First pickings in my garden

MAYNARDSMOM

MAYNARDSMOM

Cathlete
We got our first "harvest" from our garden yesterday...spinach. This is the first yr we have planted spinach, it did well. We got quite a bit. Thinking I wil plant another round of seeds on those since you only get one picking.

Anyone else getting produce yet from their garden? I'm n New York so it may be a few more weeks before we see anything else come in.
 
We picked some stringbeans ("snaps" as we call them down here!). Not many, just enough for a large Niçoise Salad. Looks like the jalapeños will be the next. But, I can't WAIT for the tomatoes! We have dozens of fruit on the plants, but they're still green.

Congrats on the spinach! I want to try greens, too. Spinach, romaine, mustard, arugula...yum!!!!
 
I'm in VT and we've been picking lots of salad greens, spinach, radishes and kale. My beans have finally started poking up out of the ground...they're always so reluctant for me...I don't know why.

I had to replant 2/3 of my tomato plants last week due to late frosts...grrrrr. :mad: Those babies need some sunshine.
 
I'm on Long Island and so far I have harvested lettuce (green, red), arugula, spinach and radishes. Kale is next and I see some beans (pole and snow peas) coming. I can't wait! I love eating out of the garden all summer. With this cold and rainy spring, I have had a problem with cucumbers and squash sprouting however. They don't seem to want to come out.

Laura
 
We did arugala last year & I'm not so sure I cared for it. Had a funny taste to it...we don't put any pesticides on anything so maybe that's just the way it is.
Also am having a hard time w/peas. We have some pods on the plant but the peas insdie didn't get very big last year & don't seem to be doing any better this year. Any advice on those?
 
This is the first time we've ever attempted a garden and we planted *everything*. We ate cilantro from it for the first time yesterday (though we have snacked on a spinach leaf here and there -- it's almost ready). Can't wait to get more. We have lots of different beans, peas, corn tomatoes, cucumber, black eyed peas, peanuts, lots of different squash, watermelon and other melons, potatoes, artichoke, rubarb. Hmmm, what have I left out? Lettuce, other herbs, peppers, onions, shallots, garlic, ginger....... like I said, pretty much everything! We're going to plant some shiso, which I forgot about it. Does anyone know it? I love it and it's so hard to find.

-Beth
 
Don't know about shiso but we also do herbs. I just love growing my own! What's left over at the end I dry & use thru the winter.
 
bitmover said:
This is the first time we've ever attempted a garden and we planted *everything*. We ate cilantro from it for the first time yesterday (though we have snacked on a spinach leaf here and there -- it's almost ready). Can't wait to get more. We have lots of different beans, peas, corn tomatoes, cucumber, black eyed peas, peanuts, lots of different squash, watermelon and other melons, potatoes, artichoke, rubarb. Hmmm, what have I left out? Lettuce, other herbs, peppers, onions, shallots, garlic, ginger....... like I said, pretty much everything! We're going to plant some shiso, which I forgot about it. Does anyone know it? I love it and it's so hard to find.

-Beth
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I planted shiso. I'll go see if I still have seeds, and where I bought them. For some reason I think I got them through Territorial Seed.

-----I orderded Shiso from Johnny's Selected Seeds.
 
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We have many strawberries. For my DD's birthday party in April we had a table set up for her guests to decorate their own pots and plant a strawberry plant. We ended up with leftover strawberry plants and planted them in our yard so we have a mini strawberry plantation now :eek: Although our Chihuahua keeps eating the strawberries when we are not looking :D
 
HaveFun said:
We have many strawberries. For my DD's birthday party in April we had a table set up for her guests to decorate their own pots and plant a strawberry plant. We ended up with leftover strawberry plants and planted them in our yard so we have a mini strawberry plantation now :eek: Although our Chihuahua keeps eating the strawberries when we are not looking :D
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I would love to have some strawberries! We do have a patch 3 miles from our house though. Went last night & picked 3 quarts -MMMMmmmmm the taste so good!
 
I've had some herbs (borage, lovage, salad burnet--those are my three new ones--and also parsley, sage, basil, cilantro). I've been getting a handful (small to large) of black raspberries daily for about a week (my very first garden pickings were 3 strawberries early in the season, but after that, 'someone' else found the patch and I haven't gotten any!) I just picked my first cucumber today.

This year, I planted herbs, cucumbers, zucchini (new for me), broccoli (new--some of the plants have one cute little bunch on), kale (somebody ate it down!), tomatoes, peppers and onions (the latter as deterents for "somebodies").
 
I love cilantro, which I also had planted with basil. Only wish is that I could keep my cilantro from bolting too soon so I could get more use out of it.
 
I picked some arugla for the salad we had for dinner the other day. Still waiting on tomatoes, zucchini and corn.
 
I'm just jealous, jealous, jealous that you can grow your own veggies! I don't have the room or the lighting for one right now! Sigh . . .

I have to depend on the farmer's markets.

Tricia
 
We have been picking peas for a while now and boy are they yummy! I don't even bother pulling out the peas, just eat the pod and all :p Lettuce and basil and I have one pretty big Walla Walla onion that is almost ready!!! I have some green Early Girl tomatoes too! Oh that is what I'm waiting for -- the tomatoes!
 
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