicken and fish in the freezer. Its pretty neat to sit down for a meal and look at your plate and everything on it came from here on our farm.
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05/20/12, 03:01 AM
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Is shredding the same as bush hogging?
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05/20/12, 04:45 AM
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Jealousy reigns!!!!!!
Bout the only thing I could "harvest" from the garden would be the onion sets I just put in yesterday....... Oh and maybe a couple of weeds that have come up.
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05/20/12, 08:46 AM
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shredding/bush hogging, all the same. It depends on what part of the country you live. We grew up "bush hogging" and was eager to see how these Texans "shred". A little disappointed to learn they were doing nothing special, just bush hogging!
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05/20/12, 02:05 PM
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You southerners and your early gardens!! Bah!! Although, I am in northern Michigan and have spinach and lettuce now plus flowering tomato and pepper plants. Agribon fabric, grow lights, cold frames and hoophouses....
The things we northerners have to deal with that you southerners never even think about...
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05/21/12, 09:02 PM
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Hey I'm in zone 5...but it's been a wacky year so far....even though last frost date was the 15th, I have loads of veggies already being harvested from my garden 
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05/22/12, 12:04 PM
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Nickie I am going to try that potato growing trick next year. Did you use a bucket? I am thinking a five gallon bucket would work well.
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