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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving dinner at my brothers house so I picked some collards and made Ham Hocks and Collard Greens. its all I can do to stay out of them tonight.
So delicious. I still have a few pickings left and my Mustards are still good. We've had some frost and it really makes the greens get sugary.
Just discovered the website and am enjoying the variety. SST St Thomas must be a paradise for gardeners.
There's papayas, bananas, green beans, tomatoes, beets and lettuce from the garden today. Also some celery and avocados. Some of this is yard food as opposed to garden food, though. We sort of plant a lot of stuff around the yard as decorative plants and food falls from the plants but they aren't in a traditional garden planted in rows or anything. Oh, yeah, tangerines and lemons, too, but those never seem to stop giving fruit. The edible landscape isn't tended all that well, it gets mowed around and bunny "berries" (bunny manure) gets tossed around the landscape and that's about it for fertilizer. Seems to be working, though. The green beans, tomatoes, beets, etc., are actually in raised bed gardens, though, so they are official garden food.
There's papayas, bananas, green beans, tomatoes, beets and lettuce from the garden today. Also some celery and avocados. Some of this is yard food as opposed to garden food, though. We sort of plant a lot of stuff around the yard as decorative plants and food falls from the plants but they aren't in a traditional garden planted in rows or anything. Oh, yeah, tangerines and lemons, too, but those never seem to stop giving fruit. The edible landscape isn't tended all that well, it gets mowed around and bunny "berries" (bunny manure) gets tossed around the landscape and that's about it for fertilizer. Seems to be working, though. The green beans, tomatoes, beets, etc., are actually in raised bed gardens, though, so they are official garden food.
I noticed a lot of people refer to a "garden" as primarily a vegetable garden/plot. I think of a garden as primarily a space w/ nicely arranged ornamental plants.
My family were small-time farmers, so it is a little bit of a stretch to think of growing food as gardening. Gardening is enjoyable, and growing veggies for me is too much like work. My favorite part's picking out the seeds and hopefully actually getting something edible.
Don't feel bad. Almost all my fruit trees and herbs are in my ornamental gardens, as well. I still post about them.
I'm container gardening in Florida. Just planted about 4-5 weeks ago. First tomato popped out today. So far just have some buttercrunch lettuce ready to eat. Growing lots of tomatoes, bell peppers red, green and orange, green beans, yellow beans and lettuce. Poured fish emulsion on today for the first time. Ewwwwww. Trying to go organic, used vigaro organic potting soil, new product here locally. So glad to get away from miracle gro.
Today was more green beans and beets. Also more papayas; some for us, some for the chickens. I've also discovered bunnies like citrus. They've been munching on tangerines as well as grapefruits. The trees are loaded right now so we're getting tangerines, grapefruits and loads of lovely oranges. Some sort of really sweet and tangy navel oranges.
In the front raised bed garden, I've been noticing one squash plant is huge and much bigger than the other. It took me a while to notice, but the much bigger squash is planted among the green beans. I'm suspecting the beans have been fixing nitrogen in the soil which the big squash has been using to grow larger than the other one.
I always consider a garden to be somewhat smaller than a farm, but it can either be a vegetable or ornamental garden. Since the topic of conversation is what the garden fed us today, I'm expecting most folks will be discussing their veggie garden. It's always nice to mix in a few flowers with the veggies to encourage bees to visit. We also mix in vegetables with our flowers.
This is how warm it has been here in NWA...We got about 12 tomatoes from a friend a few blocks from our house last week. yes, they are small, but they are wonderful. I have never heard of fresh tomatoes, this far north in Dec unless they are being grown in a hot house...Nita
This is how warm it has been here in NWA...We got about 12 tomatoes from a friend a few blocks from our house last week. yes, they are small, but they are wonderful. I have never heard of fresh tomatoes, this far north in Dec unless they are being grown in a hot house...Nita
You are very lucky! We've had mild temps up in midwest as well probably could have planted some late plants that would have made it. Who would have thunk it?
I ate some baby spinach and some of the parsley that overwintered from last year. Meow.
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all we get in our garden today is 8 - 14" of snow...
