re: 2020 Garden Thread

Have you ever put a small amount of roux when you cook your mustard greens? That’s how my mother cooked them when I was growing up and it’s delicious. She would also do the same thing with field peas.

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Have you ever put a small amount of roux when you cook your mustard greens? That’s how my mother cooked them when I was growing up and it’s delicious. She would also do the same thing with field peas.

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That’s a good idea. I gave some to one of my coworkers cause he loves them. He said he cooks them down in beef stock. Adds nothing else. They’re still growing, so I’ll be able to try a few things.

Certainly looks like a brassica of some sort.

My broccoli are finally producing. We'll see what the cauliflower and cabbage do. Had high hopes for the cabbage (Copenhagen I think) as they started out strong but are just treading water or looking pretty ragged.

I still have bellpeppers going from the spring garden. I cursed them all summer long for being laggards but now they're going crazy with some nice fruit. Jalopenos are going strong as well.

Planted a left over Anaheim pepper plant with the broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower and that sucker is going crazy.

I had good luck with coastal blue cabbage a few years back and planted several this year as well.

Makes a smaller 3-5 lb head vs a super large one so it’s easier to eat.

Thanks for the suggestions.

For those that grow anything or just something from seed, what seed brands/companies do you recommend?

Anyone trying to save peppers and tomatoes with predicted freeze?

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Anyone start picking yet? Looks like I'll pick my first turnips this weekend.

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I've picked sugar snap peas off the vines on my trellis, 6 beautiful heads of broccoli, some leaf lettuces and salad mix greens, green onions and just did my 3rd pick of Georgia collards.

I have several heads of green cabbage forming nicely that are almost the size of a soccer ball, a few heads of cauliflower that I pulled the leaves over to keep them blanched and my Brussel sprouts are starting to form along the stems.

My red cabbages are lagging but the always seem to when compared to the green varieties and make much smaller heads.

My main problem now is the amount of rainwater accumulated in my garden from all this rain lately. Last year we got so much rain is started to split my heads of cabbage as they took up so much water.

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My main problem now is the amount of rainwater accumulated in my garden from all this rain lately. Last year we got so much rain is started to split my heads of cabbage as they took up so much water.

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I had one head split. We’re having smothered cabbage tonight. That wasn’t the plan, but we’re making lemonade.

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I'm going to check out how to make sauerkraut and can it for later use.

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I want to learn how to do this as well. Please share whatever you learn.