This year we planted 5 different type’s of tomatoes, green bell peppers, sweet potatoes, peas, zucchini, cucumbers, red beets, strawberries, raspberries and lettuce. We also have 3 grapevines and an apple tree. Every year we plant a little bit more than the year before.
Thanks to all of the rain our area has had this past season some of our garden plants went nuts! Every 2-3 days I’m harvesting a huge basketful of tomatoes, at least 15 cucumbers a week and the zucchinis think they own the garden! It has been a really good growing season so far.
With the tomatoes I like to cook them down and make our own homemade tomato sauce and spaghetti sauce. I will sometimes use tomatoes in my zucchini salsa recipe that I whip up. Tomatoes are USED big time here! The cucumbers are mainly used for my sweet pickles and chunky sweet relishes that I make. We do use the tomatoes & cucumbers in our salads throughout the summer too.
Zucchini is made into zucchini salas and zucchini pickles. I will shred some of it and freeze it for later when I need some to make homemade zucchini bread and/or muffins. Oh yeah, have you ever tried zucchini relish? That’s delicious too. Roasted zucchini slices with parmesan cheese on top? Yes please!
One thing that did “just okay” this year was our strawberries. The first round we planted gotten eaten and dug up by groundhogs. Ugh. So, we had to plant again and then fence in the strawberry patch to keep the critters out. Hopefully next year we’ll have better luck with them.
How is your garden doing this year? What are you growing? What have you had problems with? I would love to hear about it.
I do not have a garden except for some planted items on my porch. I would love to have a garden like yours.
Still Half in one house and half in another (it is complicated) so I kind of container gardened. Gosh they have just withered :/ We have had a super super dry summer- and it shows in gardens and farm fields. I love your harvest so nice to have many varieties!
Apartment no garden so I would love to steal a dozen off your table. I have hit some farmers market but they just don’t taste as good as home grown. 🙁 Nothing like a tomato sandwich!
This makes me wish I had a garden. I do like fresh zucchini and a friend has given me some of hers.
Because of the heat and total lack of rain my raspberries have not done well this year because I couldn’t water them enough. But my tomatoes, and snap peas have gone crazy as well as the basil and parsley.
We don’t have a garden this year. I am loving all those tomatoes that you have those are my very favorite in August. I am going to hit the local farmer’s market this week to buy some garden tomatoes. I got some yellow squash and zucchini yesterday from a friend so I am streaming that tonight for dinner and I am making salmon patties.