Favorite garden vegetable or fruit

[Wvroach]

Bell peppers and chili, jalapeño peppers are our favorite, but seem so finicky to get them to grow in size.
This is is PA, good soil, water daily and full sun.
What’s the secret for peppers?!

What issues are you having with them? Peppers are normally pretty tolerant. How do you know your soil is good have you had it tested? Most state universities, check with your dept of agriculture, will run a soil test for free or pretty cheap, it will tell you ph and such. Or you can pay for one from a bunch of places usually under under $50 that will suggest what changes need to be made.

Over watering in poor draining soil is worse than under watering in general.

 

[Wvroach]

one of my favorites that hasn't been mentioned yet are GROUND CHERRIES

Good one, hadn't even heard of them before. Very similar to tomatillo in looks. I'll be adding that to the list this year.

 

[.577NE]

"There are only two things money can buy, true love and homegrown tomatoes..."; yep, we love 'em.

 

[WV Mountaineer]

Tomato is my favorite garden bounty. To show you how much I like them, I’ll eat a good homegrown tomato over a steak. Every. Single. Time.


I love all vegetables though. I grow zucchini, squash, onions, lettuce, kaulirabs, cauliflower, beans, hot peppers, and sweet and regular potato’s. I grow a lot of cucumbers too. I just like fresh vegetables and fine I usually prefer them uncooked. Wash them clean and peel and/or dice them. Salt and pepper. Eat up. It don’t get no better.

 

[Tradchef]

Ive got a hybrid winter squash that cross pollinated for me thats killer. Its a Red Kurri and Carnival cross. So damn good. Golden, Red and Chiogga Beets, Heirloom Carrots, Caraflex Cabbage, Ground Cherries, Golden Raspberries, Hakurei Turnips, Lots of Asian Greens ( hong vit, bok choy, vitamin greens, savoy, flowering broccoli) D'avignon Radish, Cherry Bells, White Bells..........

 

[mlgc20]

Caprese salad with homegrown tomatoes and basil. The distance between homegrown tomatoes and store bought tomatoes cannot be overstated.

 

[frank church guy]

Caprese salad with homegrown tomatoes and basil. The distance between homegrown tomatoes and store bought tomatoes cannot be overstated.

agree. but i get 10 of thousands of black berries, and april thru mid may fresh asparagus, plus lots of shrooms

 

[Centralcoastca]

I have no idea if they’d work where you are, but artichokes were fun to grow a couple years ago. They grow like crazy on the ca coast and are awesome steamed or split in half and grilled. Something different from the usual stuff. When I lived in ky okra was easy to grow and is great fried pickles etc. they don’t grow well here though with the coastal fog. My go to is various lettuces, tomatoes and squash since we eat a lot of them. Not quite warm enough consistently for good peppers, a few miles inland my friends have great pepper crops. We make a lot of tacos so we always have cilantro growing. We also do a fair amount of green beans that we like to cook in various ways. This reminds me that I need to get a canning setup going this year…

 

[svivian]

I came here for garden pics but since no one did I will

 

[frank church guy]

Plus i love our apple trees and pear trees. Last year an early frost didn;t help and the fires probably didn't. And where iam really lucky is when i go up to elk camp ........ acres, acres, acres and even more acres of hucklberries. the best fruit

 

[Drenalin]

one of my favorites that hasn't been mentioned yet are GROUND CHERRIES

Lord have mercy...I didn't know such a thing existed. Have to add that to my list.

 

[Keep On]

Early plantings are snow peas, lettuce, spinach and onions.
Perennials are asparagus, strawberries and raspberries.
Later I love my green peppers, beefsteak tomatoes and yellow and green squash.
I'm into year 4 of a small orchard project. Have planted Asian pear, pear, apple, cherry and peach trees. Had good buds on the pears and peaches the last two years but late frosts left me with no fruit. Have discovered when planting fruit trees, patience must be measured in years.

 

[jge340456]

turnips, garlic

 

[DanimalW]

Apples and asparagus are my favorites

 

[BasinBuck]

Home grown tomatoes and cucumbers.. way better than store bought.

 

[DMadsen]

My wife loves to garden, I love to hunt, we compete as team vegetable and team meat. My favorite produce from the opposition has to be fresh tomatoes.

 

[Phaseolus]

Our growing season is ~184 days so we’ve got lots of options. We’re in the peach growing region of Colorado and are surrounded by orchards. I did plant a couple of Nectarine trees, they are awesome. Asparagus Rhubarb, and pretty much everything else is in our gardens including phaseolus! A major frustration is beet curly top virus which makes it hard to grow most varieties of to tomato on our mesa top.

 

[Robertham1]

To me- what shines above store bought produce is tomatoes, specifically pineapple tomatoes. Broccoli is much more sweet. Growing squash at home give you the ability to grow the best variegated- patty pan and yellow crookneck are my favorite

 

[FLATHEAD]

Got to where i can't eat a store-bought tomato.

 

[JJJ]

Cherokee purple tomatoes are sublime