What are you planting in your garden this year?

[wyoDreamer]

@Beekissed Do you think an Indian corn would work for the pickled corn? I hear it is good as sweet corn, not too sweet and nutty flavored. I hope to get enough growing this year to be able to eat it as sweet corn - so far been trying to increase my seed bank. That one small handful of corn kernels that my friend gave me is now (2) one gallon bags of seed. I have eaten it raw at milk stage and I like it that way.

Can you imagine pulling out an ear of blue pickled corn and eating for lunch at work? That would get some conversations going.

 

[wyoDreamer]

This is the extent of my knowledge on horseradish and what I learned as a young girl helping my grandparents in their gardens.

Horseradish takes an entire season to grow if started from a root. Plant before the last frost and harvest after the leaves show damage from frost in the fall.

My grandma started her plants in spring as soon as the frost left the ground, and used the smaller roots (< 1/2 inch) that she had stored from the fall picking. They had a root cellar and overwintered a lot of different plants in there. She always had at least 1 plant from the year before still growing in the ground and would plant 2 more - never more than 3 plants growing at a time or it would take over the space she had for it. She would harvest from the older plant all summer, then harvest it and one of the new plants that fall. She didn't like her horseradish roots to get too big, as she thought the smaller roots tasted "sharp and fresh" and the bigger roots were more woody tasting, but that was just her opinion. I cannot eat the stuff, so I wouldn't know though.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I make low carb pizzas from them. Cut them in rounds, salt them and let em drain for awhile. (I cut them fairly thick because they get quite soft after baking) Top w/ marinara, cheese and add any meat you might like. Experiment with your fav pizza toppings. Sooooo good!

 

[creativetwinszoo]

Pssst, Eggplant lasagna is bomb af
Thin slice eggplant and layer it just like regular lasagna! Need a lily bit longer oven time but is good!

 

[flowerbug]

a normal garden year for us means the following are usually being planted or nurtured towards production:

weeds,
strawberries,
garlic (including green garlic yum),
onions,
cucumbers,
dill,
tomatoes,
beans (as many as i can grow, fresh eating, shellies and dried),
peas (not sure how many i grow now, for pods, fresh eating shellies and dried),
peppers (green and red),
squash.

soil conditioners, worm food and bee food:
turnips (i eat a few of these once in a while),
radishes (i like the sprouts),
buckwheat,
cosmos,
many perennial plants... (most of these are deer and bunny food).

herbs, etc:

mints, thymes, chives. we've actually been getting rid of mints because of Mom's reactiveness to them so now most of those we have left are just growing in the last grassy areas we still mow.

this past year i got some bunching onions and am learning about them so i hope to be harvesting some of those this coming spring.

i also have some small melon seeds a friend from TEG gave me so i will try those out this coming season. supposedly a short enough season melon to work for us.

we used to grow beets but have gotten out of those because the main consumer of them no longer can eat them (we pickled them).

 

[Beekissed]

We've had the same rains, BB...complete mush around here. But, fortunately, I'm doing no tillage, so I can plant any time, no matter the weather. My problem is getting some round bales TO the garden to replenish my hay mulch...pure mud bog out there in the yard.

Doing mostly greens, lettuces and such this year and toning down the maters, taters, and squash...most of my family are doing low carb eating this spring so I'm trying to plant what folks will eat.

Will still do plenty of peppers~mostly hot but some sweet, green onions, several different kinds of lettuce and other greens, a dab of spuds, a row or two of tomatoes~usually do Brandywine, Yellow Stripey and this year I may add a few Jetstars. I'll plant a few squash and cukes in the flower beds in front of the cabin this year, as I had a gojillion squash bugs in my garden last year...they will be back. I know they will eventually find the squash and cukes but I sure don't want to make it easy on them.

Planting more asparagus...I have some already but not near enough. Rhubarb needs replanted...hope to beg some off my sister. Raspberries I got from @Lazy Gardener are spreading nicely and I hope they continue. Green beans~half runners for eating and Fortex for planting on the fenceline to sacrifice to Jap Beetles. A dab of sugar snap peas. Will continue to grow some garlic that I also got from @Lazy Gardener. Hope the strawberries come back okay...if not I may plant more.

Flowers...more flowers. Zinnia, sunflowers, calendula, honeysuckle, some wildflowers and maybe a few more herbs and perennials.

I hope to borrow a strip of ground at my son's place in town to plant some sweet onions, as his soil grows them just fine but mine does not.

I most likely forgot something but that's most of it.

 

[FarmerJamie]

I added a new seed...but an old one. Going to plant Golden Bantam corn~just 4 rows or so~for pickling in a crock. Haven't had pickled corn done right since the 70s and early 80s, so I'm sure missing it. You really can't do it good with a sweet corn, so the old timey corniness of the Golden Bantam should be perfect. Was first put on the market in 1922.

I am intrigued by this. More details, please?

 

[sumi]

Yep...that's how it's done best. One year we did a whole whiskey barrel of pickled corn and that whiskey sure did give it an extra bite...best pickled corn EVER.

This year we'll do it the traditional way, in a large crock.

Bee, please let us know how you do this and how it goes, when the time comes? I've never heard of this either and I'm so curious now!

 

[sumi]

@Beekissed thanks! This sounds like something I may try, if I can get hold of the right type of corn!

 

[sumi]

You'll love it! If you like kraut or pickles, you'll love pickled corn. Let me know if you do it and how you like it.

I love pickles, so I probably will If I can find the right type of corn for starters, I may give this a shot and let you know. It sounds like something I'll enjoy as I love corn.