Only the freshest will do
By GreenMoo
@GreenMoo (11834)
May 10, 2011 10:05am CST
We've got broad beans galore in our garden just now. Each meal time I head out and grab a few. They're delicious, and taste a million miles removed from the ones that you can buy in the shops.
There are lots of veggies which taste so much better when they're really fresh and are so worthwhile to grow at home. Sweetcorn is another.
Do you have something which you grow in your garden just because it's so much better that way?
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@katieh (151)
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10 May 11
Tomatoes are one thing which tastes amazing fresh, and peas are another. And I love home grown sweetcorn but we have such a tiny little garden that it's not very productive - you only get one, maybe two cobs per plant and my entire vegetable plot is only about 12 feet square.
And I do like being able to walk out and pick a handful of salad leaves for my sandwich :)
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@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
10 May 11
I was not going to grow a garden this year but over the past week I've changed my mind. Last year I had wonderful tomatoes, peas and green beans that put the canned stuff to shame. I'm really looking forward to having some again. I also grew corn that was delicious, better than what I could get in the supermarket.
I guess I'll have to get busy and weed that darned patch of dirt I use for a garden. It's small, only 8x10, but it can grow a lot. I think I'll also grow some peppers and onions in containers.
I've not heard of broad beans. I grew runner beans last year that were all over the place and this year I'll plant bush beans!
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@katsmeow1213 (28719)
• United States
10 May 11
Don't have a garden here.. yard is too small and I don't trust the neighbors to leave my stuff alone. I look forward to eventually being in a place where I can try to have a garden again.
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@petersum (4522)
• United States
10 May 11
You are so right about broad beans. They were my favorite vegetable as a child. Now, you hardly ever see them in the markets, and they just don't taste the same. Perhaps it was my mother's parsley sauce on them that enhanced the flavor. I never did learn to make that!
Sweetcorn isn't such a problem but there is a considerable difference between roasted corn cobs and what comes in tins. It like an entirely different vegetable.
I don't have a garden at the moment and I really miss it.
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@inertia4 (27961)
• United States
10 May 11
Well I used to have a garden years ago and I grew Tomato's, Basil, Egg PLant, Cucumbers. They were awesome. I am thinking about doing it again. I figured with the price of food going up, I would save some money and have great vegetables. I love fresh Vegetable's much more than those frozen things you get in the supermarket.
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@GardenGerty (157027)
• United States
10 May 11
Everything is so much better that way. I vote for tomatoes and peppers. I am imagining big bowls of all kinds of tomatoes. It will be a few weeks, but they are awesome.
@GardenGerty (157027)
• United States
11 May 11
We had a much cooler April than usual, then all of the sudden we have had weather in the nineties. I put my little seedlings I grew out yesterday. I bought an assortment of other tomatoes at the store. I am container gardening this year. I am trying something I saw online. Plant tomatoes around a cage, fill the cage with compost, grass clippings etc. If they need staking tie them to the cages.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
15 May 11
hi greenmoo oh the freshest is the best and I envy all of you with space for gardens to grow your own wonderful veggies. I am stuck in a retrement center and have no place to garden but love to read and respond to
your discussions. I miss shopping in tustin as they had fresh veggies grown in the irvine farms and taken ten minutes later to our Tustin vons store. delicious zucchini and tomatoes and eggplant name it they grew it and it was really fresh too. the prices on it were fair as there was no middleman to raise the cost.but now I am in Garden Grove and all that is in the past.
@SIMPLYD (90727)
• Philippines
11 May 11
Unfortunately, we don't have enough space for a garden where we could plant vegetables . Our house occupied the bulk of the lot that's why.
Anyway, luckily we have trees of sour sops and Indian mangoes, that are bearing fruits now. In fact, we have already eaten two big ripe sour sops since last April. As to the mangoes, we are still waiting for them to grow big so we could pick them up.
But at my hometown where my parents live, we have a big backyard with lots of fruit bearing trees, like star apple, guavas, sour sop among others. We also have eggplants , lettuce , sweet potato and some other vegetables. I would bring home some with me whenever i visit there on some weekends.
It's really nice if you have your own garden of vegetables and fruits.