Garden thread

[cluckmecoop7]

I don't see any light issues.....

 

[Melodychick]

I don't see any light issues.....

Neither do I, but there have been a few members that are having problems with it. Hopefully it will get resolved (or maybe it already has been)

 

[rosemarythyme]

I don't see any light issues.....

My guess is it has something to do with different people having different monitors / monitor settings / browser settings. Colors display differently for everyone, that's why shopping online can sometimes be a pain!

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Thanks for the info!

 

[ChocolateMouse]

I hope not! I saw that you posted in the Concerns thread. Looks like they are trying to fix the light issues. I hope they do and you can continue to hang around!

They did indeed do some work on it and it is MUCH easier to see now. Just a little bit of font contrast/thickness goes a long way. I wasn't gone forever anyhow - just reduced time spent on here to save my eyes the strain of looking at thin grey letters. Probably going to still keep reduced hours until I know how my eyes react to it.

In the meantime;

I also do French breakfast mainly because I like the elongated narrow shape for slicing. Tried a Chinese variety this winter but it was spicier than I anticipated (which is still delicious, just not what I was expecting).

I also like them for slicing! They're exceptionally good in my spicy korean ramen noodles I get. They really take well to the hot pepper sauce and have a great juicy pop to them when just fried lightly with the noodles. They've also held up surprisingly well to our wireworms and companion planting with other taller vegetables. And they grow so fast and well!
I'm thinking of doing some daikons as a cover and soil improvement crop this year.

Anyone have a suggestion on good OP bush bean varieties? We're having some trouble trellising in our beans with our crop rotation because of the way our gardens and sun is laid out so we wanna try a bush type this year.

 

[rosemarythyme]

I also like them for slicing! They're exceptionally good in my spicy korean ramen noodles I get. They really take well to the hot pepper sauce and have a great juicy pop to them when just fried lightly with the noodles.

Anyone have a suggestion on good OP bush bean varieties?

Yum, I also use my radishes for ramen bowls. My typical lunch is a noodle bowl with chopped greens, a poached egg, and some topping like chili bamboo or sliced radishes or shishito peppers.

Any specific type of bean you're looking for? I do green and wax bush beans, just don't want to take up space with having to trellis every darn thing.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Yum, I also use my radishes for ramen bowls. My typical lunch is a noodle bowl with chopped greens, a poached egg, and some topping like chili bamboo or sliced radishes or shishito peppers.

Any specific type of bean you're looking for? I do green and wax bush beans, just don't want to take up space with having to trellis every darn thing.

My typical ramen lunch is a Spicy Buldok with a soft boiled egg, carrots, mushrooms and radishes with nori flakes on top. If I'm feeling extra and have them on hand I use beansprouts too, especially if I eat a Shin Black instead. Sounds like we're on similar paths with that one.
My partner likes various tonkotsu and black bean ramens more and eats them with frozen peas and corn. :T It kinda grosses me out actually.

Green beans for sure. The kind you could either eat fresh or cook with some garlic and be happy. We usually do a trellised OP bean called Kentucky Wonder which gives us SOOOOO many beans, but we grow them up the fence line. When we need to rotate them out we can't trellis them without shading everything else out which makes it tricky.

 

[rosemarythyme]

My typical ramen lunch is a Spicy Buldok with a soft boiled egg, carrots, mushrooms and radishes with nori flakes on top. If I'm feeling extra and have them on hand I use beansprouts too, especially if I eat a Shin Black instead. Sounds like we're on similar paths with that one.
My partner likes various tonkotsu and black bean ramens more and eats them with frozen peas and corn. :T It kinda grosses me out actually.

Green beans for sure. The kind you could either eat fresh or cook with some garlic and be happy. We usually do a trellised OP bean called Kentucky Wonder which gives us SOOOOO many beans, but we grow them up the fence line.

If I have bean sprouts I'll use them (actually I prefer soy sprouts) but I generally don't have them on hand. My usual goal is to use whatever's available in the garden - I like being able to grab an egg and some greens on the way in from the garden, and having it turn into lunch. Sometimes leftovers make their way in as well, like chicken katsu from a previous dinner, extra potsticker filling that I didn't manage to use up, or my favorite is a tofu in super spicy Szechuan chili sauce from a local restaurant, paired with some sesame noodles - yum!

We probably have some of the same taste in noodles. I currently have 9 types of ramen in my pantry along with various plain noodles (I can stretch out the seasoning packets to 2 bowls most of the time). Had the Chapagetti and Neoguri spicy seafood so far this week.

My current green bush bean is Calima: https://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/beans/beans/calima-bean Last 2 years I've overcrowded them so the plants didn't get big enough to be very productive, but the beans are tasty and tender. I'll devote more space to them this year so I can fit more plants without crowding.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Chapagetti is so weird but very tasty.

I've made a LOT of progress on my garden plan so far! My current list looks like;
Breakfast Radish X A billion
Costata Zucchini x4
Basil x20
Paste Tomatoes x45
Cherry Tomatoes x4
Celery X3
Sweet corn X22
Beans (green, bush) (x24 beans)
Beans (green, pole) (x24 beans)
Green onions x6
Jalepenos x10
Habenero X6
Cayenne X2
Anaheim X2
Bell peppers x4 (2x sweet chocolate, 2x purple beauty)
Parsley x8
Dill x4
Honey nut squash x6
Brulee squash x6
Baby blue hubbard squash x6
Red russian kale x8
Snap peas x120
Potatoes Huckleberry gold and purple viking x2
Grazia Arugula x4
PMR DELICIOUS 51 melon x4
Carrots x72
Lettuce x4
Leek x8
Sunflower X6

I have 26sqft in a row that aren't listed that are going to be misc herbs and flowers. Johnny jump ups, daisies, orgeano, thyme, nasturiums, marigolds, whatever I can get to grow and cram in. I also have 3' of shade that I haven't filled in yet. Might be lettuce or celery if I don't think of anything else.

 

[rosemarythyme]

I've made a LOT of progress on my garden plan so far! My current list looks like;

45 paste tomatoes!? You must do an incredible amount of canning. LOL at the billions of radishes... Your garden is going to be incredible once it gets going!

I laid out my plans on a spreadsheet, though of course everything's subject to change...



We're a household of 2 so I'm really trying to remind myself to not go overboard with how much I grow. Last year I went overboard on carrots (seeded 5 rows, 4' wide) and scallions (3 rows, 4' wide) and turnips (we ate turnip dishes for 3 weeks straight). I also vastly underestimated my final carrot harvest, I was guesstimating 4 lbs but it's more like 10+ lbs in the pantry right now.

And I skipped doing costata zucchini last year after having grown it the previous two, as I wanted to try some other varieties, but I'll put it in this year.