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Farmers Market

jglass

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Ours is set to open up the 27th of June.
I am looking forward to hitting it up after it is open for a couple of weeks.
The first week or so all anyone ever has is like cucumbers and assorted peppers. We have some green beans in the garden that are about an inch long righ now lol. Just enough to make you hungry.
We are getting 3-4 cucumbers a week from the garden at my fil's.
In about a week I should be able to pick lettuce. Been getting hot and mild banana peppers and a few jalapenos. The peas put out one mess before they died lol. They are in my fridge for tomorrows dinner.

My herbs are doing pretty decent. I am getting basil, dill, thyme, sage, cilantro, flat leaf italian parsley and curly parsley. It is hard to tell cilantro and flat leaf parsley apart unless I smell them :eek: Oregano and mint are doing pretty good. I havent cut anything off of the two rosemary bushes he got. Letting them grow some. I hope the cucumbers put out enough so that I can make his Dad a few pickles. It is not looking like they are going to though.
Im drying the dill. When thet stuff hits it growing streak it literally grows like weeds. With all of the rain it is just not a good year for gardens atleast in this area.

I hope anyone else who put out a garden is having better luck than us!
 
my garden is not doing good at all! and it sucks
every year my garden is huge and I have a ton of stuff by now
I have only gotten 2 peppers, and 2 bell peppers, my corn is the size of my hand, my onions are not working, my carrots are not comming in, my peas died, my pumpkins never worked, and I am very sad

but we have a little "market" down the street that sales them on the side of the road, and you can pay what every you like, so I have been hitting there

our farmers market is only on Sat mornings, and it is so packed its not even funny, but I still LOVE it
 
I have noticed a very few people selling at the Farmers Market this year.
Looked mostly like peppers, watermelons, green beans, taters and cucumbers. A few people have corn but not much. Tomatoes are just now starting to get ripe and doing it slowly. The area they designate for the farmers market is on a road leading out of town so all of the farmers set up on the hardware store lot in the middle of town so more people see them. There is usually someone selling there everyday.
 
I only went to one Farmers Market this year, I bought Red & Yellow Sweet Peppers. Someone was selling Anisette Biscotti-Homemade, they looked so Good I bought a pkg, they were Delicious.
The Farmers Market I usually go to I think is open now, they sell fresh corn, zucchini, tomatoes, sweet peppers etc.

I want to make Zucchini Bread, I got the recipe here form you jglass. I Love that recipe, it's so Good! I will be here at Spice Place a year this month! Talk to ya, Cookie :)
 
I'm fortunate and have a Farmers Market every Saturday from 8am-Noon with 30-40 vendors and the produce changes as the season changes. Even better is that there is a strong Asian presence so about 10 or so vendors sell the more cultural produce which increases the variety and experimenting in the kitchen.
 
cookie said:
I only went to one Farmers Market this year, I bought Red & Yellow Sweet Peppers. Someone was selling Anisette Biscotti-Homemade, they looked so Good I bought a pkg, they were Delicious.
The Farmers Market I usually go to I think is open now, they sell fresh corn, zucchini, tomatoes, sweet peppers etc.

I want to make Zucchini Bread, I got the recipe here form you jglass. I Love that recipe, it's so Good! I will be here at Spice Place a year this month! Talk to ya, Cookie :)
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I'm glad you are enjoying the recipe Cookie :)
I made a double batch of that a few weeks ago. One for us and one for my FIL. He is so good about giving me that stuff I try and cook it in some way and take it back to him. Zucchini bread is one of the few ways my ever so picky hubby will eat the stuff :rolleyes:
No one at the farmers market here does baked goods. It is a great idea though. The only thing they do even close to that is sell homemade jams and jellies.
I got such a good haul today I made one of the neighbors up here a basket loaded with green beans, tomatoes, assorted peppers, zucchini and fresh herbs. Come to find out she loves to cook with fresh herbs. It also gave me the chance to visit with her puppy Darby. She has the cutest little mini schnauzer!
 
Aren't miniature schnauzers adorable, janie? I had two salt n' peppers that my sister's family now have. My niece & nephew took care of them when I worked up north and then when I moved back to IL. full-time they'd grown attached to them so I didn't have to heart to take'm back...
 
Awww is that them in your avatar? They are beautiful!
A mini schnauzer was what we were looking for when we got the dog we have now.
When we got the breeders she also bred several other types of dogs. While in the hospital two of her dogs had accidently gotten to each other that were not meant to be bred and my little dog Pooh was the result. His Mama was a yorkie and his daddy was a maltese. We picked him because he was the dog we connected with. We looked at three mini schnauzer pups she had but they didnt seem to take to us. There were two other couples there the same day who were trying to buy our pup but since we got there first we got first dibs lol.
One couple who wanted to buy him was a much older man and his wife. She has just found out she had cancer and he was buying her a dog to help her through chemo. She was probably in her late 70's. A hyper active 6 week old puppy was not a good choice for someome in her situation. After we told them we were taking the pup they bought one of the schnauzer pups she had. Honestly Pooh would have driven them insane. He is very active and constantly wants to play and be in your face.
 
CanMan said:
I'm fortunate and have a Farmers Market every Saturday from 8am-Noon with 30-40 vendors and the produce changes as the season changes. Even better is that there is a strong Asian presence so about 10 or so vendors sell the more cultural produce which increases the variety and experimenting in the kitchen.
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Taht would be awesome to have here! I'd love an opportuntiy to get snow peas, bok choy, and many other fresh veggies you just can't buy very fresh from the grocery store. You are very fortunate indeed.:)
 
My FIL asked me to take some pics of his green beans this year lol.
Thought I would post a couple.

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Yep- thems the pups, janie. They're reall good dawgs.

Your Pooh sounds fun! And cute!

I normally prefer larger dogs, but everyone in my family adores smaller foo-foo dogs, so I've gotten used to them. Been around pugs, pomeranians, yorkies, maltese's and such for years now. I like miniature schnauzers 'cause they're mid-sized... not too tiny- not too huge. And they don't shed- great hypoallergenic critters! plus, I really like their looks and temperament.
 
RE: "I love the way these two in your Avatar are cocking their heads but each in an opposite direction- HOW CUTE!!!!"

That shot perfectly shows the girls' inquisitiveness, Cath! They're nosey l'il boogers!
 
My hubby's nieces who are 15 and 11 were at the farmers market the other day and turned their back for a minute to make change and someone stole there money out of their cash box. Nice huh..
 
Farmers market here is still very slim.
My husband's nieces are selling some of their garden items but it is nothing like it was even last year.
 
So much rain in the beginning.
I have found out the woman on the end apartment here with the cutie pie schnauzer loves to cook. I went down to the garden yesterday and got some things. When I came back I took her another basket of goodies. She said she was going to make a green tomato pizza. She left a lovely me a lovely card saying thanks outside my door the other day.

I made 8 quarts of garlic dill pickles tonight. My brother asked me to make him some sweet pickles. I still have Brook's sweet pickle recipe so Im gonna use that to make him a few quarts.
 
That's a nice looking garden.

I've been doing pretty well with my garden this year. I have lots of tomatoes now but they did definitely ripen late due to the cold wet weather. Last year I use to go to the farmers market every weekend but our is so expensive! 5 dolla, 5 dolla, 5 dolla. Every little half pint everything is 5 bucks a piece. This year I just planted more of my own and it's working out really well.
 
Everyone around here has had a terrible blight attacking their green beans. It hit the ones in the pics about a week later. Covered in ugly brown holes. FIL got some stuff and sprayed on them hoping to save what is left.
Garden season is flying by fast. We have been getting a few ripe tomatos a day but no more than 4-5. I have been picking a few half ripe ones and putting them out on the balcony to finish getting ripe. I go to the garden about every 2-3 days trying to get the cucs for pickles before they get very big and full of seeds. My FIL lives about 5 miles from me.

FIL has these two bronze breasted turkeys as pets. The hen died about three months ago and I have been looking every where for him another one. WELL finally today I found him one on a farm just outside of town for $20. They had the coolest white peacock there! They had a white male and a normal colored male. They spread their feathers out and it was so beautiful!
I tried to describe to Jon but I doubt I did them justice. That farm was so cool. They had a big garden and you could see all of these bunnies all over it munching away. It looked like Mr. McGregors garden lol.
They put the turkey in a cage in the back seat with me and she was all nervous. I told the FIL he wasnt gonna help her peace of mind by putting her next to the lady who fixes the holiday dinners lol.
 
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