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over winter crops?
On 8/29/2016 7:57 PM, songbird wrote:
The Cook wrote: hi, glad to see you back writing. ... Winter is time to let the back rest and recover. It is the time to read seed catalogues and gardening books, take inventory of my seeds and preserved foods and plan for the Spring. Since I have a greenhouse I start several things there as early as January. By February I am starting many of my summer crops there. Before I got the greenhouse I started many plants in the house with grow lights. we keep it too cool in the house to start a lot of plants, plus very limited on space, so i am glad the local greenhouse will do those for us (mainly tomatoes, peppers, onions and cucumbers). Gardening or farming is not just a spring and summer project. Winter is the time to plan. i call that daydreaming. what i plan may not happen as i can get overruled. like this year i did not really want to plant a ton of tomatoes, but we put in over 20 plants... and squash, i thought only one squash patch, we have three. beans, as usual i was hoping to plant several gardens worth, only have one. etc. Do you preserve any of your produce? I can, freeze and dehydrate. That takes us though the winter or longer. we can and freeze as much as we possibly can do. this past weekend we took inventory and Ma has already decided which things she will give away to friends and family for Christmas gifts. this way we don't have to rearrange the pantry yet again. 15 cases will be given away. Wow! That's a lot of jars, I hope they bring them back. Our kids and grands have strict instructions to bring those jars back CLEAN! So far it has worked. We have canning jars that are probably 50 years old but they keep getting filled until the day they break. we're about halfway through the tomatoes and have beets, dry beans, squash, onions and red peppers to eat or preserve. right now for the red peppers i'm voting on eating fresh, i love them fried up until they get a little burn on them in spots. songbird |
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