How's your garden doing?

tonksy said:
I may try them next year. I'll have to widen my patch or pull my maters early though.
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you can wait 'til the 'maders are through.
You can plant early, but I usually do turnips late, because I can here in this area. (southeast)

the seeds are really cheap (as of now, but may go up).

These are the first I've grown (personally and exclusively).
I wanted to see how the ground is ...kinda...for my big silver queen planting this spring.

I'm thinking about trying broccoli, and cauliflower some next year.
(cabbage and lettuce too maybe)
 
you can pinch off some greens before they are ready.
Size is how you know when the root/turnip is ready.
from golf-ball size to tennis ball size , or 2-1/2 in. approx. max.
If they get too big, I hear they get 'woody'.:shrug:

I'm like new to the whole thing.
I haven't eaten any since my wreck, and I can't remember before that.:alienhuh:
 
So you test dig?

I'm sorry you don't remember. You might try mashing them like taters with butter.
 
test? no this is just new ground.
in unknown quality ground, I like to plant something right off to test
it to see how good it might be.
I didn't get this ground ready to plant soon enough for many planting options.
So, I decided to try turnips.

Turnip seed are cheap, but silver queen seed are like 20 bucks a pound. ;)
 
I do have a test kit, but it's expensive too.
I did a soil sample test on my little garden though.
It's right. :D
 
No no, I mean you just sorta think the turnip should be ready and dig one up to see if it looks done?
 
the purple part is where it actually is above ground naturally, so you can
see most of them just by pulling back the leaves. ;)

turnip_3111.jpg
 
yep, got many frozen, and 10 more gallons in a pit, in storage,

Groundhog saw his shadow here...
Gotta kick it in gear now.
 
I've just about gotten my 3rd spot graded out.
I decided to grade, instead of just contouring, because of the clay loam.
Also because of drought conditions.

Not a whole lot of grading.
Cutting class 2, up to class 1.

I'll post a pic later. For informational purposes.
 
top whom it mat concern...

The first pic, you can see how the trees have been manged by weather for years.
In the second, and 3rd, you can see what I've began changing it to.
 
Love the turnip pics.

I created a spreadsheet from information I gathered online at the Texas A&M Gardening Guide and the county Ag Extension Service. It shows when to plant and when to harvest according to when you plant. There are 2 seasons for most plants here where I live.

I've planted 2 rows of turnips, 2 rows of peas, my herbs (basil, cinnamon basil, marjoram, thyme), and there are baby kohlrabi poking up from the planting late last fall, as well as the perennial Swiss Chard. I thought I had beet seeds but I was wrong. I'll have to go to the store and buy a packet of seeds and plant them this weekend. I want pickled beets! Love them!

What I will not plant again: Brussels sprouts. They just don't do well here at all. It's too hot for them and the cool months aren't long enough for them to really make good Brussels sprouts.

Last year I had so many of these oversized cherry tomatoes (fist sized, rather than mouth sized) that I began slicing them and dehydrating them. They were so sweet. I used them in all sorts of things: on bread with a bit of brie; in stews; in sauce; anything. I started doing that way too late, but I'm going to start dehydrating them as soon as they start producing fruit this year (rather than feed the leftovers to the chickens).
 
I'm doing the bulk in corn, but I'll also plant....
crowder peas
tomatoes
blue lake beans
okra

cabbage
lettuce
cucumbers
cantaloupe
Bell peppers
and a few onion

this year
I only plant those latter ones periodically, usually.

I use the almanac, and the weather channel.com :D
oh and a long history of agriculture, when farming wasn't cool. :p
 
catocom said:
yep, got many frozen, and 10 more gallons in a pit, in storage,

Groundhog saw his shadow here...
Gotta kick it in gear now.
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opps...proof reading...I meant the hog did Not see the shadow...
just had arbor day here....moved up from april.

I think april will still be my first planting.
 
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