other veggies

[darthslater]

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

[jcm05]

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.

[dld]

Yes, and everyone knows, it's got to be pretty to eat...

[landarc]

I will be growing hops this year I hope.

[johno]

I grow a wide variety of veggies and grains. I'm also hoping to get some hops this year...

[peppereater]

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.

[peppereater]

oh, and I always grow okra, and onions, and whatever else I can manage.

[dld]

ewwww... okra!!

[Penny]

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.

[bestofour]

Thanks to some info from Penny I'll be growing peas for the first time. I hope anyway.

Okra - yummy

[Penny]

Go for it Sheri.....you'll do fine.

[peppereater]

Feb 8, 2010 17:06:36 GMT -5 bestofour said:

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.

[grapenut]

Anyone here grow, Greasy Grits green beans? if so, how are they? production? thanks in advance for any input.

[dld]

Collards are better!

[sorellina]

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.