It's ok with me. I love WFD, but threads with pics are painful to load on my dialup and I never seem to get time when I'm at work(lunch hour? breaks? what are those?)

Ohyeah, it's been a vegiefest the last couple of weeks. Last night was baked halibut coated with garlic scape pesto and panko; steamed broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini and snow peas with a little jack and cheddar cheese and some herbs sprinkled over, and a salad of Flashy Troutback (pretty,speckled)lettuce, kale, snow peas, baby carrots, tomatoes, a little gypsy pepper and rattail radishes.

A couple of days ago we had a cauliflower curry w/ new potatoes,snow peas, kale and red and yellow tomatoes, with basmati rice and kale chips made w/ garlic scape pesto.

I feel so healthy, lol.

Actually this thread should be on it's own. It's about eating from your garden, not WFD.

I made sous vide chicken, on stir fried purlane found on my front lawn, with home-grown tomato sauce.

Delicious purlane.

dcarch

Lettuce, strawberries, zucchini, tomatoes, nasturtium, cucumber and soon grapes. Yay summer!

Kate

Home . . . grown . . . tomatoes!!!!!!

So far - lettuce, chives, strawberries. Tomatoes are starting to ripen, I had a pound of delicious little ones last week.

Tomatoes...we've been getting a bushel a week and I have a freezer full of marinara and traditional tomato sauce now. I think I'm going to make salsa this week.

green beans, peas, strawberries and lettuce...oh and working my way through onions and garlic..a few carrots and beets too..almost used up all the broccoli...one more dish..

Replanted over the last few weeks..spinach, lettuces, carrots, green onions, radishes and beets.

For the first time in my life, I grew a few herbs in little containers. I know, not very impressive compared to the rest of you but I person has to start somewhere. I bought the set on clearance and it contained parsley, basil, thyme & rosemary.

I've used my basil on tomatoes my MIL grew. Maybe next year I'll go wild and plant some tomatoes.

Have you seen the garden of judiegal from the home decor forum?
judiegal's garden

Well, I've picked over 12 pounds of hot peppers and I swear they can ripen right in front of my eyes. My tomatoes are sloooooooowwww this year....maybe picked 8 or so....lots of green ones though and I'm sure they will all ripen at once like usual.

Duane

Judiegal's garden looks like a full-fledged farm!

I've been eating at least a dozen cherry tomatoes every day at lunch with my sandwich, but I've also been using the basil and dill. My chilies are just now getting to be ripe, but I don't remember exactly what I planted. I know I have a bunch of Tabasco chilies, but I also have what appear to be Serranos, Jalapenos, Poblanos (not sure about those), and a couple of others that I cannot identify yet. Normally, chilies don't do that well for me, which is why I planted so many, but I'm going to get a lot this year. The lemon tree is dormant, but the lime tree is producing - slowly right now, but enough, and I will be getting a lot in the next month or so. For herbs, I also have epazote, oregano, thyme (a huge bush by now), Italian parsley, cilantro, spearmint, and another kind of mint. All of these are in pots, but I did plant some of the epazote and dill in the ground. I have tons of epazote now, and I use it whenever I cook beans that I use for Mexican dishes. I have found that it can be a substitute for cilantro in some dishes. It doesn't taste the same, but it adds an extra layer of flavor that would otherwise be missing, and so it has a similar effect.

My nasturtiums are dormant now - they grow best in the winter and spring.

Lars

Between weddings, uncertainty about my stepmother and knee surgery in June, I didn't put in my usual enormous garden and I miss it. Elery was sweet enough to build me a raised bed, though, so I've been eating cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchin, eggplant and peppers. Lots and lots of peppers. I've been using sweet red peppers and cubanelles and jalapenos (which are so mild this year they taste like a bell pepper, no heat at all). habaneros are just starting to ripen. My herb garden has dill, sage, pineapple sage, basil, sweet basil, purple basil, lemon basil, tarragon, oregano, chives and thyme.

Oh, and my backyard has purslane, which we add to cole slaw.

Annie

I'm not much of a gardener, but I am eating some cherry tomatoes (although Kodiak the dog is eating a lot of of them, and it's so cute and funny watching him nip them off the vine that I can't bring myself to stop him), plenty of herbs, and a cippolini onion that I am very proud of growing from seed.

Well I did have a lot of dandelion greens, but then there was the issue of the new puppy...

Having a veggie garden is something I've dreamed of for years, but there's always a reason why it doesn't happen.

We're harvesting lots of heirloom tomatoes. Also cucumbers & a mixture of finglering potato types. Bunnies got the cabbage again this year. Herbs (sage, thyme, parsley, basil, chives, & rosemary) have had a great year. Lots of pesto in the freezer. I've also made a homemade poultry seasoning. The garden's been easy care this year with seven inches of rain so far in August.

/tricia

I'm putting whatever I have eggplant, tomatoes, peppers, zucchini on my (Friday don't cook) pizza from $5 Friday at Safeway!
I LOVE $5 Fridays! It's great when the DH gets layed off during the winter! We can still pretend that we're eating out! LOL Nancy

We are eating tomatoes, tomatoes, and more tomatoes out of the small garden. The 3 baby deer on the other hand are eating all of our jalapenos and green peppers. They do not touch the tomatoes. So far I have a 122 pints of Annie's Salsa made and a couple batches of sauce just out of the canner.
Linda

Lettuce, lettuce, and more lettuce; no matter how much I pick, it fills back in overnight. Lots of kinds. And kale and Swiss chard. The herbs are fine, too, and my little hot yellow peppers from China.

A very nervy squirrel has eaten ALL -- and I am talking about several dozen -- of the tomatoes that were on the vines, as well as the zucchini. %^#@!!! It also destroys stuff it doesn't even eat -- eggplants, peppers. I hate that little _____.

I have a few peppers it missed, purple and brown, and I think some more little finger-sized eggplants may be coming that it won't be able to reach.

I had a few cucumbers before it chewed through the vine.

I even tried corn. I got 2 stalks, and each has a little withered ear. Looks like Pharaoh's dream.

The most interesting thing back there is a volunteer from last year. I think is is a squash, but I'm not sure what kind. It is an ENORMOUS vine -- takes up a whole bed. Very interesting. So far there are 2 white oval things growing and lots more blossoms. Evidently that stupid squirrel doesn't like squash.

Oh, and Elijah, the giant horseradish plant -- so named because the root makes an appearance at our Passover table every year, then goes back into the ground. I like the leaves, too -- they are nice and peppery.

We're getting oodles of roma tomatoes,so I made spagetti sauce,Reg tomatoes lots,but slowing down nowred,yellow,tiny pear yellow.Lots green beans,lots peppers we planted bell and sweet banana,good fresh on sausage pepper &onion sandwhiches,potatoes,onions,I always plant chives ,parsley chop & freeze till next season.I have 2 heads of cabbage,grapes are in.We get too much I put on kabota and go visit my sons give them xtras.

gellchom, that's how I feel about those two brown bunnies in my backyard, I've been encouraging the neighbor to let his grandson catch them and "relocate" them.

Yeah. if Grandma were still alive she'd trap them and relocate them right into a stew pot!

They ate all the cubanelle peppers, but just the bottoms of them. Grrrr.

Annie

Coming back from a 2-1/2 week vacation, I wasn't sure what I'd find, but today I'm broiling chicken thighs with a marinade that includes onions and figs from my garden and peach jam that I made a couple of weeks ago with peaches from a friend's tree. Last night's dinner included a bean salad with onions, peppers, carrots, basil and parsley from the garden. And tomorrow, I'll make an onion tart for dinner with a roasted chicken stuffed with lemons (onions and lemons from the garden). At the moment, I have lots of onions!

I'm hoping to trade them for some of my neighbor's heirloom tomatoes!

And if enough figs are ripe by the weekend, I'll make fig butter.

Zucchini...cukes...basil...zucchini...just starting to get ripe tomatoes...zucchini...a few sweet peppers...zu...you get the idea...

Arugula,English breakfast radishes,tomatoes,carrots,zucchini..

So far green beans, (that is until Chessa decided she likes them and picked them clean! LOL), jalapenos, green peppers, Lots of Sun Gold cherry tomatoes, Anaheim peppers, and a few golden beets.

The Amish Paste heirloom tomato I tried this year is LOADED, and they are starting to turn red, so I see salsa in my future. I put in one Rutgers tomato, too, but it is not producing many fruits, only about 5-6 tomatoes on it.

Basil did not do well at all this year, nor did the parsley. But my French Tarragon is huge, even tho I divided it and only kept about 1/3 of the original plant. Oregano and Thyme are doing well, also.

Not sure why, but my Nanking Cherries didn't set a single fruit this year.

Linda

My garden has been terrible this year, thanks for the record breaking heat. I've had a few tomatoes, mostly little egg shaped tomatoes that were labeled Jubilee, but don't look anything like them. Still, they've been quite tasty. My tomatoes, the few I've gotten, are all finished now, though.

I've been growing spaghetti squash and Charentais melons at work. All I can say is that I have a lot to learn about growing melons. I only got 4, and they all split. I'm so disappointed. However, I have lots and lots and lots of spaghetti squash.

The other day we went to farmers markets, which I wrote about in my birthday thread. That evening, I sauteed some red onions, (not from the markets), sweet peppers (don't know the variety, but shaped like banana peppers, but much better), yellow squash, some garlic, celery and tomatoes. To this mixture I added some whole wheat penne that I cooked on the side. at the end of cooking, I grated a little parm reg on top and added some chopped basil from my garden. They always say on the cooking shows that it's all about the ingredients. Well, they ain't lying. This simple little pasta meal was delicious, simply because it was made from good, home grown, fresh veggies. Oh, and the fact that I was out of olive oil and had to use butter! lol.

I hope for a more moderate summer next year. I've had enough of record breaking to last me the rest of my life.

Sally