BYC gardening thread!!

[hippiestink]

My squash has put on a couple female flowers lately. Parsley from seed I saved off a plant I grew last year and flowered this year. Swiss chard. My avocado seedling. Theres marigolds in the bottom of the pot to make it look nice when I pull it in for the winter. And my pepper plant which is loaded in flower buds!

NICE! I finally got around to pulling up my carrots and radishes and digging up my potatoes...right before I'm supposed to leave on a month-long vacation.

 

[Guvnah]

NICE! I finally got around to pulling up my carrots and radishes and digging up my potatoes...right before I'm supposed to leave on a month-long vacation.

A trick I do for winter-long fresh carrot harvesting is this:

I cover the whole carrot bed with about 9-12 inches of leaves in the fall. This keeps the bed from totally freezing. When I need new carrots, I go out, rake back leaves at one end of the patch, and harvest what I need. Then pull some of the leaves back to cover about 18 inches beyond where I stopped digging. As I go through the fall and winter doing this, the pile of leaves that was covering the whole bed gets deeper and deeper over the remaining carrots -- which keeps the remaining bed from freezing as the winter temps get colder. (I actually haven't had a patch last much beyond the new year though. And it becomes a bit of a let-down when I have to resort to buying carrots again.) Fresh carrots for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners! YUM!!!

At the end after the last carrot is picked, I'm left with a pile of leaves that I just toss onto my compost pile.

 

[1cock2hens]

A trick I do for winter-long fresh carrot harvesting is this:

I cover the whole carrot bed with about 9-12 inches of leaves in the fall. This keeps the bed from totally freezing. When I need new carrots, I go out, rake back leaves at one end of the patch, and harvest what I need. Then pull some of the leaves back to cover about 18 inches beyond where I stopped digging. As I go through the fall and winter doing this, the pile of leaves that was covering the whole bed gets deeper and deeper over the remaining carrots -- which keeps the remaining bed from freezing as the winter temps get colder. (I actually haven't had a patch last much beyond the new year though. And it becomes a bit of a let-down when I have to resort to buying carrots again.) Fresh carrots for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners! YUM!!!

At the end after the last carrot is picked, I'm left with a pile of leaves that I just toss onto my compost pile.

I do the same thing/ I also use the leaves to protect my strawberry beds ..

 

[lazy gardener]

Dan, I have to ask you a question. You can answer it here, or PM, or totally ignore it. It's obvious to me that you have a passion for gardening. You're young... do you have a career path mapped out? IMO, you would do well to pursue your passion to earn a living!

 

[BBQJOE]

Today I processed a mountain of tomatoes into sauce.

 

[dan26552]

So my brother in law my 2 brothers an I all made my dad a green house for christmas, 12ft tall 24ft long and 8ft wide.

 

[dan26552]

Dan, I have to ask you a question. You can answer it here, or PM, or totally ignore it. It's obvious to me that you have a passion for gardening. You're young... do you have a career path mapped out? IMO, you would do well to pursue your passion to earn a living!

I don't have a career path "Mapped" out though I do have ideas and such as to what I'd like to do.

 

[CherMoz]

What an awesome gift!

 

[dan26552]

What an awesome gift!

It is pretty awesome.

 

[BantamFan4Life]

My squash has put on a couple female flowers lately.

Parsley from seed I saved off a plant I grew last year and flowered this year.

Swiss chard.


My avocado seedling. Theres marigolds in the bottom of the pot to make it look nice when I pull it in for the winter.


And my pepper plant which is loaded in flower buds!

Nice! What gardening zone are you in?