Posted on 09/25/2021 5:16:56 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Great solution for growing carrots in the buckets. Great potting mixture for them, too!
I don’t do root crops (other than some potatoes for fun) because Wisconsin produces more potatoes than Idaho, and we have carrots and onions in abundance, so they are always cheap and local, year round.
The entire MIDDLE of our state is nothing but crop fields of all three and the canning companies to process all of that stuff. I know for sure we have a Del Monte plant, not sure of the other ‘brands.’
When we lived in NYS and I had a much smaller garden, I didn’t buy those crops either. CNY has quite the potato and onion industry so it was not a cost effective use of garden space.
However, here in NH, there is less agriculture, so I am experimenting mostly for the purpose of gaining experience in growing them should the day come when we are dependent on what I grow.
Got the door fixed ... found some hardware cloth in my brother’s pole barn ... hope he wasn’t planning on using it somewhere else! I didn’t have the right brackets to reinforce the bottom piece where it tied into the side pieces on the door, but I found some “L” shaped ones in our old shop & pounded them flat - that works to hold the joint together.
The ladies weren’t happy - cooped up in the coop while I worked & the hole they’d been working on in the chicken wire is now gone .... no sneaking out into the yard/garden. :-)
The greens growing until December is awesome!
Might try that sometime.
We still need to Lexan cover my little greenhouse.
We have all the supplies.
Husband is recovering from knee surgery.
Time is ticking by.....gotta get the greenhouse all done before if snows.
😅
Brilliant! Maybe even I can have a salad garden again.
LOL!
When I raised chickens for (little) profit there was always SOMETHING that needed shoring up. For a bunch of Dumb Clucks, they can be pretty destructive when they want to be!
Glad you had a Happy Ending. :)
Good plan! So happy to see so many here planning for a future of greater independence. :)
It worked really well for me last season - we’ll see what THIS year brings. :)
I tried posting it larger, but it was all fuzzy.
I can’t make it out. Sorry! Can you post a larger photo?
Can you click on it? It’s larger there. Sorry!
I ‘right clicked’ to open it in another window. Duh.
I can see it clearly now. It looks SO familiar to me! Remind me again of your Growing Zone?
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Actually, no it’s 7a. I had to check lol
It’s a shrub called, ‘Beautyberry.’
https://www.thespruce.com/beautyberry-shrubs-purple-berries-2132437
That’s it, thank you so much!
Jim Pierce is going all out in his new hobby with his very pumpkin harvest this fall, growing two pumpkins that weigh 1,000 pounds each in his garden at his home just outside Baraboo.
Pierce entered his first competition at the Nekoosa Giant Pumpkin Fest scheduled for Oct. 2-3. The two pumpkins he plans to enter in the weigh-off competition, both named Betty and Wilma, weigh an estimated 1,000 pounds each sitting in a tent growing in the family garden he calls “Pierce’s Patch.” Each pumpkin took four-and-a-half months to grow, he said.
“It’s my first attempt at it so we are going to see what everybody else is capable of when we go the competition,” he said.
*SNIP*
When he first started out, he researched and sought advice from other pumpkin growers around the state and nation. Pierce said growing giant-sized pumpkins takes the right seeds, pollination, warm water and slow fertilizer of potassium, he said. As competition nears and both pumpkins prepare for harvest, Pierce said both pumpkins are given molasses.
Today, I saw them advertising "cushaw" pies! I had to think about that for a minute, then thought I remembered it was a squash ... when I looked it up, it was a winter squash. Have you ever grown cushaw squash?
Cushaw Squash Plants – How And When To Plant Cushaw Squash
This is the part that likely applies to the little country store's use of cushaw squash to make pies
"Cushaw squash is also often referred to as cushaw pumpkin or in Appalachia, as the Tennessee sweet potato. Maturing in late summer to fall, this hard-shelled winter squash can be used in sweet or savory dishes and is often used, especially in Appalachia, as a replacement for pumpkin in pies."
I do not recall my granny making cushaw pies, but one thing she did make that I recall and it's not so easy to find these days .... don't know anyone who grows it: salsify. She made a dish that was very similar to mac/cheese with salsify. Probably more like a gratin & it had saltine crackers crumbled on top - I loved it ... but I love oysters, too.
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