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Post by darthslater on Feb 5, 2010 7:28:13 GMT -5
Well, like most of the rest of you I do grow some other stuff. I am planting alot of rattlesnake beans because they a probabley the best tasting green bean I ever ate. I am planting squash about 6 different species, beets , chard it is good stuff and packed with vitamins, watermelon,carrots, I plant stuff we use alot of and it helps the grocery bill. Onions to eat and sell lettuce potatoes and lots of other stuff. I hope everyone haas a better season this year.
Darth
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Post by jcm05 on Feb 5, 2010 8:38:14 GMT -5
I have planted Fortex along side Rattlesnake for the past few years Darth and like it much better for taste. Rattlesnake is far prettier though.
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Post by dld on Feb 5, 2010 8:51:59 GMT -5
Yes, and everyone knows, it's got to be pretty to eat...
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Post by landarc on Feb 5, 2010 14:59:41 GMT -5
I will be growing hops this year I hope.
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Post by johno on Feb 5, 2010 16:21:23 GMT -5
I grow a wide variety of veggies and grains. I'm also hoping to get some hops this year...
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Post by peppereater on Feb 8, 2010 10:17:18 GMT -5
land, you're growing hops in an urban setting? I was actually warned away from growing as a friend said in his experience, it was very large and invasive. It would be nice to have some, though.
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Post by peppereater on Feb 8, 2010 10:24:14 GMT -5
oh, and I always grow okra, and onions, and whatever else I can manage.
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Post by dld on Feb 8, 2010 11:36:20 GMT -5
ewwww... okra!!
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Post by Penny on Feb 8, 2010 12:08:24 GMT -5
I grew rattlesnake beans for the first time last year, and loved them, those things kept producing right up until we had our first frost.
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Post by bestofour on Feb 8, 2010 17:06:36 GMT -5
Thanks to some info from Penny I'll be growing peas for the first time. I hope anyway. Okra - yummy
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Post by Penny on Feb 9, 2010 7:42:26 GMT -5
Go for it Sheri.....you'll do fine.
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Post by peppereater on Feb 9, 2010 10:24:11 GMT -5
Thanks to some info from Penny I'll be growing peas for the first time. I hope anyway. Okra - yummy okra yummy, mmm, hmm. I never had great success with sweetpeas. Late starts, major pest populations,...I've had edible pod peas, but not as many as I wanted. I've got soil innoculum now, so I may have better luck.
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Post by grapenut on Feb 15, 2010 1:19:22 GMT -5
Anyone here grow, Greasy Grits green beans? if so, how are they? production? thanks in advance for any input.
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Post by dld on Feb 15, 2010 15:41:01 GMT -5
Collards are better!
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Post by sorellina on Feb 17, 2010 17:38:28 GMT -5
Ciao all-
These are all standard in the garden every year:
Pole Beans - Romano flat-podded types of different varieties with hyacinth beans and runner beans mixed in for colour
Eggplant - Rosa Bianca and Casper are my favourites, but sometimes I try different ones just to experiment
Basil - I always grow many different ones with Genovese being the pesto machine
Cucumbers - White Wonder and Boothby Blonde are my usuals, but I've also grown Lemon several times
Summer Squash - I never get the yields from these that I'd like and it seems so easy for most people to be buried in zucchini. I like both the standard Italian zucchini as well as the fluted pattypans and round zucchini types. I'm open to suggestions on how to increase my yields in this area
Onions - I don't give a whole lot of consideration for certain varieties but I'd love to grow the flattened Italian cippollini if I can find sets
Peas - I always grow a fenceline of snap and snow peas. We prefer the edible-podded over the English shelling types. I usually grow Mammoth Melting Sugar Snow Peas and Super Sugar Snap Peas with some colourful ones and non-edible Sweet Peas tucked here and there for colour.
New Additions:
I really liked the Three Sisters Bed I grew last year of Corn, Bush Beans, and Winter Squash. I'm going to try that again this year. Possibilities are Fava Beans maybe, Black Aztec Corn, Triamble Squash or Musquee de Province. Preliminary musings, nothing concrete.
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