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Posted: Jun/30/2008 7:59 AM PST
I voted for zucchini/yellow squash. It's so easy to grow, fast to set fruit, and produces in such abundance for a relatively small space. My second favorite is probably green beans for the same reasons. My pole beans last year kept producing well into late summer, maybe early fall. I've planted a lot of bush beans this year too, because you don't have to trellis them, but it's my understanding that they stop producing pretty early, so you have to plant more. If you have a favorite that isn't on the list, please feel free to mention it. 
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Posted: Jun/30/2008 9:21 AM PST
I like squash and beans for just the reasons you mentioned, caroline, but my vote goes for tomatoes, and here's the reason why. After I started growing tomatoes, I quickly came to realize that those round, red, similar looking fruits in the grocery store that are sold under the name "tomato" are not the same as what I grow in my garden. They don't look the same, they don't feel the same, they don't smell the same, and they certainly don't taste the same! If I could grow sweet corn where I am now, I would probably vote for that, remembering what it was like back when I had the space for it, to pull an ear off the stalk, shuck it, and eat it hot and raw right there in front of God and everybody. BTW it's true about bush beans, they have a short life. I've just begun harvesting from my first planting, and started my second a couple of weeks ago. I may get in a third before the summer's over. Bush beans are great! |
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Posted: Jun/30/2008 12:25 PM PST
i voted tomatoes tho i dont really eat them but my family grows tomatoes an peppers EVERY year lol if my mom dosent my uncle WILL (well he will anyway) we get fresh tomatoes at both houses too lol an i need ta snagg afew fruits from my uncle this year fer seeds an im jus thinkin ill use the ones ill usially reject from harvesting with the tomatoes definately dooin that with mine first 2 from EACH of my plants are for seeds then any rejects from harvesting for seeds i woulda voted peppers i LOVE my fooled ja jalapenos i actually eat them right off the plant too |
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Posted: Jun/30/2008 12:33 PM PST
I voted tomatoes- mainly because they are so easy to grow! I also love fresh sweet corn. I remember in Pgh we had 3 truck farms within 10 mins of us. We always were eating straight-from-the-field sweet corn I didn't plant any this yer, but several years ago I grew some. It was really yummy, but very wormy  Maybe next year I'll try it again.
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Posted: Jun/30/2008 3:52 PM PST
yea? SAME conditions 5 years ago herbs did better then tomatoes when my mom started her pot gardens an i started with herbs sence then weve gotten a pattern of sorts an its becoming she chooses her plants complains i want herbs i do EVERYTHING --my pots i dont mind so much-- then when the plants are fruiting SHE eats the fruit ill occasionally ask her to water everything "i forgot" yea RIGHT i ask her like right as shees walkin past the hose too so no way she coulda forgotten ok ill stop the rantin just i dont think its fair she can complain about what i like when she gets from her pots an i only ask her ta water everything when im away like at the camper if only i could control my astrial projecting then no more issues there |
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Posted: Jul/04/2008 2:26 PM PST
Thanks everyone for your responses.  I guess I'm one of the few who isn't super crazy about tomatoes. The ones I grew last year weren't very good, I didn't think, and didn't produce very much. I got a really late start on them, so that's why. Hopefully they'll be better this year and I'll understand what the fuss is all about. My cherry tomatoes are abundant and already beginning to ripen. And my beefsteaks and Italian heirlooms are beginning to flower.
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Posted: Jul/05/2008 7:10 AM PST
I voted tomatoes because they are the easiest to grow and because they can be prepared and stored away in a million different ways. I am going to try growing pretty much everything..so, my opinion may be different in a few months.
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Posted: Jul/09/2008 7:44 AM PST
I voted tomatoes. I finally have cherry tomatoes now. I can't wait to sample the other varieties. This is the first time in 3 years I grew my own from seed so I'm very happy! |
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Posted: Jul/10/2008 5:06 AM PST
I voted green beans because that's what is coming in right now. But, really, it's so hard to choose (too bad we can't vote more than once )I enjoy growing a wide variety of veggies, and I can't pinpoint one single favorite.
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Posted: Jul/14/2008 12:29 AM PST
I'm new here and just voted in my first poll! YAY! I voted lettuce, because this is the first year we have grown it and we fell in love! I guess because it was so much more delicious than what we buy at the store, and so stinking easy! |
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