This is my first year NOT growing zucchini! Moving to a smaller yard 5 years ago, and slowly going back up to 3 4x8 beds, we thought the zuk was taking up a lot of real estate, and I was giving most of it away!

There's a community garden down the street that I'm sure I can get some from, but sadly that will be gone after this summer! (zillion dollar lot will be built on!)

The basil is doing great, and little tomatoes are emerging!

Love me a vege garden, no matter what size!

All we're growing this year (in very large containers) are tomatoes. A yellow pear cherry, a red cherry, a Big Boy, a Cherokee Purple, an Old German and a medium sized yellow tomato I can't remember the name of. No zuchs, no cukes, no beans....I do have some herbs planted. We won't see any tomatoes from our plants until the end of July at the earliest. Temps still in the 50's at night all next week. We just bought our tomatoes yesterday so they're not planted yet. Last frost date for our area is Memorial Day.

I think the difference is the seeds. Some seeds are better than others, even if they come from the same source.

The first of the season is always best, the anticipation whets the appetite, I think. Congratulations on your first harvest of the year.

I don't know why some plants just do better than others. I have 6 heads of ice berg lettuce, all from the same package of seeds, all in identical pots and all in compost from the same bucket off the same pile. Two are enormous, four are growing nicely, but haven't caught up with the others. So, the difference isn't in the pots, or the location, or the compost or the seed company. What's left? Maybe Lars is onto something with the seed theory.

I just picked some "first" too, the first asparagus of the year. I held it in the refrigerator in a glass of water until we got some more a couple of days later, LOL.

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We also had a salad with the first salad greens from the hoop houses but I did'nt take a picture.

Annie

Had my fall radishes, but hubby wanted to try some seed strips, So I have a bunch of white radishes that we're going to grill in a foil pack with butter and garlic. Something new and different!

Annie, those asparagus spears look so delicious and beautiful. What variety?

I wasn’t able to keep up with my bed and it went to the weeds. It was ‘Jersey Knight.’

(Never show your dog where the asparagus bed is. Ditto with wild blueberry patch.)

Mine is a Canadian variety called "Millenium". It's good for cold areas and can also tolerate heat, predominately male plants. I got them from a Michigan company called "Daisy Farms". When I got mine they were less than $60 for 100 crowns, now they are more, but still far less expensive than anywhere else I found. I got 100 crowns, 98 of them grew and did so well that the next year I ordered 100 more of a different variety, something called "Sequoia", which is a Jersey type.

http://daisyfarms.net/asparagus.html#

The Millenium are bigger but the Sequoia are more prolific.

I have 100 strawberry plants from the same place and they are loaded with berries this year. They were last year too, but I couldn't figure out how to keep the chipmunks out of them. so I got a couple of quarts from those 100 plants. If I can't keep them under control this year, the strawberries will be removed and replaced with something else, I'm not going to weed/hoe/water a crop for the varmints!

Annie

Apriums are next... I have a tree full.

Tonight I cut up some ripe ones, sautéed them, and served over store-bought Angelfood cake:

Annie, those Asperagus look delicious.... especially fresh. I find it interesting that you are having the same plant problems as I.

So cute! So far my only harvest has been two stalks of rhubarb . . . they were delicious though.