(06-06-2019, 02:32 AM)RitaJC Wrote: Ahhh! It's not working. Can anybody fix it?

(06-06-2019, 05:33 AM)ada Wrote:

(06-06-2019, 02:32 AM)RitaJC Wrote: Ahhh! It's not working. Can anybody fix it?

Instagram seems to have some sort of protection against direct link of the image, so you wouldn't be able to download it. The link that you posted is not the link of the image but of the entire instagram page with the image. That's why it doesn't work. :-/ I recommend uploading to a site like https://imgur.com/upload it's quite easy and you can create an account and upload the images privately.

You need to have a direct link to the image to show it on the forum, like at the end of the url it needs to be .jpg etc.

(08-03-2019, 02:24 PM)Eddie Wrote: Picture of our dining room table today....all from my garden:

(08-03-2019, 02:24 PM)Eddie Wrote: Picture of our dining room table today....all from my garden:

(08-14-2019, 10:01 AM)Eddie Wrote: We raise carrots too.  Wine bottle is for scale.

(08-14-2019, 10:00 AM)Eddie Wrote: Here's a tomato tart that my wife made a couple of days ago, with tomatoes from our garden:

(08-15-2019, 04:06 PM)ScottK Wrote: All I know is that I can't compete whatsoever with Eddie, but we have a little tiny garden with some tomatoes and a couple basil plants.  The variety is called Caspian Pink - they are a pink heart shaped tomato and they get red after you pick them.  They are a fabulously delicious open-pollinated (not stable enough to be heirloom) tomato.

The plants are 8.5 feet tall now with the hi-tech trellising system that I made out of old stakes, cheap twine, and cable ties.  Cable ties are the greatest thing since sliced bread if you never knew that.  I had some old landscape fabric around so I made the setup super low maintenance with virtually no weeds.  And I tested out one plant with cardboard instead of the landscape fabric, and that seems to be working out pretty well.  There's 7 tomato plants in a pretty small area (8 ft x 6 ft approx), which only gets sun until about 1:00 each day.  The plant in the middle has, sadly, just about died.

The toughest thing we've had to deal with is the neighborhood ground hog who has seemed to develop a taste for tomatoes.  We wanted to save the seeds of the earliest tomatoes, but the ground hog had other plans for those tomatoes.  We haven't seen any damage in the past few days, so hopefully the tomatoes are too high up for him now, and he's maybe found greener pastures elsewhere.  The bags were put there to scare the groundhog away when they hit the rustling plastic, but that didn't seem to work..

It has been a much better season than last year so far as we had so much rain last year that the tomatoes were splitting in extreme fashion.  This year, no problems so far..





And here's our huge bounty so far :

(08-19-2019, 02:39 PM)Eddie Wrote: We had friends over for dinner yesterday and served another tomato tart (along with green beans and squash from our garden, and other tasty things..... )

(08-23-2019, 05:36 PM)Eddie Wrote: We just keep processing....and the stuff just keeps coming....  

(08-24-2019, 05:00 PM)ScottK Wrote: Are you canning summer squash?  That's kinda like what that looks like on the left of your closet.

It also looks like you are doing pickles.  How is that working out for you.  Dill or sweet?

The joy of standing over a boiling water canning pot

(08-25-2019, 01:35 PM)Ruby Wrote: Has Jim McCarty ever shared pics of his garden? It sounds fantastic! ( a  MOSS GARDEN!! What? I need to see that.) Now he's talking about his big tree full of lanterns. It must be a fairy haven.

(06-14-2020, 07:06 PM)Eddie Wrote: Our lettuce was shredded by a hailstorm today..... :@