mvetrano2 Loc: Commack, NY

This year was one of the best years of gardining for me.

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Guyserman Loc: Benton, AR

Some good eating there!

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Horseart Loc: Alabama

Looks great. Great shots and good eating. I didn't grow one at all this year, but we used to grow our tomatoes and peppers in 5 gallon buckets. I see you have a tomato in one. We always picked the suckers out of our tomatoes and planted those too. They made GOOOOOD tomatoes. If our tomato plants got too tall, we snapped off a large piece and planted that too...more tomatoes! We also took off some of the leaves and the energy went to the tomatoes instead of so many leaves. I learned all of that very young. I miss my veggies this year!

waymond Loc: Pflugerville, Texas

Looking good. The prolonged heat destroyed our gardening prospects in Central Texas. I am putting some fall prospects, hoping that the cooler weather will be much kinder to us gardeners.

tcthome Loc: NJ

Nothing better than fresh homegrown veggies. Nice photos.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Well done (photos and produce), Mike!

Dalbon

Nice looking vegetables and I am happy for you that it was such a good year. Unlike you this was my worst year ever for my garden. My garden is 100 feet long and about 50 feet wide and this year I had many hot and sweet pepper plants, several eggplants, okra, beans, purple sweet potatoes, corn, butternut squash, honey nut squash, tomatoes and a few other things. Last year my pepper plants grew to about 4 feet tall and at least 4 feet wide but this year along with everything else the deer came in and ate everything down to a nub. They ate the tops to all my plants even the hot peppers and my tomato plants. I have a surprise for them next year because they will have to get over an 8 foot fence to get into my garden. I'm now alone so most of the things I grow go to friends and neighbors and the rest I either eat, can or freeze. I'm glad you had such good luck with yours and I'm sure you're enjoying all the wonderful things your hard work provided.
Enjoy, David

mvetrano2 Loc: Commack, NY

David, I too had problems with animals this year. Rabbits would eat my sting bean and eggplant plants down to the roots. It took several replantings, and a four foot fence to keep the plants as secure as possible. Even with the four foot fence, they somehow got in and ate tomatoes just as they were ripening. I wound up picking the tomatoes green in order to have them for ourselves, and let them ripen in the house. I read that marigolds will keep animals and insects away, so next year I will try that along with the fence. Good luck to you next year.
Mike.

Dalbon

Hi Mike, Yes I have heard that marigolds with keep some animals away and just this year someone told me, well actually I've heard it from several people that if you fill a spray bottle with water and add some Hydrogen Peroxide and spray the leaves with it that will keep them away. Of course if it rains then you need to reapply it. By the time I heard about it my garden was already gone. My luck next year will be my 8 foot fence.
Thanks, David

srfmhg Loc: Marin County, CA

You certainly have a green thumb Mvetrano!

LeeK Loc: Washington State

Ahhhh.... Quite the harvest. Fresh is always so scrumptious.

Bubalola Loc: Big Apple, NY

Thank you for the treat, MVetrano!