Eating from the garden

[CalG]

First of June and here we are at the supper table out on the back deck, fire blazing in the pit, birds chirping and puffy clouds passing through a cool blue sky.

Salad greens picked from volunteers between this years garlics. Shredded beets from storage, mint leaves fresh from the front lawn patch.
"Off the grill" was complimented with cream sauce over rice, flavored with "garden grown" wine cap mushrooms, sauteed with home grown garlic.
Rhubarb sauce, as a cleansing desert, set the evening repast.

I do enjoy "eating at home"!

All credits to my wife, though I did clutter her kitchen a bit.

 

[Oaktree]

A little early for my garden...just put it in last week. Peas (planted mid-May) just sprouting now. Milkweed just coming up, leaves should still be tender...maybe have some tonite.
Been a cold, rainy spring for the most part.

 

[Engineer42]

Early here as well. We've had romaine lettuce and spinach on the table for the past two weeks tho. Yellow squash and tomatoes soon I hope.

 

[EddieWalker]

Our garden is producing better than it ever has in the past. My wife went to Master Gardner school, and after that she changed how she was planting everything. The difference has been significant!!!

Just about every meal has something out of the garden. The one thing that has really surprised me is the onions. Her eyes do not tear up when cutting them, and the flavor is so much better than what we've bought at the store.

Another surprise has been planting potatoes in grow bags. They taste great, and there are a lot more of them in each bag then we expected!!!

 

[Jrasband]

I drink milk from my cows, and eat meat from my animals every day. Cows eat my greens for me

 

[MossRoad]

Strawberries and rhubarb here.

 

[dougtrr2]

I have a niece that used to eat from the garden, literally. Her vegetable of choice was onions. It was funny to see someone pick up this sweet little girl and have her breath knock them over.

Doug in SW IA

 

[part-time-Farmer-NC]

Summer squash, lots of squash, only 12 plants but getting about 8-10# a day right now. Romaine's have about done their deed starting to bolt now. Gonna feed what's left to the chickens. Gonna harvest some cabbage today/tomorrow, harvesting garlic now too.

 

[Oaktree]

Almost forgot, asparagus. Getting toward the end on that now.

Summer squash, lots of squash, only 12 plants but getting about 8-10# a day right now. Romaine's have about done their deed starting to bolt now. Gonna feed what's left to the chickens. Gonna harvest some cabbage today/tomorrow, harvesting garlic now too.

Wow! How early do you plant down your way? Squash & cabbage are mid-late August crops here (hard squash not before mid Sept).
Rule of thumb here used to be to put in your garden Memorial day, though lately you can push it a week or so. Always that late-May frost that'll getcha.

 

[part-time-Farmer-NC]

Our last frost date is around April 15th. These were planted from seed and put in the ground mid April or so best I remember. Unless the squash bugs get em they will produce until mid October (our first frost date is the 15th).