Edible garden chatter

**2CheekyMonkeys** · November 17th, 2012, 04:29 PM

would you believe this is cos lettuce! What do I do with it now?

**briggsy's girl** · November 17th, 2012, 04:49 PM

you will have to change the tags for the pic so it's not automatically showing in the thread
it has flowers, so i'd assume it's gone to seed - and feed it to my rabbit!

**2CheekyMonkeys** · November 17th, 2012, 06:02 PM

how do I do that? I didn't think it would be that big! whoops, did it on my phone. will try to delete it.

so the leaves are no good now? should I rip it out altogether or cut it down to the stalk and keep roots in soil?

**briggsy's girl** · November 17th, 2012, 06:19 PM

it's no good hun - once it goes to seed, the only thing it's good for is collecting seed and starting again.

**2CheekyMonkeys** · November 17th, 2012, 06:32 PM

Bum!! I wish I had used it before it went that way!!

**briggsy's girl** · November 17th, 2012, 06:36 PM

yeah unfortunately for a lot of things (lettuce, herbs, cabbage, brocolli etc) once it goes to seed, it's useless. well, herbs aren't too bad - they will drop seed and grow again

speaking of herbs, our choc mint has gone ballistic

we thinned the sun flowers today - took about 60 out of the garden for a friend and 15 for pots for us. i think next eyar if we grow them again, we'll not do what they recommend (two seeds together) we'll just put in one - if the friend didn't want these seedlings, we'd be wasting 60 seeds!

**2CheekyMonkeys** · November 17th, 2012, 06:38 PM

Choc mint sounds interesting and yummy!!

**briggsy's girl** · November 17th, 2012, 07:47 PM

It is! Surprisingly so!!

**chody47** · November 23rd, 2012, 06:46 PM

Yay! Just picked my first cherry tomato! Only one is ready at the moment, so I'm not really sure what to do with it - we usually use them in cooking as opposed to eating as it - although I think DD likes raw tomatoes.... We've got another 6 currently growing.

I noticed we also have a couple of capsicums and a few 'normal' tomatoes growing too. Yay! I'm starting to feel like I'm going to get something out of this garden!

**briggsy's girl** · November 23rd, 2012, 06:50 PM

Yay for first foods! We got our first purple capsicum today. It's so cute. Barely the size of a cherry tomato lol

**chody47** · November 23rd, 2012, 06:54 PM

Cute! I didn't know you could get purple capsicums! Are they meant to be a small variety? If so, they could be good for my garden!

**Trillian** · November 23rd, 2012, 06:58 PM

We harvested some broad beans that we left to dry on the plants to keep as seed next year. We certainly will not be planting as many as we did this year LOL.

**briggsy's girl** · November 23rd, 2012, 07:12 PM

Cute! I didn't know you could get purple capsicums! Are they meant to be a small variety? If so, they could be good for my garden!

not sure it's supposed to be THAT small, but i think it is a smaller plant. we got the plant at bunnings. DD loves it - it's HER purple capsicum!

**chody47** · November 23rd, 2012, 07:22 PM

not sure it's supposed to be THAT small, but i think it is a smaller plant. we got the plant at bunnings. DD loves it - it's HER purple capsicum!

I might have a look for them. They sound cool!

**Mum2twoBoys** · December 29th, 2012, 09:40 PM

OMG I never knew how much I would enjoy harvesting my first crop (2 zucchinis and about a dozen carrots). I know its not much, but its something.

**briggsy's girl** · December 30th, 2012, 05:26 AM

OMG I never knew how much I would enjoy harvesting my first crop (2 zucchinis and about a dozen carrots). I know its not much, but its something.

It's awesome isn't it?

We are harvesting every few days now. Some things going wonderfully. Some not so much. But it's awesome that we are eating from our yard. And dd is living all the fresh food... It just tastes do much better

**chody47** · December 30th, 2012, 05:46 AM

We have to keep stopping DD from eating the cherry tomatoes before they are ripe. That being said, none have made it into the house yet - as soon as she sees us picking she is there eating!