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I need to make a list of people on the gardening thread because I can’t remember all the names when I post so I leave out people and I don’t mean to do that. “All” just doesn’t do it for me.

MomwithHope: I didn’t know there were that many tomatoes from Russia and those parts of the world. I read about some of them and there is one I might could plant while it is still cold in the south here, I mean really early spring, and have ripe tomatoes earlier than any other kind. Then, before they are over, plant another kind for the hot weather, then plant another kind for the fall/colder weather. I’ll have to think about that and put some plan together.

I’m so proud of my carrot and turnip plants. I did a lousy job when I first transplanted them from under the grow lamp into limp plastic grow bags, then transplanted them into two really good hard plastic containers. If I had been them, I would have died just to show me what a lousy job I did before I got them in good containers. They are growing so fast and fine, I think I will actually have food.

At least one of the two or three Brussels Sprouts plants is really growing tall so it might produce and it’s really healthy looking. If I manage to get a stalk of food off that one, I’ll plant more next year for the fall garden.

All the strawberry plants look fine. If they all produce in the spring, I’ll have to CAN SOME. Can you believe I wrote that? I still don’t have any jars or lids and anything else I would need to put in them to can them. I’ll wait until I see if I really have grown strawberries.

I’m looking forward to starting seeds under the grow lamp for early spring. Did you get that? I can grow seeds - me, the novice, can do that since I really did it.

I may only get one squash off the big squash plant as one is all that has developed so far. There are other blossoms to open but it may be too cool for it now. That one squash tells me I can grow those squash and not lose the plant to months/borers or other deadly creatures in ground dirt. A container works for this plant. The one squash is so long you won’t believe it - haven’t measured it but I know it’s easily over 12 inches long. If every blossom had set a squash as long as they are, one could live completely on this squash and nothing else - what I’m saying is it would provide a huge amount of food and if you leave some of the squash on there, it becomes a winter squash.

The sweet potato plant still has luscious green leaves - doesn’t even suggest the leaves might die and what I read said leave it alone until the leaves die, then dig up the potatoes.

I haven’t found any dead squirrels that committed suicide because they can’t get in the net room. That is the only way I could keep those plants from the squirrels without strangling them or shooting them or catching them. They cannot get my plants.

Well the list is on my profile page. I think it is more than 500 people, so you might not want to write the whole thing.LOL

There is a reason that squash is considered one of the “survival” foods. They are prolific, considered kinda easy to grow, and the seeds have more calories per pound than many foods like beans, wheat, corn. Squash is a decent source of magnesium and potassium as well.

I am not a big lover of squash, but I do like summer squash stir fried with other veggies for asian stir fries. I like the winter acorn squash baked - it tastes like baked sweet potatoes.

When my freezer worked, I sometimes just froze the berries until later, so I didn’t heat up the house during the summer. I used the juicer to make a syrup and jelly. Then took the pulp and made fruit leather with the dehydrator. I have tried canned strawberries, but didn’t like the mushiness, but that’s just me.