What are you eating from your garden today?

Nothing today, as it's too early for anything planted this spring to be ready (high temps today are 46 degrees). I have a few brussels sprouts in the fridge from the last harvest that I'll be preparing tomorrow, and then we're going to play the waiting game.

The kids are eating some of the lettuce they planted. I think they are red sails, romaine, and green leaf.

So far only lettuce red sails, red oak leaf and some spring onions, so good.

I have been eating spinach every few days that I have growing in pots, both in my green house and in pots out in my hoop house, and just loving it.......

Kale from last spring was on my dinner plate tonight. Still have chard from last spring, winter collards, spinach and lettuce.

WOW.... was it frozen, or did it survive from last spring? that is great!

Survivors. Zone 8a, crazy winter, and hoops houses made the perfect storm THIS year. Lettuce seed, collards, and spinach starts were planted 1 week in Nov.

Kay

I guess I have tomatoes from my garden every night..... but they were in the freezer, or jars....
I was amazed when the snow melted and I checked my compost pile, which was frozen, and there is a large leaf of Kale perfectly preserved over the winter.
Spinach is still alive under the snow, it really is amazing. It will be interesting to see what a few days of sun does.
I planted them in the fall.
Mother Nature certainly is..... unpredictable...if she is anything.

My son Vinnie and I harvested the remaining five pounds of yellow potatoes from our potato silos. We are still harvesting sun-chokes from last years crop out of the raised bed behind the garage. A friend of mine mentioned that the can become invasive and from what I have harvested during the past six months, she is correct.
We are having a spectacular patch of great summer weather in Rolling Meadow. It has been in the eighties all week.
Unfortunately it's March and I am still cautious since the temperatures are usually in the forties.

As I begin to plant, I am keeping the garden blankets at hand. (Just in case).

awww....i just read thru the whole thread....what fun!!

it makes all the waiting worth it.....the harvesting ...... it was so fun to share last year.....i can not believe its been a whole year already....im really looking forward to all the pic's, excitment, reciepes and fun stories that come with harvesting from our own gardens this year!!

our collard green survived the winter and he is gorgious spinach made it too!.....my son is already pulling up carrots that we over wintered but...they are tiny.....he said.....well they still taste yummy

we had the last of our cauliflower that we had frozen tonight for dinner

hugs

rose who is looking forward to canning a lot more salsa and tomato sauce this year!

Lavender Debs, can you get broccoli, cabbage and kale to grow. If so, you should be able to get collards to grow. What variety did you try. My favorite is Vates non heading which I do as cut and come again.

Funny thing, collards are listed as a cool weather crop, but here in HOT NC we grow them all summer. First crop is set out just shortly before the last frost and allowed to grow all summer. These are not as tasty as the fall/winter collards but sure beat having no greens at all. Usually have to put hot pepper vinegar on these. The fall/winter crop can be direct seeded in late Aug, but I prefer to either start seeds in pots or buy starts in late Sep. Let them grow until a hard freeze turns them to mush. The best taste is after a light frost or two. Chances are your summer collards are still producing until the first frost. I have had some summer collards go all winter as thick stalks and then leaf out and bolt the following spring. Cabbage worms are the evil nemesis.

Kay

I'm still eating last years garlic and frozen peas and beans and canned tomato juice and... nothing fresh yet.

I was hanging out in the yard today reading, when I noticed that the pot of scallions I'd planted a couple years ago had some new, fresh scallions in it. I couldn't stand it - I picked some and made a nice Thai chicken stir-fry tonight.

The scallions were planted about two years ago (pre-SFG for me - just in a pot of regular old potting soil). I got lazy that year I planted them in the pot and never removed all of them or moved the pot to my shed for the winter. Last year in the spring, I noticed they came back up, so this past fall I left them out again.

I know we've had this argument discussion here before about what scallions actually are! In my case, I mean green onions that never really bulb and are (apparently) perennial.

we had stir fry tonight with frozen green beans from last year harvest...... 2 bags left

we had to give our green onion baby seedlings a hair cut so they could still fit under the lights and thru them in the stir fry ....it was yummy!

hugs

rose who is amazed her family was able to eat something fresh from the garden before it made it out to the garden LOL

Not quite ready to pick my micro greens but I found a caterpillar had been munching. How rude, eating my veggies before I do!

Couldn't wait any longer so I picked some of the micro greens for dinner. First ever harvest from my SFG!

Congrats!

We had French Fingerling potatoes with dill, both of which came from the 2011 garden. I'm going to be trimming leek and onion starts today, as well as checking on some overwintered garlic that is growing in absolutely the WRONG place (think middle of a walkway) and if it's useable I'll be digging that up to use.
You might be asking just HOW garlic found its way into the middle of a walkway. Wellllllll..... a couple of years ago, we rebuilt the raised beds and reconfigured the layout. I pulled garlic and dug up some that was still encased in soil. The ones that were still in soil got placed "out of the way", but not into another bed. Now that the garden has grown, the "out of the way" place is now IN the way!

Sugar snap peas, kohlrabi, carrots and onions! It's stir fry today(nothing quite like some leftover rice to make you harvest)!

had stir fry tonight with frozen green beans

Last year I made dilly beans with most of my green beans, only froze a few bags.
I guess because my only experience with frozen green beans were the horrible ones my mom used to buy from the store.
Next year I am going to freeze MUCH more in the green bean dept, and less in the dilly beans
WE just do not eat as many pickles as I pickled.

I had French tarragon in my scrambled eggs this morning: had forgotten to mulch it (and its in a dinky little pot), so I'm rather happy that it popped back up. Unfortunately, that's the only thing that's edible at this point... what with just putting in the boxes for the first time this afternoon.

I'm so excited to not have a dozen 3-5 gal pots scattered across my balcony for a change!

Saturday over wintered fine chopped parsley & a couple of onion green stems in egg & mayo on closed sandwiches .

Sunday ... Thyme from the garden on roast chicken with roast spuds & parsnip , kale out the garden served with a knife and fork gravy.

Today nothing out the garden

Tomorrow purple sprouting broccoli from the garden with black peppered mashed swede, grilled Lincolnshire sausages & potatoes .

Wednesday will most likely be the cold chicken , a bit of parsley & various chopped up salad veg in wraps .

Thursday the last of the dwarf curly kale with some frozen mint leaves last years out the garden on potatoes and liver & onions

Plantoid...what's a "knife and fork gravy?" So thick you have to...?

Today...lettuces and micro greens (AKA over seeded sprouts)!

We have been eating spinach- and different types of lettuce for 3 weeks.