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

[Guest guest]

Lower Alabama - near the Gulf of Mexico

BTW I just went by the produce stand while I was out this morning, and they

already have local fresh okra, corn, a little bit of squash and tomatoes. The

local farmers and home gardeners sell their excess to this produce stand. I

got my blueberries over in lower Mississippi when I was over there last week.

They had just picked them from bushes, when I went by to get some.......

Judy

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Gary Mattingly

Wednesday, June 04, 2008 9:29 AM

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

your part of the world?

 

 

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]

Ah, I guess it must be warmer and wetter there earlier than many other places.

Thanks!

 

Gary

 

 

wwjd <jtwigg

 

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 1:10:12 PM

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

in your part of the world?

 

Lower Alabama - near the Gulf of Mexico

BTW I just went by the produce stand while I was out this morning, and they

already have local fresh okra, corn, a little bit of squash and tomatoes. The

local farmers and home gardeners sell their excess to this produce stand. I

got my blueberries over in lower Mississippi when I was over there last week.

They had just picked them from bushes, when I went by to get some.......

Judy

-

Gary Mattingly

Wednesday, June 04, 2008 9:29 AM

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

your part of the world?

 

 

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]

It is 95 with a heat index of 100 right now, and the sun is shinning it's heart

out, with beautiful blue skies and some white puffy clouds. We live just north

of the wetest city in the united states, so have had some good rain so far.

Hope that continues. Sometime summers we have droughts though and hope that

isn't the case this year, however we also hope the hurricane season is quiet.

LOL

 

Judy

-

Gary Mattingly

Wednesday, June 04, 2008 3:16 PM

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

in your part of the world?

 

 

Ah, I guess it must be warmer and wetter there earlier than many other places.

Thanks!

 

Gary

 

 

wwjd <jtwigg

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 1:10:12 PM

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

in your part of the world?

 

Lower Alabama - near the Gulf of Mexico

BTW I just went by the produce stand while I was out this morning, and they

already have local fresh okra, corn, a little bit of squash and tomatoes. The

local farmers and home gardeners sell their excess to this produce stand. I got

my blueberries over in lower Mississippi when I was over there last week. They

had just picked them from bushes, when I went by to get some.......

Judy

-

Gary Mattingly

Wednesday, June 04, 2008 9:29 AM

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

your part of the world?

 

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]

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