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15 Feb ’12
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We harvested our peas last week and the beans are about ready to go. I'm am going to replant both and get another harvest. My wife harvested some blueberries and raspberries yesterday, the blackberries are almost ready. Kale and lettuce came in good, what have you guys got so far?
15 Feb ’12
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Radishes and more radishes. Those things grow like weeds. Im going to do a whole staggered box of them next year and see how many I can get.
Since eating them the grocery store stuff is garbage, no flavor.
7 Apr ’12
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Tomatoes,lots of cukes,and squash. The tomatoes are so good,i have some Italian heirlooms i think.
Vapor is right,grocery stuff sucks. I had forgotten what a real tomato tastes like.
21 Feb ’12
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While it's not my garden, it was already some stuff the family had going when I got here, we regularly get Lamb's quarter (it's technically wild, but we tend it, it's an awesome spinach-like green), onions, garlic, potatoes, beans, bok choy, a few tomatoes (they were kind of neglected when I got here but they're coming back), okra and tomatillos.
While it's not technically from the garden, my brother in law regularly gathers wild mushrooms as well. We have lots of these awesome, super tasty mushrooms called Chantrelles that he grabs pretty regularly. It's not uncommon for him to go for a walk and come back with a pound or two of these tasty little guys. He's also propagating some spore patches so next year some of his favorite spots could actually be considered a garden I guess. We also have a bit of a more uncommon mushroom known as Chicken Of The Woods. Those are really good, and I've actually had a meal where they stood in for the meat component. It sounds kind of "meh" but it was really good!
18 Feb ’12
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we've frozen strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries are about to come in. we've also frozen collards, mustard greens, chard and kale. we harvested the first run of beans and peas. we ate most of the peas as we picked them, but i pickled a couple quarts of beans-my favorite kinds of pickles. we've also pickled a couple of pints of sweet and garlic dill pickles, banana peppers, and horseradish. we've eaten a ton of zucchini and summer squash and i think we'll probably shred and freeze zucchini from here on out. we've harvested one spaghetti squash-it's still sitting on the mud room counter. we eat salads 2 or 3 times a week, and the cherry tomatoes just started ripening. we've also harvested a ton of herbs-cilantro, basil, parsley, catnip, sage, rosemary, lemon basil, bee balm, lavender.
19 Feb ’12
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I've gotten a good bit of squash, okra, and tomatoes. My beans and peas didn't do much this year, corn started strong then just sort of fell apart, and my melons and cantaloupes keep getting robbed by something that I can't figure out. Starting to get some cucumbers now, my first batch went wonky and only half developed.
15 Feb ’12
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our cukes and zucchinis are doing nothing so far this year, don't know what's up with that, I think it's a pollination issue
21 Feb ’12
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our cukes and zucchinis are doing nothing so far this year, don't know what's up with that, I think it's a pollination issue
You could try hand pollinating, I had that problem out in Cali, and Vapor put me on to that little trick. I'm pretty sure I made a thread about it before. Maybe give that a shot and see if it works.
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