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Post by daylilydude on Oct 3, 2017 3:49:58 GMT -5
Do you grow a lot of root vegetables, and if so what variety of each do you find that works better for you??
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Post by spike on Oct 3, 2017 7:56:01 GMT -5
Onions, garlic, potatoes, beets, radishes and turnips. The only thing I am picky about is carrots. They really need to be the short stumpy kind. I love the long skinny ones but my ground is clay. Would be easier to throw pots then it would be to grow skinny carrots.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Oct 3, 2017 10:14:32 GMT -5
Three years in a row now I've planted beets and lost them to voles. Three strikes and you're out, so I won't grow those again here at home. I might try a row in my community plot, as my neighbor had a lovely harvest of beets this year. Detroit Red has grown consistently for me.
I've done potatoes in the past. I love having them, but I definitely do not have a place to store potatoes long term here. Sadly, I will continue to buy them.
I do grow carrots. I love rainbow carrots, and the kids love eating carrots fresh from the garden more than anything else. I will dig my carrot bed up this week and see how it fares. Peter Rabbit nibbled the tops a month ago or so, but the plants sprung back, so I'm hopeful that what lies beneath the soil is good eats.
I have yet to figure out the ideal timing for turnips here. I've grown them some years and had success, and some years the weather has not cooperated and gave me really harsh turnips. We don't love them, so most years I don't grow them. I might do them again next year since I won't grow beets.
I always have a few onions and my garlic bed each year.
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Post by september on Oct 3, 2017 11:01:23 GMT -5
Carrots and onions, yes. I like big Ailsa Craig onions for fresh and cooking, though they only have moderate storage time. Carrots, I am still trying various kinds, but I stick with the stubbier orange varieties.
I would love to grow potatoes, but my sunny spot for them is not good and they get scab and inside cavities, so I only grow them about once in five years. I don't have any cool storage spot for things like turnips and beets, and flea beetles make it hard on them anyway. I like the idea of growing leeks, but they deteriorate too fast in storage. I often try radishes but they seem to grow slowly and stay small.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Oct 3, 2017 11:31:55 GMT -5
Garlic and shallots are pretty much all I grow on a regular basis. Radishes occasionally. Potatoes attract too many bugs here, which didn't damage the potato plants much, but destroyed others around them.
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Post by spike on Oct 3, 2017 11:59:29 GMT -5
I have yet to figure out the ideal timing for turnips here For me it is BEFORE my friend comes and tills for me lol
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Post by meandtk on Oct 3, 2017 14:07:16 GMT -5
Rutabaga Purple top turnips and the hybrid White Lady Red Lasoda potatoes Beauregard sweet taters
Turnips need a frost before being pulled and eaten. I plant about eight weeks before the first frost.
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Post by coppice on Oct 3, 2017 16:47:16 GMT -5
Tree babies are crouding out my garden labors.
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Post by paulf on Oct 4, 2017 7:42:37 GMT -5
Beets: Detroit Red Radishes in a decorative half whiskey barrel: whatever looks good to the grandkids who do the planting.
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Post by paquebot on Oct 4, 2017 15:03:02 GMT -5
Beets, carrots, celeriac, garlic, onion, potatoes, radishes. rutabaga, and sweet potatoes.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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