cool! so you did try it..it would definitely be a hard mental thing, especially for people (me), who haven't been exposed to , what would be called, exotic food...would love to have at least tried it. just a little bite..
Although, I was brought up on ''scrapple", "pudding", filled-mahw(pig)-sp?, mince-meat pie,..all those wonderful pen-dutch concoctions!!..that is exotic to some..
In front with the flowers I have "Autumn"-sunflowers planted
eggplant & jalapeno's, leaf lettuce
sweet peppers/yellow beans
tomatoes (grape/Heirloom-Mr.Stripey/peach,(from *Sharrons seeds)/supersonic)
cauliflower & broccoli
sugar peas/green beans
the "hill" is actually dirt from the 'row-hole',(behind the mound) that is dug to put debris and animal dirt into throughout the growing season..
zucchini/yellow squash/watermelon/sm. & lrg. pumpkins/cantaloupe/cucumbers
In the fenced area is..garlic/onions/red beets /carrots..then the potato bin..it was fenced off because it was the first things in the garden , started it from seed & sets, didn't want the chickens to get into it.
**we had extended the garden this year..should have made it bigger..we preserve a lot of our food, supplement for the chickens & fresh produce is 90% of my diet..it is so expensive and not all that great in the stores...we are really looking forward to this year!!
There are herbs, rhubarb & chamomile planted in the cutting garden( the garden with the lilac.) Also have herbs in pots on the front porch for faster picking..gotta make tofu awesome!!
Do you have a veggie garden?
We do. I should preface this with the fact that my wife is a fine gardener by trade. Her ornamental garden out front looks beautiful and well kept. The veggies out back are less pretty since her messy husband hasn't been keeping up with things as well as he should.
We just recently got finished building this raised bed. Has tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, basil, radishes, and possibly cilantro if it ever sprouts.
These are the onions, which could really use a weeding. And edging to define the bed. Towards the back are a few tomatoes. Those two tires behind them are my potato tower; we've got several more tires waiting to make it taller as the vines grow out of the medium. And those cardboard scraps you see? Those are from last year's cardboard mulch, which has mostly rotted away and needs to be replaced. Last year, this bed was all cabbages and lettuce, and grew pretty well.
This was the spring brassica bed. The broccoli is bolting; the cauliflower is stunted, but the brussel sprouts towards the back seem to be doing well. They would probably be doing better, but the girls got into the garden and decimated them. Twice.
We're doing this one as a square foot garden. 5 varieties of peppers here so far. The remaining squares will be given over to radishes, carrots, and bush beans. Will follow up with leafy greens after the worst of the summer heat; I gave up my greens bed on the south side of the house so the D.O. could grow some herbs and various ornamentals.
In the foreground are eggplants, and peppers. The t-posts in the back are stakes for tomatoes. (For the tractor/gearheads, that's a troy-bilt junior tiller in the background, that has been repowered with a Yanmar-clone diesel engine.)
In the buckets and containers on the right side, you're seeing peas. We've got about 20 of those. These will be succeeded by Berkley's new "On-Deck" hybrid container corn. This is a wheelchair ramp out front of the house; it's about the only place I can grow stuff that the deer will definitely not venture to eat.
Finally, here's the coop/run. That little splash of green on the right is more peas. That will be replaced by vine/pole beans on this side, and zucchini and malabar spinach on the far side of the run.
So yes. I do have a veggie garden. And its no where near done, and needs mulching and weeding and all sorts of love!
hahaha..it still needs a good spring cleaning..this weather needs to get a little more stable for me to tear things apart & wash them.
