Cliff, you're my kind of gardener!

I'll take a picture of my jungle this weekend. Remember post #75 where you'll see 4 hills of several bush cukes. Those babies have FAR exceeded my expectations. The past 4 weeks have averaged around 40-50 cukes. We eat 5 to 7 every meal and I'm still handing some out at work. Just picked a big bowl of jalapenos this evening and the plants are full. Had my first serrano tonight. I eat the entire pepper with supper, but she was a doozy. Can't wait to pass these babies out at work. I've been a very happy gardener so far this year.
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I made some signs for the garden today, it was good practice and Weeze thinks they're cute. I wrote the programming for a bunch more to cover most everything in the garden, I'll get to them later.

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Scott, those are totally cool!!! Are you going to stain/seal them too? Very nice work.
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kool signs, scott:-)
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No clue. They're made out of treated lumber, so I can do whatever.
I stained the tomato stakes the color of the deck, I'll probably do the signes, too. Whatever Weeze wants. :-)
I have a ton more to make, but I already did the part files. Now I just have to screw the wood down on the machine and make them.
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1st 100 degree day this year ought to change my garden's attitude a little.
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From this:

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To this, in no-time flat. The pickle worms have started on my cukes, little hungry bastiges. Pepper crop is going to be off the chain this year (tomatoes, too).

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WOW Jamie, that looks great!! We got a late start out here with the late rains this season, so we arent that far along.
Good job.
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Awesome pics.

My green bean plants have gone nuts damn near need a machete.
Lettuces are great also. Nice to pull off some leaves every few days. Squash last year was crazy. This year its slow growing
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great pic!
My peppers are doing great but my lawn, she is dying of sun+high temps.
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nice garden jamie:-)
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Same problem is starting to brown parts of my garden. Corn was picked last week, Potato plants have withered, awaiting time for me to dig the tubes up, Squash and Zucs are starting to pass on. Harvested the remaining broccoli last week, pulled plants out yesterday. Corn stalks will be pulled today, and they will go into compost pile with broccoli plants. Green beans starting to show effects of heat, so they may be gone soon. But, Peas and Butterpeas are strong. I picked peas yesterday, and shelled them last night. Have a sack full of cucumbers I picked yesterday, will make pickles tomorrow.

Tomatoes will be numbering in the hundreds in 3-4 days, so canned tomatoes and maybe tomato sauce action by the weekend.

JJ- Your's looks amazing! I see you are still making good use of the re-bar!!!!!
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That is awesome!!! :-)
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We still have late spring weather here but the garden is growing.
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Looks great, Lance!!! Get ready to enjoy some fresh veggies!
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Looks awesome, Lance!!

And yes, I am the Rebar King! :-)
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On the list is a nice fence with arbor openings at each end. Not near the top of the list yet, though. At the top right is the raspberry box that was one small plant last year. The broccoli at the bottom right is doing great with the cool weather. The different types of squash are going into production now and soon we will be overwhelmed.
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That's a five foot table in foreground. Back table is an 8 foot. In addition to the two totes visible to the left, there's two more slid under the tables that are also covered up with maters! I'll be canning many of them this afternoon. Many of the ones in rear that look like they were picked too soon are actually yellow tomatoes. I'm toying with the idea of canning several jars of yellow tomatoes and/or sauce. Would make an interesting marinara sauce!!

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A strange shaped tomato, for sure!

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Nice looking maters there. Amazed you have that many this early in the year.

I finished harvesting 37 heads of garlic last night. In this heat, they only took a couple of days to cure hanging up in my garage. Cut them down, trimmed the roots, cleaned off the dirt and cut away most of the stem.
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:-)Garlic:-)
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