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Post by diane on Jan 24, 2012 21:36:39 GMT -5
I don't mean perennial plants, but ones that most people pull out at the end of the season but that can keep on going.
Cutting a cabbage and leaving the stalk in the ground will give you three or four small heads.
I have various other cabbage family plants that go on for a long time. The purple cape cauliflower I'll be picking soon was sown in 2004. My kale plants are even older.
I chop the bottoms off green onions and put them in pots of soil in the kitchen where they sprout new greens.
And now I've discovered a new one: I've just read an article by Carolyn Herriot in Gardenwise, a Canadian magazine. She doesn't pull her leeks, but cuts them just above the roots and they resprout.
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Post by zachary on Jan 24, 2012 22:22:21 GMT -5
The same general principle applies to bush green beans. Cut off the plant down to the first or second growth nodes after they've finished bearing, then perhaps water the remaining stubs.
First time I did this was to see if it would work. Second time was to get a few more seeds out of a planting I'd made to multiply them.
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Post by templeton on Jan 24, 2012 22:59:23 GMT -5
Might try that when my beans finish. T
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Post by steev on Jan 25, 2012 0:41:33 GMT -5
I've grown many scallions from cut-off root-stubs; the best ones just become self-renewing clumps.
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Post by ottawagardener on Jan 25, 2012 8:29:30 GMT -5
Never tried that with beans before. Might work to get some pea sprouts too. I do the same with leeks and green onions. Leaf crops will bear over a long time if you harvests leaves instead of the whole plant and keep the older/dying leaves removed.
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Post by MikeH on Jan 25, 2012 12:57:36 GMT -5
At less than 2" long, these beets were the "runts of the litter", almost too small to compost but they've earned their keep. We've harvested greens from them three times and will do so again in about a week. Not a lot but fresh greens that come from our garden. Attachments:
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 25, 2012 17:56:26 GMT -5
I've been cutting these endive radicchio all winter and now I've left it alone and it's making heads. I'm going to cut it again. Attachments:
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Post by flowerpower on Jan 26, 2012 7:13:07 GMT -5
At less than 2" long, these beets were the "runts of the litter", almost too small to compost but they've earned their keep. We've harvested greens from them three times and will do so again in about a week. Not a lot but fresh greens that come from our garden. You could fit a few leaf lettuce in that tote too & harvest as baby greens. I notice you have an amaryllis in the window. What variety is it?
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Post by MikeH on Jan 26, 2012 12:00:54 GMT -5
You could fit a few leaf lettuce in that tote too & harvest as baby greens. I notice you have an amaryllis in the window. What variety is it? That we could - if we grew them. The amaryllis? Spp. Big box after Christmas discount
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Post by flowerpower on Jan 27, 2012 7:33:23 GMT -5
The amaryllis? Spp. Big box after Christmas discountThose are the best ones.
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