It's already the middle of June, and for those of you who started your vegetable gardens earlier this year, have you been harvesting anything yet? I am at my mother's house in the North Georgia Mountains, where we're picking the first radishes and cherry tomatoes. Look at these beauties!
Let us know what you've been picking and eating out of your garden so far! If you haven't picked anything yet, what do you think the first yields will be, and when?
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I've been harvesting greens for a month now. First when I thinned them out, they were microgreens. Now I pick a bunch of baby leaves every few days for delicious salads. Radishes still need another week or 2 (I checked earlier in the week & the tiny radish was tasty). Herbs are ready & have been used a little in salads. I'm just outside of Boston, so I'm a long way from tomatoes... I think they'll be ready in late August:)
Herbs only. Our Cilantro is growing like wild right now. They are at least 3ft tall.
I've been picking a pretty steady supply of salad greens, scallions and radishes. My sugar snap peas just started but because of the cool weather I'm getting a bumper crop - first picking was over 1 1/2#. Yippee!
lil bit of herbs and 5 very very small strawberries
Lots of basil, cilantro, dill, sage, rosemary. Spring crops are done and starting to pick the first of the tomatoes and squash.
Only chives and sage. It has been cold here and my garden is basically looking the same as the day I planted. Just a few seed sprouts up and the seedlings are just sitting there looking sad.
lettuce, greens, chives, allium, herbs, small strawberries
About 60 or so sugar snap peas, herbs, and bib lettuce. Soon some tomatoes, bell peppers, and green onion.
Herbs only so far. But there are tiny tomatoes on our tomato plants, so I think those will be our first vegetables from the garden.
Basil, butter lettuce & rhubarb (although the rhubarb isn't in the garden, but off behind the shed). This weekend should yield some radishes, arugula and cilantro! I love gardening!
Parsley. Just tonnes and tonnes of parsley :( it's the only thing that is doing ok (i.e. not dead) in this cold rainly spring!
Pints of strawberries, here. And garlic scapes - I bet I could let them grow a little longer, but it's my first year for garlic and I'm just so excited.
Also just got my first handful of horseradish greens :)
Oh, and, well, the mint and parsley grow and grow...
Only radishes and herbs (basil, thyme, chives, oregano, rosemary, and mint transplants) so far, but my lettuce seedlings (mesclun) are getting big enough to clip, and the first pepper plant I transplanted (a long sweet called key largo) has fruit. The tomatoes are plentiful but still green.
It's been a cool very rainy spring here in Northern Virginia., but things seem to be taking off now. My eggplant is finally growing, the cukes are getting started, and hopefully the lima beans will be close behind.
i'm in south west florida which means our growing season is coming to an end. we planted our small, raised bed very, very late. and very, very haphazardly. it was our first time.
it's totally been taken over by (now) wilting tomato plants which have produced dozens of sweet, juicy grape tomatoes - two different kinds, even!
the lettuce and cucumbers are pretty much done. the summer squash have two or three buds left but i'm not sure they'll make it through the heat. the green bells went in extra late but have done well and should continue producing for another three weeks or so. the hungarian peppers have been a bumper crop producing enough to eat one or more daily and to quick pickle two large jars.
once the tomato plants stop producing, come the end of june or so, i'll clear everything out (except the hot peppers which do well down here) and wait for september...
So far, we've only harvested cucumbers, but the tomato and cherry tomato plants are overloaded with little green fruits, so I expect it won't be long before we're swimming in those.
I successfully harvested 2 carrots so far! I had begun my attempt at a potted garden about a month ago. Germinated pea, cucumber, carrot, watermelon, bell pepper, and sunflower seeds- then moved them into their new home on my sunny back deck.
A month later the peas hated their potted home and died. The cucumbers never stood a chance as I apparently broke their roots moving them from their seed starting cubbyholes. I have 6 pepper stalks that are taking their time growing, my sunflower is about to bloom, the watermelon plant is hanging in there, and the carrots are the most successful in my "garden".
I never cared for a plant in my life so 2 carrots is far beyond my expectations. I'll be reading everyones comments on here, maybe make my thumb a few shades greener in the process. :-)
Broccoli! We've been eating it like crazy for three weeks now. How? The magic of row covers. Highly recommended for extending the growing season.
Broccoli rabe. Also: tons of greens (rocket, mustard, lettuce, spinach), radishes and baby carrots (eaten as they're thinned).
Will be eating garden cauliflower tonight.
(I'm in Boise, zone 6, so it's still chilly for tomatoes and cukes)
Just the herbs so far, the tomato plants we started indoors were too skinny so it'll be a while before we can get a crop. Also, it's been rainy and cold here in Boston!
I'm debating harvesting some beet greens - this is my first time growing beets. Any recommendations on harvesting young beet greens? yay or nay?
we start our CSA next week so i am super excited to see what comes in that bounty!
I'm *so* envious... we have NADA. Wisconsin's been pretty cold lately, so I don't expect anything for a while. However, the sugar snap/snow pea shoots look fantastic, as do my herbs. I'm excited for everything to start moving along!
Herbs year round, but that's what one gets in San Diego. I did just harvest my first few jalapenos, which made me so happy.
Houston, here... is hot!
We have already harvested beautiful tomatoes, eggplant and peppers.
This is my first year gardening down here - moved here from Ithaca NY, and am amazed by the MAJOR differences. My eggplants in Ithaca never looked so great (even in Aug.) and I never harvested so many!
Also? My winter squash looks amazing! Never got much in NY - but here I'm looking forward to lots of beauties!
Being in Northern California, we have a long growing season so we're still eating some of our winter crops like potatoes and chard:
http://www.salmoncabin.com/2009/02/a-day-in-the-life-of-chard.html
Plus spring crops like peas and strawberries:
http://www.salmoncabin.com/2009/05/sundried-strawberry-preserves.html
As far as the summer crops go, we've already harvested a few pounds of zucchini, and best of all zucchini blossoms!
http://www.salmoncabin.com/2009/06/fried-zucchini-flowers.html