Just pulled a handcrafted rustic cracked wheat loaf out of the oven to take to my friend's tomorrow.
/johnny
Posted on 01/10/2014 12:20:06 PM PST by greeneyes
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“Unless you plan to become a serious herbalist, most of what you want to grow will be for eating. The ones I would not want to be without for seasoning/flavor that do not come easily from seed:”
The Houston doctor has the research in the book so one knows for sure what herbs and certain foods he also includes, actually do help certain conditions. I am not a “don’t use medicine but use these herbs, person.” I will use the information wisely.
I do want Rosemary but not mint as I am not a fan of mint in anything. Chocolate patties with peppermint is gross. :o( I knew the grown daughter of the man who developed York Peppermint Patties after she inherited that wealth and she was gross, too, in my opinion, as she would sue a person for anything and did. There is a long story there. I didn’t like chocolate and mint together before I met her so she didn’t influence my opinion. :o)
Thanks for thread, greeneyes!
Not much happening here!
I finally put the sprouted onion in a pot. While I was at it, I discovered that a sweet potato which I harvested last fall was also volunteering to sprout! So I potted that one!
I’m a grandparent!!!!!! LOL!
>>>Build it - it will keep you out of pool halls and beer joints.<<<
I sure wish I had known that in my youth...
/johnny
/johnny
I know! Pretty sad, huh???
I'm on year 6 (I think) of saving seed from the offspring of one really wonderful cantaloupe. The appearance has drifted over the generations, but the flavor and keeping qualities are still wonderful.
/johnny
A general rule of thumb is to start your seeds 4 to six weeks before the last average frost date for your area.
Weather should be reliably warm of around 60 degrees for your warm weather plants before you transplant them to the buckets.
I your case, that will be the daylight temps as you plan on bringing them indoors at night. You will also need around 8 hours of sun daily.
Potatoes may be planted about 4 weeks before the last frost date.
Most universities have information of the average frost dates and timing of planting for their states. It would be a good idea to do a web search for the best planting dates for your state, and see what you find.
I found our Missouri Extension Service to be extremely helpful for all sorts of info including which brands of plants do well in our area.
I also sometimes buy a Farmer’s Almanac and consult their info for my region.
I still haven’t gotten around to messing with my sprouted onion, it’s been sprouted so long, it’s probably a lost cause.
I could not believe how attached I got to my plants! I was thinking of long-time gardeners like you and many of the others here who have been saving seed for some time. (Can’t eve think about how many generations grandparents you guys are! LOL!) As a newby it is just so much fun to see how it all works! I’ll be interested to see how this sweet potato does. I’ll probably start another one or two before too long and have more than one sweet potato plant this year now that I know I have a happy place in the garden for it to grow.
Still wary of squash! LOL! Looking forward to trying those T squashes of Marcella’s!
I am always looking for more space for storage and growing plants indoors too. Our daughter gave us a 4 foot grow light when she moved, so we are trying to find a space where we can use it.
One dream I have is to replace my kitchen and laundry room window upstairs with a garden window - kinda like a bay window where you can grow plants - a mini green house.
Root crops are a good choice to follow tomatoes such as carrots. One rotation that I use is:
Legumes ( peanuts, peas, beans) followed by
Leaves ( lettuce, spinach etc.) followed by
Fruits (Tomatoes, Peppers etc.) followed by
Roots (carrots, turnips, etc. ) start over with Legumes
After I lost two regular squash plants planted in the ground, to borers, I was mad as hell my squash had been murdered. I started looking for a way to outsmart those killers.
When I found the “T” squash, I went another step to not put it in the killer ground, and put it in that large planter with the plastic tower in the middle for a plant to grow up. Those moths/borers don’t like that plant to start with and it wasn’t in the ground for other killers to get to it, so it worked. That is the only squash I will ever grow. A pox on borers and ground dirt. You people plant in ground dirt but I don’t have the strength or physical ability to do that. I can deal with containers so I’m sticking to that.
I just copied your rotation method.
Just pulled a handcrafted rustic cracked wheat loaf out of the oven to take to my friend's tomorrow.
/johnny
You are the baker extraordinaire.
/johnny
There are more complicated ones, but I like something simple that I can remember. I should also note that Potatoes and Tomatoes are considered in the same group ie: Fruits, because they are both nightshade types.
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