what are you eating from your garden today 2018

[rainbowgardener]

I found a 2017 thread like this, but not a recent one.

I've been eating lots of chard and asparagus.

Here's tonight:

Color came out off in the photo, those are dark green not yellow green. Spring garden salad: chard, kale, parsley, broccoli & cabbage leaves, carrot tops, wild violet leaves and flowers, chickweed, herbs.

[PaulF]

Pizza and chocolate cake...You mean really from the garden of what I wish I could grow. My really garden is dirt and snow.

[gumbo2176]

My brother-in-laws mother stopped by the house today to drop something off to my wife and we talked for a bit and I offered her some Chard from the garden, which she gladly accepted. The old gal is 95, lives on her own and still drives as she is active in her church choir and visiting her "old" friends that are now in nursing homes or hospitals.

The only things I have that can be eaten now are chard, kale, green onions and beets. Everything else has either been pulled or transitioning to my summer garden. I did see where my soybean plants are getting tons of beans on them earlier today when doing a bit of weeding. The way it looks, I should be getting about 3-4 gallons of the pods when I pick them-----hopefully more.

[DarrenP]

Mainly leafy greens, silverbeet (chard as you know it), kale, rocket, and lettuce. Still some pumpkins on the vines, and other veggies are developing nicely. Also have two cucumbers to pick before I pull the vine.

[rainbowgardener]

I forgot to mention there was also spinach in the salad. Lots of leafy greens right now, some asparagus, though as this is only its second season we will probably stop eating it soon, edible weeds, herbs ... Strawberries soon! And the peach trees have baby peaches on them!! We had so many late frosts, I was sure they were goners. The blueberry bushes also have berries on them. And our chickens in their second year of laying are being super productive, even more than at their peak last year. We get 5 eggs (from our 6 hens) most days, occasionally four, occasionally 6. Corn seed is planted! Life is good!

[Vanisle_BC]

Eating the greens from surplus bunching onions; thrown on the compost pile but MW retrieved them. (reuse, recycle!) Also the leaves from overwintered cabbage that are bolting.

Asparagus soon, soon ....

[MoonShadows]

Lot's of lettuce and spinach.

[applestar]

Nice! So everyone is harvesting greens? I think I could be, too. I did take a few young lettuce leaves from my starts for adding to sandwich the other day. I mentioned picking violet flowers elsewhere and I see some in rainbowgardener’s lovely salad. And my little low tunnels that overwintered have survivors inside — some spinach and winter lettuce and kale, as well as I think Beira Tronchuda (is that kale or cabbage?) that could be harvested, although Tatsoi and Fun Jen asian greens have bolted and are blooming now (that’s OK, maybe I’ll use them for salad or garnish).

...but I really need some tips on growing spinach...

[DarrenP]

I didn't think to mention the eggs. We get anywhere from 6-9 eggs a day, with 6 more pullets about 12 weeks old to come. We have enough for ourselves, our neighbours, and occasional sales to tourists from the caravan park down the road.

[rainbowgardener]

how many laying hens do you have?

applestar, I think you have seen me say before, my favorite way to grow spinach is to direct sow the seeds in the garden late in the fall, like even early November as long as ground isn't frozen and they have time to sprout and grow a little bit (and yes, I did this in Cincinnati, which has a very similar climate to yours). The baby spinach overwinters and then grows like crazy in late winter. It has a very long season before it bolts that way. When I had fall planted spinach and spring planted spinach, they would all bolt about the same time when it warmed up, so obviously the fall planted had a much longer harvesting season.

[digitS']

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(garden veggies!)

In an ideal world, I would have a garden in the Northern Hemisphere for 6 months and a Southern Hemisphere garden for 6 months .

Beira Tronchuda (is that kale or cabbage?)

It's usually called kale. Since they are of the same species, I think of it as "the most cabbagy of the kales."

Overwintered (Scotch) kale last week and chives in an omelet today ... best I can do. At least, there are lots more of both.

Steve

[DarrenP]

We have 9 ISA Brown/Hyline cross laying hens, and the pullets are 6 Light Sussex that we hatched ourselves. We had 10 layers, but one died last week. Not sure if it had been sick, or just old age. These are bred for commercial laying, and can sometimes die earlier than pure bred chooks. Next year I am planning on getting some Australian Langshans, or Aracauna fertilized eggs to hatch.

[ButterflyLady29]

Garden here is all mud. Still can't get in to it enough to plant the little spinach plants that I have in cell packs. Still can't plant peas because I can't walk in the mud.

[tedln]

Radishes, onions, and beet greens. Every thing else is at least two weeks away. I could eat a few peppers, but I want them to grow larger. A few early tomatoes are a couple of weeks from ripening.

[rainbowgardener]

Dinner tonight was another big salad with all the greens and herbs from the garden and a corn and potato chowder. Of course the corn plants in my garden are about two inches high right now . But I used some of last year's corn that I froze. Now that the garden is getting under way again, I am using up all the stuff from last year.