We have been welcoming suggestions on what to grow, or I should say, try to grow. We surely aren’t experts when I comes to this, but we are willing to give it an honest attempt.
So far, there have been plenty of new things for us, such as carrots and parsnips. And how about soybean and peanuts? Neither of us knew how to grow them, nor what they even looked like while they were growing. You talk about being complete newbies at this! What does a peanut plant look like? Well, we figured that out so far. When are peanuts ready to harvest? We haven’t a clue. But we are learning.
We had tried our hand at greenhouse tomatoes, but had so-so success. We felt we could use the greenhouse space better. So now we are trying greenhouse cucumbers and are actually harvesting some of the cukes right now. Wow!
From time to time we get requests, and try to honor every one of them. We just ordered seed for marjoram, anise, and fennel. We’ve never grown any of these before, but we will give them a go.
We plan to introduce more new veggies…. sweet corn, edible gourds, more varieties of amaranth, spinach, kohlrabi, Portuguese cabbage, Chinese broccoli. We are checking other varieties of various Asian greens, beets, greenhouse cucumbers.
New for us….potatoes! We planted four 100’ rows 2 weeks ago and Wayne announced that they are just now coming up. We planted a fingerling called La Ratte. And a purple one called Magic Molly. Then some white ones, and a red skinned boiler. And a pink one. So it’s going to be interesting when it’s time to harvest them.
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