Posted on 06/11/2010 5:02:26 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Well, I experminted with something this year. We have an Aero Garden in the kitchen and ran out of the herb starters, so I tood an old part of cloth and stuck that inside the holder. Then I filled it with dirt and added three seeds.
That lettuce grows like crazy. Need a few leaves of lettuce - just reach to the back of the table and get some. I doesn’t grow fast enough for salads, but great on sandwiches or tacos.
I’m not fond of okra, but my husband loves it. I like it in gumbo, and tat’s all. However, I want to put in a few okra plants to make him happy. I figured that I would do one each at the end of my corn rows (4). How much space should I allow, and how much yield will I get if they grow and produce? (I’m doing square foot gardening, so everything is smooshed really close together.)
Wisconsin, Zone 4
You are so funny. I hope that your live in gardener has a good sense of humor!
My garden plot neighbor makes her own with detergent, oil, water, and hot sauce. Seems to work.
BTW, I am a geologist also. Georgia State Univ; we field camp with the Univ of Montana in Dillon, MT.
Long ago I might add.
Diana: How large are those grow sacks in diameter? I’m using Smart Pots and they are overgrown too. I think mine (made of a black felt material) are larger in dia. than yours. I think that they are 18-20 gal. They are about the same width as they are tall. THey are also home, and I’m at work so I can’t measure them.
I was considering making extensions out of roofing material like Justadumbblonde suggested and continue filling.
Also, shen are you going to start a fall crop of lettuce? End of July? Sooner?
Don’t they have to be green before they turn yellow and red? (Bell peppers)
Yep! Long ago. Mississipi State Univ. After I left the Marines. Geology degree. I was recuted and hired by Texas Instruments Science Services Div. and spent the rest of my career running seizemic crews - oil and gas exploration. I never got to actually practice Geology so I don’t consider myself as a Geologist - just have the degree.
Not even fried okra? That is God’s popcorn.
If you’d move a little south, tubebender might even give you some extra veggies! :)
At least you were oil and gas. I had no chance for that and was in environmental. Lots of wells and plume mapping.
I used to live in Western Washington State, and it was home to wild blackberries and cultlivated blueberries in abundance. Raspberries too. You’ve got to be careful of those Raspberry farms, though. I went to a YouPick one operating on my hill outside of Snohomish, and the owner insisted that I take home a kitten that came up to talk to me. He was such a liar! I caught on when I caught him laughing me all the way out the gate.
He claimed that the kitten had been dropped there overnight, and that his dogs would kill it if I left it! We had that cat nearly 20 years. About 5 years in we gave it to our daughter, and she kept him until he died. He ended up being very expensive as he developed ailments like kidney failure, and such, near the end of his life.
We named that cat “Kitalyst” because every time he came into a room an explosion would happen — either with the dogs or the other cats. Only one vet ever “got” that name. He used to scoot along under the toe room in the kitchen with all his claws out so that curious dogs would get scratched on their noses.
So, be careful of Raspberry YouPick farms. Sometimes they are run by devious people.
Tubebender lives on shakey ground.
The pick did not work with my browser (msntv) darn it.
I am going to ask my Landscaper to add some blueberry bushes.
I have Huckle on the East side and Blackberries on the SW side.
The Labs and Dachshand love eating the berries right off the briars. : )
ATTN. OREGONIANS:
Here is the List of U pick farms (I hope this is appropriate for this threa) here in Oregon.
http://www.pickyourown.org/ORsalem.htm
If any Oregonians have a fave please share.
It’s normal for most strawberries to only bear for a month. Depending on the variety there might be more later in the year, but if you have Junebearing strawberries that’s it.
An 8-ounce cup of the ‘blue stuff’? The one scoop per gallon mix?
Beautiful!
True. Just keep pinching.
Thanks to this goofy weather, I now have both strawberries and raspberries ripening at the same time. The first pea pods are forming too. But my tomatoes seem to be having issues, I planted 6, only 2 sprouted, so I replanted the ones that didn’t, and they never sprouted. I’m probably going to take cuttings from my indoor tomatoes, but I don’t remember what varieties they are so it’ll be a surprise. I hope to get at least one yellow stuffer for mom.
Cucumbers are growing nicely. Watermelon plants look stunted. Haven’t been out to my land recently so I don’t know how that garden is doing.
**hanging head in shame**
I’ve never had fried okra. My husband loves it, however. If I’m successful in growing some, perhaps I’ll try it. He’ll do the cooking, I’m sure.
I should add that I lived in the self-proclaimed “Okra Capitol of the World” for 10 years in the 1970s and managed to avoid it all that time — except for gumbo. (Missouri City, TX)
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