What did you do in the garden today?

[Acre4Me]

I always grow corn tomatoes peppers(of every kind), I was just thinking about changing the garden and still keep some of the same stuff just kinda add to it with some things that I haven't had before. Who knows maybe I will find a new vegetable to plant all the time.

I like to grow beans for drying…pretty hard to fail. I like to break open the dried pods in the fall.

Beets, carrots, green beans, tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, sweet potatoes are standard. We tried several varieties of these, and found great ones and less than great.

Rutabaga: a cross between a turnip and cabbage. We like them. They are a brassica.

Turnips: we like to grow the small white salad turnips in the spring and fall (they generally don’t do well with lots of heat). We eat them raw.

Melons. Ive been looking for a really good honeydew. Last year we got a few good ones! Cantaloup and watermelon are good too,

Parsnips: spouse likes them, I can take or leave them- not a big fan.

Soybeans: for edamame. We like to grow these to cook like edamame.

Things we’ve tried for fun: tomatillo, peanuts, cotton, lentils, cowpeas. Probably a few others I’m forgetting.

We gave a bed for rhubarb, and for asparagus.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I was riding with my husband in the big truck and we stopped in Canyonville OR and they had huckleberry ice cream. They changed everything about the place and then they stopped selling it. It's an amazing taste.

Nice! If I get any berries this fall, I'll definitely have to make some homemade huckleberry ice cream!

 

[TJAnonymous]

I always grow corn tomatoes peppers(of every kind), I was just thinking about changing the garden and still keep some of the same stuff just kinda add to it with some things that I haven't had before. Who knows maybe I will find a new vegetable to plant all the time.

I've tried a few new vegetables... Namely kohlrabi (both purple and white varieties), eggplant (Japanese and black beauty varieties), fava beans, peanuts, different colors of broccoli and cauliflower, ground cherries, yacon (ground apples), and some daikon radishes.

Just look through some garden porn that comes in the mailbox by the boatload each fall & spring and pick out something interesting that catches your eye.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning gardeners. We got a couple of scattered showers yesterday evening. That brought down the temps a little quicker. Happy first day of summer. I’m going to plant the pumpkin starts this morning. This is the last day of our heat wave, thank goodness. I have a lot of weeding to do in the gardens after this heat moves out. I tried adding a bale of EZ straw to my TSC order but it won’t be available until next week. Hopefully they have some tomorrow when I pick up the order. I really need to mulch between the rows of beans, squash and tomatoes. I think the potatoes could use some extra also. I should be able to get my pepper plants into containers on Sunday morning. Then I’m done until August. I used seed tape carrots this year. That won’t happen again. So far, out of all the tapes of carrot seeds I planted I may harvest 8 to 10 carrots. It looks like the row I put in one of the tomato beds may be coming up. Fingers crossed.

 

[Sally PB]

I'm wanting to try to grow some different veggies because I don't know if I like them or not but I would like to grow it just to try the taste.

Buy some stuff at the farmer's market or in the produce area of your grocery store. Something that will grow in your area, something that you'd grow if you like it.

That way, you can find out if you do like it without having to spend the time, space, and energy in the garden, only to find out you don't like it.

Give the new thing a fair shot. If you don't like it raw, try cooking it a couple different ways. Ask here for preparation tips.

I never would have tried growing chard, based on the the one raw taste test I did with some a neighbor gave me. But toss it in a stir fry? Yummy!

If you make smoothies, you can put a lot of different things in them, and hide the taste if you find you don't like it. That's what my neighbor does with her chard.

 

[Sally PB]

Speaking of chard... The garden gods, aka squirrels, are deciding that I'm not going to get any this year, I think. I planted some in the garden. They ate it down to a nub. Same with my bush beans. I replanted. Ditto. I planted some in pots and brought them up to the house. 3 of 8 were dug up last night.

 

[Sally PB]

In happier news, we got a bit of rain. Probably under 1/4" but I'm glad for any we get right now.

 

[Sammster]

Those eggs may actually be squash bug eggs, not SVB. The SVB drill a hole into stem, deposit egg inside the hollow stem. This becomes a caterpillar that destroys the vine from the inside. The squash bug is generally less detrimental (unless a big infestation) and works on the plants from the outside-they lay eggs on underside of the leaf. Luckily, they are pretty easy to see, and their first few stages keep them vulnerable to being destroyed by us.

Oh, thank you! I didn't know that

 

[igorsMistress]

G’morning everyone. We’re headed into a stretch of dangerously hot weather starting today, not looking forward to it. This is the last day of summer school for the teenager, granddaughter will be staying over tonight and all the kids are going to hurricane harbor tomorrow. I may have to up my watering schedule to daily for the melons, we’ll see. Definitely will be running the hose for a few hours for the chickens. Apparently Red lets her BFF Attila sit on eggs, she sleeps with Attila during that time tho, and then they co-parent after hatch. The chicks treat her like mom; they’re a little tribe out there hunting bugs and enjoying the cool dirt under the trees in the afternoon

 

[fuzzi]

I always grow corn tomatoes peppers(of every kind), I was just thinking about changing the garden and still keep some of the same stuff just kinda add to it with some things that I haven't had before. Who knows maybe I will find a new vegetable to plant all the time.

The advice about growing what you like to eat and what suits your climate is spot on.

I grow tomatoes for my dh. The plum varieties grow really well here, and he doesn't mind using smaller slices on his sandwiches. He doesn't eat enough peppers for the effort, so I didn't plant any this year.

I love summer squash and bush beans, so I grow those. I also love melons. This year I am trying a different type of cantaloupe.

I enjoy eating turnips and carrots, so I will put in my fall crop in August. And I grow collards, too. What we don't eat the chickens love.