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Post by steev on May 1, 2016 20:22:06 GMT -5
That's a bounty!
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Post by mskrieger on May 24, 2016 13:15:59 GMT -5
Beautiful. I did not know ostrich fiddleheads were edible; do you harvest them off normal, ornamental ostrich ferns? Do you need to leave some fiddleheads on each fern stump in order to allow them leaves for the year, or will they regenerate if you do a complete once-over harvest?
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Post by mskrieger on May 25, 2016 8:46:15 GMT -5
Thank you for the detailed instructions! I have many ostrich ferns in inconvenient places in my yard that I am planning to transplant next spring...this makes that seem a much less frivolous project.
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Post by reed on Jul 13, 2016 12:04:12 GMT -5
Yea those first ones sure are good. My bush beans are mostly eaten, in jars or drying to seed now. Pole beans should be coming on but they are not blooming, never saw that before and it is worrisome as they were supposed to be our main crop to can.
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Post by mskrieger on Jul 14, 2016 11:15:48 GMT -5
My children harvested all the round thumb-sized carrots today, with much excitement. They then proceeded to eat a bunch, but saved a mutant white one to share with their father. The little carrots don't make nearly as much food as full sized ones but they are cute.
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Post by shoshannah on Jul 27, 2016 21:32:26 GMT -5
My most memorable first harvest was a cauliflower that didn't make a head. I just let it overwinter. Come spring the curds started to elongate.
They just came out of nowhere. They were so good!
Susan
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Post by mskrieger on Aug 3, 2016 14:23:22 GMT -5
My most memorable first harvest was a cauliflower that didn't make a head. I just let it overwinter. That's great! How cold does it get where you live? Snow cover? Or did you insulate the cauliflower specially? I'm curious to do this but even kale has troubles surviving my freezing, windy, inconsistently snowy climate without serious mulch or wind protection. |
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Post by shoshannah on Aug 3, 2016 16:09:33 GMT -5
mskrieger, I live in Hillsboro, Oregon, west of Portland. Zone 8b. No mulch or cover, the cauliflower was up on my deck with a southern exposure. We don't get much snow, mostly a lot of rain. Rarely we get an Arctic blast and may get a foot and a half of snow, or just a week of sub teen weather with no snow. Next weather system it just melts it off. We do get freezes, mostly at night, usually not lower than 25 degrees. Last year only a couple nights around 30-32 degrees. We sometimes get ice storms which can build up enough to bring down branches, outside wiring, nasty sheet of ice on your roof. Some years we get an Indian Summer and may not frost until late November. Mostly winter temp in 30's and 40's. Most of the brassica family of seed are grown here in the Willamette Valley and other areas of Oregon and Washington. I'm buying local grown seed to gain a bit more advantage. Susan
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Post by mskrieger on Aug 8, 2016 13:40:54 GMT -5
shoshannah, thanks for the detail. Pacific NW, makes sense.
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