What are you garden folks picking now?

Not a danged thing yet.

A few tomatoes are getting pretty close and I’m seeing some zucchini growing.

Beans will be blooming soon. Peppers and egg plant are still a was away.

I didn’t plant my garden until Good Friday. It was just too cold here (Memphis burb) until then.

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Wow, you’ve got okra already?

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Yeah, and I'm kind of surprised at the okra producing as the plants are still relatively small compared to their 8 ft. height at the end of the season.

I've got lots of pepper plants and the bells are almost ready to pick, but my hot peppers like habanero will not produce anything until July if anything like I've experienced in the past. None of my pepper plants overwintered this year.

Eggplant have some on them, but they are still small. Herbs are something I have year round with rosemary, mint, oregano, tarragon, bay leaves and sweet basil going crazy now. Parsley was picked to dry since the heat will kill it anyway. I pulled my garlic and have it drying out on my rack and have about 75 large heads to deal with in about a week or so.

I’ll leave everything and will get the best fruits in the fall. Tomatoes always produce like crazy in oct.

Bellpepper, tomatoes, but mostly cucumbers. Man I do know if this is normal but my cucumbers are growing to about 2 foot long!

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Man I do know if this is normal but my cucumbers are growing to about 2 foot long!

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That depends on what variety you planted. English Cucumbers can get to be very long. I grow 2 types, a pickling variety that should be picked no bigger than 4 inches long and a slicing variety that can get to 8 inches long before getting too big with large seeds and turning bitter.

My Japanese Yard Long beans often get to be 24 inches long and I pick them when between 20-24 inches long. Compared to beans like Kentucky Wonder Pole Beans that only get to be about 5-6 inches long, they are giants.

Fresh pickings this morning!

I’ve picked about 10 assorted toms with another 20 that are almost ripe. I haven’t picked any cuces year, but 3 that are almost ready. My pepper plants are producing well. I’ll probably have 40-50 ripened habaneros in a week or so. Debating on a hot sauce or pepper jelly

I'm in extreme northeast Arkansas. I'm picking kale, lettuce, chard, beet greens, collards, cilantro, and green onions.

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Fresh pickings this morning!

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Nice haul of green beans. Have you ever tried Japanese Yard Long beans? Also known as "Asparagus Beans", "Noodle Beans" and probably a couple other names. I picked 70 of them this morning, washed them and cut them up and got a full 1 gallon zip-lock bag full. They are some of the most productive and fastest growing beans I've ever grown and have had a trellis in my garden to plant them on for several years now.

They are excellent cooked down like any other string bean and are even better when cut in 6 inch long pieces and grilled like asparagus. The only thing I've found that they didn't do well in was pickling. Their texture got kind of chewy in the brine. Give them a try one year and you may be surprised at the production.

Yep, here to on bush beans. I pulled all my plants out 2 days ago and have them drying between the rows so I can till them under in a couple weeks time.

I've never grown the red yard longs but did grow the purple ones a few years ago. Unlike some purple hulled beans, the yard longs didn't turn green when exposed to the heat of cooking like a few purple varieties I've had.