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Kikiriki
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Wow! Amazing how giant that elephant ear is!
I did not lose any plants this winter, although none of my winter vegetables did anything. I had found a portable greenhouse like a pop-up tent on Craigslist for $50. New is several hundred dollars. I do almost all my plants in selfwater containers, so I can move them to get the best sun, too.
I have some turnips, though only half have bulbed. My carrots are finally growing and I have either celery or celery root (celeriac) going well: not sure which!
I got ONE heritage black tomato off my huge plant. So frustrating! It was very delicious, though, and does have a more salty flavor than regular red tomatoes. My little patio variety has given us four fruits. How sad is that for months of growing?? :/
I found a cherry tomato plant at the hardware store, and boy is that thing going gang busters. Lots of fruit and growing fast, though none ripen so far.
I have lettuce that overwintered, but it did not grow much. Now it is going nuts.
I have managed to keep my mint alive for two years! It likes to be wet. It does well by keeping it partly shaded in the summer, and full sun over winter.
I started red onions and some are doing really well. The ones that are struggling are being used like pearl onions in a garden mix pickle jar.
My collards are huge, but just underwent a sudden attack of some kind of catepillar worm thing. I have been hand picking them and feeding them to the chickens.
My sweet potatos are doing great, although I had to move them away from the chickens over the winter. The girls were killing them. They now get the leaves in a controlled manner, along with collard leaves.
I started cucumber seeds (3 varieties), 2 types of eggplant (purple and orange), and lots of beans. Italian pole beans are my favorite for flavor. I have lots of cow peas doing and they are flowering like mad.
My fruit trees are all coming back to life this year...I was starting to worry as they just broke dormancy last week. I a weeping mulberry and a black mulberry in the ground. I kept a white mulberry in a pot to dwarf it. My American paw paw is leafing out, but I do not expect fruit for a few years. I have two varities of peach...neither is a Florida specific variety, but both are flowering, which is very exciting and beautiful. My plum is leafing out, but no flowers there...oh well...it was worth a try!
I did not lose any plants this winter, although none of my winter vegetables did anything. I had found a portable greenhouse like a pop-up tent on Craigslist for $50. New is several hundred dollars. I do almost all my plants in selfwater containers, so I can move them to get the best sun, too.
I have some turnips, though only half have bulbed. My carrots are finally growing and I have either celery or celery root (celeriac) going well: not sure which!
I got ONE heritage black tomato off my huge plant. So frustrating! It was very delicious, though, and does have a more salty flavor than regular red tomatoes. My little patio variety has given us four fruits. How sad is that for months of growing?? :/
I found a cherry tomato plant at the hardware store, and boy is that thing going gang busters. Lots of fruit and growing fast, though none ripen so far.
I have lettuce that overwintered, but it did not grow much. Now it is going nuts.
I have managed to keep my mint alive for two years! It likes to be wet. It does well by keeping it partly shaded in the summer, and full sun over winter.
I started red onions and some are doing really well. The ones that are struggling are being used like pearl onions in a garden mix pickle jar.
My collards are huge, but just underwent a sudden attack of some kind of catepillar worm thing. I have been hand picking them and feeding them to the chickens.
My sweet potatos are doing great, although I had to move them away from the chickens over the winter. The girls were killing them. They now get the leaves in a controlled manner, along with collard leaves.
I started cucumber seeds (3 varieties), 2 types of eggplant (purple and orange), and lots of beans. Italian pole beans are my favorite for flavor. I have lots of cow peas doing and they are flowering like mad.
My fruit trees are all coming back to life this year...I was starting to worry as they just broke dormancy last week. I a weeping mulberry and a black mulberry in the ground. I kept a white mulberry in a pot to dwarf it. My American paw paw is leafing out, but I do not expect fruit for a few years. I have two varities of peach...neither is a Florida specific variety, but both are flowering, which is very exciting and beautiful. My plum is leafing out, but no flowers there...oh well...it was worth a try!