Garden Porn?

[JimWWhite]

Has anyone gotten their garden porn yet? I mean the Baker Creek Seed catalog? I've gone through that thing four or five times already and I've made a list a yard long of seeds I want to buy. Last year I ordered some of their melon seeds including a packet of the Tigger melons. The ones we got grew to about the size of a large softball and were as sweet as candy. But they were really fragrant too. I also bought some spineless red okra which did really well and some of the yard long beans. Don't bother with those. They grew and were pretty prolific but we just couldn't stand them when we tried to cook them. They were too tough for snap beans or stir fry beans. I shelled some and they tasted like chalk. No, that's not fair to chalk because chalk probably had more taste. I let them dry and then we shelled they and tried to make a pot of beans but yuk!!!, back to chalk. I planted several hills of the Moon and Stars golden watermelons and they were great!

 

[so lucky]

Wow, Jim, thanks for the warning about the yard long beans. I have been thinking about growing some, but will re-think it now. Maybe still plant some for chicken yard shade on the fence....

 

[vfem]

Has anyone gotten their garden porn yet? I mean the Baker Creek Seed catalog? I've gone through that thing four or five times already and I've made a list a yard long of seeds I want to buy. Last year I ordered some of their melon seeds including a packet of the Tigger melons. The ones we got grew to about the size of a large softball and were as sweet as candy. But they were really fragrant too. I also bought some spineless red okra which did really well and some of the yard long beans. Don't bother with those. They grew and were pretty prolific but we just couldn't stand them when we tried to cook them. They were too tough for snap beans or stir fry beans. I shelled some and they tasted like chalk. No, that's not fair to chalk because chalk probably had more taste. I let them dry and then we shelled they and tried to make a pot of beans but yuk!!!, back to chalk. I planted several hills of the Moon and Stars golden watermelons and they were great!

I got it and I already ordered!!!! WHOOOOOOO

 

[digitS']

I had forgotten about wanting to try Tigger!

Passport Galia has done so well for me in this melon-challenged environment that I can't give them up! A galia is sometimes listed as a honeydew and the honeydew isn't my absolute favorite but compromise is important.

Passport is a hybrid from the University of New Hampshire. I have been to Connecticut but not New Hampshire but I've come to realize that it is a similar environment to this part of the country. So, I tried another U of NH melon in 2012, Goddess cantaloupe. Success again!

This year, I am hoping that the U of NH comes thru for me again - Gold Rush tomatoes. This is an open-pollinated variety so I can save seeds.

Tomatoes are a fruit, I don't care what was decided for commerce. Jim, it must be great to live where garden fruit is a little easier to grow.

Steve

 

[JimWWhite]

Well, it's easier in some ways. We have a longer season and we can get started earlier with the spring garden and later with the fall garden but it's the summertime heat that's tough. It tough to make yourself go out when you get home from work and it's still 90F plus and the humidity is near 100%. I'll take my stool out and sit down at a 4x8 box and start pulling weeds which is an easy thing to do when you have boxes. But 10 minutes into it and you're dripping wet from head to toe. I always lose weight in the summer here because of it. But I do like the fact that I can start my cabbage, lettuce and other cold tolerant plants and put them out by the first of March and harvest a lot of it before the bugs wake up. As Martha would say "That's a very good thing..."

 

[vfem]

Isn't it exciting Jim to have such a long season. We just have an unpredictable winter and overly humid summer to deal with.

Like you, I have several 4x8 raised beds, as well as some 3'x5' raised beds. I can just sit comfortably and pick weeds, but I do try to go out in the morning before work at like 7-8am when its not so bad.

As you can see, I didn't order any tomatoes this year. I still had a bunch of 'Black from Tula' left from them from last year I started inside. Otherwise, I'll be picking up a flat of starts from the nursery in April so I can have my Roma's and Brandywines.

 

[Carol Dee]

Yep the Baker's Creek catalog is here and getting pretty dog earred already. DH is so anxious for spring he already has a few Brandywines started! (They will be BIG plants when it comes time to set them out.) Looks like I better put some tiger melons on the wish list.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

i'm upset that i never got a catalog this year from BC. i ordered twice when they had some email deals sent to me and they never sent me one. i feel like i'm not important to them at all. sniff sniff snuffle.

 

[canesisters]

Garden Porn.. LOL!
My Baker Creek catalog is in the basket in the bathroom right along side my garden diagram! LOL
I'm about to have some sort of fit waiting for my seeds to come.

 

[897tgigvib]

I like it here because here we get garden porn and food porn! Lately lady rebetzin's been doing the food porn...didja see that meatloaf with the egg embedded in it? and here, we get entire packets of fertile seeds...

oh...what's a poor ole neanderthal to do?