Re: What are you eating from your garden today?

GWN 5/14/2014, 9:35 am

Stewed rhubarb..... spinach.
And casseroles with asparagus and freshly picked MORELS.... yum......

CC that is SOOO funny ATE HIS HOME>>>

Marc Iverson 5/14/2014, 5:44 pm

From my garden, red roma lettuce leaves and lamb's lettuce. From the school garden I volunteer at, strawberries and swiss chard.

CapeCoddess 5/21/2014, 11:42 am

yummy Grand Rapids lettuce, Breakfast radishes and their greens are heading into my salad for lunch today. What are you eating from your garden today? - Page 23 Img_2078

What are you eating from your garden today? - Page 23 Img_2078

That and a collard greens and mixed berry smoothie!

Life is good!
CC

**donnainzone5** 5/21/2014, 12:11 pm

Six steamed asparagus spears with dinner last night.l

**walshevak** 5/21/2014, 2:33 pm

3 kinds of lettuce, spinach, bok choy (bolting) chinese cabbage, radishes, red cabbage leaves (it hasn't headed), broccoli, and strawberries. Mustard greens and kale are almost ready.

Kay

NAR56 5/21/2014, 5:10 pm

Here is a picture of our first harvest.

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plantoid 5/21/2014, 5:41 pm

All the dried herbs in my home made pork sausage meat balls with home grown thick slightly spicy tomato sauce as in a meat balls & spaghetti meal .
IE
A three fingered pinch of fine rubbed sage ( Nov 2014) , thyme Aug 2014 and one of dried rubbed fine celery leaves ( May 2014 )

Marc Iverson 5/21/2014, 6:40 pm

Just lettuce. My stuff sown last fall and winter either died (spinach, kale), is too stunted to be worth anything (kale), bolted right away (kale again!), or is just sitting there with its big fat face hanging out, doing nothing (brussels sprouts).

Hooray for lettuce! Particularly the red roma. It's been doing so well even in cold nights and very hot (95 degrees!) days.

CapeCoddess 5/21/2014, 7:24 pm

Marc Iverson wrote:... or is just sitting there with its big fat face hanging out, doing nothing (brussels sprouts).

Man, that's so funny I'm still laffing!

southern gardener 5/21/2014, 8:38 pm

donnainzone10 wrote:Six steamed asparagus spears with dinner last night.l

any pics of your asparagus?? I'm so curious about this stuff!! Hubby just ate a salad with 5 kinds of lettuces, spinach and carrots. I ate a watermelon radish, and MAN, was that sucker HOT!!! cherry

**donnainzone5** 5/21/2014, 8:59 pm

No, I didn't take pictures. Last year, I planted second-year Jersey Knight crowns.

Although there were three or four big enough to harvest and eat, I decided to wait.

So far THIS year, some of my spears have suffered from frost damage; I now know that spears, unlike crowns, are frost-sensitive.

I currently have one or two breaking ground. If they're of sufficient diameter, I'll harvest and eat them. By next year, though, I should have a bounty of asparagus! Perhaps, though, I should plant a couple more squares....

**kauairosina** 5/21/2014, 10:08 pm

almost the last of the Royal Burgundy and Provider green beans and Kobocha squash, 1/2 inch slices brushed with coconut oil, kosher salt and pepper and baked. The Kobocha is a volunteer and tasty!!

We have been picking a lot of lettuce - romaine, red curly something or other, green curly, and lovely endive.

Marc Iverson 5/22/2014, 12:32 am

Had some swiss chard from the school garden today. Man was that bitter!

**walshevak** 5/22/2014, 3:55 pm

I got one snap pea (more coming) and one blueberry this morning. The blueberry bushes had berries on them when I bought and planted 2 weeks ago. I expect the birds to get them this year, but NEXT YEAR they are MINE.

Kay

TxGramma 5/22/2014, 6:09 pm

plantoid wrote:All the dried herbs in my home made pork sausage meat balls with home grown thick slightly spicy tomato sauce as in a meat balls & spaghetti meal .
IE
A three fingered pinch of fine rubbed sage ( Nov 2014) , thyme Aug 2014 and one of dried rubbed fine celery leaves ( May 2014 )

That sounds good! But I have to say Plantoid that you are amazing...please share your secret! I need to know how you managed to eat herbs that aren't even grown yet thinking

cause I would love to have some of my tomatoes bounce

can't wait for the first ripe one of the season.

Marc Iverson 5/22/2014, 6:18 pm

Two of my elephant garlics -- the two biggest -- bolted and sent up seed stalks. I snapped them off and took a nibble at the bottom end -- well I'll be darned, they really do taste like garlic. Exactly like it. Mild too, but unmistakeable and good enough to use anywhere I'd use garlic. I suppose I'll chop up the stalks and put them in something tonight. They're strong enough that I couldn't just throw them in a salad.

southern gardener 5/22/2014, 7:36 pm

For dinner! We have the family over on Thursday nights. We will be having fresh turnips carrots beets zucchini and a nice green salad off from the garden. Can't beat that right??

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What are you eating from your garden today? - Page 23 Veggie13

**AtlantaMarie** 5/23/2014, 8:09 am

Kay - a friend suggested putting plastic snakes in our blueberries last year to chase the birds off. You have to move them around every day, but they work! We got 3+ gallons off of 5 bushes. You can get the snakes at Wally-world for $1 or so.

SG - Looks great!

Marc - So what did you do with them?

audrey.jeanne.roberts 5/23/2014, 1:31 pm

Zucchini "pasta" tonight. Harvested 2 onions this morning so I'll have to figure out what to do with one of them. tomatoes, salad and strawberries for dessert!

Marc Iverson 5/23/2014, 4:23 pm

AtlantaMarie wrote:
Marc - So what did you do with them?

I chopped them up, sauteed them in butter, and spread them over thick slices of toasted home-made rosemary bread for a variation on regular garlic bread. Very good, and the green color added nice visual interest.

Ate some more fava beans today. Sampled a green roma lettuce; it has gone bitter, so even though it has been a very nice and strong survivor, I'll pull it and use the space for something else.

FamilyGardening 5/24/2014, 3:41 am

we have been eating lettuce, spinach, green onions, leeks, radishes,

a new tasty treat we found this spring is a red spinach and all though it didn't germinate well for us we were able to get a taste of it and its really good....it has a very mild beet flavor....we really enjoyed the taste and we don't care much for beets..... we hope to get more of it this fall .....it was a great addition to our salads

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happy gardening
rose

Marc Iverson 5/24/2014, 6:46 am

Eh heh! I just bought that very same packet a couple days ago, then realized I wouldn't be planting it for months. I'm just so desperate for anything spinach-like since my spinach has been nothing but fail from last fall.

Looks like a really interesting plant, and like it would make a salad plate especially beautiful. I "cook" and etc. for some very visual people, and that counts for a lot. I look forward to growing some this fall, and hope I can dress up lots of salad bowls with it. Any tips on its preparations?

FamilyGardening 5/24/2014, 9:14 am

Marc we ate it right out of the garden and in our salads.....didn't have enough to try it any other way Very Happy

to me it doesn't taste like spinach but more like a faint mild delicious beet flavor Very Happy

a really nice surprise!

keep me posted on what you think of it and if you have any shaded area you maybe able to grow some now.....we are going to give it a try in the shade Very Happy

happy gardening
rose

**Turan** 5/24/2014, 12:01 pm

We just had our first for the season all garden meal. Orach, chives, asparagus, mint chicken curry on quinoa.

Marc, try planting some of the orach right now, it is an amazingly forgiving plant. True it is one of the first plants to sprout in my garden each spring so it does like cool soil.

brainchasm 5/24/2014, 12:35 pm

I harvested these today! Not sure how many will last until tomorrow...

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