Deal on Blueberries!!

I went to Lowes the other day to replace one of the two half high Chippewa bushes I got back in the spring for $7 each. The weekly ad showed blueberry bushes on sale for just under $10 so I figured I would go and replace one now for the spring and maybe even pick up a raspberry bush if they had them! I went to the lowes closest to my house and was disappointed to find they only had fruit trees no blueberry bushes. So I decided to go to the Lowes a town over to see what they had.

When I got to the other Lowes I instantly saw the racks upon racks of Blueberry shrubs, as I got closer I saw a yellow sign saying reduced, $4.99! At this point I knew I would be getting more than one bush!! As I began my search through the various varieties I realized blackberry bushes were also mixed in. I figured the blueberry bushes were so cheap I could pick up one blackberry bush for $10. I ended up getting two Sunshine Blue Blueberry bushes, one Brigitta Blueberry bush and one Apache thornless Blackberry bush. I also picked up a 16 inch brown plastic pot on clearance for $3.

When I went to check out I was pleasantly surprised to find out that all the blueberry plants were $2 each!!!! If I had the land I would have bought soo much more! LoL

My total for three blueberry bushes, 1 blackberry bush and a 16 inch brown pot was $11.82! What a deal! #growberries

End of September and tomatoes still thriving!

Harvest 9/30/12

It's the last day of September and my garden is still producing! This year's garden has gone beyond my expectations!

Today's harvest:
1 Green Sweet Pepper
1 Red Hot Cherry Pepper
1 Juliet Tomato

Harvest 9/27/12

Today's Harvest:
2 Japanese Eggplants
2 Juliet Tomatoes
1 Cherry Tomato
1 Big Boy Tomato

Harvest 9/25/12

Today's harvest was small but diverse!

1 Japanese Eggplant
1 Red Hot Cherry Pepper
1 Heirloom Tomato

More Tomatoes! Harvest 9/24/12

The tomato plants are still spitting out tomatoes but they're starting to look ragged, probably due to the chilly nights lately. The low temperature has been consistently in the lower 50's and upper 40's the last two weeks

Today's Harvest:
7 cherry tomatoes
4 Juliet tomatoes
1 Big Boy Tomato

Small harvest 9/20/12

Today's Harvest:
9 Cherry Tomatoes
3 Hot Peppers
1 Juliet Tomato

Windy Tomato Harvest 9/18/12

A tornado watch in effect with a wind advisory I decided to grab some tomatoes before the wind did!

Today's harvest:
2 Juliet tomatoes
13 cherry tomatoes

Tomato Harvest 9/17/12

Today's Harvest
1 Juliet tomato
1 Marion tomato
9 cherry tomatoes

Ripe tomatoes off my windowsill

These are just the tomatoes that we're ripe on my windowsill! If I add in the ones in the fridge and the ones I just picked I might even have enough to make tomato sauce!!!

Ripe on the vine tomatoes!

Harvest 9/15/12

Today's Harvest:
1 Heirloom tomato
1 cucumber
3 Juliet tomatoes
4 cherry tomatoes
5 Hot Peppers

Putting the cucumbers and tomatoes to use!

As a side to dinner I took some of my Juliet tomatoes & picklebush cucumbers, sliced them up and covered them in balsamic dressing! A delicious late summer side!

Harvest 9/11/12 still getting Tomatoes!

Today's harvest:
5 Juliet tomatoes
4 cherry tomatoes
2 heirloom tomatoes
1 big boy tomato
1 hot pepper
1 cucumber

Pumpkin plant still flowering...

But still no pumpkins...

Premature Harvest before the storm! 9/8/12

With a tornado watch currently in effect I wanted to harvest some tomatoes from the garden even though they're not completely ripe yet! One tomato, the Marion one, is actually a weird shape and split a little.

Today's harvest:
1 cucumber
1 heirloom tomato
1 Marion tomato
6 Juliet tomatoes
3 cherry tomatoes

Frozen Hot Peppers!!

I've harvested over 100 hot peppers this summer and because I was expecting cayenne peppers but got what I think is habanero, I've had a hard time figuring out what to do with them! It doesn't help that friends and family won't take more then a handful because they really are hot!

So to not let them go to waste and hopefully be able to make some spicy soups this winter I froze some! This is my first time freezing my own vegetable harvest! I've never had an over abundance of anything till this year!

Large & colorful late season harvest! 9/7/12

Today's harvest was larger than I expected and very colorful! I got to pick another eggplant and harvested the first garden beans of the season! If you read back to some of my first posts, you'll see that I planted the beans late, add in the hot dry weather and they didn't do as well as other years.

Today's harvest:
1 Japanese eggplant
1 Red Hot Cherry Pepper
1 cucumber
4 Juliet Tomatoes
5 Cherry tomatoes
6 hot peppers
58 garden beans (small)

Harvest 9/4/12

Today's harvest:
1 Marion tomato
4 hot peppers
1 cucumber
1 red hot cherry pepper
3 Juliet tomatoes
4 cherry tomatoes

Cut 2nd Sugar Baby Watermelon!

Small harvest 9/2/12

Harvest are continuing to get smaller but I'm also happy I'm still getting anything! Since the end if July I have been able to harvest something from my garden almost everyday if not every other day! I consider this an accomplishment, especially compared to past years!!

Today's Harvest:
1 cucumber
1 cherry tomato
1 heirloom tomato
3 Juliet tomatoes

Check out more of my garden photos in this Hub!

I put up some photos of my vegetable garden, container garden and herb garden on Hubpages.com.  I titled the hub:

The Beauty of #GrowYourOwn: Photos of My Backyard Garden 

 

Check it out, the photos are higher resolution then the ones I put on this blog because instead of using my iPhone I used a DSLR camera!  

Strange Cucumber harvest! 9/1/12

Today was a small harvest but then again it's already September and the garden is starting to slow down! I got some strange shaped cucumbers today but I'm pretty sure it's due to the inconsistent watering as of late.

Today's harvest:
1 heirloom tomato
2 Juliet tomatoes
2 cherry tomatoes
3 cucumbers