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My very FAVORITE POLE BEAN
mild tasting, average length 22 inches, and more, beautiful bean, beautiful bloom, abundant producer, tasty steamed, boiled, haven't tried stir fry yet...turns a beautiful dark color when steamed, is said to stay red when stir fired...very easily produces plentiful seeds...should never have to buy the seeds after the first…
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Veg seeds on sale
johnnyseeds has some vegetable seeds on sale. No idea for how long.
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Potatoes!
I have failed for three years at growing potatoes. I tried containers for the first two years. This year, I did a row, but I think the soil I got was not good. Does anyone have tips on how to grow potatoes, either in containers or in the ground?
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Newbies to Gardening
What keeps you, as a first time gardener, from jumping in and getting your hands dirty. Fear of failure? Pests? Lack of knowledge? You tell me.
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What is your favorite heirloom, open pollinated, determinate tomato?
I need a really good heirloom, open pollinated, determinate tomato for next years canning. I am not looking for excessive fruit size. What I really would like is a uniform easy to can tomato. This year I have been canning an heirloom beefsteak, but they are indeterminate and so they ripen a few at a time. They are also…
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What are these weird onion-like volunteers?
So last year I was cleaning up unused community garden plots and I found these bulbs. They looked like small onions, or maybe shallots. No one knew what they were, so I thought-- why not try an experiment? I dropped three in my pocket and when I got home I "winter sowed" them in milk jugs over the winter. In spring I cut…
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Growing Garlic
Any tips on growing garlic? I live in Indiana and was told this is the best time of the year to start growing garlic. Any garlic growers?
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Question regarding corn...
wondering if anyone knows... Once corn plant leaves have dried from cold will the kernels continue plumping at all or should I just go ahead and harvest the corn in it’s partially developed state?
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Rapunzel, rapunzel... let down your feldsalat...
It's getting cooler at night, but it might still be too early with our upper 80-90 deg F daytime temps for me to plant some feldsalat. Or corn salad. Or rapunzel. I became sort of addicted to this stuff while in Europe; I stuff vietnamese fresh rolls with it if I don't have mung vermicelli along with the Usual Suspects.…
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Celeriac?
Anyone growing celeriac out there? It's one of my favorite root vegetables. I like it roasted with other root vegetables in the oven with a dash of decent whiskey, pepper, salt. I also love it grated finely and made into a salad, a little sugar and vinegar, similar to beet or carrot salad. Actually beet, carrot, and…
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WINTER GARDENING
Does anyone have any advice/experience with winter gardening?
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2 Min tip for planting elephant garlic, and written info
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School project on potatoes
My son came home on Friday from elementary school and said they are doing a project on potatoes and they should bring two different potatoes from the store or farmers market. Well I went with him in the garden and harvested three different potatoes in three rows. He was really excited and now we write down the details and…
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An excellent article on peas
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How about that? Medieval veggies!
Was out and about browsing websites and found this post. It does mention the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism), which I belonged to for close to 30 years. Have fun reading. Interesting that their diet wasn't that bland after all.
