So my wife and I are pretty new to gardening. But looking forward to getting getting started. We'll start with the normal carrots, lettuce, cucumbers, onions, squash, beats, and I couple other things I don remember.
What are ya'll planting this year?
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Carrots, yellow wax beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, broccoli and strawberries. Radish crop is over and I also have a potato tower going.
Still trying to figure out what grows/when around here, which is a futile efforts since we're moving back to AB this summer.
◾soy bean- Envy
◾bush bean- Orca
◾Bean-Tongue of Fire
◾Pole Bean-northeaster
◾Winter Sqaush -Lady Godiva
◾-Black Futsu
◾-Delicata .
◾-Nutter Butter
◾-Waltham Butternut
◾Fortin’s Family Bean
◾Canada Crookneck Squash
◾Canadian Wonder Bean
◾Speckled Cranberry Pole Bean
◾Thibodeau du Comte Beauce Bean
◾Blue Jay Bean
◾Vegetable Spaghetti
◾Arikara Yellow Bean
◾Rattlesnake Snap Bean
◾Waltham Butternut Winter Squash
◾Musquee de Provence Winter Squash
◾Galeux d’Eysines Pumpkin
◾Oka Melon (Oka (Bizard Island Strain)
◾Beets- Macgregor favorite X3
◾Collective Farm Woman Melon X2
◾Des Vertus Marteau Turnip
◾white Wonder Cucumber
◾all Seasons Cabbage
◾Chantenay Red Cored Carrot
◾Cucumber National Pickling
◾Yellow Solar Carrot
◾Ladies Slipper Achocha X2
◾Crosby’s egyptain Beet
◾Red Wethersfield Onion
◾Giant Musselburgh leek
◾British Wonder Pea
◾Blue Podded Pea
◾Golden Sweet Pea
◾black Russian Broad Bean
◾Ladies Spraybush Broad Bean
◾Flagg Bean
◾Sadies Horse Bean
◾Grandma’s Nellie Mushroom Bean
◾Iroquois Bean
◾Speckled Algonquin bean
◾Doloff Bean
◾Canadian Wonder Bean
◾Jesse Fisk Bean
◾Anne Jackson Pole Bean
◾Arkikara Yellow Bean
◾Jumo Roma Bean
◾Superlative Bean
◾Good Mother Stallard Pole Bean
◾yokohama Sqaush
◾North Georgia Candy Roaster Squash
◾Sweet Meat Squash
◾Algonquin Pumpkin
◾Norie Des Carmes Melon
◾Longfellow Cucumber
◾There are more but she sent them in French so I am unsure about writing out the French name.. I will be featuring some of them in English.. but this is a rock solid overview
plus I have added in more corn, been gifted at least twenty more seeds of all kinds and have
and 20 skirret roots and a friend who grows rare heritage plants has set another 50 or so to the side for me, of a mix of things
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Wow!!! Farmgal indeed. Do you operate a CSA?
Ya I suppose being in the southern US would be quite different than Alberta. I'm in Manitoba. We haven't and can't plant anything yet. We got snow today an it's going down to -4 with clear skies tonight. So the frost giants will be out tonight.
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I feel a bit sheepish after farmgal...but we are growing:
Tomatoes
Grape Tomatoes
Peppers
Watermelon
Potatoes
Raspberry Bush started this year
Lettuce Romaine
Onions
Its our first year...and we are starting a garden, and have built a winter gardening box also.
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Have planted onions (are already eating), beets, carrots, swiss chard, spinach, peas, and potatoes. By beginning of June, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, beans, squash and zucchini will be planted. Have added to the fruit bushes this year, honey berries, currants (red and black), blackberries, asparagus, and have planted more raspberries, rhubarb, blueberries and strawberries.
No, I do not do a CSA, I just grow a wide amount of food for my family for the whole year.. I do give some food away, I also am currently under contract again this year to grow seed for a seed house to return it to them..
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I'm planting the following:
cabbage
edamame
peas
rhubarb
flowers to promote good insects/pollination: sunflowers, cosmos, marigold,zinnias
dill
basil
cilantro
chives
3 types of squash
3 types of onion
garlic
lettuce
mustard greens
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Usual stuff, Tomatoes are coming along, but I did not start the peppers early enough, they look bad, they should be like the tomatoes, I am going to try a experiment....Im starting a barrel, or two of wine this weekend, and I am doing it in the green house. Im hoping that the co2 produced will goose the peppers.
tall tomatoes.....and this is a test of how tight I can grow them (in this barrel), that's 3.05 sqft in a barrel cut that way, about half the space recommended for (3) tomato plants,but the soil is deep, they are well supported, and even though they are dense lots of light can get to the leaves because this green house is covered in mirrors inside (back and side walls). I think 2 plants per upright barrel is just right, 3 may be to many but I wont know till I try.
short bush cherry tomatoes. in a barrel cut this way with 3 plants in it, you get the roughly recommended 2sqft per plant.
Peppers 😥
The pics are from a few days ago, the tomato plants have started to flower now.
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and just to be different I am trying to raise peas in raised beds so I don't have to stake them, I am going to see if they will fall over the sides of the container and grow hanging down, then I don't even have to set my beer down to bend over to pick the peas.
I will add a little foam(pipe insulation) to the edges of the container so they don't break hanging over the edge....
This is a raised bed for potatoes, 3.5 feet by 7 feet, 3 rows of 6, so 18 potato plants in it, they are just breaking the surface. The planting is denser than recommended. I can add boards to the perimeter to bring up the depth as needed. I am still building this, it will have a roof, and sides likely of clear polycarbonate, then this too can be propane heated to extend the growing season.
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I'm planting the following:
cabbage
edamame
peas
rhubarb
flowers to promote good insects/pollination: sunflowers, cosmos, marigold,zinnias
dill
basil
cilantro
chives
3 types of squash
3 types of onion
garlic
lettuce
mustard greens
So, out of all these (all from seed), everything came up & is growing well in my allotment plot so far, except the chives, basil, cabbage and spinach (which I forgot in original list). The cilantro & dill is a little sparse considering how many seeds I planted, but that's ok since I also have an herb garden in my backyard. Also, the garlic didn't come up, but they were bulbils, so I think the first year you just get planting bulbs, and the 2nd year real bulbs.
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I just finished (almost) the roof for my raised potato garden, and I used polycarbonate, over a cedar frame
This stuff is just great, wait until mid summer when it goes on sale. From memory it was 20 years for sure, maybe 25 years guaranteed to not yellow. My first green house was built in 2010, so only 6 years old, but looks perfect, and even if does yellow a bit 30 years out I only expect it to be slight, and at 30 years out I wont likely be here to care.
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Cool greenhouse, Peppercorn 🙂 !!
Just harvested my first veggies today from my first-ever allotment garden - lettuce, onions, mustard greens and chives/chive flowers 🙂
I've had some conversations with my allotment neighbors. Nice people, mostly retired folks so they come at different times than me (during the day vs me after work).
It's funny, though, how they are quick to make comments how others are doing, about how mine took a while to come up, and yet almost all of these neighbors have all day, everyday, to garden and also bought bedding plants from the garden centre for everything. I planted everything from seed, work the garden around 4 or 5 days a week and make my own fertilizer. I think my garden is doing well, given my investment. I figure that in a real SHTF situation, there will be no garden centre and no commercial fertilizers....
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HopeImReady -we have a community type garden with our group. Each family trying different techniques and veggies. It is interesting to see the differences...who's come up first, who's thrive throughout the growing season...that sort of thing.
Experimenting is definetly beneficial NOW. I have found the last couple growing years that who's up first is not the winning number anyway and I would agree that using started plants from the garden center greenhouse is not a preppers experiment! Hope you produce a nice bounty!!!! We had the benefit of the greenhouse we build last year and were able to enjoy greens throughout the Alberta winter(which was a pretty warm one-so perhaps not the best experiment).