SOS once again. This week I am exploring the culinary benefits of tending my garden. I grew all the vegetables and herbs in the dishes and enjoying the bounty. To see more SOS posts, visit http://www.thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com
This is dill crusted salmon with fresh tomato and herb balsamic pasta and steamed green beans.
Green bush beans. I have finally figured out I need twelve plants to have two decent sized servings of beans for dinner. This is my second crop of beans this winter.
A very funky yellow pear tomato. These seem to produce better fruit if fertilized bi weekly instead of weekly?
New to the garden and my first ever pepper success. Meet the wrinkly Criollo pepper. Native to Central American and essential to Ecuadoran cuisine, these are very tasty. I am thinking Chicken Cacciotore for dinner.
Nasturtium finally produced a flower…a future sandwich or salad topping.
My very first, tiny, Sugar Baby Watermelon. Here’s hoping I can get enough water on it.
That’s it from South Florida. Two hours til lunch!
Happy Gardening.
The Shrub Queen 
What a great feeling it must be to have so much produce from the garden.
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I am enjoying it.
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This is exciting, you’ve found the magic formula. 🙂 Your pickings look delicious… bon appetit!
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I am not so sure about that – the formula for this year!
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Compared to your struggles before your bags, I’d claim it a success. 🙂
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I’ll buy that! I went wild and ordered some Dahlias.
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I haven’t heard of a yellow pear tomato!
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It is an heirloom tomato, relatively common here. I grew it from seed. Sweet cherry type tomato.
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It is wonderful to eat what you grow. It does take a lot of plants to provide multiple meals. My dad had a big garden and grew enough vegetables to freeze.
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Thanks, I have been surprised by the number of plants necessary for a serving of veg. Your Dad must have had a big garden. We have eaten everything I have grown.
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Really wonderful to see your produce and the things you’re doing with it in the kitchen. I am particularly delighted by the tiny watermelon – looking forward to seeing it grow to full size.
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Thanks I m, too.
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Green beans … yum! I started sowing mine on Thursday. Regarding the baby watermelon it will grow up so fast ! Can’t wait to see it open and to wait for your tasting.
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Thanks, Fred what variety if green beans do you grow?
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Now mine are ‘Cigal’ and ‘Signal’ ( French beans) and I will grow ‘Triomphe de Farcy’ and ‘Fortex’ too ( climbing ones )
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Nasturtiums do not bloom continually?
You know, we had nasturtiums get damaged by frost! It does not get very cold here, and the nasturtiums should be adequately sheltered from frost.
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Nasturtiums are a cool season annual here. Plant seeds in December.
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They are cool season annuals here also, but also warm season annuals. Seriously, plants from one season replace themselves before they finish, and their progeny continue for the next season.
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They fry here in a few weeks
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Those that live through winter here fry if they survive into late spring or summer. Those that live through summer succumb to chill in winter. It is weird. They seem to know what they are doing.
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Many times I think Plants are smarter than we are..
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Well, they are smarter within their own experience. Their survival from season to season is a priority to them, but not to us. However, they are not concerned with what concerns us.
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Yep
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What a yummy, and different, offering! Particularly liked the pear tomato. Interesting about the feeding regime.
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I’m wondering if the yellow pear tomato is an American thing…I have grown them for years..
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