Growing Your Own: What did you grow / raise / harvest?

[Skycaptain]

11 hours ago, Jon A. said:

Mold, but anyone can grow that stuff. The challenge is in getting rid of it.

Bindweed is a similar problem 

[ColeHW34]

On 11/11/2019 at 3:03 AM, Skycaptain said:

Bindweed is a similar problem 

And muscadines in texas or at least in my neighborhood strangle everything even birds.

[Tunhope]

'Muscadines' I had to look up. 'Bindweed' I know all about!

[Muledeer]

I had to look up bindweed the first time I heard that term on AVEN.

I've yet to look up muscadines.

[ColeHW34]

Muscadines are wild grapes in Texas that are edible but are very sour and spread fairly quickly.

[pickles.]

Hi, @DuskFire, I noticed your location says "Oldest mountain range in the world."  Is that the Barberton Greenstone Belt in South Africa?

[AceMissBehaving]

We currently have 3 satsumas that are almost ripe, they are the first ones off this new little tree!

[Orion the Hunter]

I once grew a field of turnips, and I also once planted a tomato plant that grew to 8 feet tall. I will never forget that summer eating tomato sandwiches all day long

[ColeHW34]

@Fascinated  8 feet tall? Not bad.

I had a bean sprout or some type of vine that grew to 15 feet tall before it collasped underneath its' own weight.

I fed it coffee grinds, fertilizer and a wee bit of compost.

 

Just wanted it to grow but not that much!😂

[Orion the Hunter]

@Member114264 that’s a pretty tall bean tree! I think I fed my tomato tree miracle-grow, plus the dirt was black NW Alabama soil which probably didn’t hurt either

[ColeHW34]

My dad thought I'd be a great farmer or a horticulturalist if I can make a bean and catnip plants explode in growth like that.

I can see why.

[pickles.]

5 hours ago, Fascinated said:

I will never forget that summer eating tomato sandwiches all day long

Aren't they the best??

[Orion the Hunter]

5 minutes ago, pickles mcgee said:

Aren't they the best??

They are! My favorite recipe for tomato sandwiches was a fresh loaf of Colonial Sandwich Bread, Blue Plate Mayo, a sun-ripened tomato and salt. Just omg

[pickles.]

5 minutes ago, Fascinated said:

 Just omg

Well said!!

 

I love Vegenaise, salt and open-faced on any really good whole wheat bread.  Sometimes fresh-cracked pepper too.

 

Not familiar with the brand Colonial.

[Orion the Hunter]

Would you believe that I just became a vegetarian today? And just bought a jar of Vegenaise? Along with a bunch of other somewhat foreign things like tofu, alfalfa sprouts, flax seeds and basmati rice. I had to get off the merry-go-round of fast food, chips and cokes

[Skycaptain]

@Fascinated, you may want to try growing mushrooms. Whatever your dietary preference they are a good source of protein and tasty. 

[Nima]

my strawberry plant on my balcony is in bloom 

not expecting to harvest fruit in below 0 though 

[Orion the Hunter]

7 minutes ago, Skycaptain said:

@Fascinated, you may want to try growing mushrooms. Whatever your dietary preference they are a good source of protein and tasty. 

You know what, I didn’t even know you could grow mushrooms. I thought they grew wherever they wanted to. I do love them, or I should say that I used to love them, on hamburgers with Swiss cheese 

[Skycaptain]

@Fascinated, you can buy mushroom growing kits. Or if you have a garden, just spread spores around at the right time of year 

[ColeHW34]

I never tried eating mushrooms before.

[Muledeer]

3 hours ago, Skycaptain said:

@Fascinated, you can buy mushroom growing kits. Or if you have a garden, just spread spores around at the right time of year 

I had a friend who grew these funny, skinny mushrooms with blue and gold undertones in his closet.   He dried them and sold them.

3 hours ago, Member114264 said:

I never tried eating mushrooms before.

Eating those funny mushrooms makes you laugh for about five hours and you see the world in a different light.  One time, I developed a relationship with the rock community along a river bank.

[pickles.]

5 hours ago, Fascinated said:

Would you believe that I just became a vegetarian today?

What a coincidence!  Good luck with finding foods and recipes you like; I know it can be challenging for people.

 

I am vegetarian -- mostly vegan, but not completely.  I've been vegetarian since August 1975, over 44 years ago.  Yee haw!

[Orion the Hunter]

Wow that is quite an accomplishment, 44 years is a long time to not have a hamburger. I did it once for a whole year but then I fell off the wagon 

 

Luckily for me I’m not that picky about food, as long as I can have a fried tofu sandwich at least once a day I think I can live with all the salads and seaweed soup I will have to eat lol

[ColeHW34]

I tried to become a pescartian but it only lasted 2 weeks after I got annoyed by basically eating the same fish in the supermarket over and over again.

It was the only supermarket with fish in town and it was the cheapest one.

[Orion the Hunter]

I can usually go about a year eating the same thing over and over, then I start not liking it so much anymore. For example I ate almost exclusively rice every day for a year (excluding fast food), and the year before that I ate ramen noodles every day for a year. 

[ColeHW34]

My diet is heavily varied. Oatmeal, pork chops, pizza rolls, etc.

I really love things with cinnamon or garlic though.

[Orion the Hunter]

My favorite toast is American cheese on a slice of bread with bologna on top, then set on top rack in oven, leave it in until the bologna starts to scream

[ColeHW34]

I love crystalized honey with cinnamon on toast.

And by honey on toast, i'm not talking about that crap you buy in stores. More like locally grown raw honey.

[pickles.]

On 11/14/2019 at 6:46 PM, Fascinated said:

Wow that is quite an accomplishment, 44 years is a long time to not have a hamburger.

I'm the only American I know who has never had a McDonald's hamburger. The first McDonalds opened near me when I was 8, and I didn't become a vegetarian until I was 18, but, still, I was never interested.

 

I'm a good cook.  My kids were raised with all kinds of interesting food and never even knew they were vegetarian.  Lots of cuisines use beans-- hummus and falafel (Middle East), pinto beans for burritos and tostadas (Mexico), black beans and rice (Cuba), etc.  There are so many different vegetable, grain and/or bean salads; pasta dishes without meat; nuts, fruits, avocado, etc.  I make my own steamed tamales using fresh corn off the cob, grow basil in a pot for pesto.  We ate crazy good.

[Orion the Hunter]

That is astonishing. Was that the McDonalds in LA where you lived?

 

Yes all the food you just mentioned sounds like everything I wished was on a plate right in front of me right now. I especially want some pita bread with hummus and garlic butter