Eating it raw!

String beans I dust off and eat raw sometimes.

snap peas and asparagus.

dandelion, snap peas

Asparagus right now… but after about an hour from picking I like it roasted.
Nothing else but the salads are ready right now.

Hubby and I had fresh, raw asparagus today.

Okra is good raw. Peas and green onions fresh from the garden are really good too. We often eat violets and strawberries fresh from the garden.

My two younger kids eat bell peppers like an apple while picking.

This is a switch but my daughter is bringing clams. I have had them raw but I'm not a fan. Well steamed is OK. Chowder is fantastic.

Mushrooms are fantastic raw. Cabbage. Spinach.

I broke a few leaves on the kohlrabi while planting. Yum. More usable nutrition if cooked but yummy.

There is so much to be enjoyed without cooking.

The DW does wilted lettuce with vinegar Dang, that is good.

Onions. Garlic. Peppers?

Hiro said:

My two younger kids eat bell peppers like an apple while picking.

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At a buck a piece, whoa.

JRHill02 said:

At a buck a piece, whoa.

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During prime season we end up with 20-30 a day. The farm boss had a 120 tomato plants last year. This farm hand has convinced her to tone it down this year to 80.

I am tired, but well fed.

beans , peas , tomatoes , cherry tomatoes , red peppers ,green peppers , cilantro , basil , radishes , Swiss chard , sweet peppers , banana peppers , onions , onion greens garlic , lettuce , cabbage

we eat bell peppers raw year round , when we don't have them from the garden , we get them at the grocery store Woodman's seems to keep a type of pepper on sale most weeks this week it was orange 3 for a dollar they were a little small , bought 27 for 9 dollars , last week it was reds 2 for a dollar bought 24

we do wash most things just a little rinse

mostly we cook zucchini , asparagus and chard but some times eat a little chard raw

I will eat just about anything out of the garden raw. Honestly, can't think of much that I wouldn't...maybe squash, I prefer it cooked a tad, but the rest of it...dust it off and enjoy. Right now I have radishes, lettuce, spinach, peas, strawberries, and some herbs. Jealous of those harvesting asparagus. I just started my beds this year.

I started my asparagus bed last year only got to harvest a little this year , doubled my patch with new crowns this year should have more next year

JRHill02 said:

The DW does wilted lettuce with vinegar Dang, that is good.

Onions. Garlic. Peppers?

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Dandelion greens wilted vinegar. The flower buds are so nice.

A guy I did business with came out from his condo in the city to drop off some paperwork and visit some years ago. I was in our orchard when he arrived so he walked up the hill where I was and we started talking. I picked a peach during the conversation and took a bite. "Do you want a peach?" I asked him. He looked at me like I was handing him a guitar and asking him to play a song. "Is that ok to do? Eat one just like that?"

There's not much ready to eat in the garden yet in the way of fruits or veggies and I don't grow a lot of them anyway since culinary, medicinal and tea herbs are more of my thing. There will eventually be scarlet runner beans, strawberries, haskap berries, chives, tomatoes, garlic scapes, dogwood berries, leaves off strong flavoured herbs that will all get eaten out in the garden.

But I plant a lot of different kinds of culinary and medicinal herbs that all have an abundance of tasty edible nectar filled flowers as well as their leaves or stalks of course so I tend to browse and nibble a lot on herb flowers fresh and sweet straight off the plants when I'm out working in the yard. I'm usually working out there for around 3 or 4 hours a day every day.

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chives , I forget about chives

I suppose we could include lambs quarter also , it is a weed but I let it come up for the free spinach value, I do mostly cook it in things some times raw , if I let it come up around my direct seed zucchini , while I let those plants establish I can pick it and use it then after pulling it mulch right up to the zucchini plants

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Dandelion greens wilted vinegar. The flower buds are so nice.

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We have only a few dandelions inside the fence line and they are in places I wouldn't eat them. It's interesting, everywhere else inside the fence line and throughout the forest I can't find a dandelion. Gee, why is that? They are good food and tasty is my thought. Why would the critters leave them for us?

My wife and I used to love to walk through the garden, picking and eating everything from the bush. But, in the last couple of years have stopped doing it, because, then ants with garlic leaves or a bunch of dill in the mouth will get, then strawberries with a slug I will get, then raspberries with bugs eat, and then spit half a day. Now we wash and treat everything, and then we eat it, but the problem is that it's not interesting!