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Steve, I think you've inspired me to plant some sort of asian green next fall, we usually only plant kale. Have you tried to make Kimchee with that bok choy?

Teka, I posted earlier on the thead about heirlooms in our neck of the woods so I won't repeat what I said there. I wanted to report that through today we have picked 32 lbs of Jetstar tomatoes from 3 vines. These tomatoes are thin skinned and tasty - you couldn't ship them across the county...

We grow and eat a lot of kale in the winter. Usually we just steam it and scoff it down but it's good in soups too. Lots of recipes for Caldo Verde on the web, uses leeks normally, here's a version that just uses onions and we like it just as well: Caldo Verde Onion Version Boston Phoenix ca...

Dilly beans rule! Our frozen beans (vacuum packed) just seem to sit in the freezer until the following summer when the fresh ones arrive. I know it's a whole different animal but I do prefer canned beans to frozen.

Well yesterday we harvested only our second eggplant but it looks as though we'll have enough to see us through the end of summer. A number of years ago there was a little restaurant in Eugene that made an eggplant burger: Grilled eggplant slice with cheese on top, red onion slice, tomato...

You must live in the path of the Missoula floods. Well come get your clay back if you want it, I buried it under my raised beds. :)

Yes, in the soil - it's like a miracle - even in the middle of July I can get those tiny seeds to germinate in short order.

I've taken to using vermiculite for small seeds: carrots, parsley, lettuce, etc. I make light groove in the soil, place the seeds, cover with vermiculite then gently water or mist them. Vermiculite holds water but not so much as to drown the seed, helps them to quickly develop roots.

Steve, I'm not crazy about tofu either but I like tempeh a lot. It looks easy enough to make other than taking the skin off the beans. :)

I haven't tried it but someone not too far from me plants potatoes and sweet potatoes in straw bales. Whenever I pass by they look like they're thriving. Local farmers sell 2 string wheat straw bales for 1.50 each and when you are done with them you can compost the straw. The local trash...

When I was in high school I worked part time at a dairy, Jersey's and Guernsey's only and the two mixed. Nobody had heard of low fat milk back then. The old Dutchman owner fed the cows dried apricots while they were in the milk parlor. :)

Here's my favorite tomato doing it's thing - producing and tasting pretty good while doing it. Jetstar, we planted 3 of these guys and will probably get 35-45 lbs of tomatoes from them. That's a miracle in my neck of the woods. We have other varieties as well but this is the one we depend on. :)

Mackay, Grow Guard is just the brand name of a row crop cover like Reemay: http://www.territorialseed.com/product/1670/171 We buy Kweik seed from Nichols Garden Nursery locally but there are other sources too: https://www.nicholsgardennursery.com/store/product-info.php?pid1372.html With grow...

We haven't had a lot of luck with chard because of leaf miners but kale does real well. We do get some aphids and maybe a cabbage worm or two before the weather gets cold but with Red Russian kale's flat leaf the aphids are easy to rub off and we can usually hunt down the worms. After October...

Steve, Do you eat all that bok choy? Any slugs in that neck of the woods? :)

I live in Western Oregon and some of the crops mentioned by other posters won't grow for us in the fall because there just isn't enough warm weather or light after September. We do grow lots of Kale, garlic, carrots, parsnips, beets, upland cress as well as fall and winter lettuce. The winter...

We also live in a tomato challenged area so the selection of tomatoes that will actually ripen and produce is limited. Jet Star has done well for us so we've continued to grow them as our main crop tomato for 15 years. I planted a Moskvich this year but my initial impression is that it's fruit...

Nice haul. Garlic seems to get to be sort of an addiction :)

This is still pretty early in the season for us so there isn't much to preserve, etc. We've dehydrated some of our blueberries, oregano, basil. I harvested a lot of garlic last week - when it's cured I'm going to try drying some and making garlic powder. I'm also going to try drying some...

emsevers, if you decide to go to Territorial and have time for a detour to Corvallis I can give you a couple of heads of Killarney Red to get you started. Send me a PM when and if you'd like to do that.