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(@farmgal)
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Ok, folks, so what are you planning on growing this season, lots of basic's or just lots of everything.. we often read folks asking what all those of us that do our best to put up a years supply of food mainly grown off the land, what they plant and grow..

So here is my currrent seed list for this coming year, there will be more added over the coming month or two as I am still waiting for some seed orders to come in but right now its currently sitting at 60 for the currently annual veggie count.. They were written out in the order I took them out of the box, so they are not in order 🙂

What is in your seed box?

Veggies
Mustard Red Giant
Turnip- Laurentian
Radish-cherry belle
Carrot-Scarlet Nantes
Carrot-altas
Carrots-Chantenay Red Cored 2
Onions- Salad Laser-Green Onion
Bean-Bush- TenderGreen
Squash- Zucchini Dark Green
Squash- Zucchini- Black Beauty
Bean-Scarlet Emperor
Cucumber- Market More
Pea's- Homesteader
Radish- Sparkler White Tip
FG-Seed Potato's
Anut Molly's ground cherry
Squash- Golden Health
Pumpkin- Tonda Panana
Spinach -Bloomsdale
Carrot- Creme de lite F1
Pea's Little Marvel
Sweet Corn Peaches and cream
Beans -Kentucky Wonder gReen climbers
Lettuces- Buttercrunch, Romaine, Grand Rapids, Prizehead and salad bowl
Beets - Detroit Dark Red
Broccoli- Green Sprouting
Sqaush- Table Queen
Cabbage - Golden Acre
Pumpkin-sugar
Watermelon-Sugar Baby
Cantaloup- Hales Best
Pepper- Jalapeno
Carrots- Rainbow Blend
Onion - Sweet Spanish
Brussel Sprouts- Long Island
Leek- Large Musselburg
Squash- Buttercup
Chinese Cabbage-Michihli
Tomato- Assorted heritage FG mix-blend
Tomato- Amish Paste
Tomato Roma
Cauliflower- Super Snowball
Celery- Tall Utah
Asparagus- Mary Washington
Endive- Broud Leaved Batavian
Pepper-early calwonder
Squash- Waltham butternut
Squash- Sweetmeat
Squash- Green Hubbard


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oldschool
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wow that is an impressive list.

I will post mine later when I get back from mom's



   
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(@dragonwriter)
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Well, even though I replied, sort of, on your log, I'll see what I can add here too.
About 10 different kinds of tomatoes now, I think
2 different kinds of zucchini
crookneck squash
3 different kinds of onions
pumpkins
watermelons
cilantro
mesclun
peppers
2 different kinds of sunflowers
basil
Oh wait...that's what's been started!
In the rest of the box, make that filing cabinet...we have 25 different kinds of flowers
peas, more herbs, red stalk celery, 5 different kinds of lettuce,
3 different kinds of peppers
flowering tobacco
spinach
kale
swiss chard
4 different kinds of beans
more tomatoes
tomatillos ....

I know there's more but I'm brain-tired tonight. That's all I can think of.


“...there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.”
Stephen King


   
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oldschool
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Somewhere in my house is another container of seeds. 😥 This is what I have found so far.

carrots-scarlet nantes
castor bean
cucumber-national pickling
flax
gourds-luffa
gourds-spinning (hard shell)
green onion
habanero pepper
mesclun-salad mix
mung beans
nasturtium-jewel mix
onion-sturon
oregano
parsley-plain leaved
parsnip-hollow crown
peas-wando
radish-crimson giant champion
rosemary
sage
salad leaves-winter blend
scotch bonnet pepper
squash-pink banana jumbo courge
summer savory
sunflowers-giant single
sunflowers-large seeded tall
thyme
turnip -sweet laurentian
yellow coneflower
zucchini



   
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(@countryboy)
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it sounds like you all will have lovely gardens this summer, just wondering if you plant anything just for winter feed for your critters. the last two years due to work i haven't had the time i'd like to have to spend in mine, so ive just planting it full of carrots, about 8, 50 ft rows and feeding them out during the winter. although not a big dent in the feed bill the animals like the treat. i would like to plant enough something to carry us through the winter any thoughts, and heres my planned list for human consumption:

green and yellow string beans
snap peas
cuke's
radish
carrots
butternut squash
red potatoes

the list will grow i'm sure, nothing fancy just the staples and easy keepers. i also want to move my fence back so i can get a few more rows in and add lots of alpaca poop 🙂



   
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(@farmgal)
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In the past have gotten beets, carrots and turnips, along with all kinds of winter sqaush and pumpkins for the critters, This year I am adding in both mangels and fodder carrots to the mix of what will be grown in the garden for fodder.

I also grow and store a huge patch of nettles for my milking animals.


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oldschool
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carrots
cucumber
mesclun-salad mix
mung beans
parsnip
peas
salad leaves-winter blend
squash-pink banana jumbo courge
turnip
zucchini

the above is grown in part for at least one type of my critters



   
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(@runswithscissors)
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As I'm in the learning mode of large scale gardening and small farming, I'm limiting myself to small amounts at first. Better that I add to the pile, instead of being buried by it 😉

My main crops are going to be:

Kale - turns out the family and I really like this
Snap beans - for canning
Summer squash
Roma Tomatoes
Corn
Pumpkins
Beets

and I'm adding in:

Carrots
Radishes
Sunflowers
Some kind of drying bean
Several assorted herbs - Dill, Parsely, Mustard, Basil, and whatever else I happened to pick up on a whim.

I've got some fruit trees to put in this year too. Plum and Apple for sure. I'm thinking on a Pear as well. I'm still sort of dwelling on the planting scheme - whether I'm committed to going in a permacultural manner or not, and it's causing me to hesitate on my planting.


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(@farmgal)
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Just went in with a jointed buy from a local garden group that is doing a run to Richers, and my portion will be 80 more strawberry plants in plugs and mushroom plugs for spawning, should do enough for 4 more logs to add to my mushroom garden.


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(@runswithscissors)
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Now that you've mentioned strawberries I've a question for you.

Do you buy/start yours and use runners to multiply your plantings? I've got a goal for having 34 strawberry plants and replacing them every 2-3 years. I don't want to buy them every time though, so I was considering using runner offshoots for plant replacements. Have you any experience with that?


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(@farmgal)
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Yes, I do, and yes you can. I started with maybe ten plants and currently have a 3 year, 2 year bed, normally I give away lots of strawberry plants in the spring but last year was a bad garden year and I want to increase the number of a certain type of strawberry. I have never started them from seed, I have always been either given strawberies plants babies or split them off myself.

I limit each mother plant to no more then four babies if that is its main job in the year, and no more then two if I want it to be a fall producer as well, remember once the wee ones are started to cut them from the mother plant, and if need be, transplant them into pots for a month or two or three if needed til you get the new strawberry bed ready and planted out..

I use a ton of mulch to keep them under control and they will spread like mad if you let them..


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(@farmgal)
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Tracked down a photo or two for you on what my regular strawberry rows look like, and just how heavy that mulch really is, it keep the berries so clean to do it this way, the few weeds that come up, just get pulled up and a bit more bedding put down, keeps watering to a min and the mother plant will put her babies out on top and then they root downward, so that is no issue either and it makes getting them split off and moved up to a new location nice and easy as well.


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Plain Jane
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I have started:

cucumbers
carrots
peas
two types of lettuce
basil
oregano
tomatoes
peppers
lima beans

Very excited that my cucumbers, basil, and dill are already sprouting very well! 😀


Ya know.. 'cause girls need paracord too!


   
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