I Can Hardly Wait to Eat This

We can talk about any kind of food at all whether in a restaurant or a festival or as in my case on the table next to me! It is really easy to grow basil in water, but I don't have any tips for growing it in dirt. There I would be discouraged too! Oh, and I ALWAYS burn myself on wonton soup. It is so good that I cannot make myself wait. Hubby pours a little ice water in his. The smarty!

I took a peek at them a minute ago and I think I should just toss them out. Good thing I only used half of each packet so I will try again with the other half at Boyfriend's place. I will try the iced water on wonton soup next time. Does your hubby have any smart idea on how not to further burn your tongue with hot veggie rolls? Seriously, that tomato is so good-looking... I whistle at it!

You had your plants growing 'out' where Ms Saintly? I got pretty discouraged myself with my attempts at having tomatoes and basil to eat throughout the winter... WAH! I want one of those kits too!!!

When you are very hungry, twenty minutes is a long time to wait in a restaurant where you can see and smell the other people's food! We ate some of our yummy greens for dinner tonight, both lettuce from our garden and also some cooked greens that go good with potatoes and sausage. I love to eat food that we grew ourselves.

I wish i can grow my own food...

There are a few foods that are amazingly simply to grow and anyone could do it, but this is just not commonly known. I am working on some articles designed to show people how easy it is. I'm learning that tomatoes are really not all that difficult, if one is not concerned with optimal yield. I'm not fussy about the quantity of fruit we get as long as it is delicious and makes an interesting houseplant.

An AC review! What a good idea. I really should do that. thank you for the suggestion :-)

It was over 300 but I've been working hard LOL I thought I should not delete them so even at times when there aren't many discussions to respond to I can always go trough those :) But back to the tomato: LOoks gorgeous. I was hoping for the aerogarden for CHristmas but with the expenses this weekend I guess it will have to wait.

Ackk, I am so far behind, too!

That is a lot of notifications. Thank heavens for gmail whch lets us divert them all into a separate folder. When we come back from vacation, I have to just delete them all, but then I go around to my "regulars" to see what they have been up to, after I pop seeds in our AeroGardens, that is. Gotta get all that produce growing. Yums, yums.

They are my pets, lol. Edible pets. Too bad the leaves are not edible, too. They have such a nice aroma.

LOL..definitely edible to me too..

Oh, that is a tasty double bonus, and YAYYY, I have finally met someone who appears to be as frugal as me. I have indeed eaten potatoes right out of the garden, and yes, they are unbeatable. My parents were avid dirt gardeners and grew everything from peanuts to sugar cane, raspberries to rhubard, oh, and speaking of heavenly, those little bowling ball shaped "individual" watermelons...Sweet. I lived in the city so many years I've forgotten a lot of what used to go on in the garden, and we don't have dirt of our own to cultivate, but I'm learning about hydroponic gardening and grew (and ate) quite a few different yummy things in containers of water on the porch this past year and wrote about some of them in my blog entitled Ann's Air Gardens. Welcome to myLot, kprofgames, congrats on getting past the first 500 posts, and thanks for contributing to my discussion :-)

It was so delicious. Usually if the tomatoes are store bought, I just look at them and say I guess I should eat that, but... However when we grow our own the flavor is beyond compare. Glad you stopped by.

Wow! Just for you I should garden more, draw more, and POST more!

The electronic planters we use to grow things inside our city apartment are not widely available outside of the US and England just yet, but it is just a matter of time. Yes, you certainly may have the next one that ripens!

Since there is no dirt, the AeroGarden takes up less room for me because of all the dirt gardening supplies that do not need to be stored. The space it takes is just the size of the garden itself: http://www.productdose.com/images/custom/microappliances/aerogarden.jpg They come in several sizes, the smallest is just 10" around. The small ones are wonderful for kitchen herbs, easy flowering plants such as petunias, and my favorite use, rooting cuttings. The only problem with them is they are expensive and addicting. Although I don't actually change out the lamps every 6 months as they say to do, the replacement lamps are costly, and although energy-efficient, they do consume some power, so there is a cost there, too. Why addicting? Because they make it so clean and easy to grow exciting plants, one wants to grow more and more of them and the AG's come with just 3, 6 or 7 grow holes depending on which model you choose. So in order to have an interesting and edible garden producing on a continuing basis, I found I needed 4 or 5 of them--one for salad munchies, one for flowers, a couple for veggies such as tomatoes and peppers, and at least one for experiments. But just think--no caterpillars on the tomatoes! The only bugs I ever had on AeroGarden plants were whiteflies, and with those I had to kill the plants and start over.

Hi, Brian! I like pepper on my tomatoes, too, and also fresh basil, but I'll pass on the salt. A little sea salt does wonders for some foods, though :-) Well, basil is very fast growing in water, but I agree with you I can't wait for it to come in dirt. You might try just sticking a sprig from someone else's garden in a glass of water on a sunny window sill. Usually it roots in as little as 4 days and you can keep it growing in water for a very long time just by continually starting new cuttings. Well, a little plant food now and then doesn't hurt either. Thanks for visiting my cyber-garden.

I have not tried the official AeroGrow lettuce kits, but the romaine lettuce we bought from Johnny's Seeds (the pelleted Green Forest Organic) was crisp and delicious and grew huge. As it is cut and come again we did enjoy quite a few salads from that. We did grow their tomato kit though, and although the golden cherries started ripening first and they are quite delicious, both the taste and the texture of the red one, which we ate tonight, was just outstanding. It had so much flavor, I could hardly believe it. It may have been a bit riper than the yellow ones we ate though, so I'll let the next yellow ripen more and see if it compares. I prefer just starting the tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, etc., in the AeroGarden and moving them into a separate pot once they are off to a good start because we could be eating a whole lot of salad greens in the time it takes to grow a few tomatoes. But as hubby said tonight, "That was worth waiting for!" Well, I fed him our first jalapeno tonight, too.

i just ordered my aerogarden today im so excited i cant wait i ordered the delux that you can grow cucumber, bell pepers and more.

Thank you. When the next one is ripe maybe it will fit in your pocket, but this one we ate tonight and the flavor was intense. We will certainly be growing that variety again.

We'll just pretend the tomato is a fruit, ok? The homegrown ones are so sweet and delicious they may as well be fruit anytway. Mmmm, Lasagna and Sushi have one thing in common--when made well they are yummy, but if not made well they can be awful. Good lasagna is wonderful. My favorite kind, though, is the kind with white gravy and veggies in it....mmmm.

Thank you, my friend. This 'sword' is surely gonna' sting pretty good.

Oh, I get it! You can't wait to eat the stars, er, I mean, to TOAST THEIR DEMISE. Well, thanks for popping by just the same. It is always nice to hear from you.

Thank you subha, and perhaps you also grow methi? That crop is not widely cultivated here, but I grow mine and enjoy eating it over potatoes, sauteeed in a skillet, maybe with egg, too. Bringles is a new word to me, though. I have heard the expression "pickled bringles" before but have no idea what that is. Can you describe bringles for me?

Yes, I am an over-anxious gardener too. I'm growing snap beans for the first time and got so excited when the first small pod appeared. So excited that I have a little growth chart for it recorded on a 3 x 5 card to see how much longer it gets every day or week or whatever, assuming the birds don't get it first. The pot is eye level on the window sill of our porch and in a limb of a tree just across the sidewalk I'm sure I saw a bird getting interested in the plants, but it was probably the cherry tomatoes he hoped to snag. Hubby and I have a small bet going as to whether or not the bird will figure out how to get inside and beat us to the porch tomatoes. This is is inside, so it is safe.

You are my kind of gardener! I eat things straight from the plant, too, especially these indoor grown things that have not had bugs crawl all over them. The tomatoes we grow taste much different from the ones in the grocery store, don't they! I am doing cukes and snap beans too, and bought the pea kit for our AeroGarden, but have not tried that one yet.

We did eat the one in the picture tonight and it was delicious, but there are more on the way.