Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Your Turn

Have you ever successfully grown any food? If so, what kind?

27 comments:

Marianne said...

Corn on the cob, parsley, broccoli, cauliflower and green beans..all the other veges for some reason don't come out as good for me..

sandybrook said...

I was a big city folk, we didn't have backyards, much less backyards with dirt. Here the squirrels and birds would eat anything that grew.

Former CNN Anchor Candy Crowley said...

Ted Turner gave me a baby hog as my Secret Santa gift a couple years back. I named him Fareed Zkaria, III. I nurtured that darling little thing, took him from 15 lbs to nearly 150 lbs - I'd salivate every time I saw him in the backyard of my Atlanta townhouse jowling down on some more grub.

I'm still frying up the bacon, and munching down on the ham hocks that remain of Fareed. He was delicious!

RenShaw said...

Tomatoes on my apartment balcony. I was afraid to eat them.

david said...

My wife tried to grow strawberries. They're supposed to grow well in the desert, but maybe we didn't water them enough.

AndrewBW said...

We have a small veggie garden in our back yard. Over the years we've grown broccoli, zucchini, tomatoes, cauliflower, radishes, carrots, green beans, snap peas, red peppers, jalapeno peppers, and lots of other things. It's a great excuse to get out in the sun for a while, it tastes great, and it saves us some money.

jenny breen said...

Tomatoes, peppers and onions planted bacon but it wouldn't grow

Artpunk said...

I used to have an herb garden on my apartment balcony. Cilantro, basil, chives, oregano and mint. I grew them all from $1 saplings from the farmers' market.

8==D KermitGosnellKnobJob said...

I have farmers in my family, therefore some summers I had to be an unpaid intern picking whatever they grew. I do not know if this answers the question. Lived in a small town all my life and big enough backyards are more rare than a truth saying politician around here.
F word those asparagus, tomatoes, and vegetarian crap.

Frufra said...

My mom grew up on a farm, so we were forced to garden as kids - tomatoes and green beans, mostly. When I lived in Oklahoma as an adult, Mr. F and I did some fairly serious gardening for a few years - potatoes, onions, tomatoes, watermelon, beans, and corn. I quickly learned that subsistence farming would suck - you're stuck eating whatever grows, depending on your luck with the weather. One year would have been all onions and tomatoes if we'd only had what we grew to eat. We also kept chickens for eggs, which is fairly easy once you've got things set up. We never ventured into meat birds, but dang, it would be good eating.

WickedBee said...

I am a farmer and homesteader so I organically grow about 90% of my own food.
All fruits and vegetables, rabbits and chicken for both meat and eggs. We keep bees for sweetener and also tap our maples. We also forage wild food (ramps, fiddleheads).
I'm very proud of us but it is insanely hard work, not only to maintain but to plan well enough to get us through winters.
I try really hard to practice what I preach.

WickedBee said...

It doesn't suck at all.

just sayin\' said...

grew up with guava, gig, plum, and apricot trees in california; raised araucana chickens (no, we didn't eat them!) but their turquoise eggs were fun, plus we had mango, lichee, orange and lemon trees in florida; i grow blueberries, blackberries, corn, tomatoes, lettuce, peppers, apples and herbs these days in upstate new york.

just sayin\' said...

*fig

Jennifer said...

No. The crows forced me out of business.

Frufra said...

I'm glad you're more successful than we were! It would suck for me personally, as my thumb is only marginally green. Maybe someday when we retire we can try again ?.

ponitayl said...

Fruit Flies

Farmgirl said...

Yes - Literally tons of it!

Guesser said...

Yes,raspberries, strawberries, tomatoes,herbs, onions, peppers, assorted other things, despite having a groundhog problem and very little space.

PinkEscada said...

Yes. For a couple of years, we had a vegetable garden. We grew corn, tomatoes, green beans, okra, squash, cucumbers, and cantaloupe. Then we put in a pool, so no more garden.

OKay said...

Every year we plant a garden. There's usually corn, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, chives, squash, pumpkins, peas, beets and onions.

Scandi Sanskrit said...

I bought a cherry tomato kit at the groceries back in 2015, but I still haven't grown them yet. I had on/off depression and anxiety and haven't been able to get my shit together enough cook food, let alone grow food...

Scandi Sanskrit said...

That's so awesome!

Scandi Sanskrit said...

Plums!

Scandi Sanskrit said...

Don't you live in Vegas/Nevada? I thought they only grow in cold climate?

Guesser said...

Thank you , and don't give up on the cherry tomatoes, they are still good! If you are lacking patience, get a growing plant.Cherry tomatoes good for beginners,they ripen quicker and don't split on you when the weather is bad.

Guest said...

thank you for keeping it so real I have the same issues that really encourage courage me to see that I'm not the only one struggling

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