My "Off Season" Garden veggies

[YumYum]

I didn't mean year by year, I meant moving the bucket about daily.

Always been my problem, they had them as babies, but by putting the bucket on a work bench they didn't find them.

Hang the buckets up and swing them like this:
Cabbage moth have a hard time landing on that.

 

[zigs]

Landcress is coming on....

Looks small at the moment but comes into it's own from January onwards.

 

[Meadowlark]

There's another one you have hooked me into trying . Ordered some seeds today.

 

[zigs]

There's another one you have hooked me into trying . Ordered some seeds today.

Jolly good show old chap Over here we also call it American Cress.

 

[Meadowlark]

Update: Finally getting some cooler weather and the "off-season" plants are exploding in growth.

Potatoes and tomatoes in containers on left; carrots, greens and radishes next over; potatoes next over just finished blooming; broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower next over; and then onion starts.

 

[zigs]

Looking good Meadowlark

 

[Meadowlark]

Harvests rolling in each day.

Have you ever considered Daikon radish as a cover crop? The root systems are incredible penetrating up to 2 ft easily and the tops are great weed suppressors...all that and they are great eating radish.

Peppers, Choy, Turnips, Sweet Potatoes, broccoli, chard, kale, and collards accompany the radishes.

 

[cntrlwagdnr]

Purple sprouting broccoli? I've got some purple headed cauliflower in the ground this year. I'll have to try that purple broccoli next time.

They call it broccoli rabe here in the US but it's not always purple. Even Walmart sells it sometimes.

 

[zigs]

Purple sprouting only makes small heads in the spring, not like the big head on the summer broccolli, just lots of them.

I tried a Black Spanish Radish once, Victorian variety. It grew huge roots but tasted 'orrible

 

[zigs]

Mizuna is coming into it's own now

 

[Meadowlark]

Today's lunch: Pot Roast and garden veggies potatoes, onions, carrots, and one Daikon radish

 

[zigs]

Found a few brassicas in pots, probably summer broccoli that didn't come to much.

So I lobbed them in where the potatoes were, might get some spring greens out of them

 

[cntrlwagdnr]

Today's lunch: Pot Roast and garden veggies potatoes, onions, carrots, and one Daikon radish


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Looks delicious. Exactly like my wife makes, except not as much gravy and she adds celery. One of my favorite meals. I like lots of gravy in mine. Love your choice of "fine china". We do that quite often! Sometimes we use the "fancy napkins" too - the ones off the roll.

 

[Meadowlark]

Looks delicious. Exactly like my wife makes, except not as much gravy and she adds celery. One of my favorite meals. I like lots of gravy in mine. Love your choice of "fine china". We do that quite often! Sometimes we use the "fancy napkins" too - the ones off the roll.

Yes, normally that pot would include celery but only garden stuff this time...should have added Bok choy to replace celery.

We use mostly paper plates, bowls, cups and towels and cycle them through the compost pile. Pretty efficient use of time.

Thanks for the comments.

 

[cntrlwagdnr]

Hmmm... bok choy? Sounds like a plan. I shall mention that to my wife. We like the baby ones sauteed with a little garlic and ginger , Chinese style. There's a restaurant in the Southcenter Mall in Tukwila (south Seattle), called Din Tai Fung. Gotta go there every time we visit the kids. They specialize in those little seamed soup dumplings. Absolutely delicious! Fascinating watching them make them through like a shop window while you wait in line. There's always a line!! Even if you have reservations. They do bok choy like that.