Food on the Table

[Ted Calver]

It's a great hobby that gives you exercise, fresh air and food on the table:
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[Paul Douglass]

YUMMMY!

 

[David Johnson]

All that food before breakfast sure does get the juices flowing. Looks delicious.
David

 

[Bob Gibson]

Mouthwatering !!!!!

 

[Dave Hoskins]

I get to reap a lot of the benefits of my sister's garden. She's one of those Master Gardeners and she can really grow the veggies.

 

[Toni Ciuraneta]

And where is the recipe? I’d like to give it a try, but I don’t even know it’s name. It’s got pecan nuts, lemon, zuchinni, as far as I can see…

 

[Ryan Mooney]

Weather there's a bit ahead of here. I saw the very first zucchini poking it's little head out of the plant a couple days ago so that's going to be "on" real soon now. The bush beans are trying to flower a little, no beans yet, and the pole beans are just barely up. We have gotten a few batches of fava beans both green and shelled though! Cucumbers are "up" but quite a ways from fruiting. We are awash in lettuce still.

I'd stop by any day of the week for a pecan pie, I'm personally fond of the slightly less sweet custard style over the syrup style but will take either with sufficient quantities of pecans

 

[Ted Calver]

And where is the recipe? I’d like to give it a try, but I don’t even know it’s name. It’s got pecan nuts, lemon, zuchinni, as far as I can see…

Toni, The squash and yellow beans were cooking separately for dinner. That's a Blackberry Galette and my wife keeps the recipe in her head. Here is what I was able to pry loose. The galette shown didn't have any peaches and used all blackberries instead. Some more galette recipies here.

 

[Ted Calver]

Weather there's a bit ahead of here. I saw the very first zucchini poking it's little head out of the plant a couple days ago so that's going to be "on" real soon now. The bush beans are trying to flower a little, no beans yet, and the pole beans are just barely up. We have gotten a few batches of fava beans both green and shelled though! Cucumbers are "up" but quite a ways from fruiting. We are awash in lettuce still.

I'd stop by any day of the week for a pecan pie, I'm personally fond of the slightly less sweet custard style over the syrup style but will take either with sufficient quantities of pecans

I planted a row of the Taylor dwarf beans that you liked and they are up and going crazy. I thought they were a bush type but they are wanting to climb. Won't be long.
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[Ryan Mooney]

I've had a fair bit of variability in how bushy "bush" beans actually are. My kind of rough understanding is that basically all of them were originally climbers to some degree that were bred down to be more bushy and sometimes the old genetics pop back out. I have a fairly large stash of wood stakes that I can put in at need to support them in emergencies.

I don't think I was the one who mentioned the Taylor dwarfs (checking seed lists I don't see it which either means we didn't grow it or didn't keep track of it, either is certainly possible)... but it does look like a really nice multi-use bean! Love some of the heirloom varieties.

 

[Ted Calver]

...I don't think I was the one who mentioned the Taylor dwarfs (checking seed lists I don't see it which either means we didn't grow it or didn't keep track of it, either is certainly possible)... but it does look like a really nice multi-use bean! Love some of the heirloom varieties.

Oops. Now I don't know where the suggestion came from. Supposedly they are a good dry bean type. Thought it was worth a try to keep some stashed away under vacuum just in case.

 

[Ryan Mooney]

we've had great luck with a white pole bean that is one of.. several types and we're not sure which (it's a saved seed and the original situation was complicated by some significant over growth) and the borlotti cranberry pole beans (which look a lot like those). We also have a bunch of others we keep trying (the tiger eye are cool looking but not super high yield, there's an AZ pinto that is kind of interesting for the lower water spots, there's a black pole bean we've been co-planting with corn, there's several kinds of cowpea's, there's... yeah... ok.. it do go on haha). And that's not even counting the green beans

 

[Ryan Mooney]

https://victoryseeds.com/products/taylors-dwarf-horticultural-bush-dry-bean claims they're a "semi runner", with open pollinated heirlooms though I reckon the variance is part of the fun

 

[Chuck Ellis]

All you guys with your gardens... toooooooo much work for me.. I "harvest" all my veggies at the local Mennonite Farmer's market... prices are good and I don't have to break a sweat, unless the temperature is high the day I go out there.

 

[Leo Voisine]

I am working on my gardens. My main garden is a lot more shady than it was when I built it in 1985 or so. So much so that it is just too much shade to really be productive now. Not sure what I am going to do with it. I love the shade from the trees - beautiful canopy.

I built a nice raised bed on the sunny side of my yard last year and it was very productive. In that bed I mixed in about 50% - 70% organic matter. I also planted some seed worms.

I may build another one next year.

I also did some round barrel container gardens that did fairly well.
I will be rebuilding those next year as well.

I have a couple of really nice compost piles in the works. I just turned over one of them a couple of days ago. Looking great. That will all be for next years gardens.

I have fruit trees, American Black Walnut tree and berries.

Gardening is simply awesome.

 

[Ted Calver]

Ten gallon grow bags similar to these have been working out great for the plants that wouldn't fit in my raised beds. They are durable enough for several seasons and have carry handles for mobility. Have also gotten good result from corregated galvanized fire rings found at yard sales.
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[Brent Dowell]

Ten gallon grow bags similar to these have been working out great for the plants that wouldn't fit in my raised beds. They are durable enough for several seasons and have carry ahndles for mobility. Have also gotten good result from corregated galvanized fire rings found at yard sales.

I think you just solved my gardening problem for this year. Something ate all the smaller plants we put out. Still have some tomatoes we haven't put in the ground yet. I've got some grow bags though so will probably use those so that I can put them up higher, or move around to keep safe.

 

[Chuck Ellis]

I uilt a nice raised bed on the sunny side of my yard last year and it was very productive. In that bed I mixed in about 50% - 70% organic matter. I also planted some seed worms.

I still have a couple of raided beds on the west end of the house... I have a really nice crop of weeds in both.... there's asparagus in the end of one, but I've let it bolt and now it's mostly asparagus ferns.

 

[Dave Hawksford]

Ted with your organic vegetables I'll add the organic turkey. What could be better .....deer ?

 

[Ted Calver]

Ted with your organic vegetables I'll add the organic turkey. What could be better .....deer ?

Yup, as long as it's grain/corn fed. I've been fortunate to have dined on elk, mule deer and pronghorn antelope that spent a lot of time in farmers fields and they were excellent, but we're not in Montana any more Toto. . Up in Alaska, had a share of a big ol bull moose harvested during the rut that no amount of marinating/tenderizing could make palatable. Kids were raised on caribou sausage/hot dogs and they loved them. When they tasted real hot dogs for the first time they wouldn't eat them, said they were horrible.
I did have some excellent whitetail at a thanksgiving pot luck one time here in VA. My MIL, raised in the depression on poached whitetail, rabbits etc., could work magic on wild game. Maybe the secret is the chef?