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Post by daylilydude on May 4, 2018 4:05:37 GMT -5
Are you growing anything different than what you usually grow... if so, what is/are they and why did you try it this gardening season?
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Post by octave1 on May 4, 2018 7:28:34 GMT -5
I am going to answer this question tomorrow, like the date suggests.
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Post by spike on May 4, 2018 7:42:26 GMT -5
Not really sure just yet. My canning shelves are getting low so need to get the basics in first. If there is any room left I may see what is new and different to plant.
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Post by paulf on May 4, 2018 7:42:34 GMT -5
The only oddball in the garden this year is me.
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Post by brownrexx on May 4, 2018 9:27:47 GMT -5
Yes, Bok Choy. I had heard of it of course but never grown it. Thanks to pepperhead212 sending me seeds I am now growing 2 varieties of it this year. Thanks Dave. I will also be growing glass gem corn for the first time thanks to seeds from hairymooseknuckles . I am looking forward to both of these crops!
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Post by pepperhead212 on May 4, 2018 10:17:54 GMT -5
I have a new variety of bitter melon out there, and two varieties of bottle gourds. The new bitter melon is an Indian variety, with spikes, rather than smooth ridges. The latter type I have grown 2 types of, and they produced like crazy, but both stopped in late July. I figure that the Indian type may be more heat resistant. The bottle gourds I am hoping are not attacked by SVBs, and can be harvested early, to use as a summer squash.
Minutina is a green that I grew again, since I had to skip my spring planting, and these grow well in hydro. I also transplanted some outside. It is sort of a crunchy add on to a salad, not used as the main item.
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Post by ahntjudy on May 4, 2018 10:21:00 GMT -5
Lettuce... Haven't grown it for decades but have been inspired by my fellow gardeners... Growing Romaine and Black Seeded Simpson...
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on May 4, 2018 11:04:02 GMT -5
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Post by Laura_in_FL on May 4, 2018 11:15:24 GMT -5
There's nothing really oddball in my garden this year. Every year I try new varieties of peppers, tomatoes, lettuce, etc.
Runner beans are new to me this year, though.
I am also trying to grow some Deep Purple carrots - these are supposed to be purple all the way through, not just the skin. I say "trying" because they just don't have the same vigor as the Danvers carrots I grow every year. I did start them later than the Danvers, so maybe I am not allowing enough for the age difference. Time will tell.
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Post by meandtk on May 4, 2018 13:20:49 GMT -5
Yes, butterpeas and Lazy Wife beans. Oddballs to my garden, anyway.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on May 4, 2018 13:37:22 GMT -5
Boy am I ever! Semposia and Komatsuma are both new to me. Thanks to pepperhead212 . Chestnut Flavored Beans thanks to my friend Kate. spike sent a huge box of seeds and several of my tomatoes were thanks to her. She is also the reason several of us are trying Pienky Jas beans as I had given away what few I had. I'm growing lots of new to me Tomatoes. Seminole Pumpkin thanks to my friend George. Oaxacan Cream Beans thanks to Glen. So many new things!
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Post by guruofgardens on May 4, 2018 13:42:07 GMT -5
New-to-me tomatoes and hot peppers. I downsized this year so there's no room even for a few of the oldies. Maybe I'll try something new in pots.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on May 4, 2018 13:51:27 GMT -5
I have a new variety of bitter melon out there, and two varieties of bottle gourds. The new bitter melon is an Indian variety, with spikes, rather than smooth ridges. The latter type I have grown 2 types of, and they produced like crazy, but both stopped in late July. I figure that the Indian type may be more heat resistant. The bottle gourds I am hoping are not attacked by SVBs, and can be harvested early, to use as a summer squash. Minutina is a green that I grew again, since I had to skip my spring planting, and these grow well in hydro. I also transplanted some outside. It is sort of a crunchy add on to a salad, not used as the main item. I've grown the Indian variety of bitter melon for several years. All I can say about it is that the Squirrels love it more than I do. No, that didn't come out right. They get to them as soon as they ripen so how would I know if I like them? LOL
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Post by pepperhead212 on May 4, 2018 21:15:48 GMT -5
bluelacedredhead That's why I start trapping squirrels EARLY! Up to 9 of them, but nothing in over a week. Never had a bitter melon lost to them (I don't think!), just a bunch of tomatoes, with one bite out of them. BTW, bitter melons aren't usually eaten ripe - they get overly bitter then. Just when full sized, but still green. And a problem I had with those varieties that I grew was that when they would start producing again, late in the summer, they would ripen when very small, so I didn't really get any good ones later on.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on May 4, 2018 21:25:47 GMT -5
They like ripe fruit If I don't get it in time, I just find seeds.
It's illegal here to trap squirrels or I would 🙁
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Post by pepperhead212 on May 4, 2018 23:09:03 GMT -5
I forgot about those radish pods, that are new to me this season.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on May 5, 2018 6:05:27 GMT -5
I was supposed to attend a seminar last evening with a renowned Canadian gardener regarding unsual veggies to grow. However, the area was hit late in the day with a terrible wind storm of 80 mph winds. Many road closures, electric wires down, trees across roads, 400,000 people without power, so we opted to stay home. So I have nothing to report about the event and I'm not raising anything unusual this year at all.
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Post by september on May 5, 2018 8:54:32 GMT -5
bluelacedredhead , sounds like a wise decision on your part! I hope you have power back by now, if you lost it too. The storms do seem to be getting more violent and destructive every year. It's good when there are no lives lost, but so sad for all the property damage too. It all takes time and expense to clean up, and some may not have any dollars to spare. I'm not growing any crop I have not grown before, but I do have new to me varieties of lettuce, tomatoes, and peppers. Oh wait, I take it back -- I am growing two varieties of baby cabbages, never done any kind of cabbage before. I have no room for storing the big ones and I don't make kraut.
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Post by octave1 on May 5, 2018 9:13:44 GMT -5
For me it would be corn. Never been lucky with it, so I have given up a long time ago. But now I'd like to give it one last try and see if I can finally outsmart the raccoons.
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Post by pepperhead212 on May 5, 2018 20:00:51 GMT -5
I thought of another oddball veggie - a variety of snake gourd - that I tried last season, but couldn't get any to germinate. I tried a second time, after seeing a suggestion on youtube for grinding off the tips of the seeds, which have a very thick seed coat, using a small rotary tool. Still nothing, but I am going to try again now , both grinding (I just use an emery board) and using GA-3, since that has speeded up all of the cucurbits I have tried it on.
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Post by paquebot on May 5, 2018 20:23:11 GMT -5
They like ripe fruit If I don't get it in time, I just find seeds. It's illegal here to trap squirrels or I would 🙁 I normally have a trap set for squirrels year-around. Had a double yesterday; one in a #1 longspring and one in a live trap. Both are destined to never leave my garden. Both are in the compost tumbler as free blood meal and bone meal. May have been too late as most of the snow pea seed was dug up. Martin The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by paquebot on May 5, 2018 20:28:45 GMT -5
With limited space this year, just staying with the usual odd-ball stuff. Oddest is probably callaloo. Have grown it the past 5 years but mostly for my African friends. One of them now knows how ro start it so he'll be supplying it this year. I'll just grow a little for my own use. Aiming to get more steamed greens into my diet and that will be one of them.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on May 6, 2018 16:25:38 GMT -5
pepperhead212, so, umm...are you going to keep us in suspense about what this oddball veggie is?
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Post by pepperhead212 on May 6, 2018 17:46:54 GMT -5
Sorry Laura_in_FL, it's a type of snake gourd. I didn't realize that I had omitted it, but I since corrected that.
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