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shishito peppers
A while back, I was visiting my daughter and we stopped at a farmers market. She was delighted to find that one of the farmers had shishito peppers. I had never heard of them before. Her two year old daughter loves them. I just went to my local farmers market (clear across the country) and was delighted to find that one of…
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Perennial vegetables
Every year I try to find a vegetable (or edible flower) that is perennial in my area, zone 5B that I can add to my garden areas. It saves me time and money plus some will actually produce a small amount if our winter is mild. Last year I lost my huge sunchoke crop, over 20 foot section each way. Sunchikes are usually…
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Earth Tone Indian Corn
I grew the most beautiful "Earth Tone" Indian corn this year. Its an heirloom and can be used as a dent corn or ground in to flour. I'll have to give that a try. I will also be saving some seed for next year. Its already in the sold out catagory in the seed catalog.. I love growing Indian corn for ther adventure and color…
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Still looking for non-flat stringless heirloom pole beans
This year my entire crop of pole beans was useless. The pods were flat, stringy, and tough. Please help me with pole bean seed suggestions that will not turn out this way.
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Brussels sprout
I planted Brussels sprouts earlier this year and I am not happy with their turnout! Are there any suggestions that I may use for next year? They are not very tall, and did not yield many sprouts. Should I plant them near different veges next year? This year they are near cucumbers. I started them indoors in March and put…
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What to grow?
Am I the only one that mainly plants a garden for my animals? My family enjoys about 25% of what we grow but mostly when I am trying to determine what to grow I mostly think of what the chickens want to eat and what veggies the rabbits will chow down on. It supplements the cost of food for them and I get to do what I love…
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Final pumpkin harvest
We enjoyed going these lovely beauties. Our best pumpkin harvest yet. These cinderella's variety grew right by our compost bin. I planted seeds next to the pallet bin and the vines thrived.
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Guides for Growing Food in Manitoba
Here are some guides for growing in a colder, drier climate, some guides of which may be more helpful than others. This will be useful to Manitobans, but can be useful to others as well. I downloaded the gardening in a northern climate manual, and it looks very good. @laurnie59 Some of these guides could be very helpful to…
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Lack of seeds in your area?
I was just curious of the seed status of various parts of the states. Living here in rural North Florida I had no luck in some lettuce types in our small town. After talking to owner, it seems that this year there has been record sales of seed due to the COVID issue. They also told me that the seed company's have them buy…
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Tomato too ripe on the counter? If it is an heirloom you can always save the seed.
This morning I realized it had been several days since processing the produce from my garden, and I had several tomatoes get far too soft on the counter. I was about to add them to the container for the compost pile then I remembered my seed for this variety was getting on the older side. So, I placed one tomato in a…
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Recommendations for seed companies?
I really would like to get some more heirloom plants along with some more medicinal type plants to be growing in my garden next year. Does anyone have any good suggestions for certain seed companies especially for those hard to find medicinal plants?
