What are You Eating from the Garden?

[flowerbug]

picked a half dozen Beaver Dam peppers and will enjoy eating a few of those with some BBQ chicken today (from the freezer). Mom asked me if i was going to give some of them away and i said no since i can eat a few a day myself.

we have a crop of green and red peppers coming along too but i'm not sure when Mom will get cooking with those (stuffed peppers ).

 

[SPedigrees]

I harvested a few large handfuls of green beans from the vines grown in a container on my porch. Ate some right off the plants, tossed a few into a salad, and added the rest to a stir fry. That was all that the vines had to give and they were looking pretty ratty at this point, so I pulled them down and rearranged the flower pots to fill in the space where they had been.

I harvested the beets and beet greens a couple weeks ago (those left to me by marauding deer), so now all that remains will be the tomatoes.

 

[akroberts]

I'm on the verge of ripping out most of the garden. I'm not really getting anything from it. I will leave the pumpkin and squash plants but everything else can go.

 

[SPedigrees]

I'm on the verge of ripping out most of the garden. I'm not really getting anything from it. I will leave the pumpkin and squash plants but everything else can go.

A lot of vegetable plants have short life spans, it's true.

 

[digitS']

Succession Planting as 2nds 3rds (4ths?)

My schedule:

1. Cucumber starts, early July following early greens
2. Bush Beans, mid July following early peas
3. Peas, late July following early peas
4. Asian Greens, early August following early potatoes, onions and sweet corn

I'm not hard and fast about all of that and may skip deciding to pull bush beans and cucumbers before the growing season has ended but they often play out or become mildew damaged. Scheduling needs to be local with climate in mind. Some plants may have days-to-maturity rates that look promising but fail. Lettuce as a Fall crop is one of those for me. Nevertheless, I am trying it here at home in '25 thinking that a less exposed garden and this hot growing season may keep Autumn cold at bay and allow lettuce to grow to some size. It will be inhibited by the Summer heat and dryness but may git to goin with some attention.

 

[akroberts]

Succession Planting as 2nds 3rds (4ths?)

My schedule:

1. Cucumber starts, early July following early greens
2. Bush Beans, mid July following early peas
3. Peas, late July following early peas
4. Asian Greens, early August following early potatoes, onions and sweet corn

I'm not hard and fast about all of that and may skip deciding to pull bush beans and cucumbers before the growing season has ended but they often play out or become mildew damaged. Scheduling needs to be local with climate in mind. Some plants may have days-to-maturity rates that look promising but fail. Lettuce as a Fall crop is one of those for me. Nevertheless, I am trying it here at home in '25 thinking that a less exposed garden and this hot growing season may keep Autumn cold at bay and allow lettuce to grow to some size. It will be inhibited by the Summer heat and dryness but may git to goin with some attention.

My garden just hasn't been very productive at all this year so I told my husband that next year I want to grow everything vertical. It will give me more growing room and make the weeding easier. I know a man that has a tiller attachment for the tractor we have so I want to till the ground and remove as many weeds as I can and then make trellises and just go vertical.