Ducks ALIVE in 2025!

[ducks4you]

Yesterday I put both the 50 ft red heated hose (didn't use it this winter,) And the 100 ft blue heated hose into storage. My old burn barrel (that is a plastic trash can) that got cracks on the bottom, but has wheels, is a great place to store them until next winter. It lives in the Carriage House, which is a one car garage and also houses my God (riding) Kubota mower and tow wagon.

 

[ducks4you]

This is a repeat on the thread, What have you planted today?
This morning I planted a 2nd row of 62 sugar snap peas, 25 Mammoth Salmon Cream Sweet Peas, and a package of turnip greens, probably 100 or so seeds. I lightly covered the peas, then sprinkled the turnip green seeds on top, in anticipation of today's rain.
One more row to go, probably More sugar snap peas, vintage 2022, and then...something else. I have some Mesclun Lettuce seedlings up in their Winter Sowing jug, and I will be transplanting that and others when they are big enough, so as to fill in any spaces where weeds want to grow next to my vegetables.

 

[heirloomgal]

This is a repeat on the thread, What have you planted today?
This morning I planted a 2nd row of 62 sugar snap peas, 25 Mammoth Salmon Cream Sweet Peas, and a package of turnip greens, probably 100 or so seeds. I lightly covered the peas, then sprinkled the turnip green seeds on top, in anticipation of today's rain.
One more row to go, probably More sugar snap peas, vintage 2022, and then...something else. I have some Mesclun Lettuce seedlings up in their Winter Sowing jug, and I will be transplanting that and others when they are big enough, so as to fill in any spaces where weeds want to grow next to my vegetables.

Sweet pea flowers! Nice!

 

[ducks4you]

I intend to harvest seeds from the two types of peas and from the sweet peas, whose seeds are 1/2 the diameter of the peas and black.
Since last year was such a nothing for me in planting, I have Lots of old seeds that I intend to plant pretty much everywhere, really with NO purpose to harvest and eat (or enjoy, like the flowers), More to have them grow and fill in spaces in between vegetables. There are so many "companion" lists out there it will be easy to know where to put them.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

If I had planted my pea seeds, they would have drowned. So much rain this winter. No chance of drought this summer tho.

 

[ducks4you]

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Oh I totally forgot about rutabagas. They are like turnips. Very interesting video on veggies.

 

[ducks4you]

It is interesting what you learn from what people put out there, although I question the "remarkable vegetable that SAVED Americans during the Great Depression."
My maternal GF was laid off in the early 30's in Cleveland. He was a journeyman.
He and other neighbors hunted rabbits, etc., in the empty lots close to their homes and he became a true Master Gardener bc they really Did live off of what he grew. Can't ask him now, but I'm pretty sure he gardened more real estate than the postage stamp garden I witnessed growing up on Euclid Avenue--somebody here probably knows this area of Cleveland.
Still, he could have written the book on square ft gardening.
I don't EVER remember him telling us about growing MOST of the vegetables in this video.
I was amazed that last year was the first time I produced a tomato the size of the ones he routinely grew.
STILL, it begs the question of why we aren't growing these vegetables NOW.
I think I may make a list of these vegetables from the video, post it here and do some research on them, when I get a chance.
If you didn't know this, these you tube videos are segmented. You can jump to the next segment using your cursor, and the producer uses the same photo before introducing each vegetable.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

Love parsnips and rutabagas and turnips. Never heard of that multi syllable veggie or salsify.

Are ground cherries the same as tomatillos? I've grown tomatillos, but never again. They spread everywhere!!

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

Grandpa was an engineer at Atlantic Richfield in Philly. He got laid off. He and my GM raised turkeys in their back yard; he owned a boat and went fishing, which he sold to get by, all the time in Barnegat Bay in NJ, ; and they grew cabbage to make sauerkraut to sell to others.

By the time the depression was over, he was rehired. Atlantic Richfield is now known as ARCO.