BYC gardening thread!!

[BantamFan4Life]

Indeed

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[UlmerChickens]

Our family loves to replant crops and veggies in our vegetable garden and we also love to plant flowers in our flower beds.
In the past we have planted and raised:
- tomato
- kale
-iceberg lettuce
- strawberies
- yams
-and many more

 

[BantamFan4Life]

Our family loves to replant crops and veggies in our vegetable garden and we also love to plant flowers in our flower beds.
In the past we have planted and raised:
- tomato
- kale
-iceberg lettuce
- strawberies
- yams
-and many more

Cool! I love strawberries.

 

[lazy gardener]

Spring is on the way! Days are now getting longer. It made it up into the mid 50's here today. Incredible day, considering it's the last week of December! Seed order was sent off yesterday. Trying a perennial spinnach substitute that is recommended as an understory planting in orchards. Just my luck, it will be a northern rival to the dreaded kudzu. But, at least it should be a tasty pest! Cooked one of my $.99 squash for Christmas dinner. It was a huge Blue Hubbard. I'm guessing it weighed 20#. Hubby had to cut it for me. The shell was greater than 1/4" thick. About 1# of seeds in it. Was the sweetest squash I've ever tasted. Plan to grow some next season in the HK mound.

 

[Penny Hen]

Spring is on the way! Days are now getting longer. It made it up into the mid 50's here today. Incredible day, considering it's the last week of December! Seed order was sent off yesterday. Trying a perennial spinnach substitute that is recommended as an understory planting in orchards. Just my luck, it will be a northern rival to the dreaded kudzu. But, at least it should be a tasty pest! Cooked one of my $.99 squash for Christmas dinner. It was a huge Blue Hubbard. I'm guessing it weighed 20#. Hubby had to cut it for me. The shell was greater than 1/4" thick. About 1# of seeds in it. Was the sweetest squash I've ever tasted. Plan to grow some next season in the HK mound.

The trick to butchering those oversized hard squashes is to take out the middle rack of the oven and put the squash on a pizza pan or baking sheet and roast at 350˚ for 30 minutes and then cut it up. Let it cool a bit though. Of course if you are wanting to plant the seeds you have to cut it up raw and I use my dad's old meat cleaver for that. Still once you get it split in two and the seeds out still roast it 30 minutes and you can cube it with ease after that.

 

[lazy gardener]

I like to take those big squash, and toss them onto a hard surface. (I put them in a bag first.) They break into 2 or more pieces, then... it's usually not difficult to cut them into manageable pieces if you start your cut from the inside. Score the flesh down to the rind, then it will snap easily along the cut when you smack it on the corner of a table or counter. However, that hubbard required hubby's attention... I was glad to give him the exercise!!! I almost always cook squash in the skin, then scoop the flesh out after it's softened.

 

[HeritageGoose13]

Our family loves to replant crops and veggies in our vegetable garden and we also love to plant flowers in our flower beds.
In the past we have planted and raised:
- tomato
- kale
-iceberg lettuce
- strawberies
- yams
-and many more

What kind of strawberries?

 

[dan26552]

Artichokes

 

[lizardandchicks]

I just got these. The first one is an orchid. The second... I am not for sure. There are 3 types of plants. One is a bulb flower of some sort, another has the bamboo type of stem, and the last is... Leafy. I need to figure out what type they are.

 

[Peep_Show]

Cannot believe I got four (4!) seed catalogs in the mail today...all rather thick! Time to spend (but not time) on the garden....