Comments on: Veggie Tales: sharing the harvest

By: Bugs and Brooms

Bugs and Brooms — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:14:44 +0000

Great post RA! I wish my garden looked as lovely. Unfortunately, the rain here in Indiana delayed our planting until LAST WEEK! We didn’t use beds and I now wonder if we should have – but, we already have some veggies poking through the ground!

This is our first garden so we are new at this too – and learning more everyday! Hopefully we will have something to harvest soon!

By: ruralaspirations

ruralaspirations — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:46:49 +0000

Spughy: thanks, sadly you are correct. I waited too long to Google! I found today on the UBC Farm website (university farm in my area): that they rated it as “poor” in terms of suitability to our growing area. On another site it mentions that you are supposed to cut the main stem to produce lots of harvestable stems….Oh well, live and learn right?

P~ I ended up using pea netting with 6″ holes. I actually think that smaller ones would have been better for the sugar snap peas (more for them to grab onto). We’ll see if it holds the buttercup squash. Next time I’m definitely going to use some of your ideas!

By: P~

P~ — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:10:40 +0000

The garden looks great. What did you end up useing for the pea trellising?
P~

By: spughy

spughy — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:40:23 +0000

I think your gai lan has gone too far It should be harvested with buds but not blooms. It will still be edible, but possibly quite bitter. You can blanch it in salted water briefly before stir-frying or steaming, that will probably help.

You garden does look very lovely though! Peas go quite quickly from blooms to pods, you should get something off them soon.

By: ruralaspirations

ruralaspirations — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:47:31 +0000

Heather: if you read through my Veggie Tales posts you can get an idea for the process (click on “gardening” under the Post Categories heading). It was a bit of hard work getting the soil mixed up, etc. And a bit expensive to do all at once (you can visit A Posse ad Esse’s blog – link on my sidebar – for some tips on how to do it more economically) but now that the initial setup is done it is truly super easy. I’m brand new at this myself so it’s been a nice introduction to organic gardening.

By: Heather @ SGF

Heather @ SGF — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:04:40 +0000

I’m encouraged to read that SFG is working for you. We borrowed the book from one of my hubby’s co-workers and have been trying to decide if we should get one ourselves and try it. This would be our first garden here in Texas. So you would totally recommend it? It seems to easy to be true…