THE OFFICIAL GARDENING AND PRESERVING CHALLENGE

[ohiogoatgirl]

Wannabefree
i wish you were closer so you could maybe get some of my babies this spring... goats i mean. they are addicting though! :bun

 

[FarmerJamie]

Ohiogoatgirl, why not just make your sections smaller?

I plan on having very small sections for some of the veggies and to plant more in a few weeks. In prior years, everything ripened all on the same day practically. I'd like to eat a lot of it fresh so I don't want 20 zucs all in one day.

We usually can more than we can eat. Zucchini pickles, relish, .....

 

[FarmerJamie]

Wannabefree
i wish you were closer so you could maybe get some of my babies this spring... goats i mean. they are addicting though! :bun

Wannabee, I *don't* have room for them in the car....

 

[ohiogoatgirl]

ha ha ha!
my two does got lots of car rides and whenever they see a vehicle they always try to get in...
so i made a plan for a permanent herb garden... now if dad would stay awake long enough for me to tell him about it and get him to let me have it where it has to go... like not under a tree...

ps:
i'm addicted to this site now... it's all i do! well, thats what dad says. really i don't get on for very long but i read all the new posts... i'm just in love with it
ha ha ha ha!

 

[TanksHill]

So for this contest.....

If its harvested in 2011 it counts right? Does it matter if it went in in 2010?



I picked these today, there are more but I only pull them when I need them.

 

[tamlynn]

Ooo, those are pretty! My carrots always look like deformed mutants.

 

[ohiogoatgirl]

pretty carrots!
i planted carrots last summer... none came up so the row kinda went to the weeds... and then i was digging it over at the end of the season and i got two little carrots... both about 1&1/2 inches long... they were supposed to be 7-8 inch carrots
but they went to seed there and everything got turned over so maybe mom will find a whole slew of carrots next summer!

 

[TanksHill]

I use raised beds with pretty light soil. They lend themselves to some nice carrots.

Over the past couple years I have learned a lot about carrots. I have to be diligent about thinning then just leave them alone. Oh, and don't show them to the dog. He steals them right out of the bed. I plant in succession, usually about 4 ft square at a time. It's nice to have these now. I think they went in the end of Sept.

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[ohiogoatgirl]

i'm doing a seed test on my green bell pepper seeds... i've had them at least two years and of course i didn't label them so i don't know when i saved them... and i'm thinking they are from a store bought pepper so they may not come up at all... i hate when i do that
i have two pumpkin plants in the window... they are already about two feet long! and it's only january, but i don't wanna kill them... i want spring!!!
and i have a mystery plant. i dug up some bulbs from an old flower bed and put them in a pot in my window. they are growing good but i don't know what they are yet... i'm waiting for them to flower

 

[FarmerJamie]

i'm doing a seed test on my green bell pepper seeds... i've had them at least two years and of course i didn't label them so i don't know when i saved them... and i'm thinking they are from a store bought pepper so they may not come up at all... i hate when i do that
i have two pumpkin plants in the window... they are already about two feet long! and it's only january, but i don't wanna kill them... i want spring!!!
and i have a mystery plant. i dug up some bulbs from an old flower bed and put them in a pot in my window. they are growing good but i don't know what they are yet... i'm waiting for them to flower

I with you. For once this winter, you central Ohio Buckeyes are going to get more snow that us lake-effect Buckeyes. But we all get to share in the sub-zero wind chills.
*sigh*