Show us your 2014 Garden

[pz]

Dang, all I have is a black thumb

All veggies and flowers look spectacular - good job guys!

[Smokin Don]

Don-- No, I haven't ever heard of that!  They've already withered and dropped, but I'll have to keep that in mind for next year as a fun experiment to try!   I do have some pumpkin blossoms out right now, but had never thought about eating them!     Do they have a specific taste, or take on whatever you cook them with?  Would make one heck of a garnish, if nothing else!

Kat I do them like Pam. dipped in egg then cracker crumbs and fried in butter. I have done pumpkin blossoms, squash blossoms and lilies. They are a taste treat. You need to pick them when the blossoms first come out before they are clear open. An old German neighbor lady turned me on to pumpkin blossoms and said to pick them early in the morning. In the past I have grown pumpkins and squash just for the blossoms. Don

An article that shows most all of the plant is edible http://honest-food.net/2010/06/29/dining-on-daylilies/

[spuds]

Our first ever successful cucumbers,a pickling that is powdery mildew resistant.

[smoker pete]

Looks good spuds ...

[pz]

Here's our tiny little squash babies 

[spuds]

Cool,looks nice.

[smoker pete]

Since we're away from the garden for the better part of 2 months I'm having my neighbor take care of it and harvesting it for their eating pleasure.  They sent me a couple shots of the garden yesterday and a shot of a delicious looking tomato salad 

[spuds]

Really throwing out some produce.

[Keymaster]

My favorite is green beans. Wife got bush green bean seeds this year and I just picked a couple dinners worth. As a kid I picked beans in the summer to buy school clothes, that would be just wrong sending your 10 year old kids to the bean fields now a days

[pz]

... As a kid I picked beans in the summer to buy school clothes, that would be just wrong sending your 10 year old kids to the bean fields now a days

I don't know, key, sometimes I think that the entitled youth of today would not be nearly so entitled if they had to pick beans for their school clothes - nothing wrong with a little hard work to make you appreciate things 

Your beans look great - we love them too - especially when they are pickled

[Keymaster]

... As a kid I picked beans in the summer to buy school clothes, that would be just wrong sending your 10 year old kids to the bean fields now a days

I don't know, key, sometimes I think that the entitled youth of today would not be nearly so entitled if they had to pick beans for their school clothes - nothing wrong with a little hard work to make you appreciate things 

Your beans look great - we love them too - especially when they are pickled

you just reminded me how much I like pickled green beans in my Bloody Mary's.. I will have to make a batch. thanks for the reminder PZ.

[spuds]

Love beans,we picked strawberries as kids.....

[SmokinKat]

We got our first 'harvest' last night!!   



The garden is growing like gangbusters, though-- the chicken poo we mixed into the soil is doing a better job than we anticipated, and it's turned into a regular jungle in there!!  The tomato plants are just gargantuan.  Turned out a lot more crowded than we anticipated!



The pumpkin plants are doing especially well-- they have a gazillion blossoms, and a few baby pumpkin starts.  They are growing SO fast-- I swear this one wasn't here yesterday. 



I'm a bit jealous of your beans, Key!!  We planted bush beans too, and not a darn one grew!!  Wondering if the seeds were old or something... we  also planted a bunch of sweet peas, but only a couple of them took off.  Those are usually about the only plant I can count on surviving!   

[smoker pete]

WOW!!  That garden looks great Kat.  I learned a long time ago that chicken poo can really make a garden hot and grow up the wazoos 

[Keymaster]

Amazing how that pumpkin plant has those feelers that reach out and tie off to the wire fence, Almost alien like