Anyone Garden?
I come from a long line of vegetable gardeners. As a matter of fact, we just planted 4 rows of potatoes, 18 heads of cabbage, 18 broccoli sets, 9 brussel sprouts, red onions & white onions today. My whole family helps & it is awesome.
We also can & freeze our produce. We do that as an extended family also. Great way to bond and it's cool knowing exactly what's in your food.
That's awesome! Me, too. My parents were veggie farmers that sold at farmers markets, a roadside stand, and to the local grocery store. It's in my blood.
I can and freeze as well. I learned how to do everything from my mom & dad (mostly my mom, lol) but my dad is the authority on making the mustard, horseradish, and sauerkraut. My mom did the veggies, pickles, and preserves.
I make all my own canned tomatoes, fruit preserves, pickles, and apple sauce. I also freeze a lot of different veggies. I wish I lived closer to family to do this together, but we do bond over the mutual love of doing it. I get my apples from my grandparents trees, the raspberries from my mom, and we exchange jars (we all have our own favorite recipes). It is a really great way to know what is in your food besides tasting WAY better. The difference between commercially canned tomatoes & my own is huge. It's almost like eating two different things. Oh, and you can't forget about how much money one can save by doing this. I haven't bought canned tomatoes, preserves, pickled veggies, apple sauce, or frozen veggies in a long time.
That's awesome! Do you just grow in the greenhouse or do you remove it during the summer and let them grow out in the open? I wish I lived in a warmer climate so I could grow year round. Even in OK I imagine you could grow in a green house or high tunnel year round.
I take my herbs in during the winter months but I can't grow anything beyond that and regular house plants in the winter.
Nice. I started my seeds indoors, and I have a small portable greenhouse that I'll put together & move my plants into once it's a bit warmer. We've had some really awesome days here lately, even 80 degrees one day, but yesterday and today are cold. It's 30 outside right now, but it's supposed to warm up again in the next few day and hopefully for good.
I hope to be able to move my stuff outside in the greenhouse around May 1. Planting in an open garden around here doesn't happen until May 15-June 1 depending on both the weather and what is being planted.
Spinach, swiss chard, and radishes will actually be planted around May 1.
I garden, but not veggies---I'm into ornamentals. Last fall I started a new bed and planeted about 300 spring-flowering bulbs. This spring, I'm interplanting those with perennials and ground covers.
I do a LOT of gardening sitting flat on the ground. (Weeding, planting, etc.) I started doing this probably 20 years ago, when my weight and my arthritis starting really giving me trouble. Although losing 170 pounds has really helped, my knees still don't want me to do much bending over. It's easier for me to gt down on the ground, scoot around and do whatever, then get back up ONCE than to spend more than 2-3 minutes bending at the waist.
I am only just doing more than containers for flowers and ornamental plants. We bought a house in August, so I have been working on digging up the sad flower bed that were here and planting new things.
My front yard is almost completely shaded by 100'+ elm trees, so I'm going to be planting ferns, hostas, bleeding hearts, and astilbes there. In the back, which is all sunny now (we took a diseased elm tree down in November) I'm going gladioli, echinacea, alyssum, and some other things in a large flower bed that I'll be putting in. I'm also going to do some containers to place here and there.
My parents backyard is like a fairy wonderland full of flowers, plants, and a large veggie garden. I hope to have mine have a similar magical atmosphere eventually. This is my start.
Good luck gardening this year.
