Re: What are you eating from your garden today?

**trolleydriver** 5/31/2016, 8:50 pm

Mrs TD harvested some of our rhubarb today and made a delicious pie. Yum!

**Scorpio Rising** 5/31/2016, 9:36 pm

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie one of my all time faves! Yum!

BeetlesPerSqFt 5/31/2016, 10:09 pm

Today I harvested a head of escarole and cooked it up with onion, white beans, and a locally made 'old world' sausage, served over pasta, and sprinkled with Parmesan cheese. Delicious! The escarole was so much nicer than the beat up heads at the grocery store. sunny

CitizenKate 5/31/2016, 11:50 pm

That does sound delicious.

herblover 6/1/2016, 9:51 am

Since I have now achieved salad green independence; lots of greens! Also have been harvesting the first radishes.

**trolleydriver** 6/1/2016, 10:11 am

I plan on eating a radish from my SFG today.

**trolleydriver** 6/1/2016, 12:04 pm

trolleydriver wrote:I plan on eating a radish from my SFG today.

I did it. I ate a radish.
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**trolleydriver** 6/1/2016, 1:28 pm

And then we had some chopped multiplier onion stems, chives and chive flowers with our lunch.

It's happening. The SFG is starting to produce.

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CapeCoddess 6/1/2016, 1:38 pm

Oh cuteness!
cheers

countrynaturals 6/1/2016, 2:47 pm

I LOVE IT! LOLROFL! cheers

**Scorpio Rising** 6/1/2016, 7:19 pm

that first veggie....usually a radish! I love them okay

love love love love the idea

**Scorpio Rising** 6/1/2016, 8:57 pm

Tokyo Cross Turnip. Just Do It.

THE BOMB. cherry

Went out there to see if I needed to water (not yet) and saw that the turnips are gettin' there. Pulled one...glossy, white, amazing. Took a whole Black Seeded Simpson out getting ready to bolt and made supper. The turnip was so juicy and mild the likes of which I have never experienced in my life. I ate it outright before it could even get in my salad!

Makes me sad I will have to wait until August to put my next batch of these amazing things in the garden! WOW. So tender...sorry, now I am going on.

Salad was yummo, BSS, strawberries, pickled beets from my sister, and poppyseed dressing! Dog was drooling.... albino

p14shooter 6/1/2016, 9:37 pm

I am not eating what I thought I would be by now. I to ate all the radish available to me today. The rest are at least a week away, and the greens are slowly coming. I could cut some beet greens but think I will wait for the actual beet.

**Scorpio Rising** 6/1/2016, 10:09 pm

p14shooter wrote:I am not eating what I thought I would be by now. I to ate all the radish available to me today. The rest are at least a week away, and the greens are slowly coming. I could cut some beet greens but think I will wait for the actual beet.

Cold Spring here, too, P14! I did cut away on spinach and chard for a while until the lettuce took off.....it is a comin'

CitizenKate 6/1/2016, 10:16 pm

I'm getting a lot of kale from my garden at the moment, and have been steaming it a lot, and adding a some to my morning potatoes o'brien. Delicious both ways. The other day I took a pile of it and tried sanderson's suggestion of sauteing it with a little salt and pepper (and I also added a little turmeric). Served it with a couple of fried eggs...

Oh. Wow. I have a new morning favorite. I like it almost as much as spinach, but you sure get a lot more of it from one plant, and mine are still producing like crazy, whereas the spinach was done two or three weeks ago.

**Scorpio Rising** 6/1/2016, 10:28 pm

CitizenKate wrote:I'm getting a lot of kale from my garden at the moment, and have been steaming it a lot, and adding a some to my morning potatoes o'brien. Delicious both ways. The other day I took a pile of it and tried sanderson's suggestion of sauteing it with a little salt and pepper (and I also added a little turmeric). Served it with a couple of fried eggs...

Oh. Wow. I have a new morning favorite. I like it almost as much as spinach, but you sure get a lot more of it from one plant, and mine are still producing like crazy, whereas the spinach was done two or three weeks ago.

Ooo, sounds yummy, Kate! drooling

My kale is going strong too, spinach long gone. Bolted early. Will the kale bolt too? I have never grown it. It is so much milder and tastier than the grocery kind it is almost a different beast.

CitizenKate 6/1/2016, 10:43 pm

Scorpio Rising wrote:
My kale is going strong too, spinach long gone. Bolted early. Will the kale bolt too? I have never grown it. It is so much milder and tastier than the grocery kind it is almost a different beast.

Yes, I remember when you mentioned that about your spinach a while back. Sounds like the spring you had in Ohio this year may have been a little too rough for them. I knew mine were done when new sprouts were bolting right after the first pair of true leaves. But the first 3 rounds of it that I planted had a good, long run this year. My best year for spinach so far. I've left some of the bolted plants in the beds to produce some seed for next year. I was surprised how tall those spinach stalks can get - they're almost 3 feet high now.

I have no idea what to expect from the kale in its late season. This is the first year I've grown it. But at this point, I still see lots of tender new leaves exploding out of them. No wonder it's becoming such a popular crop. I have been quite impressed with it from day one.

**Scorpio Rising** 6/1/2016, 11:10 pm

Yes. Kate, it was just the weirdest! The spinach literally went from dormant to bolting in 2 weeks. There were 2 sets of true leaves and then to flowers....what is that? And it was early! Really early....

Smart for getting some seed! sunny

Kale, wow, so different than anything commercially available! I guess you could say that about anything we are growing? It is so yummy? LOL, that is why we are growing that particular variety! Doesn't ship well, doesn't store well...yeah, that is because it ROCKS rock on

Yesssss....glad you are liking it too!

Ok, forced to be serious now. What a Face

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countrynaturals 6/2/2016, 12:10 am

Basil. Gotta blanch it and freeze it, now. I've never done that before but I'm sure it won't be this pretty after that.
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reynajrainwater 6/2/2016, 12:12 am

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Fresh corn. Yay!

countrynaturals 6/2/2016, 12:31 am

Beautiful, Reyn. We love fresh corn, and grew it when we had a well, but now we're on city water, so we can't afford to grow it anymore. Rolling Eyes

**Scorpio Rising** 6/2/2016, 7:40 am

Everything looks wonderful, so pretty!

FeedMeSeeMore 6/2/2016, 8:53 am

BeetlesPerSqFt wrote:Today I harvested a head of escarole and cooked it up with onion, white beans, and a locally made 'old world' sausage, served over pasta, and sprinkled with Parmesan cheese. Delicious! The escarole was so much nicer than the beat up heads at the grocery store.

Sounds like my kind of cooking. I make a very similar "soup/stew" recipe and it's a delicious way to eat those healthy greens. I use garlic, too. We love garlic. Works with kale too. I have an over abundance of kale to use up.

CitizenKate 6/2/2016, 9:30 am

trolleydriver wrote:
I did it. I ate a radish.

trolleydriver wrote:And then we had some chopped multiplier onion stems, chives and chive flowers with our lunch.

It's happening. The SFG is starting to produce.

herblover 6/2/2016, 11:36 am

Kale will keep producing up to and even after light frosts; gets even sweeter then. I usually do a late summer planting since the early ones do start fading after the summer heat.

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