Post by Calfkeeper on Apr 9, 2015 20:15:23 GMT
Yesterday I helped DH and MIL plant four 75 ft rows of potatoes! My legs are sore! We help buy the seed taters and plant them down in her garden, then we share the care and the crop. It works great. We've done this with corn as well. Though the last 2 years we've also grown our own corn crop. We like the Bodacious variety.
We've got half of one of our garden beds cleaned out and planted; onions, collards, mustard spinach, lettuce and radishes. I never have any luck with spinach, so I go for the other greens. I love mustard spinach and collards the best; I usually mix them when cooking.
DH bought yellow and red onion plants (aren't the plants supposed to be for dry onions? I always forget which) and I am not much into red onions, but I don't complain. Ha. We always do French Breakfast radishes. It doesn't matter to me as I don't eat them.
I planted 19 sweet bell pepper seeds, after soaking them in water for 24 hrs, and got only 8-9 sprouts. But that's better germination than I've ever had before with pepper seeds. Why are pepper seeds so difficult?
I have 5 sweet potatoes in water making starts. We don't set those out until May sometime, and hopefully I will have plenty by then to set out. I am not going to make a ridge for them this year. I didn't last year and had a great harvest. Well, the mice or whatever it was, ate quite a few underground, but I still got about four 5 gallon buckets of sweet taters. I took quite a few to church to share.
We have tomato seeds planted and baby cabbages sprouting. The tomato seed I got from wintersown.org. Some kind person posted about wintersown on the frugal site on HT last year. Thank you, whoever that was. If you go to their site you can get free seeds from them. It takes 2-3 weeks for a response, but it's not too late.
Hmmm... That's it for now.
Rebecca
We've got half of one of our garden beds cleaned out and planted; onions, collards, mustard spinach, lettuce and radishes. I never have any luck with spinach, so I go for the other greens. I love mustard spinach and collards the best; I usually mix them when cooking.
DH bought yellow and red onion plants (aren't the plants supposed to be for dry onions? I always forget which) and I am not much into red onions, but I don't complain. Ha. We always do French Breakfast radishes. It doesn't matter to me as I don't eat them.
I planted 19 sweet bell pepper seeds, after soaking them in water for 24 hrs, and got only 8-9 sprouts. But that's better germination than I've ever had before with pepper seeds. Why are pepper seeds so difficult?
I have 5 sweet potatoes in water making starts. We don't set those out until May sometime, and hopefully I will have plenty by then to set out. I am not going to make a ridge for them this year. I didn't last year and had a great harvest. Well, the mice or whatever it was, ate quite a few underground, but I still got about four 5 gallon buckets of sweet taters. I took quite a few to church to share.
We have tomato seeds planted and baby cabbages sprouting. The tomato seed I got from wintersown.org. Some kind person posted about wintersown on the frugal site on HT last year. Thank you, whoever that was. If you go to their site you can get free seeds from them. It takes 2-3 weeks for a response, but it's not too late.
Hmmm... That's it for now.
Rebecca