Today's Pickings

[Meadowlark]

One of the all time favorite veggies here in East Texas is the prolific, heat/humidity loving okra. The stuff is incredibly productive...great on the grill, fried, pickled or whatever. Many more pickings now through August.

Five pint jars are just the start...each with one jalapeno in the middle. This stuff is to die for...

 

[LouisFerdinand]

Just picked some pink currants, had to pick them before they were properly ripe because the black birds were eating them.
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My grandmother has canned currant jelly. My grade school friends thought it was DELICIOUS!

 

[Logan]

Picked some redcurrants

Some rhubarb

 

[Logan]

Gooseberries

 

[Meadowlark]

Dang! I love gooseberries! Where I was born and raised gooseberries grew wild and when we went hunting, we always picked a bunch of them. Good memories.

Unfortunately East Texas doesn't grow those or rhubarb or currents.

 

[Meadowlark]

First picking of Lima beans today. I have found these difficult to grow here in East Texas...maybe its just finding the right type for my soil/location. There will be at least one more picking to come on the Limas. The Christmas Lima seems to be the best producer so far out of the King Lima and CANNELLINI LINGOT bean.

Tomatoes and cucumbers just keep coming and coming.

 

[Logan]

First picking of blueberries, about 8oz

 

[Meadowlark]

We have a neighbor who grows very tasty, excellent melons...watermelons and cantaloupes...and I'd rather not grow them myself, for a number of reasons, but always have excesses of other veggies to trade.

This year its peppers...big and small jalapenos and bell peppers....in huge excess. The peppers are still producing but slowing down some but will explode again this fall.

Turning hot and spicy into sweet and crunchy today:

Hot and spicey from my garden

Sweet and crunchy from the neighbor's garden:

 

[Meadowlark]

Its melon season in East Texas and my favorite garden grown melon has to be the honeydew. Full of vitamins and natural sweets this close relative of the cantaloupe provides stunning produce now until fall...only thing to worry about is beating the critters to the bounty.

 

[zigs]

Last of the Blackcurrants and first of the Blackberries

 

[Islander77]

As dawn ripened, I harvested peas, broad beans and leafy greens from my small wind-battered patch. Small , simple crops and deeply satisfying.

 

[zigs]

 

[Logan]

Picked some more blueberries

 

[Mrsclem]

Heirloom cherry tomatoes and assorted sweet peppers. Need to pick blueberries but it's been raining all afternoon!

 

[Logan]

Victoria plums, a lot of the time don't have a lot but this year is different.