Plans for the spring?

[gumbogumbo]

What are you all planning for this spring? I'm thinking cucumbers, radishes, lettuce, and strawberries for me. Marigolds to fend away a bug or two. I only container garden, so I have to get myself a decent trellis before the season starts. Maybe this year I'll actually use compost. What about you?

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[tielan]

It's summer here, so I'm in the middle of planting.

This week is going to be: tomatoes (wapsipinicon), beans (snake), lettuce, and possibly leeks and carrots.

And, just on the subject of compost: I cannot sing it's praises enough. I had a couple of compost heaps that I made over winter and just left to degrade, and once the weather heated up, the crops growing in there went BOOM.

Corn, about two weeks after I put the seedlings in (grew the seedlings in seedling trays to about 10cm tall, then planted them out): and they're bigger now.



At this point in time, I'm dealing with way more growing things than I know how to deal with, and the usual issues of making sure everything has enough nutrients and water so the heat won't kill it off. Just planted out seedlings of pumpkins/melons, tomatoes, capiscums (bell peppers), and eggplant this morning, and have a bunch more to do in the coming week.

And otherwise I have to start working out how to eat zucchini. We have a lot of it. A LOT OF IT.

[cyprinella]

I am jealous of your zucchini! I've got squash borers too bad to get any. It's tragic. I've assembled some recipes for years when I did get fruit.

[tielan]

I keep forgetting that the home-grown zucchini won't necessarily look like the shop-bought stuff, and I don't pick it young and tender. Learning new habits.

Thanks for that link, though - some good ideas there. I've thought about making zoodles a bit (my sister is gluten intolerant, so we have to go gluten-free whenever possible), but we don't have a spiraliser and the young zucchini I'm seeing tend to be pretty small (about 3-4 inches) at most. So it's slice and dice and cook in something else most of the time. But I'll try shaving zoodles off with a peeler.

[bridgetmkennitt]

Ooo, nice. Congrats! Is there a way to donate to a food bank with all the excess veggies?

[tielan]

I don't think so. Laws about food donations wouldn't allow homegrown produce around here.