How does your garden grow?

[Larro Darro]

I no longer plant many seeds or grow any of my own starts...

SR

It does take a lot of time. When I was just doing a few pepper and tomato plants I bought them in the six packs. But with me doing more these days, I try to save a buck where I can. This morning I transplanted 17 each of Beef Steak tomatoes, Jalapeno, Chili and Bell peppers. I will sit them outside in the morning. I ran out of time today. I never did find any seeds for the mini sweet peppers, so I just planted some of the saved seeds. I found a thread where someone had done that and got big sweet peppers. Time will tell.

Larro

 

[hunterridgefarm]

I will start pepper seeds next week and tomato seed in about 2 weeks. I have 200# of seed potatoes and about 1500 onions to put in the ground but it has been too wet to get in the field!

 

[sixdogs]

I will start pepper seeds next week and tomato seed in about 2 weeks. I have 200# of seed potatoes and about 1500 onions to put in the ground but it has been too wet to get in the field!

What do you do with all those potatoes and onions?

 

[hunterridgefarm]

What do you do with all those potatoes and onions?

We sale at the Farmers market and donate to soup kitchens. The last picking of peppers from last year totaled around 22 bushels which I took to a soup kitchen and food pantry. That is a lot of peppers When I told the lady I had peppers to deliver she came out with one old style shopping cart, I told her she was going to need 10-12 more:laughing:

 

[Gunny]

We sale at the Farmers market and donate to soup kitchens. The last picking of peppers from last year totaled around 22 bushels which I took to a soup kitchen and food pantry. That is a lot of peppers When I told the lady I had peppers to deliver she came out with one old style shopping cart, I told her she was going to need 10-12 more:laughing:

I frequently donate to the Senior Citizens center here. About two years ago, I took a lot of cabbage, peppers, corn and tomatoes and told the lady that she would need something to carry them in with, as I wanted to keep my baskets. She came out with a 2 gallon bucket, saw what I had in there and turned around, hollering for help. I think they turned out everybody in the center and they were hauling with baskets, buckets and cardboard boxes.

Since then, when I show up, the first question they ask is how many people is it going to take!

 

[sixdogs]

We sale at the Farmers market and donate to soup kitchens. The last picking of peppers from last year totaled around 22 bushels which I took to a soup kitchen and food pantry. That is a lot of peppers When I told the lady I had peppers to deliver she came out with one old style shopping cart, I told her she was going to need 10-12 more:laughing:

I frequently donate to the Senior Citizens center here. About two years ago, I took a lot of cabbage, peppers, corn and tomatoes and told the lady that she would need something to carry them in with, as I wanted to keep my baskets. She came out with a 2 gallon bucket, saw what I had in there and turned around, hollering for help. I think they turned out everybody in the center and they were hauling with baskets, buckets and cardboard boxes.

Since then, when I show up, the first question they ask is how many people is it going to take!

Admirable qualities. They sure must be glad to see you guys coming.

 

[DFB]

Admirable qualities. They sure must be glad to see you guys coming.

I think it is too.

I get to see a lot of that type of unselfishness in my circles. Most of the CSA farms here let certain organizations glean the fields at the end of every season. Several years back I got to donate all the leftover butternut squash and apples I had left when my marketing was done for the season to a community action center. Something I really wanted to do. They sent me a very nice letter...more thanks than I needed.

Really it is a shame that a lot food pantry's won't or cannot accept fresh produce..sometimes it just doesn't fit their business model or mostly they don't have the storage facilities to handle the donations.

Interestingly too is many business don't want to become involved for various reasons. I do know where I work many different people and organizations come looking for donations often, sometimes way too often. My boss is nice guy though he helps whenever he can. Though this season the local boy scouts came looking for free apples they could resell to raise money for their organization. The owner felt a tad put out though with that request but said if they troops wanted to go out in the field and pick their own apples they could have all they wanted .

 

[Larro Darro]

Really it is a shame that a lot food pantry's won't or cannot accept fresh produce..sometimes it just doesn't fit their business model or mostly they don't have the storage facilities to handle the donations.

Two of the four thrift shops I frequent have food pantries. One is larger than the other, but even it doesn't have big enough coolers to keep much. One day they had two pallets of Greek yogurt outside giving it away to all the thrift store customers {not just the usual recipients of food aid} because they had nowhere to keep it. Everyone was getting two flats of yogurt. Since I usually go straight to work from shopping, I keep a couple of soft sided coolers in the car. I bagged my yogurt up and took it with me.

 

[SPIKER]

Seeds, hummm I can only see ground in a few foot stomped or tractor crossing points in the garden, the Snow still covered most of it up till last couple days... :shrug:


:/

Mark

 

[Larro Darro]

I planted 40 yellow and 80 purple onion bulbs late this afternoon. Also did a little hoeing around my sugar snap peas and green bean sprouts. Most of what I was hoeing up was volunteer peas and melons.

 

[TomSeller]

I need to stop by my local co-op and see if they have onion starts in yet. If so, I will get some planted next weekend.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I don't grow many potatoes... They just sell potatoes, onions and carrots too cheep here at road side markets and stands,

(carrots are $2.50 for 20 pounds)

Last few times I donated pots or carrots, i just stopped and bought some to donate... I'm NOT going through all the work to grow/harvest potatoes or carrots that can be bought for those prices!

SR

 

[lakngulf]

I have a few items tempting me to put them in the ground this early spring. Might just give them a try

Some Rattlesnake beans








Various types of tomatoes




Lots of tomatoes, peppers and egg plant on the way

 

[rasp21]

Still too cold here, I do have about 500 onion transplants ready, and lots of potatoes ready to go in the ground. Had to disk the garden already as the weeds were germinating. Was a mild winter here, central Washington state.

 

[Larro Darro]

It was too wet to work my green beans and sugar snap peas this morning, so I cut the grass on the inside of the garden fence. Once I get all my hoses strung out it will be a pain to get it done. My black squash are coming up now. {forgot to take a picture}

Larro

 

[TomSeller]

My peas have sprouted. The whole Famn Damily gathering to get the potatoes in the gound next weekend.

 

[Larro Darro]

The whole Famn Damily gathering to get the potatoes in the gound next weekend.

It is a job of work.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

Planted about 200# of seed potatoes and 1000 onions Saturday. Also started 150 tomato plants in the greenhouse.

 

[sixdogs]

Planted about 200# of seed potatoes and 1000 onions Saturday. Also started 150 tomato plants in the greenhouse.

How many feet of row is 200# of potatoes?

The onions I know because I planted 750 one year and had them coming out of my ears. 1000 onions is really impressive..

 

[vtsnowedin]

You guys are killing me. Four below Zero F this morning and two and a half feet of frozen corn snow on the gardens. Even the maple sap isn't running yet. Is there a sweet corn variety that matures in forty five days?