One dozen sungolds!

[jhp]

Yeah, yeah, you southern gardeners are way ahead. This is my first harvest of more than 2 at a time. One dozen sounds more voluminous than 12 or even 2 handfuls. Got a little bit of a late start this year too. Henry (kitty) really likes the smell of celery. He's always sniffing it in the garden and hangs out in that bed. 4 kinds of beans amounted to 1 lb 5 oz.

Jen

[kath]

A real work of art...and Henry's quite the handsome dude. Isn't it great being able to eat so much out of the garden now?

Kath

[Sherry_AK]

Thanks goodness Henry prefers celery to Sungolds!!! Very nice pictures.

[ddsack]

You're ahead of me on the beans! I only have bean blossoms.

Very nice pictures, and I love your cat!

[DiggingDogFarm]

Cute mouser!!!

Nice Sungolds!!!

[jhp]

Kath-thanks, we think he's handsome. I'm so happy to be finally eating from my garden. We ate the eggplant, sugar snap peas, and some of the beans last night.

Sherry- LOL! Good point!

Dee- I guess there's always someone somewhere waiting on their veggies. Your beans will be there soon!

DiggingDog-that's a great compliment coming from a dog. Henry is in fact a great mouser.

Now to be fair I have to post some pics of my other kitties. First there's Clarence. He is the real garden cat. Here he is guarding my tomato seedlings on the back patio while they were hardening. Gotta keep those deer away!

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He's actually a sweet boy.

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Then there's my third kitty, who only gets fed by us. He's stray or feral. He won't come close enough to be touched. He loves hanging out with my boys. Stray kitties need friends too. We call him Graymer.
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[kath]

Thanks for posting your kitty pics- it's great that all the boys get along so well! Clarence appears to be taking his job very seriously and I think Graymer is a bit misunderstood...maybe he's just extremely shy.

[tjg911]

you're picking peas? i pulled my plants over a week ago due to heat. your peas look like mine did 18 days ago - nice and green. the last were not so green and smooth, same variety you are growing. you must be down my the sound and the temps are a little cooler?

henry looks like a cool cat. nice picture of the bowl of veggies.

tom

[jhp]

Originally Posted by kath

Thanks for posting your kitty pics- it's great that all the boys get along so well! Clarence appears to be taking his job very seriously and I think Graymer is a bit misunderstood...maybe he's just extremely shy.

Henry (13) thinks of Clarence as his kitten. He adopted him when we brought him home almost 11 years ago. So they get along great... except when Clarence doesn't want to be treated like a baby.

Graymer followed Clarence home one day over a year ago and he's been coming around since. I've tried to convince him that I'm not so bad. Treats, food, his own cat bed, but he remains unconvinced. I asked H & C to put in a good word for me. It's pretty cute how he now follows Henry around. They go across the way to the neighbors house and stake out the mice over there together. We would love it if he decided to come inside some day. I've spent lots of time worrying about him over the last year.

[Stepheninky]

Originally Posted by jhp

Yeah, yeah, you southern gardeners are way ahead. This is my first harvest of more than 2 at a time. One dozen sounds more voluminous than 12 or even 2 handfuls. Got a little bit of a late start this year too. Henry (kitty) really likes the smell of celery. He's always sniffing it in the garden and hangs out in that bed. 4 kinds of beans amounted to 1 lb 5 oz.

Jen

I also got a late start and am way south of you and you are ahead of me. Our weather sucked. I have had two ripe tomatoes so far, usually have a counter full by now lol. So you are doing great.

[jhp]

Originally Posted by tjg911

you're picking peas? i pulled my plants over a week ago due to heat. your peas look like mine did 18 days ago - nice and green. the last were not so green and smooth, same variety you are growing. you must be down my the sound and the temps are a little cooler?

henry looks like a cool cat. nice picture of the bowl of veggies.

tom

Yeah, it does seem late to still have pea production. Usually when it gets warm, the quality goes south. I did plant them later than usual. Most years, I get a good crop the first week of July, (I know this because we like to go away that week) and then they stop. I got out my seed packet to see if by chance I had gotten a different variety this year, but no, it is Super Sugar Snap.

Oh and I'm over in Danbury. I do have a lot of mature trees that tend to keep things cool, I think.

[Talon1189]

Originally Posted by jhp

Kath-thanks, we think he's handsome. I'm so happy to be finally eating from my garden. We ate the eggplant, sugar snap peas, and some of the beans last night.

Sherry- LOL! Good point!

Dee- I guess there's always someone somewhere waiting on their veggies. Your beans will be there soon!

DiggingDog-that's a great compliment coming from a dog. Henry is in fact a great mouser.

Now to be fair I have to post some pics of my other kitties. First there's Clarence. He is the real garden cat. Here he is guarding my tomato seedlings on the back patio while they were hardening. Gotta keep those deer away!

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He's actually a sweet boy.

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Then there's my third kitty, who only gets fed by us. He's stray or feral. He won't come close enough to be touched. He loves hanging out with my boys. Stray kitties need friends too. We call him Graymer.
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I am owned by 5 cats's 4 are Ragdolls with the last being a "rescue"........