I just picked fresh brocolli florets out of my garden!

My fiancee's siter Linda lives up in that area too. There must be something that you love about the weather up there. I have seen pictures and that is a beautiful part of the country. We have already snacked on a few of the florets for a snack and I am saving the rest for dinner tonight. The only thing I don't like about brockoli is that if you let it flower it draws bees and I am alergic to bees! Pretty crazy for a gardener huh?

Southern Oregon is a beautiful area. I do love it, I must confess. Still, it would be nice to garden year round too. Yep, I too am alergic to bees. Enjoy dinner tonight. Happy New Year.

Where do you live Emmet?

Yeah it can be, whether the tree is an apple tree, pear tree or a citrus tree. You will end up with a whole heck of a lot of something if you have a mature tree out there in your yard!

What part of the country or world do you live in. I just love that I get responses from people from all over the place!

Lemons are great for you, they are full of vitamin c and other great antioxidant vitamins. Icy cold lemonade when it is hot is the very best tasting drink!

Well they just hibernate in the winter where you are. But Kansas is a great part of the country to live in for farm fresh or garden fresh vegetables.

It gets kinda chilly here. In the daytime it is in the 70's but at night it gets down to the 40's and 30's. I thought that my bell peppers were going to freeze but I covered them with sheet and they ended up just fine for the moment.

It gets kinda chilly here. In the daytime it is in the 70's but at night it gets down to the 40's and 30's. I thought that my bell peppers were going to freeze but I covered them with sheet and they ended up just fine for the moment.

believe me I am. And when I steam those broccoli florets with dinner tonight I will think of all of you who don't have gardens or don't live in So Cali. I had broccoli so fresh today, I clipped em and brought them in rinsed them and we stood right there at the sink and ate some minutes after they had been clipped. I have never eaten them so fresh and raw before. It was heavenly.

Try planting just a couple of sweet potatoes, even though they will infiltrate the roots of your other veggies don't worry they make a great vitamin packed mulch. Luckily I got a bushel of sweet potatoes last year and still had enough out in the garden that my tomato vines survived while I was in LA for five months and my fiancee did not water them once. I still had over 50 vines left out of a hundred when I got home in May.

Oh the garden I had back in Canada was amazing..it wasnt huge by any means but wow was it ever plentiful! we couldnt give enough of it away LOL...I miss it!

Tomatoes, brocolli and peppers grow anywhere, especially if you buy the guaranteed to grow seeds. We have a very rocky clay rich dust mix down here. But since the Coachella Valley used to be at the bottom of an inland ocean thousands of years ago it is nutrient rich. Plus I use quite a bit of steer manure and garden soil out there to help it out. Enjoy your veggie garden. It will yield you quite a bit of satisfaction. Last year I made candied yams and sweet potato pie from sweet potatoes grown in my own garden. I was quite proud. From planting 4 sweet potatoes out in the yard we ended up with a half a bushel of them last year.

It is simple to grow and in the almost 1 1/2 years since i planted it it has grown several plants and is waist high now with little florets growing amongst all of the big fat leaves. I grow the Jubilee type of yellow tomatoes and the beef eater variety as well. Those combine into a tomato sauce that you would not believe! All mixed in with bowl after bowl of the super sweets. I just throw them all in the blender and blend them to juice and then pour them through a strainer. The seeds and skins I freeze and then I defrost it to mix with bread dough and make garlic tomato bread which is delicious!

Thanks for the information, sharone74 :) I love tomatoes (and I pretty much live on toasted tomato sandwiches when they're in season here! My kids call it Mom's BLT without the BL). I grow beefsteak, generally, because they produce a large fruit that is great for slicing onto sandwiches. That mix sounds delicious! Do you make your own salsa, by any chance? I'm going to do that this year because I kick myself every time I open one of those jars from the store. I know it would taste SO good if I just made it myself. I use salsa for everything, not just chips. In fact, it ends up on pasta or added to a sauce (for the kick) a lot more than it ever does duty as a snack food in our house. I'm jazzed about trying the broccoli in the garden now... I can't wait to start planning for the spring. I'll have to find out how much space I'd need for planting. We eat a LOT of broccoli (and cauliflower) on a regular basis, so it would be great to have it fresh.

I have made my own salsa in the past and my fiancee' is currently out buying me the makings of Seviche which is a salsa with shrimp and lemon and lime juice in it. It is good stuff!

Are they counting the value of the truck in with the value of the vegetables. Because that would have to be some poundage of green veggies.

Bannanas take a while to grow but as long as you are patient you will have hoard of them. How much are bannanas in Australia?

Try putting tomatoes in it this is delcious expecially with wither cheese or garlic!

you must have read my mind , i just put a loave on with cheese, tomatoes, bacon bits and olives.. Can u send me your recipe for making tomatoe sauce it sounds great.

Happy new year to you too city girl. And thank you for your response.

I wish you luck with your flowers. Thank you for your response

Where do you live?

It's easy to grow in a year anda half it is already waist high and my legs are just under 3 feet long. So it is about three and a half feet tall that fast.

Yes really! I ate them raw with ranch dressing last night and they were splendid!

I am a ma'am but thank you for your comment!