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Post by daylilydude on Aug 15, 2018 4:41:58 GMT -5
You have put up all you need and the neighbors are not needing anymore of the garden goodies you keep piling on the doorstep what do you do... pull up the garden... let it go to seed for saving?
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Post by farmerjack41 on Aug 15, 2018 6:42:29 GMT -5
Have a neighbor lady from Korea. She will always take excess vegetables and give the poorer in her community. Vegetables that will last longer also will be given to the disabled veterans center. This would be mostly root crops.
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Post by paulf on Aug 15, 2018 7:19:13 GMT -5
We plant a minimum in the garden so that we have just enough to eat and give away so that the garden peters out about the time everyone is full. No second crops except for the raised beds of green beans and that is only a small row that gives us a meal's worth every few days. Frost in September or early October takes care of the problem. We do nothing to extend the season.
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Post by brownrexx on Aug 15, 2018 7:41:44 GMT -5
My Dad lived in an Assisted Living facility for the last 2 years of his life. He and I used to bring tomatoes from my garden and put them out in the lobby for the residents to enjoy. Dad really enjoyed hearing people oooh and ahhhh over my tomatoes.
Dad passed in 2011 but I continue to take vegetables to the facility. The people there are absolutely thrilled with the fresh produce and I enjoy visiting because it reminds me of Dad. Usually someone is taking something from the box before I even get back out the front door.
Here is a pic of some things I took one day last year. Sadly this year I have not been able to take big tomatoes but I have taken lots of cherry tomatoes, squash and cucumbers.
Nothing gets wasted in my garden. I take every extra vegetable to the Home until frost kills my garden.
20160805_101353 by Brownrexx, on Flickr
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Post by spike on Aug 15, 2018 7:46:26 GMT -5
This year my garden is poop sadly but in years past I garden to the last possible moment and take the veggies to the Mission.
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Post by paquebot on Aug 15, 2018 10:35:25 GMT -5
If you has more vegetables than friends can handle, it's a social problem. Translated, means that you don't have enough friends. My favorite thing was to fill bags with tomatoes, peppers, onions, and garlic. "Salsa, some assembly required." For years, got into a local race track with such good stuff.
At home, I grow right to the front sidewalk, Then put a sign "Take Some". Not a single fruit goes to waste. Usually I don't see them as they are people walking their dogs early in the morning. Last year my wife asked me if it meant everything and not just the tomatoes as she saw someone taking peppers and onions also. When I was cleaninf up that garden last fall, Hispanic man stopped to thank me for the fresh salsa that his family enjoyed.
Up the street is a day care home. Last year we had just too much corn where I gardened. Had a big basket that held 6 dozen ears. Without telling anyone, dropped it off at the driveway. My address was on the basket so I knew tha I'd get it back. Found it in my driveway 2 days later with a lot of children's thank you notes inside.
Oh, I do NOT grow zucchini!
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by brownrexx on Aug 15, 2018 13:53:24 GMT -5
There is a local church in my town that provides free lunches on Wednesday's. I think that anyone is welcome and last year they put out a small sign that local produce was welcome. If I did not already take mine to the Assisted Living home I would have taken it there.
If you are looking for somewhere to take extra produce - anyplace that provides meals would be an option and they really appreciate it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2018 14:50:39 GMT -5
If all else fails, faced with an over abundance of veg, look for pick up trucks at church parking lots. If really desperate, place brown paper bags on hood of cars right by the windshield on driver's side.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Aug 16, 2018 15:44:56 GMT -5
I always let mine produce until frost, or whatever, then pull it when I get a chance. Of course, there are also the cold weather crops still growing, and the garlic, that needs planting, so it's hard to say when "done" is.
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Post by Gianna on Aug 16, 2018 23:51:43 GMT -5
One of the joys of growing veggies/fruits is growing a lot to give away. Although I'm trying to grow less because of the work as I get older, and use less water in the on-going drought, there probably will always be too much.
Most I give to friends, but if that is not convenient, I'll put stuff in a labeled 'free' box on the street, and it's always gone. This is a 'walking' hill so there are many health conscious people on foot to take it.
This weekend I'm going to prepare a box for a good friend whose house just burned down.
A few years ago, I traded some (especially my blueberries and tomatoes) to get a discount on tennis lessons. We both were very pleased with that arrangement. Win-win.
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Post by september on Aug 17, 2018 10:30:35 GMT -5
I let mine produce until frost and snow does them in. I give away any extra to neighbors and friends which uses up most of the overflow. I do have way more tomatoes than I need, but a lot of them are weird varieties, not round and red, so doubt they would be generally appreciated or used at the food shelves. I might try it if I lived closer to town, or drove in more often.
I don't pull the plants early, because I figure the vegetation keeps the weeds down.
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