I planted my Rainbow Mix carrots today, and set out the tomato plants. Turns out I have 2 SuperSauce plants and 2 Roma plants that survived, along with 12 Viva Italia from Burpee, so we'll see what happens
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i have to say, i love your posts. i don't have nearly the experience or energy for gardening that you do, which makes me a little sad when i read your posts because i can visualize how verdant and lovely your plot must be. keep up the good work- and the posts!
It's not a lot of energy, truth be told -- I probably work at most an hour or so in the garden once or twice a week at the beginning of the season, and as the season progresses I'll be out there an hour or so every day.
For me the most intensive work is prepping the produce for preservation -- picking and snapping the beans, cutting the corn off the cob, blanching whole ears, picking and prepping the tomatoes, slicing the peppers. Then actually canning anything I don't freeze (I freeze the corn and peppers).
I've never done pole beans because I didn't grow up growing them -- I learned all my gardening practices from my daddy, who grew up on a farm. Also, with the way I stagger around, I'd be extremely likely to knock over the poles by either grabbing them to stop a fall or actually falling into them.
Same reason I can't plant them in the corn patch -- that would be too many things for me to trip over. I already tend to knock over about 4 or 5 corn stalks per season per patch when I'm cultivating and hilling the corn. That's another thing -- I don't know how kindly pole beans would take to being hilled, which I do twice.
So bush beans it is! I've found a variety from Burpee that is extremely prolific -- Burpee's Stringless Green Pod. This thing will produce and produce and produce as long as you keep them picked. The only reason I'll be pulling and picking this first plot is so I can put in my husband's beloved watermelons in that plot
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H'ee. I didn't grow up growing pole beans, either. My mother would never have stood for it: she hated tall plants except for lilacs and a few other select flowering shrubs. But she would allow me to plant bush beans, either yellow wax or green beans, but not both, and radishes, when I was still fairly young
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Hilling corn is a practice done in Florida, to make the corn able to stand up to hurricanes -- might even be done all over the Gulf Coast and the Atlantic coast, for all I know. I found out it also helps them stand up to the high winds and hard storms in Georgia
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I'm still waiting for the ground to dry out enough to finish planting my peppers and such. The tomatoes and eggplant are all in, as are the sweet potatoes, some of the squash, the watermelons, and some of the herbs. And now I'm discovering volunteer seedlings that look like some of last years squash or cukes coming up. The more the merrier!
Picked my first strawberries this morning. Delicious!
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For me the most intensive work is prepping the produce for preservation -- picking and snapping the beans, cutting the corn off the cob, blanching whole ears, picking and prepping the tomatoes, slicing the peppers. Then actually canning anything I don't freeze (I freeze the corn and peppers).
Thank you!
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Same reason I can't plant them in the corn patch -- that would be too many things for me to trip over. I already tend to knock over about 4 or 5 corn stalks per season per patch when I'm cultivating and hilling the corn. That's another thing -- I don't know how kindly pole beans would take to being hilled, which I do twice.
So bush beans it is! I've found a variety from Burpee that is extremely prolific -- Burpee's Stringless Green Pod. This thing will produce and produce and produce as long as you keep them picked. The only reason I'll be pulling and picking this first plot is so I can put in my husband's beloved watermelons in that plot ( ... )
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Picked my first strawberries this morning. Delicious!
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