Eating food I grew

[monkeybird]

I ate supper from my garden yesterday! Wish I'd taken pictures, I will next time.

White acre peas - so delicious
Baby butterbeans -Wow
Squash - yummmmm

Everything was so good I wish I could do it again today, but I'll have to wait a day or so for more food to mature.

I got a real since of accomplishment from eating food I grew!

[eeyore]

Congrats, I have some quarter sized tomatoes on the plants now and a few small cucumbers the zucchini has flowers and the corn is about 4 feet, soon i will have a little from the garden also.

[barfife]

I have only gotten squash (5) and cucumbers (2) so far in North Georgia. It may not equal building a log cabin by yourself, but it is a great feeling having grown it yourself.

Now to plan what to plant for late summer and fall. Also think about doing the next plantings from seed. Even if your current crop isn't from Heritage seed, think about saving seeds to get the practice. Adding to your skill set is always good.

[EX121]

That's great. We just planted tomatoes last week, but the beet and garlic are doing well.

[610Alpha]

Its going to be a little bit before I get to eat off my garden...danger of frost lasted clear into May....I might have some green onions here in a few days.

[SCinPNW]

Wow, that is great you are already harvesting food from your garden! I just now have radishes, spinach, green beans and some lettuce sprouting out of the ground and it is June. We have had a very cold and wet spring here in the Pacific Northwest.

SC

[LizardKing]

Sounds like you've got a good crop going there. Right now I'm drowning in grape and cherry tomatoes, but they taste real good. I have some squash growing that sprung up on it's own from last years fallen seeds. It's got a lot of flowers but isn't setting any fruit. It was an experiment to let it grow and see what would happen.

[spinner]

LizardKing, have you tried eating any of the squash blossoms? I'm still waiting for mine to blossom but I saw a recipe for stuffed squash blossoms that I thought sounded really good.

[LizardKing]

They're smaller blossoms, not the large ones you'd normally get. Great idea though, I might give it a try.

[Bearman202]

Be careful. That kind of thing grows on you. I was at a meeting tonight of some friends, and the hostess commented that she'd heard of blogs where men were making bread from scratch. (She knows I've been making bread for a while now.) Anyway, she commented that some of them were taking what was essentially an engineering approach to the process. I told her that if you can build a shed, you should be able to build a loaf of bread. She laughed. Then I told her about making biscuits from scratch, and her husband nailed her with an elbow. I looked pointedly at him. I don't think he got it. (She's a great cook, so I could see why he would be hesitant to step into that territory.) If I had a really good cook around, I wouldn't cook for myself either.... I'm a survival cook. i.e. I cook enough to keep myself alive, but not much more than that. I started baking bread because I was borderline diabetic, and I couldn't find good bread that wasn't at least partly made with white flour. After I did start making my own, the store-bought stuff doesn't taste nearly as good. Sigh.

[Mcbrays]

I have planted oranges and it has grown in my garden and me and my family enjoy eating orange fro our own garden.But it is very difficult task and we need patience for this and now i have got results of patience.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

Sweet deal the MB! Everything here is bout burned up, watering twice a day and still losing

[monkeybird]

I got about 10 meals out of my white acre peas, but only 5 or so from the squash (powdery mildew). The tomatoes were excellent. But they got splits in their skins from the heat. I looked it up, seems excessive heat causes the pulp to expand the split the skin. After it splits, they're ruined.

It is amazingly hot this year, even with the gulf breeze. The humidity is very high and while I'm suppose to plant the fall garden in Sept. I think I'll wait until maybe the first of October.

[jmc7104]

Getting late in the season here and with the heat and lack of rain (hauling water from the river) we are still getting produce from garden. Had garden fresh green beans with little Potatoes and home canned
bacon bits. When cooking on grill usually slice up several slices of Zuc. and grill it with what else I am fixing. Pressure can or dehydrate most garden produce for storing. Jim

[Lynnster]

So far we have had a few tomatoes, cucumbers, and zucchini from the gardens this year. Being in Ontario, we can't plant until the end of May or first part of June so things are just now starting to grow really well. I am looking forward to the corn, beets, beans, celery etc. etc. oh and the lovely melons and pumpkins. We had about four weeks without rain this summer so it really took a toll on the gardens but they seem to be bouncing back. It's nice to know that so many are growing food. I do a lot of canning as well.