# What Did You Eat Out Of The Garden Today? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 28, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374 "2015-07-28T03:14:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374/21 "2015-07-28T18:39:21Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > of course there’s fresh rabbit and chipmunk from our live traps. They make an excellent Kentucky burgoo. Picturing how hard it must be to dress a chipmunk. They’re so small! ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374/22 "2015-07-28T19:40:40Z")
Tomatoes ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374/23 "2015-07-28T20:15:21Z")
Tomatoes (roma, beefsteak and cherry), hot peppers (jalapeno and cheyenne), sweet peppers (bannana and bell), all grown in planters on our back deck. An easy way to grow fresh produce without tye upkeep of a ‘garden’. I’ll build in some permanent planters this winter and we’ll expand our deck garden next year. > [@Motorgirl](#): > > Picturing how hard it must be to dress a chipmunk. They’re so small! Like [this](https://www.google.com/search?q=chip+and+dale&biw=1920&bih=955&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0CB0QsARqFQoTCPnZ7-LR_sYCFcb9HgodXPMM-Q#imgrc=Um0S7wzx97W6xM%3A) ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374/24 "2015-07-29T05:30:15Z")
Japanese pumpkin green onions cherry tomatoes Pea leaves garlic ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374/25 "2015-07-29T06:16:12Z")
I almost ate a fly. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374/26 "2015-07-29T07:27:24Z")
Habaneros, serranos, and jalapeños. I try to grow coriander, but it grows too fast and flowers before I can harvest enough of its cilantro leaves. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374/27 "2015-07-29T13:32:36Z")
yesterday I munched on a couple of blueberries and a sugar snap pea pod (the peas have pretty much bit the dust with the recent onset of 90 degree temps). ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374/28 "2015-07-30T02:06:38Z")
Today, part of a huge-ass zucchini that my neighbor didn’t get to, so told me to take. Also pasta with the remains of some herb and olive oil sauce with basil from the garden, and the chicken was marinated in olive oil, lemon, garlic, and mint from the garden. What else can do with huge-ass zucchini? I like to catch them when they are still little and sweet, but it seems a shame to waste the huge ones my neighbor didn’t catch in time. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374/29 "2015-07-30T05:47:52Z")
huge ass zucchini an go into soup. Or at least part of it. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Room](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_room/32/5069_2.png) [@Little\_Room](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Room)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374/30 "2015-07-30T17:04:25Z")
Today, tomatoes and little tiny bell peppers, yesterday cucumbers. In other plants, his is the first year I’ve tried an herb garden…and it hasn’t gone well. Except for mint. I think that stuff must be related to kudzu. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374/31 "2015-07-30T23:36:56Z")
Driest first quarter in seven years. Today I ate some chives or spring greens I have cowering in a pot on the gallery. Otherwise the ground is cracked and what’s left of the grass is crackling. Freezer is full of bananas however and there are two hands on the fig warf since it’s watered from the washing machine water. I’ll cook some green bananas this weekend from one of them. I love courgettes! ---
**Author:** ![bb49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b38774/32.png) [@bb49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bb49)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374/32 "2016-08-01T19:04:00Z")
I thought it was time to resurrect this thread, and to my surprise it was almost exactly a year ago that I first posted it. As for the garden this year, it seems to look a lot like last year’s. So far we’ve been eating: red and yellow beets peas, which are finished zucchini, doesn’t everyone have zucchini? cucumber, I discovered it the other day and had forgotten about it patty pan squash basil, chives, rosemary tomatoes apricots, cherries & peaches blueberries, almost finished pork tenderloin, came from our friends ranch and cat grass, for the cats of course. This is a great time of the year ---
**Author:** ![spamforbrains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@spamforbrains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spamforbrains)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374/33 "2016-08-01T19:15:44Z")
Some days I never even get around to eating dinner after going out grazing in the garden. Green beans, blackberries, raspberries, tomatoes, just eat them straight off the bush. The cherries and are done for the year and the lettuce/spinach gave up the ghost long ago (too hot) but the plums are about to get going. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374/34 "2016-08-01T19:17:01Z")
I noticed the big red tomato I’d had my eye on for year’s first picking had disappeared when I was watering last night. The rabbits or squirrels got it. Eventually, there will be so many, I won’t mind sharing but I was really looking forward to that one. I got a large bowl of raspberries about three weeks ago. Other than that, it’s just been some herbs here and there. ---
**Author:** ![bb49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b38774/32.png) [@bb49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bb49)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374/35 "2016-08-01T19:25:20Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > I noticed the big red tomato I’d had my eye on for year’s first picking had disappeared when I was watering last night. The rabbits or squirrels got it. Eventually, there will be so many, I won’t mind sharing but I was really looking forward to that one. > > I got a large bowl of raspberries about three weeks ago. > Other than that, it’s just been some herbs here and there. Then you had better put rabbit and squirrel on the menu. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374/36 "2016-08-01T19:41:24Z")
No garden at our place, but we have a couple of big pots on the deck. One has a shitload of chives in it, and every Sunday morning I cut off a bunch to dice up and put on our breakfast. The other pot has several dense rows of [nira,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium_tuberosum) which are growing tall and healthy. Looking forward to a big harvest this fall. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374/37 "2016-08-01T21:28:44Z")
The cherry tomatoes aren’t producing at a high rate yet, but we’ve been eating (and giving away) a lot of patty pan squash and lettuce greens. The jalapeno peppers are doing extremely well this year, as is the basil. The butternut squash are not ripe enough yet, nor are the Asian pears, but both are good producers this year. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374/38 "2016-08-01T22:50:09Z")
> [@ITR\_champion](#): > > This year I have no garden, since we’re living in an apartment. I hope that by next year we’ll be back in a house and gardening away. It happened. I have tomatoes and zucchini. Massive amounts of both. I had lettuce earlier in the season. Herbwise, I have basil, rosemary, stevia, and thyme. ---
**Author:** ![that\_darn\_cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/59ef9b/32.png) [@that\_darn\_cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/that_darn_cat)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374/39 "2016-08-02T00:54:50Z")
Tonight was just a cuke from the brave vo!unteer trying to survive Pumpkin Cthullu. We’ve had a fair amount of yellow squash, but the squash borers have about killed the zucchini. Tomatoes are exp!doing and the peppers are doing well. We might get a couple of ears of corn. Nothing on the eggplant t so far. Herbs have been doing OK on the front porch. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374/40 "2016-08-02T01:07:07Z")
A few tomatoes and some blueberries I’m growing some Tiny but Mighty heirloom popcorn plants in a patio pot, it’s an ancient strain that stays small (3’ tall) and can produce up to 30 (2" long) cobs per plant, the popcorn seeds are half the size of modern popcorn, and are absolutely delicious when popped Right now, the plants are about a foot tall… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-did-you-eat-out-of-the-garden-today/726374.md?page=3)