What’s growing well for you this season?
Varieties in this video:
Blushing star slicer tomato
Candy land cherry tomato
Plum Regal Roma tomato
patio eggplant
Incredible Corn
Diva cucumber
High noon sunflower
Emerald Towers Basil
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I’ve got my harvest basket. Let’s go see what we can harvest for my Atlanta garden. I’m not the only one that’s already lost all three pairs of garden shears in the garden by this point in the season, right? Also, yes, I do sustain the squirrel population of our entire neighborhood. Pat on my back for actually being patient enough to harvest a pepper red. I normally just harvest them green. You can eat them either way, but they are sweeter when they’re red. At this point of the season, I’m questioning why I planted eggplant. Eggplants are super fun to grow. They produce prolifically. I just run out of ideas for what to make with them. By late July in Atlanta, it’s really clear which tomatoes are disease resistant and which are not. Blushing Star has been my favorite variety to grow. It’s highly disease resistant and the tomato itself is perfect. Thin skinned, lots of flesh, very little seeds. I love this tomato. Unfortunately, so do the critters. So, I’m trying to adopt a sharing as caring mindset. Also, all of this right here, this is arugula. Fun fact, it’s been 3 years since I actually planted arugula. All of my overflow tomatoes, those go into a sauce that’s super easy to make. Roast the tomatoes and blend it all up. Quick tip. If you harvest at this stage, which is called the blushing stage, and then let your tomatoes ripen indoors, you get more of the tomatoes that you actually planted without anything cracking or being stolen by a squirrel. I have to stop to admire the first sunflower of the season. And now, let’s go harvest my garden fail because no cut flower bed is complete without corn. This year, I learned the importance of supporting corn, especially if you’re growing it in a small space. If you’re a small space gardener like me, you’re going to need to support your corn or you’ll also have an epic fail. Did I still get some corn this year? Sure. But I was expecting just a little bit more corn from 12 Plants. Lastly, it’s time to play my favorite game, cucumber hideand go seek. It may be time to get my vision checked. Recently, the cucumbers have been winning, and I have been harvesting giant cucumbers like this. Quick shout out to the only basil that doesn’t bolt in Atlanta. If you know you
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Kewl
I’m north ga and always losing my tools! Also picked the wrong variety of garden tomatoes this year (zebras) they aren’t doing well … yours look great!
Gorgeous colors
Yummy. Jealous
Do you plant watermelons and cantaloupe? It hits different when them squirrels take bites out your watermelons , they even pick all my tomatoes and leave them on the ground for me,which was very nice of them.
My basil was bolting in April 😅😂
I love making caponata with aubergine, i just search on google for a recipe☺️
Baba ghanoush, eggplant and tomatoes, eggplant parmesan, tabbouleh, stewed, roasted, fried and pickles. can you tell I love eggplant. Enjoy 😊
You could cook babaganoush, italian eggplant fritters…but generally Mediterranean cuisine has plenty of recipes that will help you cook this veggie in style. Try recipes from Calabria, Greece,Turkey,Tunisia ,Lebanon…
I fry my eggplant like green tomatoes
Hey thanks for sharing your harvest…and thanks so much for identifying your growing area….I am in middle ga…Macon area and your tips will be helping us
Your Garden did good 👏🏽👏🏽You got some real goodies👏🏽👏🏽
you should make pakistani/indian foods with the eggplant!! lots of recipes and combinations
❤❤❤❤❤ have you made baba ghanoush it makes eggplant taste like. Also an eggplant Ratatouille is good eggplant Parmesan lasagna eggplant lasagna not even use it in my stir fry in my sushi
As the corn hair gets brown that's when I reap it?
Eggplant is great in Japanese style curry
Throw them in your bolognese sauce!
Im in Ellenwood and I have cucumbers, tomatoes and green beans now Im waiting on a couple more veggies to grow my basil is almost done also 😢
I love eggplant!! I usually just slice it and pan fry it in a little bit of olive oil and dip it in Italian sauce! …. I can't have dairy anymore, but I used to sprinkle it with Parmesan when I could 🤤
Can you freeze eggplant lasagna or parm? Idk how well eggplant freezes
Wow, that's a very impressive garden! Bountiful harvest!!! Straight goals right there.
You can broil the eggplants or roast it directly on fire, peel the skin and dip it in seasoned scrambled egg. You can also just chop the roasted eggplant and make an omelet 😁 we call it tortang talong in Filipino.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who misplaces scissors, garden sheers, and hybrids of both. They are probably with all the hair ties and Tupperware lids. 😂😂 Great garden! Hey, maybe we should AirTag them!!!
Beautiful garden and results! ❤
What variety is your sunflower?
That’s me with eggplant right now but I’ll still plant them next year 😂.
loveee eggplants! i make them korean style a lot, but they're also really good as tempura!
How do you keep the squirrels from eating your sunflowers? I can't tell you how many packs of sunflower seeds and seedlings I've fed to them
Brinjal Curry (Eggplant curry), it was really good! I made it for the first time this year- too many eggplants also haha. Greek dishes: Moussaka, melitzanosalata (Like baba ghanoush). Roasted veg salad/ sandwiches/ soups