Pluggers by Rick McKee for March 27, 2024

Thats the best way!

When I go out to the garden, I carry restaurants salt packets in the coin pocket of my jeans.

Love taking peas in the garden.

If you are a ‘gardener’ (of foodstuffs), two things that can’t be beaten—-a fresh tomato off the vine and a fresh ear of corn ! ! ! ! Too bad morel mushrooms should be soaked over night in salt water to emiliorate any unwanted items or ‘little visitors’ ! ! !

Especially the tomatoes!!!

Eh nothing is beats eating freshest fresh foods.

Will be at that stage of gardening in several more months ! Right now tis planning , preparation then planting . I do have several tomatoes growing indoors that have tomatoes on them :-)

We have eight plum trees. Last year only plums from one made it into the house and then only because there were hundreds of them. IIRC, I also got a couple off of the Burbank. My wife likes plums.

As a child picking blackberries about half made it in to the pail

At least dip the broccoli in boiling water for a few minutes. Those little green caterpillars are too well camouflaged to pick them all out by eye …

Had that problem with the strawberries and buffalo berries in our garden. Choke cherries off our tree weren’t an issue.

I do that! Especially with the tomatoes and sweet peppers.

Haven’t heard of garden-to-mouth before.

Best way to eat your home-grown produce.

Imagine whirled peas…

You are killin’ me. I haven’t even planted my garden. It was 19° this morning.

Not doing that much as a “plugger” but in my “pre-plugger” days my friends and I would sometimes raid neighbor’s gardens at night for carrots, corn, green beans, tomatoes. Somehow the excitement of the sneaking around made them taste better.

No salt needed – a freshly picked, fully vine-ripe tomato has all the flavor you could ask for!

Used to love doing that in our vegetable garden when I was little……great memories!

But washing it first is advisable. But what do you expect from a guy like this?

Yep, a true plugger has hypertension AND carries salt in his shirt pocket.

Early Summer sweet corn right on the cob is great too…

CHURCH! I love raiding the garden for a snack, for as long as it lasts. Green beans, snap peas, tomatoes…man, I’m a bit hungry right now…

That is exactly what I would do when I was little! Take a salt shaker out to the garden and eat the tomatoes!!

I grew up in fertile ag land in Sacramento, CA. We all had huge gardens and grew our own fruits and veggies. I used to follow my Grandfather along the rows and eat the food right off the vines or out of the ground—so fresh, so delicious!!! My Mother and Grandmother would prep the fruits and veggies for freezing so we were able to eat fresh food all year round.

Asparagus never makes it into the house.

Shouldn’t you wash the produce first?

I live in farm country; cannot wait ’til all the local stands open in July! Mmmmm

the only way to eat your veggies

Good one, James! Yup, we had a 1/4 acre garden behind our old three-story 19th century house in Gorham, Maine. I remember shucking corn, picking peas, & cutting up tomatoes to go with my mother’s freshly baked bread (circa, 1950s)

Miss those Jersey tomatoes!

We used to have a vegetable garden in our back yard. Problem was that the children’s mental health facility husband worked in would close for vacation for 2 weeks in August – those would be the 2 weeks everything we planted came in.

His parents lived near by and his dad would stop and take our mail and check the mail while we were away so we told him to help himself to any vegetables which were ripe so they did not go to waste.

Then his dad died and everything we planted would go bad while we were away, so he stopped planting same.