Plans for next year.

[klorentz]

Well it is my hope to have more planted next year. A lot more variety and better planing and not have to scramble to get everything out. Some things we lacked this year like beans and peas and root crops.Here is what is on the table for next year so far.

Beans:

Jade green beans

Fordhook Lima beans

Cherokee Wax

Peas:

Lacy Lady 2 (snap)

Lincoln

Carrots:

Little Finger

Not sure what other ones.

Beets:

Detroit Dark Red : I am the only one that likes good pickled beets.


Potatoes : had good luck with Red LaSoda a few years back.They where awesome.They did better than Red Pontiac. Not sure yet on russet. Yukon Gold is another one that has done well for me.Thinking about one fingerling.


Garlic: Any variety that will do good here. We love our garlic. I know they should be in the ground now but it is most likely we will be moving.


Melons: There are so many tasty melons out there it is hard to choose what ones to get. I want to find a good heirloom watermelon with good disease resistance. This year Sugar Baby died from a wilt of some kind so I want to get something that is a bit more hardy.


Radishes

Onions: If I can would love to get some plants from Dixondale Farms.

Herbs: Want to have a good selection of kitchen herbs to help make my own seasonings and sauces.


Turnips: Purple Top White Globe


Tomatoes: Lots of tomatoes ;D

Ditto on the peppers ;D

Summer squash

Pumpkins/Winter Squash

Corn


I think that covers everything ;D Lots to think about so I figure I will be spending the winter selecting varieties.And that is part of the fun of gardening. ;D

Kevin

[Penny]

Thats pretty impressive, Kevin.

I think i've asked you before, but how big of a gardening space do you have??

[bluelacedredhead]

Darth? oh Darth? I see you making comments on a thread of this nature over on iDig...

So I brought some info back here to try it at TG...

Darth Slater Said:


Dean, for Pole Beans, I'm quite smitten with Fortex.
This year, I tried a bush bean "Straight and Narrow" from a sample pack at a Seeds of Diversity Canada event. But I don't see them as readily available commercially? Maybe in the U.S.? I only had a few plants. The wild rabbits got several when small. But the plants I had just kept producing and producing right up until frost. Very tasty, dark green, slender pods. I saved a few seeds, but not enough to share, sorry. Like I only have about 20 seeds for myself. Maybe next year.

[darthslater]

Blue, I have raised Fortex and was not to impressed, I am however impressed with rattlesnake beans, they taste far better.
I just need a good french style bean, some say that greasy beans are the best flavor but i dont have time to pull the strings out of them, my chefs want stuff ready to go so to speak.
For a bush bean I reall like dragons Tounge also. they willalso keep the color if you butter blanch them.

Darth

[bluelacedredhead]

Hmmm, Last year I grew Fortex and Rattlesnake and I prefered the Fortex. A matter of taste, obviously.

Vermont Bean seed co has Straight and Narrow. Here's the link


www.vermontbean.com/dp.asp?c=8&P={BCD24165-6DC7-4F12-A5B6-E6D014529419}

[GunnarSK]

Nov 4, 2010 11:10:47 GMT -5 bluelacedredhead said:

Hmmm, Last year I grew Fortex and Rattlesnake and I prefered the Fortex. A matter of taste, obviously.

I've had good experience with French beans "Blauhilde" and "Goldmarie" and runner beans "Piekny Jas", but this year Blauhilde didn't sprout (my own saved seed, which were probably killed by freeze or changing temperatures in winter). I hope the seed I sent were OK, but that would be the case if my guess is right.

[GunnarSK]

Yes, I have also read that you can eat Piekny Jas and other runner beans whole, pods and everything, when they are young. I still prefer to grow them as dry beans for soup etc., and I guess that is also OK.