Question of the Week - What is in season in your part of the world?

[Guest guest]

I have some chives and sage growing on the patio.

Last week I got some local watermelon, heirloom tomatoes and avocados that were

wonderful.

Donna

 

--- On Wed, 6/4/08, wwjd <jtwigg wrote:

 

wwjd <jtwigg

Question of the Week - What is in season in your

part of the world?

" vegetarian_ group "

Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 5:18 AM

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time for another Question of the Week?

 

What locally grown produce is in season right now, in your part of the

world? Also, What if any, do you grown in your yard, pots and garden?

 

Your responses always make these QOTW, interesting to us all.

Have fun.

Judy

[Guest guest]

watch the tomatoes. i didn't catch all of what the news was saying, but there is

something going on with the tomatoes.

 

Donnalilacflower <thelilacflower wrote: I have some chives

and sage growing on the patio.

Last week I got some local watermelon, heirloom tomatoes and avocados that were

wonderful.

Donna

 

--- On Wed, 6/4/08, wwjd <jtwigg wrote:

 

wwjd <jtwigg

Question of the Week - What is in season in your

part of the world?

" vegetarian_ group "

Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 5:18 AM

 

Time for another Question of the Week?

 

What locally grown produce is in season right now, in your part of the

world? Also, What if any, do you grown in your yard, pots and garden?

 

Your responses always make these QOTW, interesting to us all.

Have fun.

Judy

 

 

 

 

 

 

" LET THE HEALING BEGIN "

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

My goodness, where do you live?

 

 

Gary

 

gsmattingly

San Francisco Bay Tri-Valley Area

USDA Zone - 9b

Sunset zone - 14

 

 

 

wwjd <jtwigg

 

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 5:32:43 AM

Re: Question of the Week - What is in season in your

part of the world?

 

Blueberries have just come in season here. I went by a blueberry farm and

bought 10 lbs and they were only $1.50/lb for sweet plump blueberries. I've

been enjoying a bowl every morning. My youngest daughter said she wants to make

a blueberry pie with some of them today. I'll put some in the freezer for

smothies, muffins, etc. We made a fresh fruit salad with some blueberries,

strawberries, watermellon, mandrin oranges and pineapple with slivered almonds.

It was delicious.

 

My figs should be rips soon. Yeah!!! Love them

 

I've got tomatoes starting to get ripe in my garden.

 

All the corn fields around here, look like they will be ready to harvest within

the week, so the produce stands should be loaded up soon. We love fresh corn on

the cob. I love it even raw.

 

Speckled butter beans, field peas with snaps, purple hull peas, lima beans, and

cucumbers are already coming in here. Our produce stands have shelling

machines, and mix the beans if you desire and I desire. LOL So good cooked

together.

 

Okra should be ready within a couple of weeks in the stands too.

 

Peaches are also starting to ripen up in the southern part of our state and are

showing in the produce stands and grocery stores. There is a huge peach

orchard about 50 miles south of me...and they grow delicious peaches.

 

My basil plants which I grown in a pot, is really producing a lot and we are

enjoying having it for cooking in things and making pesto...... We also have

garlic chives and a stevia plant that is ready anytime we want some... Boiy

are those stevia leaves nice and sweet, just to munch on... This is my first

year to have that plant..

 

Well I'm sure there is more, but that is what I'm remembering at the moment.

Judy

[Guest guest]

Hm, there were lots of cherries and strawberries at the Farmer's Market.

In the yard, lots of herbs - sage (various), chives, thyme (several varieities),

rosemary, German Chamomile, winter savory, mints (various), tarragon,

oregano. Hm, salad burnet, garden sorrel and I we still have some lettuce,

 

Gary

 

gsmattingly

San Francisco Bay Tri-Valley Area

USDA Zone - 9b

Sunset zone - 14

 

--- On Wed, 6/4/08, wwjd <jtwigg wrote:

 

wwjd <jtwigg

Question of the Week - What is in season in your

part of the world?

" vegetarian_ group "

Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 5:18 AM

 

Time for another Question of the Week?

 

What locally grown produce is in season right now, in your part of the

world? Also, What if any, do you grown in your yard, pots and garden?

 

Your responses always make these QOTW, interesting to us all.

Have fun.

Judy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

We're having so much unusual rain with no sun that nothing is happening. A

lot of the fruit etc. has been ruined by bad weather.

 

Even my own plants (flowers) aren't growing as much as they should due to

lack of sun. Kind of depressing.

 

Sam

 

 

 

 

 

Time for another Question of the Week?

 

What locally grown produce is in season right now, in your part of the

world? Also, What if any, do you grown in your yard, pots and garden?

 

Your responses always make these QOTW, interesting to us all.

Have fun.

Judy

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

It is hard to know for sure since my market is pretty lame about

labeling sources, but I'd guess fiddlehead ferns and rhubarb. We are

seeing a lot of strawberries and corn but I'm pretty sure they aren't

local and are brought in because (1) you have to have something to go

with the rhubarb (actually, you don't, but most people think you do)

and (2) Bostonians are so ready for summer the markets think pale

imported corn is going to sell big.

 

In my garden right now, I have dandelion, parsley, romaine, some leaf

lettuce whose name I forgot, mizuna, basil, garlic chives, mint, a

sage in flower, grass, and some weeds whose name I forget but Mr.

Mike T. Pig says are delicious. I intend to plant some mustard seed

real soon now and have plenty of dandelion seed from Mr. Mike's fans

so I can replant if that barrel starts to thin out. I have limited

space and Mr. Mike tends to get most of what I grow except the chives

and sage (and the mustard if I manage that, as he tells me guinea

pigs don't like mustard). Most years there is plenty of basil for

people and pig alike but it seems to be getting a slow start this year.

 

-ginger

in a suburb just north of Boston

[Guest guest]

Judy,

No local produce yet. Farmer's market will not open here in Colorado

until next month. But my potted herbs are thriving. My Santa fe Grande

plant has pretty little yellow peppers and my baby spinach is almost

ready for a salad. Garlic is growing like weeds and all herbs are

coming up. In another week I will have fresh Cilantro,Chives and

Parsley. Garlic chives were inside all winter so they are a constant.

So is the Rosemary,Thyme and Lemon Balm.

The aroma of Honeysuckles and Roses fill the air, my son is home from

Iraq and life is good.

Deanna in Colorado

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In , " wwjd " <jtwigg wrote:

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> Time for another Question of the Week?

[Guest guest]

Southern California. I think spring is late this year, or something

strange, the Jacaranda trees are in bloom now and they usually bloom a

lot earlier. We also had a couple of 95 degree heat waves that killed

some of the seedlings in the green houses. Now we are starting seeds

outside. Weather is heavy duty 'June Gloom' mode right now (this is

what we call it here), June is cool and very foggy for some reason.

It is great for the flowers. Gloom that brings blooms.

 

Not sure what they have at the markets since we are in overproduction

mode so I just eat what we grow (I do buy rice, beans, flour, coffee,

wine, so on, just no veggies). The basil is doing great! already

flowering. Have been collecting large amounts of greens: collards,

kale (3 types) bok choy (seeding now), arugula, 3 types of lettuce,

chicory, and well, some spinach but spinach is not doing great this

year. In the middle of pea harvest, sugar snaps, shelling peas and

snow peas. Harvesting radishes, beets, carrots, turnips are almost

done. Starting to get a few cherry tomatoes, still no big ones. A

trickle of peppers, a lot more to come. We have harvested some

eggplants already too (left from last year), more to come. Cukes and

melons, and squash in vigorous leafing mode, still no flowers but I

expect them within a week or two. Tomatillos want to flower and I

just sowed some okra seeds. One of the corn patches (blue) is much

taller than me, the other (white) as tall as me, beans sprouted that I

planted near the corn stalks. First year I manage to grow corn that

looks good. It has some things like look like flowers but no cobs

yet. Grilled corn, yummy..... I am also growing potatoes and

artichokes out of season but I better stop before I start telling

y'all about all the herbs.....

 

 

, " wwjd " <jtwigg wrote:

>

> Time for another Question of the Week?

>

> What locally grown produce is in season right now, in your part of the

> world? Also, What if any, do you grown in your yard, pots and garden?

>

> Your responses always make these QOTW, interesting to us all.

> Have fun.

> Judy

>

[Guest guest]

wow Mary and rosetalleo have such delicious crops coming in already. For those

of you in the north, your asparagus, fiddlehead fern and rubarb sounds great

too. I don't think those things grow this far south. We'll send some of our

produce your way and you guys send us some here in the south and we'll all have

a feast.

 

Judy

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Mary S.

Wednesday, June 04, 2008 7:51 PM

Re: Gary - Question of the Week - What is in season

in your part of the world?

 

 

S.Cal

 

I have tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, squash, lettuce, onions, cilantro,

cabbage, greens, green beans, peppers, strawberries, oranges,

just about everything. This is all in season here and am picking from

the garden.

 

Mary

 

[Guest guest]

I'm in Georgia about 30 miles east of Atlanta. In our garden right now

we are growing corn, green beans (which I picked some yesterday),

yellow squash, zucchini, eggplant,japanese eggplant, okra; green,

jalapeno, red & banana peppers(which we've had a few to pick already) &

Roma, Parker's Whoppers & Better Boy tomatoes

[Guest guest]

Its already summer here, 90's plus its really windy here. I don't really

mind the heat as long as my AC is working but I hate the winds. Oh yeah, I'm

in Las Vegas.

 

Stephanie in NV

[Guest guest]

I am in NW Nevada, high desert. It's 67 and windy today but was near

100 2 weeks ago. I work at an organic farm 1 day a week in exchange

for a farm share. The last two weeks I've brought home: arugola, lots

of leaf lettuce, wild strawberries, cultivated strawberries,

scallions, garlic, turnips, carrots, sunchokes and herbs: rosemary,

spearmint, sage, french tarragon and lemon balm. We'll be picking

green beans, and zuchini this week and we just planted pole beans and

sweet potatoes last week.

 

Michelle