Try stir frying your blanched green beans and adding lemon or lemon pepper. Some people take fresh garden green beans and boil them until they taste like they came out of a can.

Possibly, grow like crazy and huge beans!

I'll give it a try. We usually steam them, then go fresh or add light butter and sea salt.

Nice haul!

I have 24 squash and zuccini on 4 hills about the size of my finger. I'm so excited.

Was that yesterday? If so, they are probably too big by now LOL Kidding of course, but seriously, you will have to pick every other day!!

Sometimes you have some finger size un pollinated squash which will never mature.

Maybe can join the discussion this year. Living in the middle of a mesquite pasture, a green garden is a beacon for every grasshopper for miles around. This year, backyard chickens and ducks have been he death on hoppers and we have a small garden. Tomatoes, peppers and squash are looking good. Been a long time since I tasted a homegrown tomato.

Little bit of mesclun, tomatoes, mint and two baby japs.



Little bit of spinach and blueberries.

wait.............soooooooooooo you grew that?

All except the feta, almonds, and strawberries.

Containers or garden?

My family has been getting weary of fresh tomatoes. My wife doesn't can and I don't have time so I picked a bunch of green ones today to fry. I love em! Whole fried green cherry tomatoes are even better!

Never had fried cherry tomatoes? cook the same? I've had the regular slicers fried green, but taste like fried zucs and squash to me?

We have eaten about five so far and I picked these this evening. A bird has gotten a couple so I am picking as soon as they start to turn from now on.

CC

Yea, we cook em the same. Slice them in half. Mix half flour, half cornmeal, salt and pepper. Dunk the tomatoes in egg/milk mixture and roll in the flour/ cornmeal. Fry till golden.

Containers

Except blueberries. Those are "wild".

We finally got enough pickle cucs to give pickle making a try. The wife went to get the ingredients at the grocer and found a dill pickle "pre-mix". Gave a couple of jars away to see if they liked them and lived, folks said they where the best they ever has !!??

I tried some after they chilled and fellas they where darn good, very very crisp

I'm waiting for squash to make pickles. I can't wait.

I've seen that pickle mix in the canning section. I was tempted but never tried it. Maybe next year. I put up 8 pints of salsa this morning. I'm getting tired of my garden.

I generally see stink bugs showing up about this time of the year, but none so far.

My 1015 onions really disgusted me this year. I'm usually the onion man on this forum. This year they turned out like oversized shallots in two to three sections.

Bill, I have been torching stink bugs, nymphs and eggs for 3 weeks. Keeping them somewhat under control though.

I guess pickling (dill) juice, isnt to complicate from scratch, but if a packeage can do the same thing without the fuss I was somewhat "bias" and ended up surprised.

Likewise

Some pics from today...