How Does Your Garden Grow??????

too larry said:
I've got tomato plants ready to be transplanted into pots. Could go ahead and put the peppers in their spot in the garden for that matter. Nothing else done. More time to work on it though. After tonight's event, my work is shutting down for a month. Most likely another month after that. I'll check in when I can, but I do all my RIU posting from work. So. . . . . . I might be low pro for the next little while.
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Best of luck for you and your family.
 
I've got a bunch beets that I need to pull out so that I can use the bed they are in to grow other veggies, does anyone have any ideas of good ways to store beets? I like them and I don't want to waste them, but I have limited grow space.
 
Funkentelechy said:
I've got a bunch beets that I need to pull out so that I can use the bed they are in to grow other veggies, does anyone have any ideas of good ways to store beets? I like them and I don't want to waste them, but I have limited grow space.
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They store in the refrigerator for a couple months. I like to pickle them. Don't throw away the greens. They're good eating.

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The peas and radishes I planted are starting to sprout in the garden. I'm going to harvest the overwintered beets and get some more seeds in the ground. I also planted some Mustard-Spinach "Komatsuna" a variety of Brassica Rapa. I tore out the strawberry raised bed and chose to make mounded rows instead. I took a couple dozen runners last summer and planted them in 3" nursery pots I replanted those into the mounded rows. They are taking of with new leaves. I also bought a small tray of everbearing strawberries since the Hoods are June bearing.

I've been getting whatever cold weather crops I can in the ground. Have some lettuce starts I'll be putting out in the next week. All my tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant starts are doing great under the T5's.
 
My starts are all doing great. The only problem I have is I need to start transplanting into nursery pots and I am limited with space inside and it's still too cold to put them outside in the greenhouse. I'm going to have to rig up some lights in the spare bedroom. As always I planted way too many seeds and have more plants than I'll need or be able to give away to friends. I hate killing plants I started from seed. This year I'm going to use that Nextdoor website and offer the extra's for free to the people in the neighborhood.

Delicious, Siletz, Siberia, and Beefsteak tomatoes. Jalapeno, Yellow, and Green peppers. Eggplant.

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Trailing Geraniums, English Daisies, Thai Basil, and Lettuce. I've already transplanted some of the lettuce starts into the garden. The Trailing Geraniums came from seed I collected last summer.

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Marigolds, Zinnia, Bachelor Buttons, and Forget Me Nots. This tray is outside in the greenhouse and everything is sprouting except the Forget Me Nots so far.

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I'm ready to get the garden going full throttle. The only thing stopping me is mother nature. I go through this every year. You'd think I'd learn. But I can't help myself. I have to plant.
 
I had to get my starts transplanted into bigger pots. I had some old parts laying around so I rigged up a DIY fixture using an old reflector and a ballast and bulbs from one of those old grow boxes someone traded me for some weed years ago. I had stripped all the parts and threw the grow box in the garbage. They had been packed away in a box for years. Sometimes the junk I keep comes in handy. Now I have a light and starts in the spare bedroom where they can grow until it's time to plant in the garden.

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