Vegetable Garden

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I'm doing that now....

What's everybody growing this year? I'm thinking about cucumbers, peppers, celery, squash, and, as always, tomatoes. My blueberries did hardly anything last year.

Add to the list spinach, green onions plus other onions, wheat grass, lettuce, hot peppers, herbs lots of herbs, but my fave is the lettuce and spinach, as you can just keep cutting them and they keep on coming....

 

[MissCroft]

Add to the list spinach, green onions plus other onions, wheat grass, lettuce, hot peppers, herbs lots of herbs, but my fave is the lettuce and spinach, as you can just keep cutting them and they keep on coming....

Yes, thinking about lettuce and green onions....the chives come up on their own every year.

 

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Yes, thinking about lettuce and green onions....the chives come up on their own every year.

Love chives as well, this yearI will need to be more organized since the zucchinis turned into monsters and ate up .most of my garden...I think it was some special organic mix of soil I used along with sheep manore.

Here is my actually inventory from last year moving from one end of the garden to the end...
Carrots
Onion - Yellow Sweet Spanish
Leaf Lettuce
kale
Green Swiss Chard
Sweet Pepper California Wonder
Bell Red
Onion White Sweet Spanish
lettuce (in between onion)
Swiss Chard Bright Lights
Celery
Eggplant Dusky
Lettuce
Leek
Tomato Roma
Tomato Better Boy
Tomato Sweet Cherry
Tomato Sweet Cherry
Green Zuchinni

Tomato's Sweet Million
Lettuce

Cantaloupe

Cucumbers ( English Jackson Classic)
Broccoli
Onion California Red
Parsley
Cives

Red Bell Pepper Sweet Pepper
Green Pepper
Jalapeño Pepper
Green Bell Pepper
Jalapeño
Green Bell Pepper
Lettuce
Lettuce
Lettuce
Lettuce
Green Onions

Herbs
Rosemary
Basil
Sage
Oregano
Thyme

 

[MissCroft]

^^ Wow! How big is your property? LOL


I'm going to do parsnips and radishes together. Apparently, the radishes protect the parsnips from pests:

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/parsnips-companion-planting-23255.html


And you can roast them together!

http://www.raisingjane.org/journal/59967

 

[Ceiling Cat]

Build some traps. I must have caught 15 last year. It makes a real difference. I release them at the back of a shopping center 2 km.s away. There is a spot behind the shops where they unload deliveries but it is quiet in the afternoons. I backed my truck up to a chain link fence that was covered with ivy and released the coon. It ran up the fence and jumped off the top. There must have been some people and a pool on the other side of the fence because I heard a lot of screaming when the coon went over.

 

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^^ Wow! How big is your property? LOL


I'm going to do parsnips and radishes together. Apparently, the radishes protect the parsnips from pests:

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/parsnips-companion-planting-23255.html


And you can roast them together!

http://www.raisingjane.org/journal/59967

Thanks for sharing this and it is exactly what I need to do different this year. Some of the things were getting attacked by pests such as the spinach leaves.

Yeah, my back yard is okay, not too big not to small but big enough to set up a badminton court area while running the vegetable garden along the perimeter of the fence line about 5ft wide, just enough to reach everything with one step. I invested in premium manour and organic soil and it made a huge difference. Everything had great yields, just I gotta work on positioning and grouping things better this time.

 

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Build some traps. I must have caught 15 last year. It makes a real difference. I release them at the back of a shopping center 2 km.s away. There is a spot behind the shops where they unload deliveries but it is quiet in the afternoons. I backed my truck up to a chain link fence that was covered with ivy and released the coon. It ran up the fence and jumped off the top. There must have been some people and a pool on the other side of the fence because I heard a lot of screaming when the coon went over.

Sure sure...that's what we all say ...

Just find the closest cemetery and slip the crematorium operator a few bills and your troubles are a thing of the past...j/k

 

[Ceiling Cat]

I am growing cherry tomatoes, the regular ones at too much trouble by the time harvest time comes around the market is full of cheap tomatoes.
The one that grow to eating size but are too green, you can put in a paper bag with a banana to ripen. When the red one start to come in, just keep picking them off the vine. The small cherry tomatoes are more flavorful than the big ones. I am also growing snow peas. I grew some green onions from onion roots, the squirrels cane alone and pulled them out and ate them. I am also growing my regular catnip crop.

 

[Dawgger]

^^ Wow! How big is your property? LOL


I'm going to do parsnips and radishes together. Apparently, the radishes protect the parsnips from pests:

http://homeguides.sfgate.com/parsnips-companion-planting-23255.html


http://www.raisingjane.org/journal/59967

If you plant parsnips and radishes together, the radishes will be ready much sooner than the parsnips. When you pick the radishes you are in effect thinning the parsnips giving them more growing space. This also works with carrots. We leave the parsnips in the ground over winter and are enjoying them now. The frost reacts with the starch in the parsnip and gives it a much sweeter flavor.

 

[notthemama]

Hehehe If she has the thyme.

I have the cabbage if she has the thyme.

 

[SkyRider]

Almost all my Italian neighbors tend to have green thumbs. (They also raise pigeons and make their own wine.) Tomatoes seem to be their vegetable of choice. They "tomatoed" everything. I even told them to ease off the tomatoes if they have heart issues but they never listen.

 

[ooh-ya-more]

If you plant parsnips and radishes together, the radishes will be ready much sooner than the parsnips. When you pick the radishes you are in effect thinning the parsnips giving them more growing space. This also works with carrots. We leave the parsnips in the ground over winter and are enjoying them now. The frost reacts with the starch in the parsnip and gives it a much sweeter flavor.

Same with carrots from what I've been told.

 

[Dawgger]

Same with carrots from what I've been told.

tried carrots a few years back, not as impressed as we are with parsnips.

 

[Aardvark154]

I grow tomatoes every year. I planted asparagus seeds two years ago and got nothing - I'm guessing the animals got to them or something. Maybe try planting the crowns?

I'd definitely go with planting asparagus crowns rather than seed.

 

[notthemama]

I'd definitely go with planting asparagus crowns rather than seed.

Asparagus likes a rich sandy soil that is well drained.
Dig a trench 18" deep. Line with well rotted manure, work in your existing soil and add sand if it's clay type soil to lighten it. Keep away from low spots that hold water.
You have to let it grow preferably 2 seasons before harvesting. Gives the roots a chance to build up their reserves and get well established.
Dress with additional rotted manure each year.

 

[Dawgger]

Asparagus likes a rich sandy soil that is well drained.
Dig a trench 18" deep. Line with well rotted manure, work in your existing soil and add sand if it's clay type soil to lighten it. Keep away from low spots that hold water.
You have to let it grow preferably 2 seasons before harvesting. Gives the roots a chance to build up their reserves and get well established.
Dress with additional rotted manure each year.

Excellent advice....Have mine in a spot no bigger than 3' X 5' and it yields enough that we have good feeds every week during the season and have excess for the neighbors. Keep the plot as weed free as possible, I add compost as opposed to manure every fall.

 

[trm]

Eggplant, the long narrow kind that looks like a purple zucchini is easy to grow. Slice one of the eggplant and a zucchini, combine with a chopped red pepper and an onion, sauté in extra virgin olive oil with a bit of basil, yummy.

 

[notthemama]

Eggplant, the long narrow kind that looks like a purple zucchini is easy to grow. Slice one of the eggplant and a zucchini, combine with a chopped red pepper and an onion, sauté in extra virgin olive oil with a bit of basil, yummy.

sprinkle with real Parm
warm fresh bread with butter.:thumb:

 

[Aardvark154]

tried carrots a few years back, not as impressed as we are with parsnips.

Have to be careful with parsnips if the foliage is still alive or you have left overs that re-sprout in the Spring. The sap is phototoxic causing phytophotodermatitis

 

[Aardvark154]

If you have the space another perennial to plant is Rhubarb it does best if it has rotted manure worked into the soil each year. (The leaves are poisonous to eat, you boil the stalks)