Baymule's 2018 Garden

[henless]

Bay, do you think we might have an early frost since we had such a late frost this year? We lost a whole month of growth due to that late frost. We went from cold to hot in a matter of a couple of weeks. Just seems like to me the weather patterns are starting to change just a bit.

I plan on planting some fall carrots. I think it just gets too hot here for spring carrots. I've been buying organic carrots and canning them for the winter. They taste 100% better than the carrots you buy in a can.

A lot of plants need to be grown in full sun. I don't believe they mean full sun in Texas. I've found a little afternoon shade helps mine greatly in the summer.

 

[baymule]

A lot of plants need to be grown in full sun. I don't believe they mean full sun in Texas. I've found a little afternoon shade helps mine greatly in the summer.

Yeah, full sun in Texas means under a heat lamp! I don't think we'll have a hard killing frost any earlier than normal. Normal can be October or November.

@Nyboy there are LOTS of wholesale nurseries in this area and a lot of them grow in greenhouses with plastic and heat in the winter and shade cloth in the summer. Yes, I think shade cloth would help extend the growing season.

 

[flowerbug]

would growing under shade cloth extend growing season ?

may also need a wind break to keep evaporative losses down. irrigation likely needed too.

at some point the demand the leaves can place on the root system is too much and the plant will just collapse and die.

 

[henless]

I'm cooking kohlrabi out of the garden for supper tonight. I tried a piece of the bulb, raw. Reminded me of a radish without the heat. The leaves I chopped up, rinsed and added to the butter, onions and kohl bulb. While they were sitting the colander draining, they smelled like a stale dish cloth.

I'll let ya know how they tasted.

 

[flowerbug]

I'm cooking kohlrabi out of the garden for supper tonight. I tried a piece of the bulb, raw. Reminded me of a radish without the heat. The leaves I chopped up, rinsed and added to the butter, onions and kohl bulb. While they were sitting the colander draining, they smelled like a stale dish cloth.

I'll let ya know how they tasted.

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people keep saying things like this like it is supposed to mean anything to me.... i'll try about any vegetable at least once (same with almost any cheese). almost all of them i like, even the ones that smell like stale dish clothes or old smelly socks...

 

[baymule]

Maybe chop string style and add to a salad?

 

[henless]

Well dang Bay! I posted my previous post on your thread, not mine!!!

Granddaughter did NOT like it! Daughter liked the greens but not the bulb. I thought it all tasted good. DH has yet to try it since he is working late.

If DH likes it, I may grow more next year. It does take up a bit of room, but grows very well here.

 

[baymule]

Well dang Bay! I posted my previous post on your thread, not mine!!!

That's funny! What a way to hi-jack a thread!

 

[henless]

Totally innocent, I swear! Guess I'll go post it on my own thread now, hehe.

 

[ninnymary]

Bay, do you have time to replant zucchini to get 2 crops in a summer? Besides tomatoes, what else do you replant? I don't mean things that die initially either, haha.

Mary