What are You Eating from the Garden?

[Rhodie Ranch]

What am I NO LONGER eating from the garden? Tomatoes. Some four legged critters came through last nite and stripped all the leaves and the few tomatoes left. Also nibbled on some hanging baskets that I got down to be able to catch some of the rain we suddenly had.....

 

[AMKuska]

Making a vegetarian chili tonight featuring my tomatoes and corn. Really looking forward to it.

 

[ducks4you]

What am I NO LONGER eating from the garden? Tomatoes. Some four legged critters came through last nite and stripped all the leaves and the few tomatoes left. Also nibbled on some hanging baskets that I got down to be able to catch some of the rain we suddenly had.....

 

[flowerbug]

onion soup... all week! it is really onion mushroom soup... still good.

yesterday for a snack i had crackers, swiss cheese and leftover tartar sauce. i really liked that so will probably finish off the tartar sauce today with the soup. i don't really like swiss cheese melted in or on top of my soup. i think it has more flavor when it is colder.

oh, and i finally remembered to pull a pint of roasted red peppers out of the freezer so i can eat some of them up.

and discovered i had five more pints of strawberry freezer jam in there - i only thought i had one pint left. this is a major score of goodness as i was wondering how i was going to ration my last pint of jam until next summer. now i can probably squeak by.

 

[ninnymary]

Eating tomatoes and apples.

Mary

 

[flowerbug]

i think we could live off lima bean shellies... yesterday Mom picked through the lima bean row and a half and got the dry pods and any green pods that were plumped up enough to have some seeds in them. i shelled out all the greenies last night and part way through when i had enough for us to have them for dinner i cooked those up. then we ate those and she watched tv while i sat there and shelled the rest of them. almost two more quarts worth. i cooked up another round because she wanted me to put a pint of the cooked ones in the freezer for using in soup this winter. the other cooked ones will get eaten today and then the quart of shellies i didn't cook yet are in the fridge and we'll have them Monday and Tuesday.

it is one of the main reasons we garden. lima beans and lima shellies... now i gotta get back to shelling so i have places to put more beans as they come in later today.

 

[digitS']

I tried to grow lima beans many years ago and they failed. Are there early varieties?

Had split pea soup for lunch. Little excuse for having it out of a can . Lentils are more common in this household but nearly everything like this almost always comes from the store.

Almost no soybean varieties do well here for edamame enjoyment. And when Zeedman helped me find one that did, in a different garden, it barely produced anything in a new location.

I have to be more committed to Rattlesnake beans - very tasty and dual-purpose! They were so-easy for a good number of years ... Tractor guy managed to allow plenty of volunteers and I only had to transplant a dozen or so to where I wanted them. This year, One Plant! It has its own pole and the seed is maturing well - for next year's crop.

Steve

 

[Cosmo spring garden]

I tried to grow lima beans many years ago and they failed. Are there early varieties?

Had split pea soup for lunch. Little excuse for having it out of a can . Lentils are more common in this household but nearly everything like this almost always comes from the store.

Almost no soybean varieties do well here for edamame enjoyment. And when Zeedman helped me find one that did, in a different garden, it barely produced anything in a new location.

I have to be more committed to Rattlesnake beans - very tasty and dual-purpose! They were so-easy for a good number of years ... Tractor guy managed to allow plenty of volunteers and I only had to transplant a dozen or so to where I wanted them. This year, One Plant! It has its own pole and the seed is maturing well - for next year's crop.

Steve

Do rattlesnake beans attract bean beetles like soybeans and green beans do? Even scarlet runner beans were damaged badly by the beetles.

 

[digitS']

@Cosmo spring garden , that might be a good question for @hoodat .

I know that he grew those beans. And, he must have lived in a location with those beetles. As far as I know - they aren't in my garden. A southern pest ...

I find beans to be easy plants to grow. I'm certain that the older plants that I have now have spider mites but, this year at least, they are toughing it out.

Once, my bean plants had something I guessed was "curly top," a viral infection.

Bugs? You know, the worst of them is Bugs Bunny. I have had rascally rabbits wipe out an entire planting of bean seedlings!

Steve

 

[Trish Stretton]

I love Lima beans too but they didnt seem to like it here. I dont know if I tried to sow them too early or our summer is too short, but i never managed to get a decent crop of them....so I have to eat canned(in a tin) ones too