What are you eating from your garden today?

I made beef vegetable soup with leftover prime rib from Christmas—the only thing from my garden in the pot was garlic!  But dang is it good!!!!

The first Rhubarb Pie of the season.



The Rhubarb plants are off to a good start.

Your pie looks delicious!  And your plants look great!

Went out to the Kitchen Garden this morning and cut some Chives to chop up for the scrambled eggs. Great flavoring!

For the first time, I have some chives growing! 

The first bacon wrapped air fryer Jalapeno poppers of the season. Hopefully, many more to come...   

Asparagus!

OhioGardener wrote:This evening we feasted on Sauteed Sugar Snap Peas as a side dish with Teriyaki Chicken.  The freshly picked peas are so tender and sweet! 

My Sugar Snaps never make it inside. Two years ago I had so many that I brought my coffee chair out to the raised bed and had breakfast while I finished my coffee.

Scorpio Rising wrote:

Love to hear it!  This year I am going to try something new - growing potatoes, both white and sweet, in containers using the free 20 gallon cattle lick tubs that I inherited last fall. Can't wait to see how they do in those tubs.

I will be watching to see how this goes, OG.  Potatoes are a space hog in my SFG.

I grow all my potatoes in containers, have been doing this for many years. I usually place 6 in or so of MM in the bottom and place 2 seed potatoes. Add another 6 in of MM and place 2 more potatoes at right angles to the first 2. Potatoes are heavy feeders so I add a generous amount of Bone Meal/Blood Meal plus a generous amount of triple ten fertilizer.

For indeterminate potatoes such as German Butterball, I use a 32 gallon plastic trash can and repeat the same procedure as with the other potatoes with the difference being that as the sprouts break ground I let the sprouts get about 6 in tall and repeat the process. I have had some luck doing this 4 times but have had better luck with 3.

Your production will be down quite a bit, usually 4-5 lb. per container. My garden is not pretty, but is very productive. And it is on the East side of the garage so it is pretty much out of sight. As long as I bring round red pretty tomatoes in, Brenda is happy.

I grow Yukon Gold—indeterminate.  I planted 4 of them in my cold frame.  I love them—my fave potatoes.  I wish I had more room, but I don’t.

Second batch of Bacon Wrapped Jalapeno Poppers for this season - the first batch was made two weeks ago, and they didn't last very long.  These are Jalafuego peppers - a hybrid that is slightly larger and slightly hotter than regular Jalapenos. The Jalafuego name comes from "Jalapeno" and "Fire".   But, they make delicious poppers!

A few strawberries . some perennial kale from last years cuttings the final over wintered carrot  and some manky small garlic pulled yesterday , usually by now they would have been 2.5 to 3 inch dia. bulbs ..most are struggling to get to 1.5 inches yet all the tops have yellowed fallen over & died off .

This year the weather is a good five weeks behind where we have been for the  last five years or more even for things in the glasshouse , slugs are having a field day especially the European Tiger slug which can attain 4 inches or more in length , is cabalistic and devours most seedlings just about to poke their silly heads above the soil .  
 They do not like leek nor salad onions sowings .

My garlic scapes are harvested, and I am eating sugar snap peas from the garden at the moment.  Asparagus is done for this year.  It has been a strange year here, too plantoid.  Thus far, very cool or hot spring.  Now better, but facing a heat wave on its way here in the Midwest.

Have been eating sugar snaps almost every day, and sent a gallon sized baggie full of them, and a bunch of Sora and French breakfast radishes with the kids.  My radishes are very hot, at least the ones I have eaten are….not sure why.

Scorpio Rising wrote:My radishes are very hot, at least the ones I have eaten are….not sure why.

Mine do that after the weather starts getting hot. The early spring ones are very sweet, but as soon as the weather heats up the change from being sweet to being hot.

OhioGardener wrote:

Scorpio Rising wrote:My radishes are very hot, at least the ones I have eaten are….not sure why.

Mine do that after the weather starts getting hot. The early spring ones are very sweet, but as soon as the weather heats up the change from being sweet to being hot.

I wondered about that.  Makes sense.

SMEDLEY BUTLER wrote:Potatoes are heavy feeders so I add a generous amount of Bone Meal/Blood Meal plus a generous amount of triple ten fertilizer.. . . .

If the Mel's Mix is properly made and is amended with more blended compost each growing season, fertilizer is not needed. Not part of SFG.

My last sugar snap peas, and my first 4 Sungold tomatoes!  Here we go!  Baby zucchini forming on the one plant, too…

Last evening we had a most delicious Chef Salad from the garden, with fresh lettuce, spinach, kale, onions, cucumbers, sliced crookneck squash, banana peppers, and yellow pear tomatoes.

The first Baked Eggplant of the season, using fresh Oregano from the herb garden..

I posted the recipe in the Recipe Main Dish forum.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t24138-baked-eggplant#310166

Picked a couple Black Beauty eggplant today, and turned one of them into Air Fryer Eggplant. Dipped the slices in egg batter, coated with cornmeal, and cooked in the air fryer. Delicious!

Served as part of a fak'n bacon, cheese, tomato, and cabbage sandwich.

Just ate my first BLT!  With the tomato (Cherokee Purple) from the garden—so yum!

Another BLT!  So delicious with tomatoes that taste like tomatoes!

Scorpio Rising wrote:...with tomatoes that taste like tomatoes!