what are you eating from your vegeable garden? im eating in march; beat-root carrots raddishes winter radishes parsnips turnips potatos sweet potatoes celeriac cellery swiss chard perpetual beet greens brousell sprouts kale rocket land cress mustard winter/spring lettices riddicio type leaves parsley spinich frozen tomatoes squashes marrows pumpkins leeks oinions red oinions garlic dried chillies shalotts dried beans sweet chesnuts fairy ring mushroms alexanders ground elder and other free/wild food and herbs with thanks to the sun, good wishes
What a cool post! I'm so surprised no one else has posted?? Learning organic gardening/wildcrafting, for those not in the know, is the first step you can take to independence from agri-corp/GMO's in your pot. If you have space, grow something-if not, find out if there is a community garden nearby and if they have openings. If not, create a community garden! For urbanites, I suggest taking a class on identifying wild plants that are in your area. You'd be surprise how much food is around you and all you have to do is make sure its not near any man-made pollution sources (i.e. trash dumps/water treatment/any kinda mining operation) nor near a highway (aleast 200 feet or more away) and you can go at it. So, back to the question-what's in my garden? This year we moved to a home w/ over a 1/4 acre of space. Fruit trees (9 in total): Loquat Blood Orange Grapefruit Lemon Plum Nectarines Tangerine Apricots Mystery tree (has small white blossoms) Had a cherry tree but it was too sick to live 4 (poss five) Big Grapevines (birds get 'em first it seems) 1 pecan tree (lots of yummy nuts full of good fat!) Zillions of Lilac bushes that sweeting the air (can't eat 'em but smell good in the house) Many Tulips Veggie Garden (lady who owned the house was like 80+ and still gardening) but the plot she cleared is too small so I'm gonna spread some stuff out using up additional space around the property. My thing is if I can't eat it, it ain't gonna stay here...except the lilacs, they smell damn good. ------------------ Tomatoes Corn (organic/heriloom) bell peppers red onions lettuce (romaine, curly...mayyyyyybe iceberg) spinach green beans peas pumpkin watermelon chives garlic (mmmmmmmmm) jalapenos sunflowers pinto beans collards okra (for mom) carrots cucumbers spagetti squash gourd (for crafts) amaranth (birds again) and anything else I can't think of but want. Herbs Rosemary lavendar (french and English) chamomile (german) basil (pesto!) mint (peppermint, some ordamentals) cilantro calendula chia red cloves pythrum yeah misspelled big time (good natural insect repellant) angelica yerba buena thyme purple coneflower catnip summer savory valernia and again anything else I think I can squeeze into a pot Great blessings to Helios, Sun lord Happy planting! urby
wow!!!!! i'd love to grow stuff but i keep moving house so its a bit hard... well i'm growing basil at the moment in my room and i'm gonna plant some rocket in pots on my windowsill. i'd love to grow more fruit and vegetables tho, well we usually manage tomatoes and runner beans and corn in the summer. sod it! I'm gonna start planting stuff here anyway (i'm at my parents but only till the end of summer), and i'll just have to come back next year and visit to take care of them! yeah!!!!!! you have inspired me! x
