What are you eating out of your garden?

I had my first garden salad tonight. Romaine from my neighbors yard, tiny Bulls Blood Beet greens, garlic "leaves", chives, a tiny scallion, a pinch of fresh oregano and fresh tarragon and some baby Bright Lights Chard. I can hardly wait for tomatoes!

The strawberries are about done, one cherry that the birds didn't get, broccoli, kohlrabi and pac choi.
Andy P

Sugar snap peas, basil, everbearing strawberries, two blueberries and one raspberry. Lettuce. The zucchini are coming the peppers are coming. The tomatoes will never get here it seems. Candis

Just lettuce and swiss chard for me. I was slow getting it started.

Dave, I'm with you- I left the maters in their pots because I was afraid they would drown. I usually plant snap peas and beans, but didn't get my seeds in due to health reasons. I have cukes that aren't ready yet, blueberries, lettuce, radish and strawberries ( I put them on top of my stone wall this year because they were eroding down the hill, and now they seem to be in a prime nesting location for some hungry chipmunks! Why do they only take one bite of each strawberry!!??

I harvested my first zucchini last week and grilled them on Sunday. Tomatoes, peppers, and squash are coming soon.

Buttercrunch and black seeded simpson leaf lettuce, beets, swiss chard, newzealand spinach, and one small picking of summer squash.

I had my very first blackberry tonight. It was a little tart but it was SO yummy.

I am starting to pick Blackberries, too. Yummy.
I had my first tomato last week, now I see more coming.
Andy P

Gave my first Bull's Blood Beet to my neighbor for his dinner last night. Ate my first zucchini from my neighbor's garden - raw - try it. Had my first blueberry - but it wasn't very good - guess I should have waited. Sarahskeeper - I am SOOOOO jealous that you have ripe tomatoes. The only ones I have with color are sauce tomatoes and not that good to eat out of hand. Sigh.

Had new potatoes and green beans for the 1st time last night. Have had cukes and trying to be patient for the tomatoes! Have made one batch of pesto, I didn't get basil in very early.

I've had cherry tomatoes, bambino eggplant and zucchini

Yankee, You should plant Berpee's "4th of July" tomatoes. Better taste than Early Girl and 10 days earlier. Non-stop producer, too.
I just gave my new neighbor a potted one, with almost ripe ones on it.
Andy P

We just ate all of my lettuce, since I only grew two potfuls {large 16" pots} and the plants began to bolt in the recent heat and all of the 4th picking of my raspberries, which were delicious every one! I don't grow too much in the way of veggies. My thyme, dill and basil are also online and have been used several times up to now. My neighbor built himself a raised bed of olympic proportions and put in 30 tomato plants of various types. I expect to get some of those.
Martha

Had sauteed Swiss Chard tonight and got some pretty good blackberries away from two gray birds that were very impatient with me interrupting their dinner.

Sarahskeeper: I will try 4th of July tomatoes next year.

I have a lettuce that was almost the only thing I planted early and it is still not bolting. I'll pass along the name after I look it up.

I looked it up in the garden terms and botanary... what's bolting?

Yankee, Here are some 4th of July that I had in pots (left over seedlings) that I planted yesterday, I couldn't through them away.
I'm not staking these, I will let them grow on over turned trays. A test.
Pic taken today.
Andy P

Those are beauts Andy! What do you do with your tomatoes?

Anita, mostly I eat them, lol.
Make chili and chicken cacciatore for the freezer. I give lots of them away, too.
I don't can or dry them.
Andy P

OK - Andy - now I'm really, really jealous. I got one green sauce tomato today - it fell off and I froze it to make green tomato relish this Fall. None of the round tomatoes are anywhere near green. I went by the farmer's market in Trumbull last night and bought myself two, red "homegrown" tomatoes to hold me over.

Bolting is when your greens send up stalks to flower, or when it flowers. Is that just a CT term

Hey - we call it "bolting" in CA, too.

Summer squash (crooked neck) , bluegerries, blackberries, salad mix lettuce, and 1 cherry tomato!

Big, fat blackberries!

No tomatoes yet, lettuce bolted, blueberries getting eaten by squirrels, had a teeny nice black eggplant, but repotted and stupidly left on the deck in the sun. squirrel ate it.

Beans, cukes, radishes doing well.

It's called "bolting" because it happens so quickly. the heat goes up and the lettuce "bolts" or throws a flower stalk and goes to seed. We had nearly a week of 90-100 degree temps and my lettuce was doing great until then. The lettuce gets bitter when it puts up the flower stalk. That's why I picked all of mine off and we had it for dinner the other night. I knew I was about to lose the plants to seed making.

Martha

Checked my records. The lettuce is green great raipds Simpson elite. I bought the seed from Johny's. It is still not showing a sign of bolting! Never had lettuce like this.

Great info Dave! That lettuce goes on the top of my list for next year, or maybe even a fall planting.

Dave ~ It's good lettuce cause it comes from Maine! LOL J/K But Johnny's Seeds is about 15 miles from me and I have never bought anything "bad" from them. Northern Hardy is a must for me and they have it!

A single fig from my fig tree that lives in my kitchen.

Pixie, That's cool. Is it worth visiting? I like Johny's, Select Seeds, and Territorial.

Thanks - I had never heard of the term before.

Last night: Grape tomatoes mmmmmmmmmm.

Tonight: finally, cucumbers!!

Blueberries

Dave, yes...Johnny's is worth visting, in the spring the entire side of the building is blooming w/spring bulbs. Tulips everywhere!!!!!

Tristar strawberries from the new bed I planted this April.
I removed all the buds in Spring to let them get established and set runners. Now they are thanking me with a few berries. Lots of flowers too, so I should have them for a while.
Andy P

Strawbs, checked the blueberries on the riper bush, but they were all gone... and I think we will have cucumbers tonight and Brandywines tomorrow! Woohoo!

Can't find the paths to walk in my garden any more.