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Offline Bone pile

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Back yard picking
« on: August 23, 2014, 08:12:04 pm »
That could mean a few things .What I'm doing is fruit picking.Grapes,pineapple,starfruit ,mangoes and some longans. Nothing like tree ripened fruit.What are you pickin'?

I'm pickin'
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Back yard picking
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2014, 08:20:44 pm »
I ate a few handfuls of chokecherries today.  These were some of the largest and sweetest I have ever eaten.  Mmmmm, delicious!
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Back yard picking
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2014, 08:37:10 pm »
Only thing I'm picking is my nose. Blight has set in on our tomatoes and the whole crop is shot I fear. We will have peppers and okra though. 
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Offline Zuma

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Re: Back yard picking
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2014, 09:08:11 pm »
Great! Bring me a basket full, to the Ridge.
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Offline Cade

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Re: Back yard picking
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2014, 09:18:36 pm »
I had a handful of mulberries earlier. They are really good this year.

Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Back yard picking
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2014, 09:56:12 pm »
I picked a ripe tomato that was growing next to the sludge hauler dump station at work.  I put it in the break room  >:D
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Offline jeffhalfrack

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Re: Back yard picking
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2014, 10:19:59 pm »
O O aint it amazing what grows outbof those sludge pits? even after going through the press? guess only a plumber would catch what you said JeffW

Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Back yard picking
« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2014, 10:59:35 pm »
Yep  ;)  Tomato seeds don't break down  :P
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Offline JoJoDapyro

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Re: Back yard picking
« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2014, 02:17:40 am »
It has been really wet here this month. Tomatoes are on strike, except for the grape tomatoes. Serranos are giving me about 15 a week. The corn is ready to go. Zucchini is hard to time due to the wet weather, along with the crook neck. I still have a few beets to pick. Onions are done. The cucumbers are few and far between, and a bit tart. Apples are getting close. Sad thing is, I feel like I need a larger garden.  >:D
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Offline Will Tell

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Re: Back yard picking
« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2014, 09:01:21 am »
Corn. Plums, tomatoes, peppers, cukes, blueberries. Have a raised garden so the excess rain doesn't bother the plants, one of my best years.

Offline Pappy

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Re: Back yard picking
« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2014, 01:19:09 pm »
Apples / plums and pears as far as fruit goes. Man you got a back yard full. Pappy
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Offline 4dog

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Re: Back yard picking
« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2014, 01:21:08 pm »
as a musician.was really hoping to see a guitar!!  >:(  ::)  but that looks good too!!
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Re: Back yard picking
« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2014, 01:43:26 pm »
Our garden is startin to slow up but were still gettin mators, cukes, zukes, sugerbaby melons, cantalope, butternut squash,... Just startin to get peppers and eggplant and in another month we will have tators out the wazoo, lol... We did one 4x8' raised bed(mators) and 10 old tires with good black dirt from my Pop... We have all that in a 12x20' area thats terraced abit. Oh, and we started strawberries and asparagus in an old tractor tire and they are kickin butt but wont produce till next yr at the earliest..... Brian
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Offline Knoll

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Re: Back yard picking
« Reply #13 on: August 24, 2014, 04:12:02 pm »
Corn. Plums, tomatoes, peppers, cukes, blueberries. Have a raised garden so the excess rain doesn't bother the plants, one of my best years.
:thumbsup: for us . . . minus the plums & blueberries.  Wife has eye on blueberry bushes @ local nurseries.  Tomatoes are huge and plentiful!
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Offline RidgeRunner

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Re: Back yard picking
« Reply #14 on: August 25, 2014, 09:35:54 am »
There are two seeds that will go all the way through a sewer plant and not break down.
Tomato and Mary-Jane Weed.  The guys at the sewer plant have to spray the sludge drying pits to kill it off.

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