Welll, the best dishes use fresh ingredients, and the freshest you can get is from your own vegie patch. My mother grows lots of herbs, a variety of lettuce potatoes. Its a beauty. Anyone else have a vegie patch to share with us all?

I grow tomatoes, and cucumbers in my garden. Oh, and some green peppers too. Next year I'm going to grow heirloom tomatoes. Big, ugly and tasty too.

This year we didn't get a chance for a garden BUT!!! I did clean out an area that I plan on using next year. I'm hoping for a little of everything. Corn, cucumbers, watermelon, carrots, and definitely tomatoes & cherry tomatoes. AND..... whatever else catches my fancy when I go to buy seeds.

thats cool vegetable patches, i forgot to add we grow tomatoes cucumber, we have lemon and madarin trees

Wow - I'd love to grow lemons & oranges. I've seen some books where I can buy banana trees. I thought that would be intresting. They were drawf trees and said I could actually grow them here in Illinois. And with 12 foot ceilings I could probably bring them in the house in the winter.