My biggest morning harvest! (So far.)

[asdjrocky]

Clockwise, starting at high noon... The best cherry tomato's ever, I pick about 20 a day, and eat at least half of those every single day. My American cucumbers are next and I'm picking 3 to 4 of these everyday. (Yes, my neighbors know me as that crazy cucumber guy who keeps trying to give them away.) Just below those, my Japanese cucumbers. I like those even better than the big ones. Next of course are the crook neck squash, mmmmmm good. Then my celebrity tomato's and a couple of what I think are romas. I ate my first big tomato last night, in a BLT and it was perfection. At the top, about 11 o'clock, are two green celebrates that I plan on turning into fried green tomato's if I can figure out how to make them. Then a big bell pepper that should be yellow/golden and it is green. I'll give it a few days, and if it doesn't change, I'll just eat it green. Green beans, my new favorite, are right in the middle, and next season, I'm growing 2 0r 3 bushes instead of just one.

Thanks for comming to see my harvest! :hi:

[RedEarth]

1. Looks great...lot's of good eats....... green tomatoes are easy to fix

and one of my favorites. I'm not much of a cook, but I have managed to fry up some green tomatoes. My wife and kids will even eat them...lol

I just slice them, dip them in some milk and then in some corn meal(with and little salt and pepper in it) and put them in a hot skillet that has some oil in it. Let them crisp up on one side, turn them and crisp up on that side. That's the way I do it. I would guess there might be other ways, but this works for me.

[asdjrocky]

3. Then tonight is the night. I'll give it a try, thanks.

[ClayZ]

2. Beautiful! Your are far ahead of us.

So far we have Radishes, Lettuce, strawberries, huckleberries, and herbs. Salad for kids and friends to take home.

We had snow on April 15th. This is our first veggie Gardens in about 10 years.

Wildflowers first!


Raised beds.


Spinach and broccoli.


Herbs, lettuce, blackberries in background :-)


Tomato Jungle.


The first bed has peas lettuce and carrots (etc)

the round thing has Jerusalem artichokes.

Beans, pumpkins, corn, peppers, zucchini, artichokes are elsewhere in the yard.

I know it is crazy, but we like it.

Most we started by seed.

[asdjrocky]

4. Wow, the garden looks great.

I've given in to mine being an urban farm, seeing as how I'm right smack dab in the middle of the city. This is my first time growing anything and I just love it. We have a long growing season out here in Ca and I actually got started a little late, but I now starting to reap the benefits.

I love your tomato jungle.

[ClayZ]

7. We are addicted.

Our house is a mess, the laundry in a pile.... And we made 2 more beds today. Plus a neighbor brought us a bucket full of Mtn. Hemlock trees so we put them in a nursery bed.

I just keep looking at the pepper plants and tomato plants. I think I have baby pumpkins.

This is our first year gardening in a long tim.

I feel like I am back to where I once belonged!

[ClayZ]

8. Our season is short.

I have been drooling over this website. www.pathtofreedom.com

Every time we make a salad from the garden, I feel like we are getting closer to freedom. Our gardens are lit with solar lights so it is like a festival every night out there. Some change colors and it is practically magic.

Your first time growing, smack dab in the middle of the city has proved you have a green thumb!

Yay! Bravo! I am watching my little green tomatoes grow every day. Our youngest granddaughter (4 year old)planted pumpkin seeds and one is "Going to Town"... I can't wait for her to get back and see her handiwork.

[asdjrocky]

9. What a cool site!

It's exactly what I've been thinking about. Thanks so much for passing this along. Oh yeah, and here's a couple of my favorite garden pics.


Corn as high as the sky.


The long view. This was taken about a month ago, the "farm" has gone even more wild since then.

[ClayZ]

10. You have a slice of heaven!

I find myself sitting in the garden way too much, and just watching things grow. Tiny pumpkins today.

We gathered some sweet pea seeds at our family cabin that my husband's mother planted there 30 years ago. I watched the first one bloom today in a pot at our garden's edge. It is like getting a post card from her. She has been gone some 10 years now.

I have not been this relaxed since before bu$h was selected. I owe my new state of mind to the garden.

YAY for us gardeners!

PS... Your corn puts my corn to shame. I think I will print that picture and go out and pin it up by my corn to show them that is what they are supposed to do. :-)

[Blue Gardener]

11. What are the blue flowers in the first picture?

I love the color!

[ClayZ]

12. Bachelor Buttons

They are taller than I thought they would be. EASY to grow. We had to put a little bamboo fence behind them so they would not all blow over. They last a long time in a vase, too! We snipped a few.

[hippywife]

5. You should be very proud!

Congratulations! :hug:

[asdjrocky]

6. Thanks!

Just had hamburgers with fresh red tomatoes and some fried greenies as well. Yum.

[Gato Moteado]

13. nice job!

nt

[NEOhiodemocrat]

14. First big tomato in BLT's

that is our family tradition! I already have the bacon bought, just waiting for the tomato to get ripe! Your produce looks yummy. So far we have just had cucumbers, peas, and lettuce. I got my garden in late this year...rain and high school graduation intervened. But it is starting to look good.