What did you do in the garden today?

[PD-Riverman]

I did eat my first 2 Zucchini's today for dinner. Yum, Yum Good----sliced thin, battered and fried. First 2 cucumbers yesterday. Been eating a lot of broccoli, turnips, irish potatoes, cabbage, onions, etc. A few days ago, I caught a 4 3/4 lb bass out the pond, Cleaned/prepped it---fried it up with some sliced fresh potato's, had some broccoli and cheese on the side. Don't get much better than that---everything(except the cheese) we eat come off the farm. I like doing that, Some times I catch some fish and put some fresh vegetables(potatoes/onions/squash/peppers all cut up in a tin foil pan nest to the red coals of the open fire, and cook the fish over red coals in long handle baskets---right next to the garden/lake----that's the best!!!

 

[lazy gardener]

I did eat my first 2 Zucchini's today for dinner. Yum, Yum Good----sliced thin, battered and fried. First 2 cucumbers yesterday. Been eating a lot of broccoli, turnips, irish potatoes, cabbage, onions, etc. A few days ago, I caught a 4 3/4 lb bass out the pond, Cleaned/prepped it---fried it up with some sliced fresh potato's, had some broccoli and cheese on the side. Don't get much better than that---everything(except the cheese) we eat come off the farm. I like doing that, Some times I catch some fish and put some fresh vegetables(potatoes/onions/squash/peppers all cut up in a tin foil pan nest to the red coals of the open fire, and cook the fish over red coals in long handle baskets---right next to the garden/lake----that's the best!!!

Now, I'm getting jealous.

 

[karenerwin]

I have 1 tiny zucchini about the size of my little finger and my cucumbers aren't even thinking about doing anything yet! I do have a lot of small green, cherry tomatoes, but haven"t seen any large ones yet. The yellow neck squash is flowering, so they should start producing soon.

 

[dan26552]

Did you plant your seeds outside? I can't imagine getting up like that for seeds.
I know the one freeze we got after my fruit trees bloomed worried me so I did not get much sleep. I did lose my last Nankin cherry. So I guess they are not that hardy.

No, that was for the chicks not seeds. I just covered my early tomatoes and let them be during the late freezes.

 

[chickadoodles]

No, that was for the chicks not seeds. I just covered my early tomatoes and let them be during the late freezes.

Oh wow sorry. hahahaaa

 

[dan26552]

Oh wow sorry. hahahaaa

then a week later I hatched out about 9 ducklings. (I went from 10 to 35 in a little over two months... and I've got 21 duck eggs due on Sunday )

 

[dan26552]

A volunteer watermelon. A gift from the pigs that ate my melon At least they left a seed right? It's either a pure moon and stars or a cross between a moon and stars, Navajo winter or OrangeGlo.

 

[chickadoodles]

Nice

 

[microchick]

I wept.
It's been a cool and wet spring for us. Everything has been slow to germinate. Only about half of my four rows of corn came up so I was outside today filling in gaps with the only corn seed I have on hand after already replanting everything with pop corn seed. I figure the regular sweet corn will hopefully be done tassling about the time that the popcorn is starting to tassle so hopefully they won't cross pollinate. Of course before I finished....it was raining again!

So far the only thing I have harvested from our garden is a bowl of mixed lettuce and a radish.....okay, I'm feeling the tears starting again.

 

[chickadoodles]

Hey Micro I know this rain is making it tough on everyone trying to start seeds.
Yet others have corn that is already 5' here. Crazy! I hope my squash does not get the dreaded powdery mildew again this year.