What are we eating?

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Permalink Reply by ilex on July 1, 2008 at 4:55pm

I've been finishing off the last of my lettuce, using a variation of your wilted lettuce recipe, Penelope. It is SO good- especially if I snip off a few small sprigs of lemon thyme to mix in with it.

I've also been eating mixed greens with herbs (or without herbs- depends) every day- usually, quickly tossed over medium heat with olive oil, and dash of plum vinegar, and salt. I eat it with some variation of roasted beans, and a grain. I'm on a big quinoa kick right now.

What I'm ALMOST eating-- The tomatoes are coming! I have about 100 little green marbles of various shapes and sizes. I should have red edible fruit by mid-July. And, my 8 stalks of sweet corn are over 6 feet tall, and have big, beautiful tassels. Gorgeous.

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Permalink Reply by Penelope on July 1, 2008 at 5:34pm

Looking over all the new photos on the Main page is humbling. Whose photo is all those lovely radishes? I got a few from three different plantings, but only about every 10th plant produced a bulb. what am I doing wrong? Is it variety? Temperatures? Sunlight? nutrition? We have extreme temperatures here -- it's cold and then suddenly it's hot overnight. Nothing gradual about it.

I've noticed onion tops are starting to fall over while the "bulbs" are not much bigger than when I planted them. I'm eating those first, of course.

My lettuce is still good, much more than I can eat. I can detect a bit of bitter in it like the hot weather is making it turn. My wilted lettuce this evening may be my last. I put several leaves on a burger for lunch.

Successes include Tom thumb peas I planted in a pot with petunias. I ate a handful for breakfast. My snowpeas, also planted in a pot with a trellis, aren't producing very well. Usually I get more than I can keep up with eating fresh. Not so this year and the plants look a bit peaked (pronounced as two syllables).

I've eaten 3 turnips so far. Carrots are still tiny, but look really healthy. I'm eating the tiny thinnings raw as I pull them. Will I get basil? my replantings are growing, but very slowly.

I can't decide if these comments come under this heading or lamentations?

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Permalink Reply by Cielce on July 2, 2008 at 8:19am

I'm in the same boat as Nicole, here in ontario the growing season is just getting into the swing of things. So far I've been eating my spinach, a few mixed greens, I've been thining & eating onions, I've picked one meal of snow peas, and one kolrabi looks like it's going to be dinner tonight. But it looks like lots is in progress, my early tomatoes are blooming, the cucumber plants are blooming as well, carrots and parsnips both have good green tops that I hope will grow into strong roots. I just keep planting spinach & greens till all the rest matures in it's own time!

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Permalink Reply by Shannon on July 2, 2008 at 12:37pm

Tomato sandwiches every day!!! Cucumbers, fillet beans, yellow wax beans, japanese and italian eggplant, raspberries, blueberries, summer squash, leeks, onions, shallots, potatoes, chard, and even some beets, turnips and carrots left over from spring. It's been a good year so far.

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Permalink Reply by Lakeecha Murrell on July 2, 2008 at 6:32pm

How many yellow wax bean do you get at one time? and what are you doing with it? I am growing i have right now 3 that need to come off i am debating what to do with it.

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Permalink Reply by Penelope on July 2, 2008 at 7:03pm

With only 3 beans, I guess you could add them to other vegetables in a stirfry or soup. OR just eat them raw as a snack. You can also add them to a salad raw or lightly steamed --

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Permalink Reply by Kyle Gassman on July 2, 2008 at 8:06pm

Leaf lettuce went well, much used and shared with friends and family, spinach is done, we've frozen the last picking. Lately we've been eating peas! And the basil is being used regularly. And we've frozen the beginnings of pesto for later. Thyme, oregano, parsley, are all doing well. We have even used the herbs in some fresh pasta! And the tomatoes are forming the green orbs that we all are looking for. Time to make up a big batch of compost tea and show them all some love.

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Permalink Reply by Maya on July 3, 2008 at 7:31am

Thanks for the feeding reminder, Kyle. Much as we talk about our springtime plant struggles, it's when they're starting to give us their all that we need to give them a boost.

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Permalink Reply by Bob Geary on July 4, 2008 at 3:00pm

We've been lucky, the lettuce hasn't bolted yet, harvesting everyday. Parsley has gone to seed and we've put in basil and new parsley plants. We've been harvesting strawberries for a couple of week, froze some, made jam. and eating all we want. I picked the first raspberries this morning..ate them wet with dew..delicious! We need some sun and heat here in the Berkshires, everything seems to be late in developing. Beans are just budding and the tomatoes are tiny. Kale and cabbages are coming along, but slow.

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