What's up in your veggie garden?

[BigDaddyLH]

I noticed this past weekend that the fridge's veggie drawer is stuffed, and all it has in it are cucumbers! And this is with us eating a cucumber salad every day. It's that time of year...

[cowboytwang]

I ended up with a bunch of peppers and about a half a dozen watermelon this year.

[Wardpike]

Lots of zuchini, lettuce, tomatoes, apples, pears.

[BigDaddyLH]

Originally Posted by Wardpike

Lots of zuchini, lettuce, tomatoes, apples, pears.

I should add that the local peaches are awesome now, but I'm too lazy to have a peach tree.

[Tdot]

Peppers, onions, peppers, zucchini, peppers, tomato, and peppers.

[PK]

Our green beans kicked some serious butt this year! Also good was the broccoli, cauliflour, tomatoes, zuccini, peppers, artichokes & lettuce. Our apples will be very good when they get ripe, and our blood orange tree is in for a bumper crop! :) Our brussel sprouts and grapes need help 8(, but hey, we're tryin :)

PK

[IggyT]

I have a bumper crop of tomatillos !

[BigDaddyLH]

Originally Posted by IggyT

I have a bumper crop of tomatillos !

I'm growing their leetle seester, the ground cherry, but I'm the only one in my family who likes them.

[brgminicooper]

I planted corn, watermelons, cantaloupe, and pumpkins this year.

So far I've gotten a measly nine ears of corn, no pumpkins, no watermelon, a few cantaloupes (though none are ripe yet) and some potatoes.

For those of you keeping score, I didn't actually plant any potatoes, but I'm getting 'em anyway.

My garden is terrible this year.

[mr natural]

We really don't have a garden as such. Just a bunch of plants in big pots.
Jalapenos did really well this year.
Cherry tomatoes are producing steadily.
Basil, oregano, dill and rosemary are doing fine, in fact I made a big batch of pesto last weekend. Yummy. One of my coworkers suggested I make crab meat & pesto stuffed mushrooms. I'm going to do that with the next batch.
-Mr. Natural

[otterhound]

Just planted the fall Lettuce crop yesterday .

[IggyT]

for best results..with a bit of sugar and a touch of chipotle..and Im in Mexico !

Originally Posted by BigDaddyLH

I'm growing their leetle seester, the ground cherry, but I'm the only one in my family who likes them.

[Eric Karonen]

Outside of chives, sage, and few other herbs, my rosebushes, nothing much. I discovered last year that I'm highly allerigic to tomato plants, not the fruit, the bush. A brutal time to get over it last fall. Never again. Back to cherry tomatoes.

In some ways, I think it's a bit dumb to grow regional veggies/fruits, when they can be the cheapest fruit/vegetable on the market in season. You've got to go exotic ... ifn' you want something different, The organic farmers are numerous now in all areas. Alot of good stuff out there nearby, and no muss or fuss, and cheaper than you think.

[candh]

HABANEROs!!!!! Lots of em....I make my own hot sauce....

[woodman]

our cukes, squash and zucchini down here are spent ... tomatoes on their last round. still some peppers growing.

[studio1087]

Originally Posted by IggyT

I have a bumper crop of tomatillos !

Salsa Verde! Yum.

We have lots of tomatoes, green peppers, onions, basil.....we're canning red sauce this weekend. I love pasta with our own sauce.

We grow lots of lettuce varieties also. Big salads.

[TeleBrew]

Potatoes, chile peppers, tomatoes, garlic, zucchini, pumpkins (coming in), onions, lettuce, collard greens, tarragon (originally wild that we transplanted), chives, basil.

[boris bubbanov]

I used to have a wonderful organic garden down here. Mary Washington Asparagus was in the ground year round, but mostly I did the late fall/winter/early spring stuff. Lettuces, Spinach, Cole Crops, sugar snap peas, carrots, radishes. Some years we had no effective killing winter conditions, we just sailed thru and boy the fleas would be bad that next year.

The summer is kinda oppressive and a lot of work for the limas, tomatoes, okra, peppers, eggplant and melons. A black mold could take out your melons in 24 hours.

Katrina took care of all that. If you saw what got into the soil, you just wouldn't.

So, I'm very envious of ya'll. No doubt, our collective health down here is bad because fresh produce is just not that available; especially not now.

[slauson slim]

Heirloom and cherry tomatoes, onions, peppers, lettuce and pumpkins.

Also sunflowers.

[Nick JD]

Why I oughta...!

[Jason G]

Weed! Uhm... uh, I mean weeds. The birds and squirrels get to the rest of it. - Jason G

[Sollophonic]

In the greenhouse, lots of tomatoes, cucumbers, fresh basil and even an aubergine or two.

Outside, a bumper crop of new potatoes, some serious leeks, spinach and iceberg lettuce. Also the pumpkins are going to be huge just in time for bonfire night.

Courgettes have been disappointing though, the slugs got to ours early on.

We have also had huge crops of raspberries, blackcurrants, and blackberries off the brambles. Made loads of jam from them! Strawberries were disappointing this year though.

My wifes the real green-fingered one in our house, though I have done a lot of the digging over and carting of compost.

[Wardpike]

Anyone have a good tomacco crop this year?

[BigDaddyLH]

Originally Posted by Nick JD

Why I oughta...!

And I thought squirrels were bad!

[BigDaddyLH]

Originally Posted by Wardpike

Anyone have a good tomacco crop this year?

Is that like a tomato you smoke ?

Pretty much everything produced well for me. Cherry and plum tomatoes, and the latter gets made into sauce weekly. Eggplants and zucchini (aubergines and courgettes) too. Eggplants are my favourites. I toss them on the BBQ whole and grill them until they look like a hobo's shoes. Yum, baba ganoush!

[Charlie Bernstein]

Blight.

[Dave_O]

As Spring has only just officially sprung here, I've got a winter crop about to be harvested- silverbeet, cauliflower, onions and broccoli. My patch is only a little guy

[Mid Life Crisis]

This was the first year we decided to grow our own veg, so I lifted some paving slabs so I could make a decent sized patch.

We had some excellent early potatoes (so much tastier than the ones in the supermarkets) and are currently enjoying some fantastic French beans (they'll be on the menu tonight for sure), but unfortunately the caterpillars and whitefly got to the broccoli and cabbage. Not sure if we'll get anything worth eating from these. Some of the lettuce has ben OK but others hit by the slugs. Next year I'll make sure it doesn't happen again.

Earlier Mrs MLC made some awesome jam out of our blackcurrants (it was so good it was all gone in no time). Our single apple tree has had more apples on it than any year before - it must be a good year for apples as everywhere I look I'm seeing trees full of lovely red ones for the taking. With the blackberries out in force we've had some great apple and blackberry pies and crumbles already.

[Eric Karonen]

Originally Posted by Wardpike

Anyone have a good tomacco crop this year?

Do you eat it or smoke it? Yes, I'm an idiot.

[PapaBeef]

I can't believe what a crappy year this was for me.
I was in the stinkin' hospital most of last summer. And Slappy wouldn't go & pull any weeds for me. So most of my stuff got choked out by the time I was able to do anything.
This year my tomato plants went south a week after I planted them. How do you kill tomato plants?!
So did my banana peppers and half of my bell peppers. I don't know what happened. But the other half & my jalapenos are doing well.
The cantaloupes I planted started out so so and didn't produce much. But I ended up getting a nice crop of volunteer cantaloupes, even though a lot of them were eaten by something.
Watermelons, I have a nice looking vine along the whole back side of the garden. But it's produced nothing but blossoms so far. And I'm sure it's way too late to expect anything more from it.
I also have a few volunteer tomato plants with a few tomatoes that are green & most likely will never ripen properly.
I's been very frustrating this year. And I usually do well with tomatoes, all types of peppers, yellow squash (got a nice early harvest B then lost them to the bugs), eggplants, sugar snap peas, cantaloupes, broccoli.
I have a very small area to work with. And I think I may have burned it out in spite of all the compost & manure I add every year.
I'm considering taking a few years off.
As EK said, you can always get the local stuff easily & cheaply enough.

[TG]

We call zucchini 'courgettes' over here...and, yes, we are having them with every meal at the moment.

[OutlawSteph1975]

The bugs, wind and downpours got my container garden early in the summer. I'm thinking of starting again in September but I wasted a lot of money on potting soil.

[Sollophonic]

Oh forgot to add, we had great garlic and asparagus too.

Right now we are starting to get peas too.

Sweetcorn has been a disaster though, unlike last year when it was ace.

My herb garden has kept us in thyme, rosemary, oregano, chives and dill all year too. plus our bay tree goes on and on.

Finally athough not edible, we have our christmas tree live and rooted in a pot. It has bloomed over the summer, and looks even nicer than last year.

[smsuryan]

tomatoes, brussels sprouts, cucumbers, potatoes.....ive canned a bunch of salsa, pickles and pasta sauce this year..yummy!

[Telesavalis]

we've got a small 12 x 12 veggie garden with okra, arugula, and some zukini right now. a band mate planted a 3,000 sq ft garden this year and he's over run with cucumbers, okra, cherry tomatoes, and squash.