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Cook the Book: 'Vegetable Harvest'

I'd have to say I most enjoy growing tomatoes. Sweet, cherry tomatoes, golden pear tomatoes, big 'ole dripping-down-your-chin beefsteaks....I can never get enough.

lilnana at 10:36PM on 08/20/07

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Cook the Book: 'Vegetable Harvest'

I have a raised-bed herb garden that is a real pleasure for me. I love going out the kitchen door at dinner time and harvesting basil, cilantro, mint, oregano, etc....

The seven tomato pants in large pots on the patio are another story. I'm averaging about one tomato per pot per week. They appear to have wilt disease. WHAT am I doing wrong?

lori in Pittsburgh

lkasenter at 3:25AM on 08/27/07

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Cook the Book: 'Vegetable Harvest'

I always have lemons and herbs growing in pots on my cement patio, but only once did I grow tomatoes. The Early Girls were delicious, but by the time I purchased the cages and special food and all the other stuff I needed--not to mention the acquired compulsion to roll the pots around every afternoon to catch the most sun--they probably cost me $5 per pound. So much more relaxing to go to the farmers' marekt....

meta at 4:04PM on 08/25/07

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Cook the Book: 'Vegetable Harvest'

Having a small herb garden in the window of my downtown apartment has quite honestly changed my cooking and refocused me on using farm-fresh and seasonal produce as the BASIS (and not just an occasional "frill") for my food. I'm now looking to buy a plot of land for no reason other than to plant a garden. Your book, as with much of your writing, helped inspire the dream.

pixelchef at 2:21PM on 08/25/07

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Cook the Book: 'Vegetable Harvest'

I would like to plant cucumbers,garlic, basil, squashand any veggie I could possibly grow.

sln123 at 12:46PM on 08/25/07

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Cook the Book: 'Vegetable Harvest'

Fruit trees and tomatoes. Something other than cacti.

jenbot at 12:01PM on 08/25/07

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Cook the Book: 'Vegetable Harvest'

Since my lovable 67 pound labrador likes to eat my tomatoes, I have no other choice than to buy them, and all other produce, at the farmer's market. However, I do grow basil, sage, rosemary and mint; herbs that in my opinion, go with just about anything regardless of the season.

rosielucchesini at 10:03PM on 08/24/07

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Cook the Book: 'Vegetable Harvest'

I think tomatoes are the most rewarding - they taste so much better from your own garden & and you get a lot of them. I also find growing herbs and chives to be among the most useful - they can be used in so many recipes.

cgruner at 5:28PM on 08/24/07

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Cook the Book: 'Vegetable Harvest'

If I had a garden, I would grow lots of squash, zucchini, and herbs. And maybe some pumpkins too, just for fun.

Holly at 5:18PM on 08/24/07

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Cook the Book: 'Vegetable Harvest'

Herbs! So expensive in the grocery store, and such poor quality. And at the farmer's market they come in much larger batches than I want to use before they go bad.

Fiksu at 1:25PM on 08/24/07

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Cook the Book: 'Vegetable Harvest'

Thanks to my elderly landlady we already have tomatoes and shelling beans growing in our park slope brownstones backyard. I dream of blueberries though, corn and sugar snap peas!

mindanyc at 1:21PM on 08/24/07