Thread: In the Garden 2019

I don’t know if anyone else has seen this. I went to visit my mom on mother’s day. My mother lives in a typical suburban town with the typical amount of suburban property. Meaning, not much. But for this little suburban lot of land (cutting the grass would take no more than thirty minutes with a push mower), she plants a thousand little things every year as if she owned a farm. She was showing me all that she intended to plant as soon as the weather here stopped dropping into the freezing zone. She had some damn thing called fries and ketchup. It’s a potato plant and a tomato plant all in one. Tomatoes upstairs, potatoes below. Not only do I have no idea where she is going to plant this but I have no idea what it might produce. I love her. But I shake my head.

Originally Posted by OCDshaver

I don’t know if anyone else has seen this. I went to visit my mom on mother’s day. My mother lives in a typical suburban town with the typical amount of suburban property. Meaning, not much. But for this little suburban lot of land (cutting the grass would take no more than thirty minutes with a push mower), she plants a thousand little things every year as if she owned a farm. She was showing me all that she intended to plant as soon as the weather here stopped dropping into the freezing zone. She had some damn thing called fries and ketchup. It’s a potato plant and a tomato plant all in one. Tomatoes upstairs, potatoes below. Not only do I have no idea where she is going to plant this but I have no idea what it might produce. I love her. But I shake my head.

Says the guy that has a meat curing chamber set up in limited space.....

Originally Posted by 32t

Says the guy that has a meat curing chamber set up in limited space.....

Don’t get wise.

It's been raining in these parts so I hadn't bothered with my little berry patch but it dried up some yesterday so I did some picking. A few were borderline 'Over Ripe'. Right at 24 oz. I got them rinsed off, patted dry, de-stemmed and on a baking sheet in the freezer.

Another 40 oz or so and I'll have enough for a batch of jam. Yum!

My dear friend, thanks for posting a picture of this beautiful crop. I wouldn't know any better what homegrown strawberries look like, given the fact that we had around 7 inches of snow yesterday.
Luckily the tomatoes, peppers, strawberries and herbs got covered. I'm still hoping that they will recover from this fantastic CO weather!

Old Man Winter just doesn't seem to want to let you poor guys alone!

There's a family here that's been raising strawberries for ages. Many a child has been hired to pick (including two of mine) some have advanced to higher positions and worked summers for them while on break from college.

They don't sell wholesale here in the valley. They don't need to as it's all sold out of their little 'Berry Stand'. However you can drive 100 miles and find them in stores.

You might find this interesting. Scroll down and take a look at those rows.

https://www.klickerstrawberry.com/

Upstate New York has finally thawed and just might be warm enough to garden. Unfortunately, it has been terribly rainy, and most folks have not planted anything yet because its just too darn wet. Gonna be a slow garden year.

Originally Posted by OCDshaver

I don’t know if anyone else has seen this. I went to visit my mom on mother’s day. My mother lives in a typical suburban town with the typical amount of suburban property. Meaning, not much. But for this little suburban lot of land (cutting the grass would take no more than thirty minutes with a push mower), she plants a thousand little things every year as if she owned a farm. She was showing me all that she intended to plant as soon as the weather here stopped dropping into the freezing zone. She had some damn thing called fries and ketchup. It’s a potato plant and a tomato plant all in one. Tomatoes upstairs, potatoes below. Not only do I have no idea where she is going to plant this but I have no idea what it might produce. I love her. But I shake my head.

Interesting--Very Interesting--

Here's a link:

https://www.gardeners.com/buy/ketchu...t/8594305.html