What's the best thing you've had out of your garden so far?

Salad so far, romaine and bib and a few strawberries.

I picked some lettuce too:)
I have flowers on my zucchini and tomatoes.I can’t wait for those :)

Herbs, lots of herbs. I’ve given away basil, oregano, leaf celery, rosemary and thyme. The second batch of basil, from seed, is almost ready to start using, as is the cilantro. I have 5 Early Girl tomatoes that are growing nicely at this point. I’ve been using PlantTone on everything.

The pesto from the African Blue basil. I like it more than the Sweet basil, which is good but common to the point of repetitiveness, but the African Blue has a bit of a kick, a zing to make it fresh again. I can’t give the chives or mint away fast enough (and I’m really trying).

@MyNewtBoobs I’ve never come across that basil. Where’s your source?

@Adirondackwannabe They had it at Ace Hardware at the beginning of the season, although I ended up getting it from this teeny little nursery I go to called the Garden Patch. It’s sterile, so you need a cutting. You could try the local nurseries and see what varieties of basil they have.

@MyNewtBoobs Thanks.

We grow baby tomatoes (absolutely heavenly), peppermint (fun to eat), carrots (very fresh-tasting), basil (amazing! must I say more?), and we’ve tried watermelon (picked it when it wasn’t ripe enough), blueberries (got eaten by the birds before we could have any because we didn’t put a net on it), and cucumber (so-so).

… and I forgot rosemary! We have about 5 of them too! They are delicious in rosemary-olive-oil bread, pot roast, and potatoes! We don’t even have to water them.

@JessK Thanks and welcome to fluther. Fresh herbs are awesome.

Chives, cilantro, mint, basil. I try to use at least one of those in every meal.
(Bagel and cream cheese with chives this morning.)

This year I have to go with the chard. The tomatoes have been good, but the chard was exceptional this time around.

I used to grow organic weed.

@Brian1946 The question said out of your garden, not your hydroponics room ;p!

The accidental dill that arrived with the tomato plants my sister gave me. I use it in all salads at this time of year.

@MyNewtBoobs

“The question said out of your garden, not your hydroponics room ;p!”

Wow, how did you know about my hydro chamber?! ;-o

Perhaps in the interest of discretion, I should discontinue my High Times blog. ;-)

Lettuce, Swiss Chard, and Peas

One freaking jalapeño. Everything else is taking forever.

No veggies for me this year. Last year sucked and this year too, with all the late rains that ruined the tomatos. BUT…I do have my first awesome white morning glories blooming this morning and a bunch of different flower seedlings coming along nicely.

I may still plant some sunflowers for an August/Sept. bloom.

Our local community garden ’ Cool gardens’ in Cool CA. will be opening soon and the local strawberries are delicious right now. I live in a farm trails area so I can get everything I want, including some amazing organic tomatos grown locally and for sale in my market yesterday. ;-)

None. Draught and s/o who turns off the sprinkler system – then denies doing it. I found it on “off” so I guess a ghost did it. I said, “branches are dropping off the small trees and shrubs from no water” and he goes, “in five years water will be unaffordable for most.”
Wat? So I said, “in ten years we could be hit by a meteor too.”

I have some salad greens ready. All it’s done for June is rain. Those 3 minutes of sun that one day has kept things growing.

Geez, I envy you folks who are whining about too much rain. We haven’t seen a drop around here in months and the temperature is breaking records on an almost daily basis.

So… quit hoggin’ all the water and send a few drops our way!!!!

The Texas farmers prayer:

Oh lord, please send us some rain….not so much for me, because I’ve seen it before… but for the sake of my 10 year old son…

We here in Texas do have a few days of rain predicted. And somewhere are raging fires so I just can’t wait . I don’t ask for much; just a few days of nice rain and “cool” temps in the eighties. Then, Bam !! Back to mid nineties and worse.

I wish we could pipe the water from the Ohio-Wabash-Mississippi valleys to Texas!

@BarnacleBill – Actually, I would not be opposed to work programs similar to those that gave us many of the hydro-electric dams we are still so proud of to do exactly that. With an unemployment rate continuing to skyrocket I would far rather spend our federal dollars putting people to work doing something useful rather than collecting the woefully inadequate pittance that passes for unemployment insurance until those benefits run out and then quietly being removed from the statistics (in order to help things look less grave)

@YoBob, I find that my biggest disappointment is the lack of public works projects. I wish the Republican party wasn’t in such disarray. People are so caught up in not spending any money that they lose sight of the fact that there has to be spending to support infrastructure and to increase taxable income. People with jobs pay taxes, and spend money, creating more jobs. We need meaningful work for young people who are just starting out, beyond having a college degree and waiting tables.