Got our seed order lined out. Since this year is shaping up to be repeat of last year, we’re adjusting accordingly.
Going to try a large planting of mammoth sunflowers, as we’re inundated with their smaller wild cousins every year. Seeds, if it works out, will go to the chickens.
Also going to put in some Jerusalem artichokes, and hope they don’t escape. We had them decades ago in SoCal, and like them, but they are so invasive....
New this year also is giving in to nagging from townie friends: found some artichokes that are supposed to be early enough to start indoors, then get 1st year chokes before the early frosts kill them.
OH!! Last year we grew some Mammoth sunflowers! I had never even seen one in person before. They were a real amazing experience for me. I found just looking at them made me unreasonably happy. You’ll love them!
If I, a novice gardener, in drought-stricken Oklahoma, can grow them, I’d be amazed if they don’t work out for you too!
We’re definitely going to do them again this year!
We are also making adjustments. All our favorites plus the earliest and shortest DTM available. Hope to get the short DTM started indoors, transplanted, and harvested before the July drought and heat - just in case.
It would take some doing but for containment of invasives- I knew a guy that planted horseradish in a 6 foot X6 foot by however deep wooden box he had placed in the ground so he could control the horseradish he liked.