What are you growing and cooking?

[DeniseM]

I was out of town for a week and my garden went crazy! Yay, Spinach! OMG, Celery!

 

[DeniseM]

Today, I harvested lettuce for dinner: this is a salad blend from Baker Creek - a great place to buy seed. It's so handy to wash it in my salad spinner. Until it goes to seed, we just trim our lettuce and spinach back, rather than pull it out by the roots, and it will come back with more leaves to be harvested in a surprisingly short time. We have a hard time with Cabbage Loopers in our area, and they love greens, so I keep this bed under netting all the time. Cabbage Loopers are also called "Inch Worms."

 

[DeniseM]

I have new little vegetables/fruits on my plants now. The squash has a female blossom, but no male blossoms to pollinate it, yet.

 

[DeniseM]

Update on the Strawberries growing leaves: It was a nutritional deficiency. I fertilized them with some berry fertilizer and it stopped.

 

[Chrispee]

Well once again you’re all ahead of me with your growing seasons. Things are starting to take shape though, and it looks like our new little fig tree will have fruit this year.

 

[DeniseM]

I've been on vacation for 2.5 weeks, and my garden grew a lot, but I also have aphids a number of places, and worms in my tomatoes! Tomorrow they DIE!

Because I over-wintered my peppers, I picked the first peppers today!

Today's salad harvest, purple cherry tomatoes, strawberries, sweet peppers, green tomatoes & cucumber vines:

 

[Shiba]

What fertilizer do you use for your tomatoes?

 

[DeniseM]

Organic tomato food, blood meal, & powdered egg shells.

 

[slip]

Our Squash are coming in nicely and we already have some blossoms. Peppers are coming in well to. We have to start more tomatoes.

 

[Brett]

big banana peppers

 

[DeniseM]

Strawberry crumble made with our own homegrown strawberries:

 

[DeniseM]

Tomatoes! Here in Northern California, we picked our first tomatoes today. The 2 little ones on top are black cherry tomatoes, plus 2 yellow tomatoes and a red tomato. The strawberries are still going strong, too.

 

[easyrider]

Another batch of pickles for 2025. This year it was a huge batch. I think 96 quarts split by three.

Bill

 

[Chrispee]

Apples, Figs, and Tomatoes on the way.

 

[DeniseM]

Beautifuuuul!

I'm growing cherry tomatoes that look like that as well - they turn purple, before they turn red! The variety tag says: Indigo Blue Berries. It's the biggest tomato plant I have - it got to be about 7 or 8 foot tall, then the whole top laid over and now it's growing down, but it's still blooming and producing!

 

[Chrispee]

We managed to forget to keep record of what tomato varieties we planted this year

If I’d posted pics before searching you could have saved me 15 mins of my life… blueberry tomatoes was indeed the consensus we came to.