Love to garden, fruit and veggies. Used to have 24 fruit trees in my old house with 175' lot, including kiwi fruit, grapes, apples, asian apple pears, peaches, nectarines, cherries, plums, cherries, strawberries.
For veggies, I am experimental on new varieties (especially those all-american winners) besides the standards. I have grown these through the years, each in multi-varietiies:
Cheery tomatoes - love 'sun sugar' in gold colour, so sweet
- 'Sugar snack' is my top red variety, then 'sweet million/100'
- also love 'juliet', the grape tomato, just perfect.
- also just try a Taiwan variety this year, waiting to taste
Standard tomato - just too many to name, 'fantastic', 'wonder boy' etc.
Bean - love 'blue lake', also grow 'yard-long' bean, an oriental kind.
Squash - love 'peter pan', so good for pickled or stir fry. Also Chiense
'mo qua', just love to see their huge size. Have grown 'tung gua'
and speghetti squashes, even cantelopes.
Peas - 'homesteader' grown for just eating the sprouts, oriental delicacy
as it is dwarf and robust grower.
- many types of snow peas for stir fry
- love 'sugar daddy' for snap peas, so succulent & sweet.
Pepper - love 'anaheim' and the semi hot varieties and make hot 'XO'
saurce with them.
Corns - love the super sweets and sugar enhanced ones.
Egg plant - the long oriental varieties are great for stir fry and stuffing.
Cucumber - all kinds of them for pickle, fresh slicing, etc. Some oriental
and Japanese varieties are mild & great, but also love to grow
'market more' to eat it at thumb size, real crunchy.
leaf veggies - choi sum, pak choi, gai lam, gai choi, spinach, many types.
- love German gai lam, can over-winter, can pick from April on.
herbs - mints, basils, chives, garlic, onions, shallots, etc.
"nothing beats fresh veggies from the garden, organically grown!'
Great harvest to all!