The cherry tomatoes are starting to roll in. I canned up my first batch of salsa for the season, using home-grown tomatoes, onions, jalapenos, and bell peppers (and frozen corn). We like to mix the salsa into sauteed vegetables.

LoriMT said: I have harvested about 60 pounds of onions this week. I made some French Onion soup - so yummy!

• Sweet Onion (Allium cepa '1015Y Texas Super Sweet')
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Looks good. My entire onion crop was devastated by the allium leaf minner. Did you cover yours?

Rizzo, I thought I had a thread just for allium leaf miner but must have posted in the middle of another conversation. I have them too, finding some pupae in almost every garlic bulb. I have some ok onions, I used row cover for some weeks, and looked for the egg laying dots and cut those off. Terrible spoiler for sure. They may not be in GA yet.

I made cucumber salad with onions and -- CUCUMBERS, from my garden , for the first time in a long, long time.

RizzoR said: Looks good. My entire onion crop was devastated by the allium leaf minner. Did you cover yours?

@RizzoR, I did not have any issue with allium leaf miner. Knock on wood, the onions have been a pretty trouble-free crop, unlike my blueberries (mummy disease), green beans (rabbits!), raspberries (June bugs), and now the tomatoes (horn worms).

It takes courage to be a gardener!

Oh, knock on wood, up here blueberries have been totally foolproof. Im with you on rabbits and berry bugs! And more.

I may have forgotten about picking the okra before it got too big.



My goal is to keep these bushes as perennials rather than having to plant them every year.

Lol!
Mine start branching, then for unknown causes start to yellow and lose leaves. I attribute to aging after much pod production even though >I keep harvesting.

Nothing harvested today for me, but my Lapins cherries are looking redder and darker every day and I can't wait to taste them!!

I've been enjoying another flush of fruit from my Pitanga and I've started making tea from the leaves of the Purple Passionflower. I crush, ferment, and then dry the leaves. Bonus, the used tea leaves are a favorite treat of my sister's horse.

First picking of this seasons home grown cucumbers for me.

Big Bertha pepper, and some sugar snap peas cut and frozen as they came a few at a time, and garlic.

Gold rush zucchini, skinny eggplant, garlic, cherry tomatoes, all roasted together.

I have been eating lots of cucumbers. And giving even more away to neighbors and friends.

I made BLTs from my own home grown tomatoes today. First of the season. Although I have been eating tomatoes. Tomato and cucumber salads and just slice up a tomato and eat it. Either with dinner or by itself.

For the first time in a long, long, long time fresh green beans out of the garden cooked in heavy cream with salt and pepper.

Not sure if I had , had that, since the last time Ma cooked it fifty years ago.

so, just simmer the beans in cream? I've never heard of that way.

sallyg said: so, just simmer the beans in cream? I've never heard of that way.

Ya, just a slow simmer in heavy cream, or thinned out slightly with half & half if one wants a thinner sauce.

I pepper mine heavily.

Brocolli and Cauliflower soup.
Added a pound of fried bacon.
Good stuff; Sammy was sitting on my lap and sniffing the bowl so I lowered it for him and he had that old tongue going like crazy sucking it up.

Finally enough green beans for a meal. OG likes them plain with just a dab of margarine (pretty much the only salty thing he eats); I put lots of salt in a skillet previously used for frying veggie burgers, add the drained cooked beans and give them a light toasting. Nice light evening meal with sev, a spicy Indian fried snack - one of my favourites, when I can get it. (Imports have been hit-and-miss the last couple of years.)