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igorsMistress said:
Hi Sharron! I was thinking about you, I'm planning my winter garden. I can't wait to get out there and play in the dirt.
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something good i hope:D
i just came in from the garden, went to check on things, still have some beans coming on(very few thanks to the groundhog) and my peppers, have more turning red and some aji peppes and jalapeno's and a few romas, just tail ends of things, we don't plant a winter garden altho i do start some things in florida just to play, i miss playing in the dirt
im, i hope your winter garden does great and is plentiful for you:fl
 
sharron said:
something good i hope:D
i just came in from the garden, went to check on things, still have some beans coming on(very few thanks to the groundhog) and my peppers, have more turning red and some aji peppes and jalapeno's and a few romas, just tail ends of things, we don't plant a winter garden altho i do start some things in florida just to play, i miss playing in the dirt
im, i hope your winter garden does great and is plentiful for you:fl
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All good of course! I was thinking about all the things you had in your garden and were able to can. I moved to AZ 16 years ago and things don't grow here quite as easily as they did in CA so I've had to learn to garden all over again :idunno

Summer here pretty much kills things so I garden in the rest of the year and just try to maintain the perennials then. In October I'm going to put in some carrots, broccoli, mustard, lettuce, sugar snap peas and bunching onions. I hope to let about half the carrots go to seed next year :fl
 
igorsMistress said:
All good of course! I was thinking about all the things you had in your garden and were able to can. I moved to AZ 16 years ago and things don't grow here quite as easily as they did in CA so I've had to learn to garden all over again :idunno

Summer here pretty much kills things so I garden in the rest of the year and just try to maintain the perennials then. In October I'm going to put in some carrots, broccoli, mustard, lettuce, sugar snap peas and bunching onions. I hope to let about half the carrots go to seed next year :fl
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i guess kinda like the summers in florida, hotter than blue blazes(grew up there) but it was good for okra and peas and of course butter beans, i miss those but i have the green beans here, and if i'm lucky i'll have time for the peas and butterbeans, next year i will fill the empty places with them, i always plant some okra, finally getting husband to eat it, i just started eating a couple of pods raw, i love mustard and usually it comes up volunteer for me, this year i had all kinds of peach tomatoes come up volunteer, what we can't eat, piggies love them, they don't care for the pepper yet tho
what you're plantiing sounds so good to me, how about some sweet potatoes? do they do well there?
we just dug the carrots and husband dug the sweet potatoes a couple of days ago, quite happy with the amounts but i want to try to find another type of carrot, maybe one thats sweeter than what i planted this year
 
sharron said:
i guess kinda like the summers in florida, hotter than blue blazes(grew up there) but it was good for okra and peas and of course butter beans, i miss those but i have the green beans here, and if i'm lucky i'll have time for the peas and butterbeans, next year i will fill the empty places with them, i always plant some okra, finally getting husband to eat it, i just started eating a couple of pods raw, i love mustard and usually it comes up volunteer for me, this year i had all kinds of peach tomatoes come up volunteer, what we can't eat, piggies love them, they don't care for the pepper yet tho
what you're plantiing sounds so good to me, how about some sweet potatoes? do they do well there?
we just dug the carrots and husband dug the sweet potatoes a couple of days ago, quite happy with the amounts but i want to try to find another type of carrot, maybe one thats sweeter than what i planted this year
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I've never grown potatoes before but I bought a grow bag and I'm going to try some this year. My husband likes the yellow yukon golds when they're still little so was thinking about trying those and sweet potatoes too. I've read that you can start potatoes from any you have that are growing eyes. It that also true for sweet potatoes?

For carrots we really like Scarlet Nantes. They are a sweeter carrot than others we've grown. Even the skins. Hubs isn't a broccoli or cauliflower guy, but he'll eat broccoli slaw if I shred the inner part of the stalks with some carrots.

I also have an artichoke plant. Its saving grace is that it goes dormant after producing and dies back for the summer so it just needs a little water here and there so the roots don't die. I found that out after I thought one died but started leafing out after monsoons came through.
 
igorsMistress said:
I've never grown potatoes before but I bought a grow bag and I'm going to try some this year. My husband likes the yellow yukon golds when they're still little so was thinking about trying those and sweet potatoes too. I've read that you can start potatoes from any you have that are growing eyes. It that also true for sweet potatoes?

For carrots we really like Scarlet Nantes. They are a sweeter carrot than others we've grown. Even the skins. Hubs isn't a broccoli or cauliflower guy, but he'll eat broccoli slaw if I shred the inner part of the stalks with some carrots.

I also have an artichoke plant. Its saving grace is that it goes dormant after producing and dies back for the summer so it just needs a little water here and there so the roots don't die. I found that out after I thought one died but started leafing out after monsoons came through.
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we usually don't eat that many potatoes so we don't grow them but gd does on white potatoes
last year i had one sweet potato that we brought back from defuniak with us, it started growing vines so i cut them off, all three of them lol and husband made a long hill and we planted them. come fall right before we got ready to go to defuniak again, took most of them to the auction and sold them, the lady who bought them became a friend and wanted us to plant more so she bought us a whole bunch of slips and these are the ones we harvested this year, friend disappeared so now i have these sweet potatoes, all different kinds, oranges reds yellows and a really dark one that almost looks black
we had to eat one of the bigger orange ones cause it was starting to go bad, must admit, quite tasty and thats how i got started in potatoes
i think i will try those scarlet nantes next year, thanks
husband like broccoli, and the slaw
 

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