Nom nom nom.

[msmcknittington]

I could annihilate a bag of sea salt and vinegar kettle chips right now. Annihilate. Why did I have to be all sensible and only buy stuff I actually needed at the store this afternoon? Glucose tablets? I should have bought potato chips

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[beraht]

Ew. Radishes. They're the only vegetables I refuse to eat. I either love or will tolerate pretty much everything else but radishes taste like spicy dirt.

[msmcknittington]

I don't really like them either, except in really small quantities -- like a sliver. The watermelon radishes are supposed to be milder and sweeter than the usually red ones, though. And I do love planting and tending them.

[beraht]

What's special about growing radishes? Do they have pretty flowers or something?

[msmcknittington]

Nothing special! I just like growing things, and radishes only take about a month before you can harvest them.

[troubleagain]

I'm growing practical stuff, like....flowers!

[msmcknittington]

I've no idea if Mom wants to do any flower planting this year or not. I'd love just to toss some bachelor button seeds somewhere, because those things grow like weeds, but I think doing anything past digging beds and maybe transplanting things from the old garden might be too much work.

[crazycatlady76]

That does sound like a huge garden!

We're pretty well sticking with corn, tomatoes, beans, eggplant, cucumbers, peas, lettuce and herbs. Oh, the herbs we've got already, and the ones he plans to buy.

I wish we had enough room for squashes. I love squash.

[msmcknittington]

I honestly think we might have to start two patches, because I don't think the existing one will be big enough.

We plant a quarter to half-acre of sweet corn every year in the fields. Generally, we don't eat it all, but the raccoons do a number on it every year and our neighbors can have as much as they want.

I wish we had better luck with herbs. The only thing we've ever really gotten to take was sage, and you can't do much with that.

Honestly? We plant squash so we don't have to mow the hillside. I wonder if you grow it in a planter. That might work with a smaller squash, like a zucchini or summer squwash.

[crazycatlady76]

A quarter to a half-acre just of corn...now I'm jealous. Our whole veggie patch is maybe 150 square feet. We'd like to expand it, but the property lines and the mountain don't really allow for that. Stoopid mountain.

It's weird that sage would do well for you and other herbs wouldn't. They all need pretty much the same conditions--all the sun, room, and water they can get. We pretty much chuck ours in a pot on the constantly-sunny patio and stand back.

I have a patch of iris and lilies (day and asian) for the same reason as your squash. Another 2-4 years, and I'll never have to have my mower at more than a 40 degree angle again! Hooray!

Actually, someone told me you could trellis melons up a fence, and make them a little sling to support the fruit. If you could do it with smallish melons, it seem like it could work with something like acorn squash.