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Garden Gate:  If you could only grow one type of veggie?  |
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NancyM
True Blue Farmgirl
113 Posts
Nancy
Fall City
WA
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 Posted - Jul 17 2008 : 8:28:08 PM
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If you could only grow one type of vegatable what would you grow? My choice would currently be Walla Walla sweet onions. For a $12 investment we have been eating them in salads (and other things) every night for a month, and we've barely made a dent in our crop. They are SO much better than anything at the store.
Tomatoes would be my second choice, but this is shaping up to be a terrible tomato year around here.
Nancy
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Cheryl Severeide
Farmgirl in Training
44 Posts
Cheryl
Klamath Falls
Oregon
USA
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Posted - Jul 17 2008 : 8:31:29 PM
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I agree... Walla Walla Sweet Onions are the Best..... I think I would have to grow Tomatoes as my #1 choice.
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graciegreeneyes
True Blue Farmgirl
3107 Posts
Amy Grace
Rosalia
WA
USA
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Posted - Jul 17 2008 : 8:33:35 PM
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Not a good tomato year on this side of the mountains either, at least not at my house. My vegetable of choice would be zucchini. I have so many recipes for it, thanks to my very thrifty grandma, and two seeds yielded countless casseroles, batches of soup, cakes, and loaves of bread in addition to 49 pints of zucchini relish. That was two years ago, a year I am coming to remember fondly as the two since then have not been so good
Amy Grace
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without" |
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elphie0503
True Blue Farmgirl
500 Posts
Samantha
Gilmer
Texas
USA
500 Posts |
Posted - Jul 17 2008 : 9:47:26 PM
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Yellow Plum Tomatoes!!!!!!!!!
Samantha
www.elphie0503.blogspot.com
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort~~Albright
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Jul 17 2008 : 11:01:09 PM
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Tomatoes with out any hesitation. I think anaheim peppers would be second. I am growing some Walla Walla sweets this year too..and they are doing great!!
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
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eskimobirdlady
True Blue Farmgirl
700 Posts
connie
fairbanks
ak
USA
700 Posts |
Posted - Jul 18 2008 : 07:31:38 AM
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tomatoes or potatoes. both a staples in our diet! peace connie in alaska
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Jul 18 2008 : 07:47:06 AM
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No votes for sweet english peas? That's mine 
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - Jul 18 2008 : 07:53:03 AM
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It would have to be tomatoes. We have tomato based stuff so often, spaghetti, goulash, pizza, salsa, green tomato bread, tomato soup, ketchup, chili and some others that are not coming to mind right now.
Farmgirl Sister #35
"If you can not do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
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Txfarmgal
True Blue Farmgirl
585 Posts
AK
USA
585 Posts |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2008 : 4:14:17 PM
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I am another tomato girl. I would grow tons since I use tomato sauce all the time. I loved canning tomato sauce last year. YUM. Nothing like canning tomatoes at the peak of freshness!!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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Betty J.
True Blue Farmgirl
1403 Posts
Betty
Pasco
WA
USA
1403 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2008 : 4:19:01 PM
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My first choice is tomatoes. They are good in so many things. I was hoping for lots to can this year, but looks like I might have to buy some. I've already harvested about 30 lbs of red potatoes. They are so yummy, plus my puppy likes them too! Once I get my strawberry bed cleaned out I will be planting more row crops next year.
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oldfashioned girl
True Blue Farmgirl
2391 Posts
monica
oatman
az
USA
2391 Posts |
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
13055 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2008 : 4:27:04 PM
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My choice would be okra. Okra in winter gumbo's are a hit around my house.
Marly |
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lilwing
True Blue Farmgirl
1403 Posts
Brooke
Fulshear
Texas
USA
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Patsy
True Blue Farmgirl
592 Posts
Illinois
USA
592 Posts |
Posted - Jul 26 2008 : 06:51:41 AM
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Maters, maters and more maters!
I think that if a mortal ever heard the voice of God, it would be in a garden at the cool of the day. (F. Moore)
Patsy
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Ms.Lilly
True Blue Farmgirl
826 Posts
Lillian
Scotts Mills
OR
USA
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Posted - Jul 26 2008 : 06:57:29 AM
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Tomatos! Don't feel bad it is not a great tomato year here in Oregon either! Where is our Summer? It is already beginning to feel like fall here!
Lillian |
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countrygal56
True Blue Farmgirl
221 Posts
Barbara
Dickson
Tennessee
USA
221 Posts |
Posted - Jul 26 2008 : 6:23:05 PM
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| I lived near Walla Walla, Washington many years ago, actually College Place, which is by Walla Walla. Walla Walla Sweet Onions grew in a field down the road from where we lived. After the harvest, they left some of the discards in the field. The town folk could go over to the field and pick up free onions. After they had been picked over, the rest were left to become compost. The area smelled like sour cream and onions for weeks. Whew! But oh thoses onions were good! |
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shepherdgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1008 Posts
Tracy
California
USA
1008 Posts |
Posted - Jul 26 2008 : 9:33:37 PM
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Oh, ok, I'll SAY IT!! TOMATOES!! Who doesn't love a juicy red (or green, or purple, or orange, or pink or.... a RAINBOW of colors!!!) tomatoes!?
Actually, I prefer heirlooms, which I got hooked on when I had problems with my chickens eating all my "fruit." I read somewhere that if you plant heirloom tomatoes in other colors (there's even WHITE ones-- which are kind of icky) the chickens wouldn't eat them. So, I bought some heirloom seeds one year, and sure enough, the chickens only ate the RED tomatoes (they HAVE to be able to see at least that color) and left all the other colors alone. I've been happily hooked ever since!
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. ~~ George Carlin |
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SusieQue
True Blue Farmgirl
603 Posts
Susie
Greenville
Ga
Georgia
603 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2008 : 4:11:12 PM
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| Tomatoes, even though this has been our worst yr for them. |
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catscharm74
True Blue Farmgirl
4687 Posts
Heather
Texas
USA
4687 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2008 : 4:13:45 PM
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I love Tomatoes!! All varieties, as long as they are warm and salted just out of the garden. YUMMY!!!
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
2900 Posts
Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
2900 Posts |
Posted - Jul 28 2008 : 12:32:05 PM
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that's a tough one!
It would have to be zucchini for me. It's so tasty fresh, grilled and steamed, and can even be used in breads and cakes. MMMMMMm |
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juliet79
True Blue Farmgirl
112 Posts
Heather
Worland
Wyoming
USA
112 Posts |
Posted - Jul 28 2008 : 5:17:49 PM
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Ours in our family would definately potatos for my husband..and myself it would be tomatos! YUM....
What an amazing life! |
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iloveprims
True Blue Farmgirl
154 Posts
TRACY
Phillipsburg
NJ
USA
154 Posts |
Posted - Jul 28 2008 : 6:33:42 PM
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I would have to choose tomato's... I love them with everything and get angry if I cook some meals and dont have any on hand... I know pathetic but I really love tomato's.
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Buffalomary
True Blue Farmgirl
199 Posts
Mary
Caldwell
ID
USA
199 Posts |
Posted - Jul 28 2008 : 10:12:52 PM
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Hmmm, this is a tough one. I really like potatoes, but have a hard time resisting home-grown tomatoes as well, seldom do all the sweet peas make it into the house, as well as fresh green beans. I have also been know to wipe off a carrot and start knawing on it as well. But if I had to chose just one, this Idaho-borne native would have to go with the spud!!!!
Buffalomary
You can take the farmer's daughter off the farm but you can't take the farm out of the farmer's daughter!!
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nampafarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
494 Posts
Kim
Nampa
ID
USA
494 Posts |
Posted - Jul 30 2008 : 3:09:24 PM
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| Black Cherry tomatoes are one of my favorites! For a seocnd choice I would say lemon cucumbers, they don't make you burp! |
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ruralfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
4309 Posts
Rene'
Prosser
WA
USA
4309 Posts |
Posted - Jul 30 2008 : 10:06:06 PM
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I am a tomato girl too.. a close second is cucumbers....YUM!
Rene~Prosser Farmgirl #185
"Despite the gardener's best intentions, Nature will improvise. ~Michael P. Garafalo
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