From the Veggie Garden Today

[Mike]

Word of warning Mike, bit later in the year check the broccoli stems for catterpillars, they curl themselves up in the stalks and are the same colour as the broccoli when cooked

We actually found one on yesterday's harvest while we were prepping it to eat. I took it out and fed it to the chickens.

 

[Zigs]

We actually found one on yesterday's harvest while we were prepping it to eat. I took it out and fed it to the chickens.

I don't usually grow cabbage family till the winter to avoid having to net them but last winter I was still finding cabbage white catterpillars in December

When I have netted them, I watched the small white butterflies circle above the net till they're in just the right position, then they close their wings and drop right through the net onto the cabbages

 

[skinyea]

Cabbage rolls and Asparagus. Asparagus for dinner every day for next 4 weeks or so.

this is my 1st year growing cabbage. Do not like store bought. Love home grown. much like everything else.

 

[Meadowlark]

Ho

Do not like store bought. Love home grown. much like everything else.

Same here...love home grown cabbage!!

 

[Meadowlark]

The Bingo bean: a Borlotto-type pole bean with big, creamy green pods that are streaked in bright pinkish red, growing 6-7 inches long. The shelled bean has a hearty, delicious flavor that tastes amazing in soups and traditional Italian recipes. When picked this way, they cook very fast compared to regular dried beans like pintos and with much more flavor.




p.s. https://www.eatingwell.com/article/...-live-longer-according-to-a-longevity-expert/

 

[YumYum]

Ho

Same here...love home grown cabbage!!

The more I grow my own stuff, the more I realize what they sell in the store is not worth buying. Sad to say even store bought cabbage just doesn't taste the same as garden grown. The variety that is grown on farms theses days just doesn't muster up to what it used to be. I used to brag about Grainger Co tomatoes but not anymore since they changed to some new tasteless "field grown" variety according to the bar code. Even the farmer I talked to about this said they would never change to this new variety stuff, but yet they did.

 

[skinyea]

The more I grow my own stuff, the more I realize what they sell in the store is not worth buying. Sad to say even store bought cabbage just doesn't taste the same as garden grown. The variety that is grown on farms theses days just doesn't muster up to what it used to be. I used to brag about Grainger Co tomatoes but not anymore since they changed to some new tasteless "field grown" variety according to the bar code. Even the farmer I talked to about this said they would never change to this new variety stuff, but yet they did.

store bought is usually weeks or sometime months old grown in a green house. grow your own and cook it the day you pull it

 

[Meadowlark]

The more I grow my own stuff, the more I realize what they sell in the store is not worth buying.

Many new gardeners are often stunned and shocked to learn this truth. Home grown tastes better in all veggies.

But there is a whole other level of taste and nutrition to be reached beyond just growing it yourself in your own garden...and that is growing it organically. No synthetic fertilizers, no pesticides, no fungicides, etc. When the soil is nourished by only natural organic things, the taste of the veggies grown in it soars to a whole other level. It is an incredible benefit and makes gardening for me not optional but an integral part of my very existence.

 

[skinyea]

only veg I cannot taste a difference in is cucumber. they taste the same

 

[Zigs]

only veg I cannot taste a difference in is cucumber. they taste the same

Cucumber is The Devil's Vegetable

 

[Zigs]

The Bingo bean: a Borlotto-type pole bean with big, creamy green pods that are streaked in bright pinkish red, growing 6-7 inches long. The shelled bean has a hearty, delicious flavor that tastes amazing in soups and traditional Italian recipes. When picked this way, they cook very fast compared to regular dried beans like pintos and with much more flavor.

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p.s. https://www.eatingwell.com/article/...-live-longer-according-to-a-longevity-expert/

A few days ago I looked up to see if we were allowed to send seeds to the USA as I was thinking about sending you some Bridgwater beans. Your Bingo beans look very similar to them though. Bridgwaters are said to be the best tasting bean, you can eat the pods and the shelled beans.

 

[Meadowlark]

So, @Zigs , are you allowed to send them? I checked and could not find any suppliers here in USA.

 

[Zigs]

So, @Zigs , are you allowed to send them? I checked and could not find any suppliers here in USA.

Not without a permit, so they risk getting confiscated by customs and your house surrounded by the National Guard

Pm me your address and I'll send you some "stationery"

 

[Meadowlark]

One of the reasons I prefer indeterminate tomatoes is their proclivity to produce continuously rather than everything ripen at the same time. We will get a bucket of tomatoes every day now until well into July.

For canning, when you want everything all at once the determinates rule but for salt shaker, fresh eating tomatoes continuously, its indeterminate.

 

[Mike]

Well, I won't be installing the drippers today but there was still a decent bit to harvest this morning.

Also, my mystery plant is starting to produce a flower so cauliflower is confirmed! I'll post a picture of that later today too.

 

[Mike]

A look at today's harvest. We dug up one potato plant to see what was going on underground. Looks like they could use a little more time but they're doing good. Also harvested the last of our radishes for the year. Our broccoli plants are starting to put off a few florets on the stems so we cut a few of those off. None of those will make it far... probably just a quick cut, rinse, and eat on all those. A few more pickling cucumbers that just got sliced up and put into a bowl of buttermilk. That'll probably be my dinner tonight.

 

[Mike]

Harvested our first cabbage. Went ahead and took an onion too and gonna make some cabbage soup tonight. Also a few more squash that we'll fry up on Thursday with some ribs I plan on smoking.

 

[Meadowlark]

Good job! My squash has already succumbed to the high heat accompanied by flooding torrential rains. It will be fall before I can grow it again...yours looks very good!

 

[Mike]

Good job! My squash has already succumbed to the high heat accompanied by flooding torrential rains. It will be fall before I can grow it again...yours looks very good!

Ours are really just getting started. I'm hoping they'll keep making for at least another few weeks but we'll see. It is regularly up into the 90s now so that's probably not good.

 

[skinyea]

I have Black beauty Zucc going now. did 3 plants started in 6 week process as in 3 plants started March week 3. 3 plants started march week 4 ETC.. Have about 15 zucc growing now with anticipation of many many more.