While I was out watering the vegetable garden, I noticed I'd better go get a basket and harvest a few things. Got to the house with two heads of broccoli, a good picking of English peas, about a pint of snow peas, a dozen carrots, but more snow peas were "carried internally" .
Oh, that is so awesome, Jane! happy eating. How many months of the year can you grow in the garden, Jane? are you limited by the weather, daylight length/quality or other factors? just wondering. I have wondered for sometime what limits the growing season there.
Carolyn, we can garden pretty much all year 'round. We put in the fall garden in September with lettuces, chard, broccoli, the usual cool season stuff. Then in February we do the same thing, and in March start planting corn, tomatoes, peppers, the warm season stuff. December and early January are the only months when we don't have active growing except for the lettuces and chard. Basically, we have three gardens a year. The growing seasons are limited by water and by "blue northers" which can freeze the tail off a bunny rabbit!
Ahhh, that is interesting. I'm thinking I could get used to that, but not the bugs, spiders or rattlers....
We had a garden all winter. I didn't even cover it. We had spinach, lettuce, kale, swiss chard and carrots. So, far I have picked sugar snap peas which I used in creamed pasta and stirfry. I still have carrots and kale and chard. I have tomatoes and banana peppers and yellow summer squash that aren't quite ready to pick yet. I'm just a bit southeast of marlingardner. One of these days I'm going to go up and visit her. dooley
Heh heh heh....You are a naughty harvester. It is good news hearing that you are harvesting already. Makes me a tad jealous, I do admit. It just won't stio raining, snowing and hailing over here...I am waaay behind this year. Congrats on your load of veg.
I can just picture Jane... one veggie in the basket... one in her tummy. Two in the basket... three in her tummy!
Don`t forget turnips and greens, rutabaga, and all the other good stuff, MG. I have on rare occassions picked those small volunteer tomatoes under the snow cover.
We are pretty much on the same planting schedule. We also garden all year. I plant snap peas rather than English peas or snow peas although I like both. This year my snap peas didn't do much. Boo-hoo. I think my seed was to old. Oh well, I'll fix that for the fall planting. I have broccoli to pick this afternoon. This will be our second batch this season. It's already getting hot here so we won't be having our salad greens for much longer. I just hate buying lettuce. We've picked a few carrots. I'm seeding cantaloupes and watermelons this week.
I'd love to do cantaloupe and watermelons. My problem, I don't have room for an "in ground" veggie garden. I've got cucumbers in a raised portable bed in my backyard. I've got about 6 cucumber plants that are doing well so far. Also, I've got jalapeno peppers, banana peppers and spicy bell peppers growing in a raised portable bed. I found a cucumber trellis at Gardener's supply that will work great with my raised portable beds. As this is my first try at growing veggies I'm excited. You guys inspire me!
May I ask the variety of spicy bell pepper you are growing? I'm always on the look-out for new and different vegetables.
