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Post by klorentz on Jan 10, 2011 23:24:03 GMT -5
While the future of my tomato and pepper patches is in doubt there will be a garden never the less.Everything else including a few herbs will be planted for this year.
Pumpkins/Winter Squash: This is one of my must plant crops after tomatoes and peppers. I have several to plant this year.Atlantic Giant,Winter Luxury,New England Pie,Dickerson,Australian Butter ,Turner Faimly, Kobacha and a couple others.My sisters kids have fun watching these grow.
Green Beans: The only one I have right now is Jade.This is a fine quality green bean that grows on bush plants and takes about 60 days.
Snap Pea: Lacy Lady 2 A good semi leafless snap pea with a nice sweet flavor and is a dwarf plant which does not need a trellis.Pods are about 3 to 3 1/2 inches.
Cucumbers: County Fair
A few carrots and radishes
Watermelon: Ali baba and Congo.
Cantaloupe: Amish
Other melons are Sweet Freckles and Tiger. Maybe a couple others.
Not sure about corn.What seed I have are a few years old and are an sh2 hybrid So not sure if they are still good.Also there is the issue of preventing a cross with local fields containing Frankencorn (GMO) .
After this everything is up in the air.At least there will be a few goodies out there this year.
Kevin
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Post by bev on Jan 16, 2011 9:14:20 GMT -5
After several years of non-gardening (bad knees) I have decided to go to raised beds in my backyard. We used to have large gardens further out in our farmyard. The raised beds will be close to the house and within a 4' chain link fence which already exists. My husband is donating a large galvanized stock trough that I think will work for one bed. And I plan to build a wooden bed about 42" wide, 16 feet long, and probably about 2' high. I would really like to get carried away and have more but I think I had better see how this goes this year first.
We used to garden mainly to save $$ but now that we are empty-nesters I am planning it for my own enjoyment and a desire to grow what we eat. Thanks to this site I have found the Sample Seeds site and have placed a small order. I'm pretty excited about this and planning it is keeping me sane this winter.
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