What did you do in the garden today?

[Sally PB]

2 out of 3 seed orders came today. Now I have spring fever. Tomorrow could be 35+ degrees, and that won't help. It isn't safe to start seeds for me in my (unheated) greenhouse until about April 1.

If the compost is at all forkable, I'll be turning it!

 

[Ascholten]

2 out of 3 seed orders came today. Now I have spring fever. Tomorrow could be 35+ degrees, and that won't help. It isn't safe to start seeds for me in my (unheated) greenhouse until about April 1.

If the compost is at all forkable, I'll be turning it!

Why do all that work? Just throw a small hand full of scratch grains in there and let the girls do the turning for you

aaron

 

[BReeder!]

Why do all that work? Just throw a small hand full of scratch grains in there and let the girls do the turning for you

aaron

My girls don't get access to the compost. They'll make a mess of it and destroy the piles, spreading them out from the bins. It's more work cleaning up after them than turning it myself.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

@WthrLady I have actually never had horseradish sauce before. I remember when I was a kid and my parents were still together, them processing horseradish. It was strong smelling but I've never tasted it before.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I don't even know if I like it, but I'm seriously wanting to plant horseradish now.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I do not use it alone but often use in cooking .. love kick it can give a dish

 

[Acre4Me]

I don't even know if I like it, but I'm seriously wanting to plant horseradish now.

Some people hate it, so you may want to try some grocery products first. I had a co worker that really disliked horseradish, including the smell. And they were not a picky eater. Personally, I really like horseradish!

 

[Ascholten]

There are many different varieties and flavors too, just like garlic. Some are very strong pungent bitter, others are sweeter, mellow a lot better flavored. I can pretty much guarantee the stuff you got in the general store was NOT one of the better ones out there.

Just saying so that before you go ewwWW, not for me, might want to try a few varieties!

Here is an article I found on some places to buy it and have it shipped if you really are interested. Haven't tried them myself so can't give any input how good this is but at least its a starting place to look!

https://foodfornet.com/buy-fresh-horseradish-root-online/

Aaron

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning all. Another frosty morning. It was 5F when I first got out of bed. It's supposed to get near 32F today. Finished my taxes yesterday so there's that until next year. I have my first load of laundry in and just finished going through my stock of seeds. I do need to buy jalapeno, poblano and bell pepper seeds and perhaps some more pole bean seeds. I don't want to plant too many green beans as I still have a lot of them in the freezer. I will be trying turnips in a different spot instead of the rutabagas. The tiny rutabagas I harvested last Autumn were magnets for the cabbage flies. I think I mentioned it before but I'm planting acorn squash instead of butternut this year. The seeds I have are a bush variety so they are more compact than the usual. I'm not sure if we will get much from that storm that's moving across the Midwest. Apparently the storm is still too far out to get an accurate forecast right now. I know we are getting 3 days in a row with highs in the low 40's so that should help melt some of this stuff that's on the ground now before the other storm rolls through. Someone mentioned nasturtiums awhile back. I planted them in my large 16 foot garden bed 2 years ago and they did come up and bloom. I didn't plant any last year, however several came up in the spot where I had planted them the year before. This was the same spot I planted my butternut squash. The squash bugs and vine borers just ignored them and devastated my squash. So not much help from them. I'm moving my squash plantings into feed bag containers this year set far away from last year's squash bug attack. Fingers crossed they don't find these new plants.

 

[karenerwin]

Good morning all. Another frosty morning. It was 5F when I first got out of bed. It's supposed to get near 32F today. Finished my taxes yesterday so there's that until next year. I have my first load of laundry in and just finished going through my stock of seeds. I do need to buy jalapeno, poblano and bell pepper seeds and perhaps some more pole bean seeds. I don't want to plant too many green beans as I still have a lot of them in the freezer. I will be trying turnips in a different spot instead of the rutabagas. The tiny rutabagas I harvested last Autumn were magnets for the cabbage flies. I think I mentioned it before but I'm planting acorn squash instead of butternut this year. The seeds I have are a bush variety so they are more compact than the usual. I'm not sure if we will get much from that storm that's moving across the Midwest. Apparently the storm is still too far out to get an accurate forecast right now. I know we are getting 3 days in a row with highs in the low 40's so that should help melt some of this stuff that's on the ground now before the other storm rolls through. Someone mentioned nasturtiums awhile back. I planted them in my large 16 foot garden bed 2 years ago and they did come up and bloom. I didn't plant any last year, however several came up in the spot where I had planted them the year before. This was the same spot I planted my butternut squash. The squash bugs and vine borers just ignored them and devastated my squash. So not much help from them. I'm moving my squash plantings into feed bag containers this year set far away from last year's squash bug attack. Fingers crossed they don't find these new plants.

I’m in Missouri. It’s supposed to start with rain around 3-5 tonight and then change to a wintry mix around midnight and finally change to snow around 3:00 AM. I’m in the 5 to 14 inches of snow range. We boarder 2 different predictions. I’ll try to remember to let you know what we end up with. We are supposed to 100% snow on Wednesday and Thursday.