Our Vegetable garden 2018

   

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Crazy Weather here in Chicagoland and all over the country---but finally our Midwest vegetable garden exploded this last week. We had a late cold spring...and it was a struggle weather-wise getting the garden planted by June 15th. A MONTH late.

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Yes, it is huge tender zucchini. We had a bit of rain last week (almost 3") and they have exploded.

Our peppers aren't ready yet, so I had to buy for my stewing tomatoes. 

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We have a well, and have the luxury of watering our garden. Disappoint this year is cucumbers...one picking and the vines are withering.

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The holding pattern. San Marzano tomatoes are plentiful but literally falling off the vines. Probably the excessive heat we have experienced. We pick everyday and sun ripen in the windows. 

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They are a nice size, a cousin of Romas' they are sweet and meaty. I figure these are rescued from the critters. Despite fencing the garden we have critters-who love our tomatoes as much as we do. 

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Christmas pig is in hog heaven. Amana (yellows) are small this year, but prolific, and great canners. I'll try and can some of these whole.

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One or two days in the window and they look like this.

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A new picking Saturday, sorted and cleaned to ripen further in the windows.

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These are new this year---Yellow Boys. OH, num. can't wait to make something with these. 

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Asian eggplants. We have six plants and they are nuts...with long fruit. We've already had 3 meals with them. I'm going to do some herby Eggplant Lasagna with the Yellow Boy tomatoes with maybe only two layers of noodles. I'll freeze this. Hopefully I can do this early next week. and share the recipe.

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I also grow my own herbs...cilantro, parsley oregano and basil are shown here. We have sage, Thai basil, peppermint, marjoram which is huge. We also have a huge crop of Swiss Chard greens that I will blanch and freeze in bags this week .

Last Friday we canned Zucchini in Stewed Tomatoes. See that in my next post.

How's your garden doing?  

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