So what is coming out of your garden?

Harvested my cippolini onions last weekend. Still trying to figure out what i want to do with them. Maybe onion marmalade.

Thinning leeks and carrots, so have tiny salad additions.

I planted way too much arugula, and the "Amish Deer tongue" lettuce overflows.

Basil, thyme, oregano, marjoram, mint, sage, parsley, chive. As much as I'd like.

I have a mound of West Indian Gherkins from seedsavers that is producing. Strange little things, spiny all over, need to be shaved. Flavor is good, tho', kind of between a cuke and a mellon. http://www.seedsavers.org/Details.aspx?itemNo=1434

I had a lot of fingerling and blue potatoes sprouting in late winter, so threw them into the ground in early March. No harvest yet, but they are some of the best 'tater plants I've had yet. Some are even making seed pods/bulbs (?)

Scarlet runner beans, some peppers, and garlic, really struggling. Doubt I'll have much from them.

I didn't plant anything until June 1st, so had a later start than everyone else in the state.

Picked 4 cucumbers so far. Put these with some chopped tomatoes(store bought), vinegar, sugar and oil. Marinated overnight pretty good. No tomatoes on my vines yet.

Kohlrabi is coming on nicely, nothing picked yet.

I see the beans are ready for their first picking, will probably pickle them if there is enough.

Also have 10 or so jalapenos still ripening, and about 10 bell peppers still growing.

It has been a weird season this year...not hot enough

So far we have picked all the strings beans...put in a second crop 10 days ago.

Tomatoes are coming in on a regular basis...planted them in earth tainers...some are over 8' tall :laugh:

Zucchini just started..not sick of them yeat and no one is running away everytime they see me.

all the garlic has been picked and is drying.

Egg plants are looking good..just flowers

Many different types of peppers are about ready

I know I have more stuff but I can remember...must be that age thing.

It's too hot here to grow anything. You guys are lucky.
Even the produce at the produce stands stink. And the tomatoes are awful.

Faith

Forgot to mention the Garlic was just pulled and the Blueberries are almost non existent.

My vegetables were toast by the first of June. However, the Mexican veggies are abundant in the grocery stores. My herbs are still putting out (basil, oregano, thyme, rosemary, chives).

Herbs, herbs and more herbs. Six barrel style pots of herbs on the uncovered part of my back porch right outside the kitchen door, next to the egg.
PattyO

Herbs (basil, mint, oregano, thyme, rosemary)
tomatoes (4 varieties, 3 are producing)
cayenne peppers
Green bell peppers

Eastern Nebr. here, good and timely rains all year thus far, somewhere North of 10in. above average. What has not been damaged by the high winds is fairing nicely.

Various herbs (mint, basil, thyme), jalapenos, tomatoes, corn and cucumbers coming in now.

Posted pics of my first cukes last night, am so damn proud of them will re-post.....

This is where they came from, three vines total, Sweet Slice in middle flanked by a couple Raiders.

Here is a closeup of one Raider:

We decided to put the tomatoes in pots this year to protect from beagle damage. They seem to be OK in there, two Big Beefs on the left and a Early Girl on the right. I swear when we got it as a seedling the tag said "Easy Girl", so that is what I called it. Angie keeps telling me it's some Freudian thing. Not sure what that means?

Wishing all a bountiful harvest.

Kind regards,
dbCooper

Our tomatoes were very scrappy this year. I'm going to pull them this weekend and get ready for a new crop. On the other hand the jalapeno and serrano (sp?) peppers have produced most abundantly. My husband does not eat them - so I have given some away, made ABT's, and will be making fresh peach salsa over the weekend.

I'm going to try squash in the garden boxes next...

This is our first year gardening, and we are sharing a huge garden (60x60 ish) with a couple who have been gardening for decades.

The peas, beats, radishes, spinach, lettuces, and kohlrabi are finished. THe beets were less than stellar...we think it was the super-wet spring.

Right now we've got green beans, broccoli, cukes, zukes/summersquash, and the first few tomatoes (cherries) coming out. The cabbage heads are getting big, and it looked yesterday like our partners had recently harvested one. We've been eating chard for weeks, and it's still going strong. Same with kale. Eggplants will come soon, along with the big boom of tomatoes (33 tomato plants!). The first few peppers have been harvested (11 sweet, 11 chili plants), the big boom is still to come...I've got to figure out what to do with all these banana peppers. The corn is looking a little weak, but the ears are starting to silk. Also yet to come are the melons, brussels sprouts, carrots, winter squash, lima beans, edamame, okra, and more and more and more weeding.

We do have two rather odd occurences. Our potaotes are drying up. I haven't done potatoes before, but this seems a little early. We dug up a couple that looked thoroughly dry, and the potatoes looked fine (tasted great too). Not sure if we need to get all of them out of the ground, though...I'd hate to see them go bad. Also, our onions are already drying up. I thought this wasn't supposed to happen until later in the summer.

We've been home from vacation for two days. On the first day, we had DP's maple salmon with chard sauteed with red onion (both from the garden), and fresh pineapple (from the grocery, of course). Last night we had spatchcock with garden potatoes and onions, and storebought carrots roasting in the chicken drippings, and steamed garden green and yellow beans.

We've frozen a little spinach, a lot of peas, and the first of the broccoli. Also destined for the freezer are more broccoli throughout the summer, and lots of green and lima beans. I'm going to have to upgrade my canning gear to handle all these cukes and tomatoes. Viva summer!