Favorite Garden Vegetable

[James Roscoe]

Jenise's thread on potatoes got me thinking about my dad's fresh grown garden vegetables. Which is your favorite? I mean which is the one you crave all winter and spring and gorge on like one of those grizzly bears in Alaska eating salmon?

Above are all of my favorites. I know I missed some. Let's see what the are. (Yeah I know tomatoes are a fruit. )

Tomatoes. Nt sure if they can qualify as a favorite summer veggie since we eat them year round. But they are a lot better in summer and local growers will have fresh ones.

Richard

There is nothing quite so tasty as a tomato fresh from your own garden. Farmer's market tomatoes are good, and so are tomatoes from your neighbors garden, but not quite so good. I look forward to my first tomato, chedder and mayo sandwhich every year.

I am in the tomato camp as well. I don't have a vegetable garden yet, but my neighbor grows heirloom tomatoes, and as a thank you for taking care of his garden when he travels, he gave me 3 plants to have on my deck. The tomatoes are soooo super delicious!!

[Jenise]

From my garden? Tomatoes. From the Farmer's Market? Romano beans, the flat Italian style of green bean, also fresh yellow wax.

[James Roscoe]

I love summer tomatoes, and fresh corn on the cob is out of this world, and I absolutely get the fresh string bean thing, but until you have had fresh pole limes out of the garden and into the pot, you do not know what you are missing. Of course fresh vegetables out of the garden are always the best.

[David M. Bueker]

Peas! To my taste they have the biggest difference when eaten truly fresh compared to every other veggie.

[James Roscoe]

Peas! To my taste they have the biggest difference when eaten truly fresh compared to every other veggie.

I knew I would forget one. Of course I was thinking later in the summer and peas are a May June veggie in SE PA. They deserved a place in the poll. Good choice, but I stick with the limas.

BLT on DiCamillos Italian bread with lettuce and tomatoes fresh from the garden!

Though I voted for the tomatoes, I'm glad to know that there is one other person in the world who likes limas!

[James Roscoe]

I could just as easily voted for tomatoes or corn, but I went with the limas as I knew tomatoes would get all the votes.

I like the pea vote though and I am just not a potato fan, although fresh from the garden they are great.

[Jenise]

Hey, here's a person who's never had a fresh lima bean, but whose freezer is never without the frozen kind. I adore lima beans, but here on the west coast they're just not common.

I love Lima beans.... and I voted for those as my veggie fave. Tomatoes are actually a fruit, but most folks think of them as a veggie, so they are ahead of the pack.

Peas! To my taste they have the biggest difference when eaten truly fresh compared to every other veggie.

Thank goodness! I was reading down the thread and feeling like an outsider!

I completely agree, David. I just cannot get enough of fresh peas.

And cucumbers. And tomatoes!

Ok, James, I refuse to pick just one.

Woohooo!
I get to be the pedant of the moment

Tomatoes are technically a fruit, not a vegetable!

sorry

My preference would be anything the slugs don't eat, which this year might be a few dwarf carrots and a handful of peas!

I've become particularly demonic in my anti-slug purges in the garden recently and was secretly enthralled by a friends suggestion of a slug guillotine. No last meal for these greedy slimeballs though.

It's difficult to think of veggies that don't taste better home grown.

regards

Ian

My grandfather used to have a garden in his backyard. The yard was small, but he used just about every inch of it for a garden.

The fresh tomatoes were great, but still nothing beat the fresh peas we had. There's something about shucking peas and throwing them into a pot and cooking them that cannot be beat.

Gee, maybe I've got my forums mixed up, but I have sworn I said something nice about limas a while back, and got pummeled from all sides!

I love the tomatoes and the peas...but I would need a button for "None: I have a black thumb."

b

Glad to see tomatoes in the lead as they are truly one of the world's most sublime foods.

I look forward to eating them every day in Sept and Oct when I return to Berkeley.

[David M. Bueker]

I love limas (we always have them around in some-usually frozen-form), but fresh peas are a real (rare) treat.

I like tomatoes, but they've never been a true favorite. The slimy interior is still not a favorite.

Poll's looking rather close.

[Jenise]

Gee, maybe I've got my forums mixed up, but I have sworn I said something nice about limas a while back, and got pummeled from all sides!

Not from me, you didn't!

David, slimy interior in a tomato? That's...funny. Can't imagine finding them slimy. Okra, that's slimy.

[James Roscoe]

The tomato was bound to win. Most people cannot resist the taste of a big, ripe, juicey tomato in August just off the vine. They are also easy to grow and come in a number of varieties. I am surprised corn isn't getting more hits, but it has been dumbed down in recent years. I guess fewer people have really enjoyed the pleasure of a fresh lima bean, especially the good varieties rather than the blander varieties like fordhooks and the like. Not that a fordhook isn't delicious, but it is another example of a dumbed down vegetable variety. Tomatoes taste good no matter what the breeders do to them!

I would also like to aplogize to the pea lovers! How could I have left peas off the list? I remember one summer when I had a job near my father's large community garde ( as opposed to the "small" home garden). I would raid the garden for fresh peas every day at break! Mmmmmm!

agree totally. fresh english peas - fresh from the garden and quite young are the very best product of nature. unfortunatly they turn to starch after a day or two or if the weather is too warm as they ripen. but at their best, they are the best. i add plenty of butter, salt, pepper and chives and wash them down with pinot blanc.