[Red_Devil 232]

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[Centaur]

RD, Please add me to your list.

Now for the garden, with the exception of my plum tomatoes and chili peppers, the summer garden was a bust with the lack of heat and all the rain. But the winter garden? I was rather stunned that the jack-o-lanterns and pie pumpkins, planted late did astonishingly well, squash bugs and all. I'm sure that planting them in the horse manure pile had something to do with it, hehe.

I managed to get six loaves per pumpkin out of this recipe which I thought appeared rather healthy :) http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Pumpkin-Bran-Bread-1325. I substituted raisin bran for the allbran and it was superb. Thanks for the list.

[dajeeps]

Everything getting ready for crocus, tulips and daffodils for early spring.

There’s just something about the crocus poking through the snow mid-march that gives me a great start to my day as I’m walking out to get in the car in the morning. I’m from CA and live in the Rochester, NY area now. I used to hate late winter/early spring because the cold hangs on so late here, but the early spring garden makes it one of my favorite times of the year now!

Add me to the ping list please.

[Tiger28]

hi red- please add me to your list:) cant contribute much though, this year my northeast garden was a disaster—

[Gabz]

Morning!

[Arrowhead1952]

Good morning RD. I planted a few fall tomatoes last weekend. I still have two that made it through the dry summer. I also have a few pepper plants that survived the hot dry summer.

I added some manure to my garden and tilled it in after the rain. The dirt was really hard from the drought, but the rain really helped.

I also planted radishes, turnips, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, fall squash, leaf and head lettuce. Some are already coming up. My shallots are about six inches tall already.

[Mama Shawna]

Probably going to spend the day pulling up carrots and getting them ready for the freezer, might dig into the sweet potatoes to see how they're coming along. Yesterday was my hubby's 50th birthday, and we had enough ripened corn to go with the prime rib I made and the King Crab our bestest friends in Montana sent, also PLENTY of cherry tomatos (the tomatoes are finally starting to ripen, and I am about to get overwhelmed!) My one watermelon seems to grow a few inches everyday. Well, hopefully my HTML skills aren't too rusty, and these pics of a cherry tomato will turn out: My husband thought this one was too funny, and drew the face on it. Tomato with a mohawk! And last but not least... me and my dog, Sodo:

[tillacum]

I have 2 heirloom tomatoe plants putting out blooms. They did squat this summer...guess it was too hot. They are huge. I’m waiting to see what happens now. Gardening is proving velly interesting.