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To: greeneyes
We seem to be a little shy on pictures tonight, so I'm going to bore you all with a bunch of mine :)

Sweet Peppers:

and this one is already bearing:

Potatoes

Onion; the Mrs planted over 150 sets:

Peas and carrots. These will last until the advent of hot weather.

Tomato bed. We're growing Black Krim, Beefsteak, and Golden Jubilee this year

My hydroponics experiment. Tomatoes didn't grow well, but lettuce and cabbage are doing fine:

The crazy papaya. Last year, it froze to the ground, then returned and actually bore fruit. What you see here is the trunk after I lopped off the freeze damage from this last winter. It's been growing in the greenhouse since 2006. Not bad for a plant that's only supposed to live for 2-3 years.

Eeyore, the farm duck:

I planted these peach and plum trees last fall. I'm hoping they'll bear fruit in a year or two. The cages are to keep deer away. They are a real pest in my area.

The Mulberry tree. We harvest our first quart of the year yesterday. It usually bears until the middle of May.

62 posted on 04/19/2013 6:41:45 PM PDT by Sarajevo (Don't think for a minute that this excuse for a President has America's best interest in mind.)
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To: Sarajevo

Thanks for the pics. They are great! Someone a few years back called garden pics Food Porn. LOL.

Anyway they are NOT boring.


69 posted on 04/19/2013 6:51:42 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Sarajevo

I like that greenhouse. What is the size of it and how often do you have to recover it?


84 posted on 04/19/2013 7:35:17 PM PDT by tubebender (Evening news is where they begin with "Good Evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.)
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To: Sarajevo

Mulberries - haven’t had those since I was a kid. I used to climb up in Grandma’s Mulberry tree, and sit on a limb while I pulled them off and ate them.

Is that a geodesic dome that you are growing some of that stuff in?


160 posted on 04/23/2013 8:54:44 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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