Are there any backyard veggie gardeners here?

[obbie]

tomatoes this morning

[chrissa]

Hi all. 

These are the first veggies picked out of my vegie garden at our country property this morning - radishes



I also got these from our dam today.  My first feed of yabbies for Dinner tonight.  The photo doesn't pick up their beautiful colour, they are bright blue and red.

[judydawn]

Lucky you chrissa, you need an awful lot of yabbies for a feed though don't you?

[Kimmyh]

Hope you like the yabbies Chrissa. You need a lot to make a meal....maybe entree. Lovely looking radishes.

[Cornish Cream]

Thanks for the photo of the yabbies Chrissa as I have never seen them before.The radishes look good too

[Cuilidh]

Our friends have a really good system for tying up tomatoes, but I don't have access to a link so will try to explain our version to you.

Drill a couple of holes in the tomato stakes, spaced c. 10 cm apart.  Get some fencing wire, or even wire clothes hangers and cut one length for each hole on the stake then form it into a square approx. 10 cm per side (or bigger if your tomatoes are of a larger variety, e.g. grosse lisse).  Thread one end of the wire through the hole and secure it by bending or twisting the ends firmly together so that the growing tomato bush will grow through the squares of wire which will support it as it gets taller.

Hope you can follow that, basically:

Get your stake

Drill hole/s

Cut and shape wire

Secure into stake

Let the tomatoes grow up using the shaped wire as the tie / support

[judydawn]

Perfect explanation Marina 

[courton]

Talking of tomatoes, went to a friend's place yesterday and she asked us to relieve her of tomatoes which were taking over her garden. Three of us picked this in about 45 minutes!

[goldfish]

Hot diggity dog, Courton!!!!!  What a treasure trove!! What will you do with them all ??

A very generous friend!!

[judydawn]

A bumper crop for your friend, I can see why she wanted to get rid of some.  Right place at the right time courton 

[astarra]

That's alot of tomatoes 

I tie my tomatoes to the stake with strips cut off my old stockings, apparently the nylon doesn't damage the plant. 

[Cuilidh]

Wow, Courton, what a crop!  I bet they taste fabulous.

[mcmich]

That's alot of tomatoes 

I tie my tomatoes to the stake with strips cut off my old stockings, apparently the nylon doesn't damage the plant. 

That's what I do too astarra  a trick learnt from Nan and Pop.

That was a great pick-up Courton from a very generous friend. 

[courton]

A lot of salsa coming up! I also plan to freeze them since my friend has been doing it and says it is fine.
It is beautifully sweet and delicious. I have a big bowl of these sitting on the kitchen countertop and it is fast disappearing!

[Halex]

Wow, what a crop.

I am just happy my patch survived the 43degrees